Associate Professor
Physics
Physics Department
390 UCB
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Boulder, CO 80309
Her research interests are in biophysics and soft condensed matter physics. Current projects focus on active soft matter and the physics of cell division.
- Kinesin-8 motors and the alteration of microtubule polymerization dynamics by accessory proteins
- Mechanisms of kinetochore capture by microtubules
- Motion of chromosomes by microtubules during mitosis
- Mitotic spindle assembly and stability
- Suspensions of motor-driven and self-propelled filaments
- Dynamic phases and phase transitions in active matter
- Hidden Markov models of stochastic transitions with drift
- Coupled polymerization and liquid crystal ordering