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Allison Squires
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering
Affiliation: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Department of Chemistry
Focus
The Squires Lab employs single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule manipulation and confinement to develop sensing platforms that report on spectroscopic identity, molecular dynamics, and nanoscale energy transfer.
Biography
BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University
PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University
Postdoctoral scholar in Chemistry at Stanford University
Accolades
NSF fellow
Clare Boothe Luce Fellow
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Research interests
Allison Squires’s research interests center on manipulating, measuring, and understanding the properties and behavior of single molecules. Advancing our capability to obtain rich biophysical data on a molecule-by-molecule basis reveals details that are obscured in bulk measurements, enabling us to build bottom-up models of complex systems. Squires Lab employs single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule manipulation and confinement to develop sensing platforms that report on spectroscopic identity, molecular dynamics, and nanoscale energy transfer. These approaches are useful in a wide range of scientific contexts, from observation of nanoscale biomolecular interactions in cellular signaling pathways to photoadaptation in photosynthetic systems. She is also working to adapt these approaches to applied challenges in alternative energy technologies and biomedical diagnostics.
