Guasto Lab

Allen earned his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire in 2015, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering. He recently joined the Guasto group as  a Ph.D. student where he will be working on the mechanics of aerogels in collaboration with Marc Hodes and Aerogel Technologies. Welcome Allen!

The Guasto group attended the annual American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, which was held in Boston, MA. Postdoc Nicolas Waisbord presented recent work on porous media flows. Prof. Guasto, who was a co-organizer of the conference chaired a session on cell motility in flow.

Along with colleagues from MIT and ETH Zurich, Prof. Guasto recently published  a research on the “Shear-induced orientational dynamics and spatial heterogeneity in suspensions of motile phytoplankton” in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface [pdf].

Amin Dehkharghani joined the Guasto lab in September 2015 to start his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Amin comes to us from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.

Abdullah Tarek from the German University in Cairo, Egypt will be visiting the Guasto lab as a summer intern, where he will be working on bacterial transport in microfluidics.

Prof. Guasto delivered an invited lecture on cell transport in complex fluid flows at the Gordon Research Conference on Soft Matter. The conference was held at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH.

Several members of the Guasto Lab recently received their degrees from Tufts, and we are happy to have them all close by in Boston! Yang Jin received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Ray Bjorkman received his B.S.  in Mechanical Engineering with high thesis honors for his work on liquid crystal dynamics. Not to be outdone, Joe Carroll received B.S. with dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics! Congratulations to all of you for your hard work!

Congratulations to Ray Bjorkman, a member of the Guasto Lab and co-captain of the Tufts Hybrid Racing Team, for their first place win in the all-electric class at the Formula Hybrid competition held April 27-30, 2015 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. You can read about the team and see some photos here.

Professor Guasto recently visited Bucknell University, where he presented the group’s recent work on bacterial motility in flow to the Department of Physics.

Professor Guasto presented recent work on the mechanics of bacterial flagella and the fluid mechanics of bacterial transport in flow at the APS March Meeting. The invited session featured five talks from experts on “Novel Approaches to Understanding the Behavior of Self-Propelled Particles.”