Navish Wadhwa
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics
Other ASU affiliations
Assistant Professor,
Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution
Center for Biological Physics
Assistant Professor,
Microbiology (PhD) program
Molecular/Cellular Biology (MS/PhD) program
Team
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Phone: 602-496-5456
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Mail code: 7701Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
The Wadhwa lab employs a combination of biophysical experiments and theoretical modeling to investigate how physical forces influence the behavior of living matter at scales ranging from single molecules to whole cells. Current projects in the lab include how bacteria generate, sense, and respond to physical forces and how these forces are transduced into biochemical signals to modulate behavior. Our research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Arizona Biomedical Research Centre, and the Biological Integration Institute for Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution.
Education
- Postdoc, Harvard University
- Ph.D. Physics, Technical University of Denmark
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Research Website URL
Research Interests
Physics of Biological Systems; Soft Matter Physics;
Publications
Recent Publications:
- Wadhwa, N., & Berg, H. C. (2022). Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms. Nature reviews microbiology, 20(3), 161-173.
- Ergin, F. G., Günaydınoğlu, E., Kurtuluş, D. F., & Wadhwa, N. (2023). Estimating the pressure force around swimming plankton using micro particle image velocimetry. Fluid Dynamics Research, 55(6), 065505.
- Hu, H., Popp, P. F., Santiveri, M., Roa-Eguiara, A., Yan, Y., Martin, F. J., ... & Taylor, N. M. (2023). Ion selectivity and rotor coupling of the Vibrio flagellar sodium-driven stator unit. Nature communications, 14(1), 4411.
- Wadhwa, N., Sassi, A., Berg, H. C., & Tu, Y. (2022). A multi-state dynamic process confers mechano-adaptation to a biological nanomachine. Nature communications, 13(1), 5327.
- Wadhwa, N., Tu, Y., & Berg, H. C. (2021). Mechanosensitive remodeling of the bacterial flagellar motor is independent of direction of rotation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(15), e2024608118.
- Santiveri, M., Roa-Eguiara, A., Kühne, C., Wadhwa, N., Hu, H., Berg, H. C., ... & Taylor, N. M. (2020). Structure and function of stator units of the bacterial flagellar motor. Cell, 183(1), 244-257.
- Wadhwa, N., Phillips, R., & Berg, H. C. (2019). Torque-dependent remodeling of the bacterial flagellar motor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(24), 11764-11769.
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Courses
2025 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PHY 495 | Project Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
PHY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BDE 792 | Research |
2025 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 795 | Continuing Registration |
PHY 792 | Research |
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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PHY 495 | Project Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
PHY 310 | Classical Parts/Field/Matter I |
BDE 792 | Research |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PHY 495 | Project Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 795 | Continuing Registration |
PHY 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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PHY 495 | Project Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
PHY 310 | Classical Parts/Field/Matter I |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PHY 495 | Project Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
PHY 121 | Univ Physics I: Mechanics |
EVO 501 | Current Topics in Ev. Biology |
PHY 394 | Special Topics |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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PHY 495 | Project Research |
PHY 121 | Univ Physics I: Mechanics |
EVO 501 | Current Topics in Ev. Biology |
PHY 495 | Project Research |