Burst Analysis Spectroscopy is a fluorescence technique developed in my lab to explore and resolve complex populations of macromolecules in free-solution including viruses and protein aggregates. Together with my collaborators at TAMU (Hays Rye), BAS has been used to investigate a variety of dynamic, non-equilibrium processes that are at the core of a wide range of biological processes (e.g. protein aggregation and dis-aggregation; vesicle assembly and  disassembly; phage DNA loading). We have recently expanded the method to include multi-color particles (mcBAS).  

Structured Light Scanning is also an active project where tumor growth can be tracked and characterized in more detail than ever before.

Microfluidics devices and techniques are widely applicable in both biochemistry and biophysics. My lab space includes a soft-materials lab shared with Bob Austin and accessible to the larger university community upon request. 

Magnetic nanoparticles can be incredibly versatile components in directed self-assembling scaffolds and soft-robotics. Recently, students in my lab have done a range of projects from axon-guidance to novel magnetically controlled microbots.