Phillips, Robert B.

Committee Member — 117 thesises

• Grosberg, Anna — A Bioinspired Computational Model of Cardiac Mechanics: Pathology and Development (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ireland, William Thornton — A Quantitative and High-Throughput Approach to Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peterson, Eric Lee — A Random Walk in Physical Biology (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Hongyi Richard — Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery for Non-Invasive Neuroengineering (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• DeLaitsch, Andrew T. — Antibody Responses to HIV-1 Immunogens and Viruses (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Jonathan Wan — Architecture, Dynamics, and Function of the General Stress Response System in B. subtilis (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owens, Gwen Ellen — Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Huntingtin (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Fan — Biochemical and Biophysical Characterizations of Immunoglobulin Superfamily Receptors Neogenin and L1 (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yu — Biochemical Reactions in Confined Space (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiao, Fangzhou — Biocontrol of Biomolecular Systems: Polyhedral Constraints on Binding's Regulation of Catalysis from Biocircuits to Metabolism (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szablowski, Jerzy Olgierd — Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides in vivo (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiggins, Paul Alexander — Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, David Dah-wei — Biomechanical Information Transfer: Maximum Caliber, λ Genome Ejection Dynamics, and the Formation of Otoliths in Zebrafish (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Di — Biomolecular Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Manipulation of Engineered Cells (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Felce, Catherine E. — Biophysical Modeling for Gene Expression and Evolution (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lovely, Geoffrey A. — Biophysics of V(D)J Recombination and Genome Packaging: In Singulo Studies on RAG, HMGB1, and TFAM (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flynn, Michael J. — Building to Understand MiRNA Circuits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van Valen, David Ashley — Case Studies in Quantitative Biology: Biochemistry on a Leash and a Single-Molecule Hershey-Chase Experiment (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Kiowa San — Chemical-Scale Studies of the 5-HT₃ and D2 Dopamine Receptors (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ortiz-Muñoz, Andrés — Combinatorics and Stochasticity for Chemical Reaction Networks (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poole, William — Compilation and Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ding, Xiaozhe — Computation-Aided Protein Engineering for Targeted Therapeutic Delivery (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leong, Peter Anthony — Computational Challenges in High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klumpe, Heidi Elizabeth — Context-Dependent, Combinatorial Logic of BMP Signaling (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giang, Ha Thanh — Coupled Effects of Mechanics, Geometry, and Chemistry on Bio-Membrane Behavior (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dutka, Przemysław — Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanan, Jay Clarke — Damage Evolution in Uniaxial SiC Fiber Reinforced Ti Matrix Composites (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beeler, Suzannah Michelle — Deciphering Regulation in Escherichia coli: From Genes to Genomes (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barnes, Stephanie Loos — Decoding the Regulatory Genome: Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation in Escherichia coli (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ni, Yu-Li — Developing Tools for Neurobiology: The Retina as a Neuropharmacology Testbed & Electrode Pooling to Boost Extracellular Array Recording (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adalian, Dvin Artashes-Boghos — Development and Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzymatic Biosensors (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hall, Spencer Eugene — Development of a Structure Prediction Method for G-Protein Coupled Receptors (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Inamdar, Mandar Mukund — Dissipative Nanomechanics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Narayanan, Aditi Kalpagam — Diversity, Activity, and Adaptations of Phage Communities in Anoxic Hydrocarbon-Rich Marine Sediments (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Stephanie Lynn — DNA Mechanics and Transcriptional Regulation in the E. coli lac Operon (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunlop, Mary Julia — Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purohit, Prashant Kishore — Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Strings, Beams and Atomic Chains (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hirokawa, Soichi — Dynamics of Protein-Mediated Polymer Coupling and their Implications in Antibody Production and Emergent Patterning (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meyerowitz, Joseph Toshiro — Engineering and Rapid Prototyping for Biology in Extreme Conditions (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jee