Faculty Profile

Alexander Groisman
Ph. D., Weizman Inst. of Science, Israel, 2000
Contact
Web: Homepage
Office: UH 7254
Phone: 858-822-1838
Email: agroisman@ucsd.edu
Research Statement
- Biolistic delivery and gene guns
- Kinetics and thermodynamics of protein folding
- Imaging of the development and behavior of C. elegans worms
- Imaging of primary and cultured leukocytes for HIV studies
- Microbial cultures in microchambers
- Chemotaxis, chemotropism, aerotaxis, thermotaxis and gradient response of cells and organisms
- Perfusion chambers to study the rolling, adhesion, and migration of blood cells and unicellular organisms
- Substrate rigidity sensing, traction force and TIRF microscopy of mammalian cells
- Oxygen level control and hypoxia on the cell and organism levels