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Arthur La Porta
 
Assistant Professor
Institute for Physical Science and Technology
Department of Physics
 
Ph.D. 1998, University of California, San Diego, Physics
 
Research Interests: Development of optical techniques to be applied to problems in molecular biology. The use of single molecule techniques to investigate force and torque generation in molecular motors and to characterize proteins that bind and modify the structure of DNA.

Office: IPST 1111
Phone: 301-405-3291
Eddress: alaporta at umd.edu
Homepage: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~alaporta/LaPorta.html

 


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