Principal Investigator

Dr. Jens Gundlach

Jens started his career at the University of Washington studying nuclear physics (PhD, 1990) before becoming a gravitational physicist. He stumbled upon nanopore sequencing in 2002 and so, with the assistance of his then-gravity student Tom Butler, our project was born. Jens now splits his time and runs two labs: his gravity group at CENPA, and the nanopore physics group.

Post Docs

Dr. Ian Derrington

Ian graduated in 2005 from the University of Colorado, Boulder with degrees in Applied Mathematics, and Summa Cum-Laude in Engineering Physics. In late 2006 he has pursued his doctoral research with the group helping to design and test MspA for DNA sequencing. His first publication with the group, "Single-molecule DNA detection with an engineered MspA protein nanopore" was published in PNAS. He graduated with his PhD in 2011 and has remained with the group as a post doc.

Dr. Brian Ross

Brian obtained his bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and physics from the University of Maryland in College Park in 2002. He then pursued computational biophysics as a graduate student, obtaining his PhD in physics from MIT in 2012. Brian's thesis consisted of two computer programs for modeling and measuring DNA 'conformation': the shape that the winding contour takes inside of a cell. After his thesis defense Brian moved to the Gundlach lab, where he now works on interpreting and analyzing sequencing data. * - This website uses a coding language created by Brain.

Graduate Students

Elizabeth Manrao

Liz is originally from California and holds degrees in both engineering and physics. She worked as an engineer in Hawaii for a short time prior to becoming a physicist. She joined our group in autumn 2008 and has been working on characterizing the regognition site of MspA and developing a method to slow DNA movement through the pore. She plans to complete her PhD this Fall.

Andrew Laszlo

Andrew is a graduate student in the physics department at the University of Washington. He joined the lab in the Spring of 2010. Andrew graduated in 2009 from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in physics and a math minor.

Lab Technicians

Kyle Langford

Kyle graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in biochemistry. He joined the lab in Summer 2007.

Ian Nova

Ian graduated from the Santa Clara University with a degree in bioengineering and a minor in Spanish. He joined the lab in Fall 2012.

Jenny Mae Samson

Jenny graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in biochemistry and minors in art history and chemistry. She joined the lab in Fall 2012.

Henry Brinkerhoff

Henry is currently a masters student in the physics department at the University of Washington. He joined the lab in Fall 2012.He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 with a degree in physics and a minor in math.

Pore-tential Members

Gene Dennis

Gene is currently a graduate student in the physics department at the University of Washington. He graduated from the University of Texas in 2009 with a degree in physics.

Undergraduate Researchers

Joshua Bartlett

Joshua is currently an undergraduate student in the biochemistry department at the University of Washington. He joined the lab in Winter 2011.

Graham Nayler

Graham is an undergraduate student in the physics department at the University of Washington. He joined the lab in Spring 2011.

Kenji Doering

Kenji is an undergraduate student in the physics department at the University of Washington. He joined the lab in Summer 2012

Siripunt Vimolchalao

Siripunt is an undergraduate student in the physics department at the University of Washington. She joined the lab in Winter 2013.

Dr. Tom Butler

Dr. Mark Troll

Dr. Marcus Collins

Risa Wong

Boyan Penkov

Max Sutlin

Merideth Brown

K. Aurelia Ball

Hannah Gelman

Mats Frederickson

Andrew Malone

David Feldman

Nathaniel Gillgren

Matthew Hopper

Keiran Morrissett

Risa Wong (2007)

Ryan Loney (2008)

Ian Silverman (2009)

Kate Mead (2010)

Ian Nova (2011)

Kenji Doering (2012)