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Kristine Lang

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Kristine is an experimental physicist specializing in the use of scanned probe microscopy techniques. As their name would imply, these technique rely on moving a small (nanometer scale) probe across the object of study and then using a computer to render images of that surface. Her research project is in collaboration with biology professor Phoebe Lostroh. In this project she uses the AFM to image the surface of naturally competent bacteria. These bacteria are able to uptake DNA from their environment through some as yet unstudied competence structure. The goal of this project is to image this competence structure and other surface features of the bacteria, and study how these structures change in mutants of the native bacteria. She involves CC students in all of her research.

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