Graduate Students

• Srabasti Acharyia
• Andreas Meindl

Technicians

• Terry Ball

Undergraduates

• Alex Seling

Former Students and Postdocs

• Basir Ahmad
• Ling Wu
• Li Zhu
• Yujie Chen
• Steven Waldauer
• Vijay Singh
• Stephen Decamp
• Eric Buscarino

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy  

Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Michigan State University

4223 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg

East Lansing, MI 48824

(517)884-5656

(517)353-4500 (fax)

lapidus@msu.edu

• B.S. University of Michigan, 1991
• A.M. Harvard University, 1993
• Ph.D. Harvard University, 1998

Current Research Interests

• Fast folding events in proteins using laser spectroscopy
• Global heteropolymer collapse
• Aggregation

Past Research Interests

•  Synchronization and Stochastic Behavior of Electrons in a Penning Trap
  •  Jim Carrey and Conan O'Brien find this topic cool.
• Single Molecule Fluorescence
• RNA folding