Soft Matter Research Laboratory

Tristan Hormel

• email: hormel@ohsu.edu

About

Tristan was a PostDoc in the Angelini lab, studying the formation of mucin layers on human corneal cells. Tristan was last seen taking a PostDoc position at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

Publications

2017

• "A Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Method for Measuring Mucous Layer Growth on Living Corneal Epithelia"
  T.T. Hormel,T. Bhattacharjee, A.A. Pitenis, J.M. Urueña, W.G. Sawyer, T.E. Angelini, Biotribology 11 73-76 (2017)
  
• "Corneal cell friction: Survival, lubricity, tear films, and mucin production over extended duration in vitro studies"
  A.A. Pitenis, J.M. Urueña, T.T. Hormel, T. Bhattacharjee, S.R. Niemi, S.L. Marshall, S.M. Hart, K.D. Schulze, T.E. Angelini, W.G. Sawyer; Biotribology 11 77-83 (2017)
  

2015

• "Two-Point Microrheology of Phase-Separated Domains in Lipid Bilayers"
  T.T. Hormel, M.A. Reyer, R. Parthasarathy, Biophys. J. 109 (2015)
  

2014

• "Measuring Lipid Membrane Viscosity Using Rotational and Translational Probe Diffusion"
  T.T. Hormel, S.Q. Kurihara, M.K. Brennan, M.C. Wozniak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014)
  

Presentations

Oral Presentation

• Structure and Dynamics of Mucin Networks
  Tribology and Lubrication Engineering Society, May 2018
• Structural Evolution and Spatial Heterogeneities in Mucin Layers
  American Physical Society, Mar 2018
• Characterizing Membrane Dynamics at a Biological Interface
  Tribology and Lubrication Engineering Society, May 2017
• Mucin Production Dynamics at the Surface of Corneal Epithelial Cells
  American Physical Society, Mar 2017
• Two-Point Microrheology of Lipid Bilayers
  Biophysical Society Meeting, 2016
• Two-Point Microrheology of Phase Separated Domains in Lipid Bilayers
  American Physical Society, Mar 2015
• Measuring Lipid Bilayer Viscosity Using Rotational and Translational Probe
  American Physical Society, Mar 2014
• Measuring Membrane Viscosity with Rotational Tracer Diffusion
  Materials Science Institue Conference - University of Oregon, 2013

Posters

• Structure and Dynamics of Mucin Hydrogels
  UF Soft Matter Symposium; Oct 2017

Awards

• Thesis Award - University of Oregon (2015)

• GK-12 Fellowship - National Science Foundation (2012-2013)

• HHMI Teaching Fellow (2011)

• Commendation for Excellence in Scholarship - Reed College (2009)