
Joseph Reiner, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
Nanopore sensing
optical tweezers
cluster biomolecule composites
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, State University of New York Stony Brook
 - M.A., Physics, State University of New York Stony Brook
 - B.S., Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
 
Research Interests
- Development and applications of single-molecule measurements
 - Biological nanopore sensing
 - Optical tweezers
 - Fluorescence microscopy
 - Water-soluble nanoclusters
 - Polymer analysis
 - Laser-based heating of the nanopore sensing environment.
 
Select Publications
- Laser-based temperature control to study the roles of entropy and enthalpy in polymer-nanopore interactions; CE Angevine, JWF Robertson, A Dass, JE Reiner. Science Advances 7 (17), eabf5462, 2021.
 - Resistive-Pulse Nanopore Sensing of Ligand Exchange at the Single Nanocluster Limit for Peptide Detection; BD Cox, ML Ghimire, MF Bertino, JE Reiner. ACS Applied Nano Materials 3 (8), 7973-7981, 2020.
 - Ligand-induced structural changes of thiolate-capped gold nanoclusters observed with resistive-pulse nanopore sensing; BD Cox, PH Woodworth, PD Wilkerson, MF Bertino, JE Reiner; Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (9), 2019, 3792-3796, 2019.
 - Single molecule nanopore spectrometry for peptide detection; AE Chavis, KT Brady, GA Hatmaker, CE Angevine, N Kothalawala, ... ACS sensors 2 (9), 1319-1328, 2017.