Won — Engineering Ultrasonic Reporters for Imaging Cellular Enzyme Activity (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sawyer, Daniel Patrick — Enhanced Noninvasive Imaging of Acoustic Biomolecules (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dempsey, William P. — Establishing a Genetic and Exogenous Toolbox for Studying Multiple Stages of Vertebrate Development in vivo (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erkenbrack, Eric Matthew — Evolution of Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks in Echinoids (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banks, Rachel A. — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Non-Equilibrium Systems: Motor-Microtubule Assemblies and the Human-Earth System (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lakhanpal, Amit — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Notch Signaling-Mediated Spatial Pattern (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meyer, Michelle Margaret — Exploring Protein Sequence Space Using Computationally Directed Recombination (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kreamer, Naomi N. — Ferrous Iron Sensing and Responding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jennifer Chuen-Hsien — Following Motion of Early Heart Development at the Cellular Level Using Confocal Microscopy in Transgenic Quail Embryos (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takatori, Sho C. — Forces, Stresses, and the (Thermo?) Dynamics of Active Matter: The Swim Pressure (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trivedi, Vikas — From Molecules to Organs : Microscopy and Multi-Scale Nature of Development (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carilli, Maria Theresa Natalina — Genetic Interrogation of Expression Regulation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levine, Joseph H. — Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• González Liñero, Luis — Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ross, Tyler David — Guiding Self-Organization in Active Matter with Spatiotemporal Boundary Conditions (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Frick, Christopher Lee — How Single Cells Sense Smad3 Signal (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Röschinger, Tom — Illuminating the Regulatory Dark Matter of E. coli with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramesh, Pradeep — Imaging and Control of Engineered Cells using Magnetic Fields (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Lin — In vitro DNA Mechanics in Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Cheng-Zhong — Interplay Between Long-Range And Short-Range Interactions In Polymer Self-Assembly And Cell Adhesion (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Tsu-Te Judith — Label-Free Detection of Single Molecule Using Microtoroid Optical Resonators (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bao, Xiaoyan Robert — Lost in a Crowd: Observations of Single DNA Knots and Single Mammalian Cells (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McDowell, Emily Jayne — Low Optical Signal Detection in Biological Materials: SNR Considerations and Novel Techniques (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Asimakopoulos, Aristotelis — Macroscopically Dissipative Systems with Underlying Microscopic Dynamics : Properties and Limits of Measurement (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapovalov, George G. — Mechanosensitive Channels of Bacteria: Structure and Function. Electrophysiology as a High Resolution Technique of Ion Channel Study (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Wonhee — Microfluidic Chip Calorimeters for Biological Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balagaddé, Frederick Kiguli — Microfluidic Technologies for Continuous Culture and Genetic Circuit Characterization (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, Carl Lars Genghis — Microfluidic Technologies for Structural Biology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fingler, Jeffrey Paul — Motion Contrast Using Optical Coherence Tomography (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spence, Charles Frederick — Nanobiology: Halting Steps into a Portion of Richard Feynman 's Vision (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nandagopal, Nagarajan — New Capabilities of the Notch Signaling Pathway (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cooper, Kenneth Brian — New Phases of Two-Dimensional Electrons in Excited Landau Levels (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Matthew Alexander — Non-Contiguous Protein Recombination (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hariadi, Rizal Fajar — Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of DNA Nanotubes (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seitaridou, Effrosyni — Non-Equilibrium Dynamics: Diffusion in Small Numbers and Ribosomal Self-Assembly (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tadmor, Arbel David — Phage-Host Interaction in Nature (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Razo-Mejia, Manuel — Physical Biology of Cellular Information Processing (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sweatlock, Luke A. — Plasmonics: Numerical Methods and Device Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Harry Ming Tak — Programmable In Situ Amplification for Multiplexed Bioimaging (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arlett, Jessica Lynn — Properties of Piezoresistive Silicon Nano-scale Cantilevers with Applications