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Daniel Needleman
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology (joint with Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology)
Areas: Biophysics; Materials Science; Soft condensed Matter; Surface and Interface Science; Cell and Tissue Engineering
Daniel Needleman uses quantitative experimental techniques to study how the cooperative behaviors of molecules give rise to the architecture and dynamics of self-organizing sub-cellular structures.
These collective effects are not only directly relevant to cellular organization, they also raise a number of fascinating questions concerning the mechanics and statistical physics of these highly non-equilibrium systems.
His long-term goal is to use the knowledge of sub-cellular structures to quantitatively predict biological behaviors and to determine if there are general principles that govern these non-equilibrium steady-state systems.
Needleman received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara and his B.A. in Physics from Brandeis University. He was a postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology.
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