

Paul A. Janmey
Professor of Physiology; Associate Director, Institute
for Medicine and Engineering.
E-mail: Janmey@mail.med.upenn.edu

Robert Bucki
M.D, Ph.D. Senior Investigator,Institute for Medicine and
Engineering.
E-mail: Buckirob@mail.med.upenn.edu
Role of PIP2 in phosphatidylserine exposure in platelets. Dissolution
of polyelectrolyte bundles in airway fluid. Determining factors involved
in activity of antibacterial peptide

Qi Wen
Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Physics.
E-mail: Wenqi@mail.med.upenn.edu
Durotaxis of cells on gel substrate with modulated stiffness gradients,
rheological properties of biological gels, and polyelectrolyte properties
of intermediate filaments

Shang-You Tee
Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Physics, Shared with Tobias
Baumgart.
E-mail: tee@sas.upenn.edu
Biophysical properties of cell/microenviroment interactions. Development
of tools to study focal adhesion complex structure and behavior on the
nano to micro scale

Jessamine Winer
Ph.D. Candidate, Bioengineering.
E-mail: Winer@seas.upenn.edu
Cellular response to anisotropic fibrin gels. Substrate compliance induced
cell cycle arrest in hMSCs

Maria Murrey
Ph.D. student, Bioengineering
E-mail: Mariaemurray@gmail.comdu
Response of retinal epithelial cells to mechanical stimuli

Yu-Hsiu Wang (Eric)
Ph.D. student, Chemistry .
E-mail: yuwan@sas.upenn.edu
Lipid monolayer study of PIP2 domain formation and its interaction with divalent cations.

David Slochower
Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
E-mail: davids4@med.upenn.edu
Investigating the mechanism through which cells detect and respond to their environment.

Jeff Byfield
Research Technician
E-mail: fbyfield@mail.med.upenn.edu
Recently Departed Members

Ilya Levental, PhD
A previous PhD student now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute

Hyeran Kang
A visiting PhD candidate now returned to Brown to complete her PhD.

Maggie McCormick
Research Technician

Jenny
Ross
Ph.D. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Single molecule biophysics