to BioNEMS (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Belliveau, Nathan Maurice — Quantitative Dissection of the Allosteric and Sequence-Dependent Regulatory Genome in E. coli (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bagert, John David — Quantitative, Time-Resolved Proteomic Analysis Using Bio-Orthogonal Non-Canonical Amino Acid Tagging (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Shichen — Reconstituting Cellular Intelligence in Nonliving Biomolecular Matter (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gong, Mengsha — Remodeling Jellyfish (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duarte, Ana Isabel — Resolving and Mathematizing Energetic Gradients That Facilitate Cytoskeletal Self-Assembly (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Jialong — Revealing Regulatory Network Organization Through Single-Cell Perturbation Profiling and Maximum Entropy Models (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larios-Colorado, David Antonio — Reverse Engineering the Programming Logic of Cytoskeletal Dynamics (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Venturelli, Ophelia Shalini — Role of Feedback and Dynamics of a Gene Regulatory Network (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spakowitz, Andrew James — Semiflexible Polymers: Fundamental Theory and Applications in DNA Packaging (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Daniel Lawson III — Sequence-Function Relationships in E. coli Transcriptional Regulation (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shu, Yi-Chung — Shape-Memory Effect in Bulk and Thin-Film Polycrystals (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Axelrod, Blake Waters — Single Cell Pico Force Microscopy: A Novel Tool for High Resolution Measurement of Cell Forces (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelber, Scott Ian — Single Particle Mass Spectrometry and Inertial Imaging with Nanomechanical Systems (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bialecka-Fornal, Maja I. — Single-Cell Analysis of the Physiology of Mechanosensation in Bacteria (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lipschitz, Mikel — SLIM: Stochastic Lineage-Based Iterative Minimization (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• van Dam, Robert Michael — Solvent-Resistant Elastomeric Microfluidic Devices and Applications (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morrison, Muir — Statistical Mechanics of Problems in Transcription Regulation (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rousseau, Rebecca Jasmina — Statistical Physics of Dynamic Self-Organization: From Field-Theoretic Self-Assembly to Allosteric Regulation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ursell, Tristan Scott — Stretching the Definition of a Lipid Bilayer: Elasticity's Role in Protein and Lipid Organization (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suloway, Christian J. M. — Structural Insights into Tail-Anchored Protein Targeting by Get3 (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Galstyan, Vahe — Studies in Physical Biology: Exploring Allosteric Regulation, Enzymatic Error Correction, and Cytoskeletal Self-Organization Using Theory and Modeling (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cowan, Lisa — Superprotonic Solid Acid Phase Transitions and Stability (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Einav, Tal — Taming the Molecular Dance: Harnessing Statistical Mechanics to Quantitatively Characterize Allosteric Systems (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ciemniecki, John Alan — The Bioenergetics of a Low-Power, Phenazine-Dependent Maintenance Metabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ernst, Russell J. — The Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rydenfelt, Mattias Sven Olof — The Combinatorics of Transcriptional Regulation (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grayson, Paul Daniel — The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yi-Ju — The Mechanical Genome in Regulation and Infection (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chure, Griffin Daniel — The Molecular Biophysics of Evolutionary and Physiological Adaptation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bogdanoff, Peter David — The Phonon Entropy of Metals and Alloys: The Effects of Thermal and Chemical Disorder (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ayalasomayajula, Meher Kiran Prakash — Theoretical Studies of Single Molecule Biophysical Systems and Photochemical Ensembles (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fon, Warren Chung Wah — Thermal Properties of Nano- and Microstructures (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salmon, Gabriel L. — To see a World in a Grain of Cells: Statistical Auguries of Nonequilibrium (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neumann, Adam Patrick — Towards Single Molecule Imaging Using Nanoelectromechanical Systems (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garcia, Hernan G. — Transcriptional Regulation by the Numbers (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Xue Ming Henry — Ultrahigh and Microwave Frequency Nanomechanical Systems (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boney, Evans T. D. — Vibrational Pooling and Constrained Equilibration on Surfaces (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahmoudabadi, Gita — Virology By The Numbers: A Quantitative Exploration of Viral Energetics, Genomics, and Ecology (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))