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Principle Investigator
Principle Investigator
Walter Reisner
reisner 'at' physics.mcgill.ca
2025- Full Professor, McGill University
2016-2025 Associate Professor, McGill University
2009-2016 Assistant Professor, McGill University
2008-2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
2006-2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Danish Technical University
2006: Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University
2000: B.A. Physics, Reed College
office: Rutherford 409
Research: Nanofluidics and biophysics.
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Zezhou Liu
Research: Single/multiple polymer chains under confinement. Nanopore sensing.
Website: [Link]
Sajad Shiekh
Research: Fabrication of nanophotonic cavity arrays for single vesicle SERS
Ph.D. Candidates
Ph.D. Candidates
Wangwei Dong
Research: Analysis of DNA origami structures via repeated resensing in a dual-pore device driven by active logic.
Thomas St-Denis
Research: Nanopore formation via AFM based approach (Tip Controlled Local Breakdown, TCLB); DNA feature mapping and tug-of-war in a dual-pore device.
Matheus Azevedo Silva Pessôa
Research interests:
My current research lies at the intersection of nanofluidics, soft matter physics, and single-molecule biophysics, with a focus on developing and applying electrokinetic devices to control and study DNA dynamics at the nanoscale. I am particularly interested in how time-dependent electric fields and amplitude-modulated confinement can be used to reversibly capture, manipulate, and probe single biomolecules with unprecedented precision.
I am particularly interested in how time-dependent electric fields and amplitude-modulated confinement can be used to reversibly capture, manipulate, and probe single biomolecules with unprecedented precision.
Nanofluidics, soft matter physics, and single-molecule experimental biophysics.
Personal website: [Link]
Preethi Ravikumar
Research: Field confinement devices for trapping of nanoscale vesicles
Yueru Zhou
Research: Single vesicle SERS technology, application to psychiatric diagnosis.
(co-supervised with Sara Mahshid)
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Seraphine Kautz
Research: Field confinement devices for trapping of DNA nanotubes
Alumni
Alumni
Lili Zeng
Research: Mixing/segregation of two nanochannel-confined DNA molecules.
Ph.D. candidate (graduated 2023)
Yuning Zhang
Research: Development of dual-pore devices and technique for forming nanopores using a conductive AFM tip (Tip Controlled Local Breakdown, TCLB).
Ph.D. candidate (graduated 2017)
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2019)
Khadija Yazda
Research: Fabrication of nanopore array device for osmotic power generation using the TCLB approach
Postdoctoral fellow (2018-2021)
Imman Hosseini
Research: development of pneumatic controlled deflection devices for trapping and analysis of extracellular vesicles
Ph.D. candidate (graduated 2023)
(co-supervised with Sara Mahshid)
Visitors and collaborators, Past and Present
Visitors and collaborators, Past and Present
Ruiyao Liu
Research: DNA origami synthesis, characterization and as a tool for soft-matter physics and biophysical studies
Collaboration: visited in winter 2024 from Prof. Fygenson's biophysics lab at University of Santa Barbara to help us with DNA origami.
Julian Sheats and Dimini Gupta
Research: Confined polymer physics.
Collaboration: Summer 2013 (from University of Minnesota)
Pierre Berube and Haig Djambazian
Research: Single molecule genetic sequencing.
Collaboration: Summer 2013 to Present(from Genome Quebec)
Peter Friis Ostergaard
Research: Plastic nanofluidic devices.
Visit: March-June, 2012 (from Danish Technical University)
Hongwen Sun
Research: Electronic detection of nanopore translocation.
Visit: May 2012 (from Hohei University, China)
Nordine Diffalah
Status: Student at INRS
Research: Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for DNA analysis.
Thu Ha Dao
Status: Physics Master Student at University of Camerino, Italy
Visit: October-December, 2018
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