Areas of Research/Interest: Experimental physics; Single molecule force spectroscopy, Mechanics of proteins; Protein folding under force, Model colloidal proteins, Jammed matter, Stress transmission in emulsions.

Fellowships/Honors: 
Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Award Fellow, 2006-2011 ($500,000)
Summer student from the NYU-CCNY REU for the Science and Engineering of Soft Materials and Interfaces (SESMI), 2007

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Selected Works:
Force-clamp spectroscopy of single protein monomers reveals the individual unfolding and fodling pathways of I27 and ubiquitin, S. Garcia-Manyes, J. Brujić, Carmen L. Badilla, and J.M. Fernandez, Biophys. J., 2007, doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.104422.

Measuring the coordination number and entropy of a 3D jammed emulsion packing by confocal microscopy, J. Brujić, C. Song, P. Wang, C. Briscoe, G. Marty, and H. A. Makse, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2007, 98, 248001.

Dwell-time distribution analysis of polyprotein unfolding using `force-clamp’ spectroscopy, J. Brujić, R. I. Z. Hermans, S. Garcia-Manyes, K. A. Walther, and J. M. Fernandez, Biophys. J., 2007, 92, 2896-2903.

Contour length and refolding rate of a small protein controlled by engineered disulfide bonds, S. R. K. Ainavarapu, J. Brujić, H. H. Huang, A. P. Wiita, H. Lu, L. Li, K. A. Walther, M. Carrion-Vazquez, H. Li, and J. M. Fernandez, Biophys. J., 2007, 92, 225-233.

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals signatures of glassy dynamics in the energy landscape of ubiquitin, J. Brujić, R. Hermans, K. A. Walther, J. M. Fernandez, Nature Physics, 2006, 2, 282-286.

Sub-angstrom conformational changes of a single molecule captured by AFM variance analysis, K. A. Walther, J. Brujić, H. Li, and J. M. Fernndez, Biophys. J., 2006, 90, 3806-3812.

Granular dynamics in compaction and stress relaxation, J. Brujić, D. Johnson, O. Sindt, H. A. Makse, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2005, 128001.

A basis for the statistical mechanics of granular systems in unifying concepts of granular media and glasses, S. F. Edwards, J. Brujić, H. A. Makse, edited by A. Coniglio, A. Fiero, H. J. Herrmann and M. Nicodemi, Elsevier, 2004, Amsterdam.

3D bulk measurements of the force fistribution in a compressed emulsion system, J. Brujić, S. F. Edwards, D. V. Grinev, I. Hopkinson, D. Brujić, H. A. Makse, Faraday Disc., 2003, 123, 207-220.

Measuring the distribution of interdroplet forces in a compressed emulsion system, J. Brujić, S. F. Edwards, I. Hopkinson, and H. A. Makse, Physica A, 2003, 327, 201-212.

Jammed systems in slow flow need a new statistical mechanics, J. Brujić, D. V. Grinev, S. F. Edwards, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 2003, 361, 741.

Fundamental problems in statistical physics of jammed packings, S. F. Edwards, D. V. Grinev, J. Brujić, Physica A, 2003, 330, 61.