Joshua Shaevitz
Department/Program(s):
- Physics
Position: Associate Professor
Title: Associate Professor of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
Field: Biophysics
Office: 150 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory
Phone: 609-258-8177
Email: shaevitz@princeton.edu
Office Hours: By email
Associated Appointments:
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Research in my lab focuses on three key questions in biophysics:
(i) How are behaviors organized and represented by the brain?
(ii) How do proteins build cells of the correct size and shape?
(iii) How do cells create complex population-scale patterns?
Before coming to Princeton, I studied at Columbia, Stanford, and UC Berkeley where I was a Miller Research Fellow.
For more information about my laboratory and research see: http://sites.google.com/site/shaevitzlab
Teaching Spring 2013:
- ISC233/4 An Integrated, Quantitative Introduction to the Natural Sciences I/II
- PHY412 Biological Physics
Advising:
- I am an academic advisor in Rockefeller College
- Information about doing a JP or senior thesis with me can be found here
Contact Information:
- Mail: 150 Icahn Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
- Email: shaevitz@princeton.edu
- Office: 609.258.8177
- Fax: 609.258.7070
Selected Publications
See these online listings for a complete list of my publications
Publications as listed on PubMed
- Helical insertion of peptidoglycan produces elongation and chiral ordering of the bacterial cell wall. Wang, Furchtgott, Huang, Shaevitz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.1117132109
- Direct measurement of stress-stiffening and turgor pressure in live bacterial cells. Deng, Sun, Shaevitz. Physical Review Letters doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.158101
- The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly. van Teeffelen, Wang, Furchtgott, Huang, Wingreen, Shaevitz, Gitai. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1108999108
- Motor-driven Intracellular Transport Powers Bacterial Gliding Motility. Sun, Wartel, Cascales, Shaevitz, Mignot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.1101101108
- An actin-like cytoskeleton contributes to cell mechanics in bacteria. Wang, Arellano-Santoyo, Combs, Shaevitz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.0911517107