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My research centers on the interfacial and self-assembling properties of biologically relevant surfactants such as lipids and proteins. We try to understand how the fundamental chemistry and physics of lung surfactant monolayers and bilayers influence their physiological role of lowering surface tension in the human lung. Dysfunction of this system leads to neonatal and adult respiratory distress syndrome, which affects 100,000 people each year, with a 40% mortality rate. We believe that the problem is due to competition between serum proteins and lung surfactants for the interface during the inflammation that accompanies disease. We have built novel two-dimensional shear and dilatational rheometers that we couple to fluorescence imaging techniques to relate interfacial mechanics to composition and morphology. We are showing that the Laplace instability, caused by a lack of dynamic changes in surface tension during breathing, may be responsible for causing lung dysfunction during respiratory distress.
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Boxun Huang,Steven V. Iasella, Meenal Rathi, Joseph Hassler,Clara O. Ciutara, Ziwen He,David C. Morse,Joseph A. Zasadzinski
Journal of Colloid and Interface Scienceno. Pt A (2024): 557-568
Zachary MacAllister, Anjiya Panjwani, Bjorn Solberg, Abram Cressman,Cain Valtierrez-Gaytan,Benjamin L. Stottrup,Joseph A. Zasadzinski
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNALno. 3 (2024): 86A-86A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americano. 51 (2023)
Zachary McAllister,Benjamin L. Stottrup,Cain Valtierrez-Gaytan,Bjorn Solberg, Aidan S. Dosch,Joseph A. Zasadzinski
Journal of visualized experiments (2022)
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#Papers: 350
#Citation: 17342
H-Index: 66
G-Index: 125
Sociability: 7
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