Ian Y. Wong

Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering


Email: ianwong AT stanford.edu

Telephone: (650) 723-6352

Fax: (650) 736-1984

Office: McCullough Building, Room 201. 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford CA 94305

Biography:

I grew up in Stony Brook, NY and received my A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in June 2003. I worked in the group of Prof. David Weitz, where I drank lots of coffee with Margaret Gardel (now Prof!) and used multiparticle tracking techniques to study the microrheology of F-actin networks. I also did theoretical work with Prof. Michael Brenner on the development of novel algorithms for Brownian dynamics simulations, which led to a senior honors thesis.

I began the Ph.D program in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University in September 2003, with support from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2004-6). My research in the Melosh group focuses on directed self-assembly of biomolecules using counterion-screened electric fields.

Publications:

Directed Hybridization and Melting of DNA Linkers using Counterion-Screened Electric Fields.
Ian Y. Wong and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nano Letters. Nano Letters. 9(10), 3521 (2009)

Electronically Activated Actin Protein Polymerization and Alignment.
Ian Y. Wong, Matthew J. Footer and Nicholas A. Melosh. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(25), 7908 (2008)

Dynamic control of biomolecular activity using electrical interfaces.
Ian Y. Wong, Matthew J. Footer and Nicholas A. Melosh. Soft Matter (invited review and cover). 3, 267 - 274 (2007)

Microscopic Structure and Elasticity of Weakly Aggregated Colloidal Gels
A.D. Dinsmore, V. Prasad, I.Y. Wong and D.A. Weitz. Physical Review Letters. 96, 185502 (2006)

Anomalous Diffusion Probes Microstructure Dynamics of Entangled F-actin Networks.
I.Y. Wong, M.L. Gardel, D.R. Reichman, E.R. Weeks, M.T. Valentine, A.R. Bausch and D.A. Weitz. Physical Review Letters. 92, 178101 (2004)

Selected Conference Presentations

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. April 2009.

American Chemical Society Spring Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT. March 2009 (Invited talk by N. Melosh)

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March 2008. (Recipient, MRS Graduate Student Silver Award)

American Physical Society March Meeting. Denver, CO. March 2007. (Funded by a Stanford University Bio-X Travel Award)

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006.

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. April 2006.

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.

American Physical Society March Meeting. Austin, TX. March 2003.