Our group is composed of a truly inter-disciplinary team of researchers focused on the development of technology for basic sciences as well as biomedical applications. A key feature of the biological systems that we study is their heterogeneous composition which can hide rare or otherwise important information. In order to understand population-level behaviors and underlying mechanisms, individual cells and/or molecules are probed using micro and nanoscale technology. Our lab is interested in biology at all levels -- from single molecules to viruses to microbes to cellular networks.

On the origins of conductive pulse sensing inside a nanopore | Nature Communications

Nanopore Current Enhancements Lack Protein Charge Dependence and Elucidate Maximum Unfolding at Protein’s Isoelectric Point | Journal of the American Chemical Society (acs.org)

Pressure-Biased Nanopores for Excluded Volume Metrology, Lipid Biomechanics, and Cell-Adhesion Rupturing | ACS Nano

• Dulce Presents her Ph.D. work at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium!

• ION Lab presents at the Alliance for SoCal Innovation

• ION Lab presents to the University of Sydney

• Nasim is going to do an internship at Roche/Genia to work on DNA sequencing. Congratulations!

• Nuwan moves back to Australia to start another adventure. You will be missed!

Bourns College of Engineering, ION Lab Logo (@ San Diego Beach), Electron Micrographs of Bacteria and a Glass Nanopore