Edward Barry
Brandeis University, MS 057, 415 South St., Waltham, MA, 02454
Phone: 781.736.2872
Email: edb@brandeis.edu
EDUCATION
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ph.D. in Physics
Concentration in Quantitative Biology
Dissertation: “Colloidal Self-Assembly: Liquid Crystals, Membranes, and Ribbons”
Advisor: Zvonimir Dogic
Thesis Defense Committee: Robert B. Meyer and Robert Pelcovits
2006-2011
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
B.S. in Physics
Minors: Mathematics and Computer Science
1999-2003
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rowland Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant
2004-2006
Assistant to Zvonimir Dogic in the Complex Fluids Group.
Responsible for conducting Independent Research Projects in Soft Matter and Biological Physics
AWARDS
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Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences
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Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award Finalist (Silver Award)
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Interfaces Scholar Award in Quantitative Biology from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering (NIBIB)
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Graduate Student Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at
Brandeis University
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Stephan Berko Memorial Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research at
Brandeis University
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Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award in the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences (Brandeis University)
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Victor F. Hess Award in Undergraduate Physics (Fordham University)
2010
2009
2008
2003
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Biological Techniques
DNA/RNA extraction; Site-Directed Mutagenesis; Molecular Cloning; PCR; Virus Purification, Biological
Preparations (Actin, Microtubules, Bacterial Flagella) ; Standard Biochemistry Techniques
Optical Microscopy
Differential Interference Contrast, Phase, Polarization, Florescence and Total Internal Reflection
(TIRF) Microscopy; Polarized Light Field Microscopy (LC-Polscope); Optical Tweezers
Computer Programming
Image Analysis routines in IDL, Matlab, and Java (ImageJ) ; Mathematica; LabView
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
Methods in Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM)
C. Berciu, E. BARRY, Z. Dogic, and D. Nicastro
In Preparation
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Vesicles
E. BARRY and Zvonimir Dogic
Submitted to
Nature
Chiral Control of Interfacial Tension
Submitted to
Nanoletters
High Aspect Ratio Biotemplated Nanorods
J.C. Zhou, C.M. Soto, M. Chen, M.A. Bruckman, M.H. Moore , E. BARRY, B.R. Ratna
P. Pehrsson, B.R. Spies, T. S. Confer
In Press
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T. Gibaud, E. BARRY, M. Zakhary, C. Berciu, D. Nicastro, R. B. Meyer, and Z. Dogic
Self-Assembly of Membranes from Mixtures of Hard Rods and Depleting Polymers
Y. Yang, E. BARRY, Z. Dogic, and M.F.Hagan, SOFT MATTER
Entropy Driven Self-Assembly of Non-Amphiphilic Colloidal Membranes
E. BARRY and Z. Dogic, PNAS, 107, 10348 (2010)
*Awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli Prize in Engineering and Applied Sciences*
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A Model Liquid Crystalline System Based on Rodlike Viruses with Variable Chirality
and Persistence Length
E. BARRY, D. Beller, and Z. Dogic, SOFT MATTER , 5, 2563-2570 (2009)
[4]
Direct Measurement of the Twist Penetration Length in a Single Smectic-A Layer
of Colloidal Virus Particles. J.PHYS.CHEM (deGennes Memorial Issue), 113, 10348 (2010)
E. BARRY, Z. Dogic, R.B. Meyer, R.A. Pelcovits, and R. Oldenbourg
[3]
Bending Dynamics of Fluctuating Biopolymers Probed by Automated High Resolution Filament Tracking. BIOPHYS. J. , 93, 346-359 (2007)
C.P. Brangwynne, G.H. Koenderink, E. BARRY, Z. Dogic, F.C. MacKintosh and D.A. Weitz.
[2]
Entropy-Driven Formation of a Chiral Liquid-Crystalline Phase of Helical Filaments
E. BARRY, Z. Hensel, Z. Dogic, M. Schribak and R. Oldenbourg , PRL , 96, 018305 (2006)
[1]
Self-diffusion of Rod-like Viruses in the Nematic Phase
M.P. Lettinga, E. BARRY, and Z. Dogic. EURO. PHYS. LETT. , 71, 692-698 (2005)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND INVITED TALKS
2011
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New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (Poster Competition Award)
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Gordon Research Conference – Soft Matter (Poster Competition Award) (New London, NH)
University of Ottawa Physics Colloquium (Ottawa, Canada)
Technische Universität Seminar (Garching, Germany)
University of Maryland Bioengineering Seminar Series (College Park, MD)
Naval Research Laboratory Seminar (Washington, DC)
Rowland Institute at Harvard Junior Fellowship Seminar (Cambridge, MA)
American Physical Society March Meeting (Contributed Talk) (Dallas, TX)
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2009
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (Awards Invitation) (Boston, MA)
American Physical Society March Meeting (Contributed Talk) (Portland, OR)
Brandeis Biochemisty/Biophysics Retreat (MBL Headquarters, Woods Hole, MA)
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HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Meeting of Program Directors and Scholars (Bethesda, MD) (Sept. 15-17)
Gordon Research Conference – Soft Matter (Poster) (New London, NH)
American Physical Society March Meeting (Contributed Talk) ( Pittsburgh, PA)
2008
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American Physical Society March Meeting (Contributed Talk) (New Orleans, LA)
2006
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American Physical Society March Meeting (Contributed Talk) (Baltimore, MD)
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