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Michael Murrell

Associate Professor; Biomedical Engineering and Physics
Research Interests: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, active matter, biophysics, synthetic biology, cytoskeletal mechanics.

Research Area(s)

Bioengineering 

Biological circuits

Imaging biological systems

Systems biology

Murrell Lab

PEB Students

  • Dr. Ian Linsmeier

    Biomedical Engineering (Murrell Lab)
    Thesis title: “Active actomyosin mechanics: Cooperativity and scaling of contraction in disordered networks”

  • Dr. Daniel Seara

    Physics (Murrell Lab)
    Thesis title: “Energetics of biological mechanics and dynamics”

  • Zachary Sun

    Physics (Murrell Lab)
    Research Interests: Active Matter, Self-Organized-Criticality, Non-equilibrium Dynamics, and Biomaterials

  • Sven Witthaus

    Physics (Murrell Lab)
    Research Interests: Studying non-equilibrium dynamics in biological systems