Research Areas:
Biophysics, Protein Dynamics
Prof. Robert Austin completed his PhD in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne in 1975. He has been teaching at Princeton University since 1978 and is current Professor of Physics. His research interests are in experimental biological physics over a wide range of areas, including Fundamentals of Protein Dynamics: Energy Landscapes and Quantum Mechanics of Proteins, DNA Dynamics: sequence influences, Nanotechnology: DNA Dynamics, Nanotechnology: Micro/nanofluidics and recently Ecology and Evolution Dynamics. His research group is also in the process of developing novel techniques to quickly resolve DNA of different lengths and cells of different size in microchannels. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also awarded the Delbruck Prize for Biological Physics and the Lilienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society.
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Zhang, Q. C., & Austin, R. H. (2012). Physics of Cancer: The Impact of Heterogeneity. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 3, 363-382. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-020911-125109 |
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Zhang, Q., Lambert, G., Liao, D., Kim, H., Bougot-Robin, K., Tung, C. K., Pourmand, N., & Austin, R. H. (2011). Acceleration of emergence of bacterial antibiotic resistance in connected microenvironments, Science, 333(6050), 1764-1767. doi: 10.1126/science.1208747 |
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Zhang, Q. C., Bougot-Robin, K., Liao, D., Lambert, G., & Austin, R. H. (2011). The Goldilocks Principle and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria. Molecular Phyarmaceutics, 8(6), 2063-2068. doi:10.1021/mp200274r |
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Morton, K., Tsui, O. K. C., Tung, C. K., Strum, J. C., Chou, S. Y., & Austin, R. H. (2010). The anti-lotus leaf effect in nanohydrodynamic bump arrays. New Journal of Physics, 2010(12), 085008. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/085008 |
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Tung, C. K. , Riehn, R., & Austin, R. H. (2009). Complementary metal oxide semiconductor compatible fabrication and characterization of parylene-C covered nanofluidic channels with integrated nanoelectrodes. Biomicrofluidics, 3(3), 031101-1-5, doi:10.1063/1.3212074 |
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Keymer, J. E., Galajda, P., Lambert, G., Liao, D., & Austin, R. H. (2008). Computation of mutual fitness by competing bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 105(51), 20269-20273, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0810792105 |
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