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Our lab welcomes people of any gender identity, race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, and ability, as well as those who are caregivers or with family commitments. We are committed to creating a supportive research and learning environment for all lab members, including training in research, scientific analysis, teaching, mentoring, scientific communication, and STEM outreach. We welcome students from diverse scientific backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and get exposed to new fields at the interface of physics and life science.
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Dr. Guillaume Duclos
Principal Investigator
office : Abelson 222
gduclos at brandeis.edu
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Annemarie Winterstrain
Graduate research assistant, co-advised with Dr. Hannah Yevick
Annemarie graduated from NYU with a double major of both physics and chemistry in 2018. She worked at the technological startup, Spheryx, Inc. where she utilized holographic video microscopy techniques to detect sub-visible contaminants in protein solutions. Annemarie is a graduate student in Physics researching cell tissue communication.
Benjamin Winterstrain
Graduate research assistant
Ben is a fourth year graduate student studying active matter in the Duclos Lab. As an undergraduate he attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and got his B.S. in physics. During his undergraduate time he studied spherical liquid crystal systems in Jennifer Ross's Biophysics lab. Outside of the lab Ben enjoys hiking/camping as well as playing music.
Bennett Sessa
Graduate research assistant
Bennett is a physics graduate student studying active stresses and 3D nematics in liquid crystals. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Physics with Honors and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. During his undergraduate time, he studied the self-assembly of encapsulation driven by turbulent flows in William Irvine’s laboratory.
Adrielle Cusi
Graduate research assistant
Adrielle is a physics graduate student researching the collective dynamics of actin-based propulsion systems. She holds a BS in Applied Physics (with a minor in Instrumentation Physics) and an MS in Physics from the University of the Philippines. She also completed a 1-year diploma in Quantitative Life Sciences at ICTP, Italy. Outside of science, she enjoys visiting coffee shops and sleeping.
Sasha Toole
Graduate research assistant
Sasha is a graduate student in physics studying the control of pattern formation in active materials. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with B.A. in Physics and minor in Mathematics. In her undergraduate research, she used microfluidics to study cerebrospinal fluid flow in Kerstin Nordstrom's C.R.A.M. Lab.
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Aidan Powers
Physics and Applied Mathematics
Lab alumni
Lab alumni
Dr. Benjamin Winterstrain, graduate student
Dr. Annemarie Winterstrain, graduate student
Elena Amado, undergraduate research assistant. Now: Master Student at Northeastern University
Gauri Gajeshwar, BS/MS undergraduate research assistant. Now: graduate student at Stanford BioE.
Izaiah Alvarado, undergraduate research assistant. Now: graduate student @ UCSB
Dr. Amelie Chardac, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Now: Posdoc @ ESPCI
Dr. Jeremy Laprade, graduate student
Dr. Joseph Lopes, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Now Sr. Research Associate at Oxford Biotherapeutics
Dr. Melissa Rinaldin, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Now HFSP & EMBO postdoctoral fellow @ MPI-CBG and MPI-PKS.
Dr. Bibi Najma, graduate student. Now Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Caltech University.
Dr. Salman Alam, graduate student. Now Product Engineer at Lam research.
Isabelle Shiiba, undergraduate research assistant. Now: Fulbright scholar in Japan, graduate student at UChicago.
Greg Roitbourd, undergraduate research assistant.
Anthony Djoko, undergraduate research assistant. Now intern @ Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Ernest Park, undergraduate researcher. Now graduate student @ UPenn.
Hriday Talreja, undergraduate research assistant. Now graduate student @ USC.
Anthony Gillespie, undergraduate research assistant @ Hampton University.
Noah Michaud, undergraduate research assistant
Kevin Skowronski, M.S. student, now Physics teacher @ Waltham HS .
Lance Babcock, BS/MS undergraduate researcher, now MD/PhD student at the University of Texas at Houston.
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