Research Highlights
Research Bar
Non-Diffusive and Ballistic Brownian Motion Non-Diffusive and Ballistic Brownian Motion
Mechanical Contact Spectroscopy Mechanical Contact Spectroscopy
Granular Media Nucleation Granular Media Nucleation
Multiscale Bacterial Analysis Multiscale Bacterial Analysis
Couette-Taylor Instabilities Couette-Taylor Instabilities
Physics of Hydrofracture Physics of Hydrofracture
2D Thermal Noise Imaging 2D Thermal Noise Imaging
Swimming driven by a Helical Flagellum Swimming driven by a Helical Flagellum
Internal Wave Turning Depth Internal Wave Turning Depth

Recent Publications

Internal wave generation by tidal flow over periodically and randomly distributed seamounts
Likun Zhang, Maarten C. Buijsman, Eva Comino, and Harry L. Swinney, (2017) pdf
Biofilms and mechanics: a review of experimental techniques and findings
Vernita D Gordon, Megan Davis-Fields, Kristin Kovach, and Christopher A Rodesney, 50 22 (2017) pdf
Space-saving tips to lower stress
Vernita Gordon, (2017)
Sound propagation in a continuously stratified laboratory ocean model
Likun Zhang, and H. L. Swinney, 141 3186 (2017) pdf
Space-saving tips to lower stress
Vernita Gordon, (2017) pdf
Evolutionary adaptations of biofilms infecting cystic fibrosis lungs promote mechanical toughness by adjusting polysaccharide production
Kristin Kovach, Megan Davis-Fields, Yasuhiko Irie, Kanishk Jain, Shashvat Doorwar, Katherine Vuong, Numa Dhamani, Kishore Mohanty, Ahmed Touhami & Vernita D Gordon, 1 (2017) pdf
Coupling and sharing when life is hard
Vernita Gordon, 356 6338583-584 (2017) pdf
Mechanosensing of shear by Pseudomonas aeruginosa leads to increased levels of the cyclic-di-GMP signal initiating biofilm development
Christopher A. Rodesney, Brian Roman, Numa Dhamani, Benjamin J. Cooley, Ahmed Touhami and Vernita D. Gordon, PNAS 114 235906 – 5911 (2017) pdf