Scientific career Brian Gentry

Extended Curriculum Vitae

Brief Curriculum vitae of Brian Gentry

1. Personal details
   Biological Soft Matter Group
   FOM Institute AMOLF
   P.O. Box 41883
   1009 DB Amsterdam
   The Netherlands
   
   Email:  gentryATamolf.nl
   Phone:  ++31 (0)20 754 7225
   Fax: ++31 (0)20 754 7290
   
   Place of birth:  Charlottesville, VA USA
   Date of birth:    29.12.1965
   Marital status:  Married, 2 children
   
   
2. Academic Education
   
   • 2009 –  Present    Postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Gijsje Koenderink at the Biological Soft Matter group, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   • 2002 – 2009         PhD candidate in the laboratory of Prof. Josef A. Käs at the Department for Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig March, 2009 – Completion of Ph.D. Ph.D. Thesis: “F-actin in Parallel Geometries”
3. Honors and Scholarships
   
   • March, 2009        Graduated Cum Laude (Ph.D. Physics)
   • 1998 – 2000        Bill and Camille Cosby Scholarship in Science, Temple University
4. Publications
   
   • B. Gentry, D. Smith, J. Käs.
     Buckling-induced zebra stripe patterns in nematic F-actin, Phys. Rev. E, 79, 031916 (2009).
   • D. Smith, B. Gentry, Björn Stuhrmann, Florian Huber, Dan Strehle, Claudia Brunner,     Daniel Koch, Matthias Steinbeck, Timo Betz, Josef Käs.
     The Cytoskeleton: An Active Polymer-Based Scaffold, Biophys. Rev. Lett, 4 (1-2), 179-208 (2009).
   • D. Strehle, J. Schnauss, C. Heussinger, J. Alvarado, M. Bathe, J. Käs, B. Gentry. Transiently crosslinked F-actin bundles, European Biophysics Journal (2010).
5. Research Interests
   Cell Mechanics, Thermodynamics of Biopolymer Systems, Biomimetic Cytoskeletal Systems