Lab Contact
SYRACUSE:
Physics Building
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
UMASS:
Phone: 413-545-3673
Hasbrouck 310/309
666 N. Pleasant St.
Dept. of Physics
UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Lab News!
The Ross Lab has MOVED to Syracuse University.
New paper from the Ross Lab and grad student Mengqi Xu at Physical Review Letters out now!
New paper from KECK Foundation grant collaboration published in Soft Matter!
Check out our NEW funny video: Old Ross Lab
Ross named Fellow of the American Physical Society from the Division of Biological Physics!
Bio-Active Matter Lab
Active, Biological Physics Underlying Cellular Organization
Answering the question:
How can cells organize their insides without a manager?
The Ross Lab in broadly interested in how cells sense, decide, and respond to produce motion, force, and work. The cell is able to couple thermal and active (energy-using) "ratchets" that self-organize to perform work. This ability to do work by harnessing noisy, random systems is a frontier area of research for soft, active, and biological condensed matter physics. The Ross Lab focuses on biological systems in order to learn fundamental physics principles of how they are able to act autonomously, specifically we have focused on the cytoskeleton. We have started new work on enzymes ability to serve as active matter.
