Biography
Associate Professor
BSc (UNB); MSc, PhD (Memorial)
Dr. Maria Kilfoil, an experimental physicist, uses optical and fluorescence microscopy tools to identify mechanical properties in biological and active materials such as cell cytoskeleton and DNA networks. She probes for characteristics of active (as opposed to thermally driven) microscopic motion and works to understand better how to the activity of enzymes and other machinery from the cell produce enhanced mechanical response.
Recent Publications
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A symmetrical method to obtain shear moduli from microrheology
- Soft Matter, 2018
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Nonthermal fluctuations of the mitotic spindle
- Soft Matter, 2015
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Accurate detection and complete tracking of large populations of features in three dimensions
- Optics Express, 2009
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Universal behaviour in the mechanical properties of weakly aggregated colloidal particles
- Soft Matter, 2009
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Intermittent and spatially heterogeneous single-particle dynamics close to colloidal gelation
- Physical Review E, 2009
Research Classification
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Current Scholars in Physics
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