Matt Fagerburg

After I finished my B.S., I taught physics in Capetown, South Africa for a month and a half and then was working for an engineering company in Pittsburgh. Through my physics classmates, I met Sanford and we started having a journal club discussing the single-molecule literature in his office on Sundays. I attended the Paris Summer Physics School in 2005. I joined the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program (www.biophysics.pitt.edu) and have been doing my first year lab rotations with Sanford where I worked on plasmon resonances of nanometal particles. My present lab rotation is with Saleem Khan and his lab working on helicases, and my third lab rotation (summer 2006) is planned with Martin Bennink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) to work on optical tweezers experiments in chromatin.




	Matt Fagerburg B.S., Physics, University of Pittsburgh

		After I finished my B.S., I taught physics in Capetown, South Africa for a month and a half and then was working for an engineering company in Pittsburgh. Through my physics classmates, I met Sanford and we started having a journal club discussing the single-molecule literature in his office on Sundays. I attended the Paris Summer Physics School in 2005. I joined the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program (www.biophysics.pitt.edu) and have been doing my first year lab rotations with Sanford where I worked on plasmon resonances of nanometal particles. My present lab rotation is with Saleem Khan and his lab working on helicases, and my third lab rotation (summer 2006) is planned with Martin Bennink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) to work on optical tweezers experiments in chromatin.