Ben Ovryn

Ben Ovryn, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physics
New York Institute of Technology
bovryn@nyit.edu
ben@ovrynlab.org

B.S., Physics, University of Rochester
M.A., Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

  • Professor, Physics,
        New York Institute of Technology (7/2019-present)

  • Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
        College of Arts and Sciences
        New York Institute of Technology (7/2019-7/2020)

  • Affliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
        Colorado State University, CO (7/2019-7/2020)
  • Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
        Colorado State University, CO (9/2017-7/2019)
  • Senior Scientist, Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research Institute,
        La Jolla, CA (2016-8/2017)
  • Associate Professor, Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert
      Einstein College of Medicine (2003-2016)
  • Principal Researcher and Instructor, Biomedical Engineering, Case
        Western Reserve University (2001-2003)
  • Principal Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, Case Western
      Reserve University (1997-2001)
  • Senior Research Scientist, NYMA Inc. at NASA Lewis Research
        Center (1995-1997)
  • Research Scientist, NASA Lewis Research Center (1992-1995)
  • Resident Research Associate, Optical Measurements Branch,
      NASA Lewis Research Center, (1987-1992)
  • Research Fellow, Department of Musculoskeletal Research,
      Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, (1984-1987)

    • News

  • November 2024: Congratulations to Mary and Michael on receiving NASA travel grants to present a poster on their research at the NASA MOSAICS meeting in Washington, DC!
  • October 5, 2024: Congratulations Avery for representing NYIT with your Showcase Presentation at the Edward Guiliano Global Inaugural Showcase & Reunion! Avery! Avery is one of seven recently named Edward Guiliano Global Fellows. This generous funding from Edward Guiliano, who served from 2000-2012 as New York Institute of Technology's president, enabled Avery to spend 2 weeks in August at Goddard Space Flight Center working on optical measurements in support of the Habitable Worlds Observatory Also excellent write-up on your Fellowship: https://www.nyit.edu/news/articles/guiliano-global-fellows-glacier-saviors-exoplanets-and-more/
  • September 2024: Thanks to NASA, the Ovrynlab HAS a $300K, 2 YEAR GRANT: “Pathways from Undergraduate Research to the Habitable Worlds Observatory”, Principal investigator: Ben Ovryn, New York Institute of Technology, NASA center: NASA Goddard). https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-funds-research-projects-advancing-stem-career-development/
    • May 2024: Congratulations to Sean as he receives his B.S. in Mech Engineering from NYIT. Even better, Sean has begun his Ph.D. studies in Mech Engineering at NYIT! Sean will remain with the OvrynLab investigating oscillating drops using interference microscopy.
    • April 2024: Avery presented a talk at the Rochester Symposium for Physics, Astronomy and Optics Students SPS Zone 2 meeting. Terrific opportunity for Ben to return to his alma mater to Chair a session. Reminder of this wonderful undergraduate years when he was President of the Student Physics Society.
    • March 2024: APS March meeting: "Avery's talk was great" - so we have been told!
    • September 2023: Congratulations to Mary Roberts as she leaves the Ovrynlab for a Masters degree in Physics at City College.
    • May 2023: Congratulations to Carlos Zuna Largo. After a successful defense of his Master thesis, Carlos leaves the Ovrynlab for a wonderful job at Haddington Dynamics. Enjoy Vegas.
    • May 2023: We were thrilled to have Prakash Bajgain visit his colleagues in the Ovrynlab. Prakash was excited to share his journey from the Ovrynlab to Sierra Space, where he worked on Dreamchaser, to his really awesome position at Redwire where he is working on Roll Out Solar Arrays for International Space Station. We hope visit you soon in Santa Barbara!
    • 2022: Avery submitted 2 abstracts for the March APS meeting in Las Vegas.
    • 2022: New funding from Haddington Dynamics/Occado advances our robotics metrology.
    • 2022: The physics of membrane chapter is published: Ben Ovryn et al. “Physics of the cell membrane” (2022). In: Blagoev, K.B. and Levine, H. (eds) Physics of Molecular and Cellular Processes. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer.
    • 2022: We welcome Andrew and Cristina to the lab.
    • 2022: Mary presented a poster at the CSHL meeting on "Single Biomolecules" August 30-Sept3. The title is: "Determining gap junction topography using correlated interference microscopy from conjugated gold particles and super-resolution imaging of membrane tethered molecules"
    • 2022: Congratulations to Prakash!!
    He has earned his B.S. and landed his DREAM job- he is now an Engineer working on Dream Chaser in Colorado. Super move.
    • 2022: Congratulations to Carlos! He has earned his B.S. and has a summer internship at Haddington Dynamics in Las Vegas. Thankfully, Carlos is returning to NYIT to earn his M.S.
    • 2022: Congratulations to Mary! She has earned his B.S.! Mary loves physics and is staying she is taking courses in our Physics Department. That is wonderful!
    • 2021: Avery has become President of NYIT's Chapter of SPS.
    • 2019: Ben Joined New York Institute of Technology as Professor, Physics (Presidential Tenure) and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship (Inaugural), College of Arts and Sciences.
    • Read Ovryn, B et al. "Physics of the Cell Membrane (2022)” ". in: Blagoev, K.B., Levine, H. (eds) Physics of Molecular and Cellular Processes Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer.
    • Read Ovryn, B et al. "Visualizing glycans on single cells and tissues". Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (2017) 39:39-45
    • Read Jiang, H. , English, B. P., Hazan, R. B., Wu, P. and Ovryn, B. (2015), Tracking Surface Glycans on Live Cancer Cells with Single-Molecule Sensitivity. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54: 1765-1769.
    • Read Erdinç Atilgan and Ben Ovryn, "Reflectivity and topography of cells grown on glass-coverslips measured with phase-shifted laser feedback interference microscopy," Biomedical Optics Express (2011) 2:2417-2437.
    • Read Erdinç Atilgan and Ben Ovryn (2009) "Nucleation and growth of integrin adhesions," Biophys J. 96: 3555-3572.