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Contact:
Azadeh Samadani
azadeh at brandeis.edu
Department of Physics
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454


Biological Physics          

Roman Stocker, Justin Seymour, A. Samadani, Dana E. hunt, and Martin F. Poltz “Rapid Chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105, 4209 (2008)

A. Samadani
, J. Mettetal and A. van Oudenaarden, “Cellular assymettry and individuality in directional sensing,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 103, 11549 (2006)

S.Y Liu ,W. G. Tharp, D. Irimia, A. Samadani, M. Poznansky, “Adaptation mechanisms of Neutrophils in response to the gradient reversal,” Lab on a chip, 6(2): 191-8 (2006)

W. G. Tharp, A. Upadhyaya, R. Yadav, D. Irimia, A. Samadani, O. Hurtado, S. Nourshargh, A. van Oudenaarden, M. Toner, M. Poznansky, “Bi-directional migration of neutrophils in a defined chemokine gradient in vitro and in vivo,” J Leukoc Biol. Dec 19 (2005)

A. Upadhyaya, J. R. Chabot, A. Andreeva, A. Samadani and A. van Oudenaarden, Probing polymerization forces by using actin-propelled lipid vesicles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 100, 4521 (2003)

A. Delprato, A. Samadani, A. Kudrolli and L. Tsimring, “Swarming ring patterns in bacterial colonies exposed to ultraviolet radiation,” Physical Review Letters 87, 158102 (2001)


Granular Materials

S. Nowak, A. Samadani and A. Kudrolli, “Maximum angle of stability of a wet granular pile,” Nature   Physics 1, 50-52 (2005)

A. Samadani
, L. Mahadevan and A. Kudrolli, “Shocks in sand flowing in a silo,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 452, 293 (2002)

A. Samadani
, D. L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, “Clustering, jamming and segregation in cohesive granular materials,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2002-23478 (2002)

A. Samadani and A. Kudrolli, “Angle of repose and segregation in cohesive granular matter,” Physical Review E 64, 051301 (2001)

A. Samadani and A. Kudrolli, “Segregation and layering in the flow of wet granular matter,” The Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Micromechanics of Granular Media, Sendai, Japan (A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2001)

A. Samadani
and A. Kudrolli, “Segregation transition in wet granular matter,” Physical Review Letters 85, 5102 (2000)

A. Samadani, A. Pradhan and A. Kudrolli, “Size segregation of granular matter in silo discharges,” Physical Review E 60, 7203 (1999)

A. Samadani
, A. Pradhan, and A. Kudrolli, “Visualization of segregation in granular flows inside silos,” The Proceedings of the ITUAM Symposium on Segregation in Granular Flows, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999)