William H. Guilford, PhD
Will Guilford is principle investigator of the Molecular Biomechanics Lab at UVa. Learn more about Will here .
Students
Students are the heart of the Molecular Biomechanics Lab. We enjoy a mix of amazingly talented graduate students, undergraduate students, and high school students that span the engineering disciplines and the arts and sciences. Learn more below!
Graduate Students
Amy Clobes Amy is a fifth year graduate student and Ph.D. candidate. She is using force spectroscopy to study the fundamental nature of the actin-myosin binding interface, and using modeling to infer the influence of bond mechanokinetics on muscle contraction. Using the same techniques she is studying bond dynamics between actin, myosin, and the regulatory molecules tropomyosin and C-protein. Amy's publications
Undergraduates
Heather Bansbach Heather is a fourth year undergraduate in BME studying the effects of actin nitrosylation on actomyosin mechanochemistry. She presented her preliminary data at the 2012 meeting of the Biophysical Society.
Allison Kramer Allison is a Beckman Scholar who is developing techniques for purifying and studying microtubules and their motors from rodent tissue samples with the goal of studying neurodegenerative disease.
Rachel Stadler Rachel is a first year undergraduate in Engineering who is measuring the function of molecular motors in a single-celled pathogenic parasite.