Joshua B. Edel

Professor Joshua Edel’s research activities lie in the general area of nanobiotechnology with an emphasis on the development of micro and nanofluidic devices for analytical and bio-analytical applications and ultra-high sensitivity optical detection techniques. For example, tools are being developed to study molecular dynamics confined within 5 – 500 nm wide fluidic channels. Combining nanofluidics with spectroscopy offers several major advantages for monitoring dynamics as this allows for the design of non-equilibrium experiments, in which biological processes can be initiated and monitored in real time. Another research area currently being pursued is in the use of microfluidic devices for high throughput parallel array detection capable of detecting rare cellular and molecular events at the single molecule level.