Michael Guy Poirier

Professor and Chair
Department of Physics

Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001

Research
Division :		 Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Contact :

2140 Physics Research Building
191 W. Woodruff Avnue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 247-4493

poirier.18@osu.edu

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~mpoirier/

More info :

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Students :

 Zhiyuan Meng

Alumni :

 Yi Luo , Benjamin Donovan , Ariel Robbins
 
 
Research Interests:

We are quantitatively investigating the mechanisms by which our genome is expressed and repaired. Our approach is to apply a cross-disciplinary techniques that combines biochemical, biophysical and single molecule techniques, which includes: restriction enzyme studies, cyclization experiments, nucleosome mapping, steady state Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer measurements (FRET), stopped flow FRET, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, single molecule force and twist measurements with magnetic tweezers, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) measurements and single molecule FRET measurements.