Jiazhang Chen

I am a PhD student in Physics department, working in Prof. Qi Wen's biophysics lab. I research on properties and mechanism of neuronal sensation of different types of forces, and try to investigate into a deeper level of ion channels, by methods of atomic force microscopy, microfluid channel and so on. With the collaboration with Prof. Yang Xiang's neurobiology lab in UMASS medical, we are now researching on the behavior of neuron in fruit flies in vivo under accurately applied forces in nanometer and nanonewton level.
Our group is interested in cell mechanics, a solid method to differentiate cancer cells, to find out the growth mechanism of tumor cells from measurement elastic modulus and cell filaments.