Matthew J. Lang

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering

Room NE47-221
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-452-2631
Email: mjlang@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/~langlab/

Research Interests

Bio Mechanics, Biological Motors, Protein Interactions, Single Molecule Methods, Optical Tweezers, Single Molecule Fluorescence, Biological Imaging, Mechanotransduction

Teaching Interests

2.672 Projects Laboratory
2.797/6.024/BE.310 Molecular Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
BE.309 Bioinstrumentation laboratory

Education/ Research History

B.S. University of Rochester
Ph.D. University of Chicago

Post-Doctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, (Prof. Graham R. Fleming)
Department of Chemistry and the Physical Biosciences Division LBNL
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, (Prof. Steven M. Block)
Department of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Materials Institute
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, (Prof. Block)
Departments of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics

Group web page location:

http://web.mit.edu/~langlab/