Peter Butler

Professor of Bioengineering

230 Hallowell
University Park, PA 16802
pjb28@psu.edu
814-865-8086

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Research Summary

Fundamental molecular mechanisms by which vascular endothelial cells sense the forces from flowing blood and transduce this mechanical information into adjustments of cell and tissue biology.

Huck Affiliations

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Most Recent Publications

Endothelial Cell Selectivity to Nanoparticles Depends on Mechanical Phenotype

Pouria Fattahi, Yin Ting Yeh, Tiankai Zhao, Mousa Younesi, Changjin Huang, Mauricio Terrones, M Terrones Maldonado, S Zheng, Justin L. Brown, Dan Dongeun Huh, Sulin Zhang, Peter Butler, 2023, Advanced Materials Interfaces on p. 13

Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Summer bridge program implementation across four campuses

Catherine L. Cohan, A Freeman, Lauren A. Griggs, C Cohan, Lauren Griggs, Ryan Scott Hassler, Mark Johnson, R Hassler, M Johnson, Michael Kagan, M Kagan, Amy Louise Freeman, P Butler, Tonya L. Peeples, T Peeples, 2022, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Sustainable Bridges from Campus to Campus: The Creation and Conduct of Online Synchronous Summer Bridge Programs in 2020

C Cohan, Lauren Griggs, R Hassler, Mark Johnson, M Kagan, P Butler, Tonya Peeples, 2021, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings on p. 16

A transparent low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) chip for high-throughput cell stimulation

Haoyang Chen, Ninghao Zhu, Mohamed Osman, Ryan Biskowitz, Jinyun Liu, Shubham Khandare, Peter Butler, Pak Kin Wong, Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli, 2021, Lab on a Chip - Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Biology on p. 4734--4742

Liposome-based measurement of light-driven chloride transport kinetics of halorhodopsin

Hasin Feroz, Bryan Ferlez, Hyeonji Oh, Hossein Mohammadiarani, Tingwei Ren, Carol S. Baker, John Gajewski, Daniel Lugar, Sandeep Gaudana, Peter Butler, others, J Hühn, Jonas Huehn, Matthias Lamping, Wolfgang Parak, Michael Blatt, Cheryl Kerfeld, Nicholas Smirnoff, Harish Vashisth, John Golbeck, M Kumar, 2021, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes on p. 183637

Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Aggregate results for Engineering Ahead Cohorts One to Three (#1525367)

Catherine L. Cohan, Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay, Ryan Scott Hassler, Mark William Johnson, Michael Kagan, Ann Marie Schmiedekamp, Peter J. Shull, Peter J. Butler, Tonya L. Peeples, 2020, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Mechanobiology of dynamic enzyme systems

Peter J. Butler, 2020, APL Bioengineering

Entanglement and weak interaction driven mobility of small molecules in polymer networks

Rajarshi Guha, Subhadip Ghosh, D Velegol, Peter Butler, A Sen, Jennifer Ross, 2020, arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12389

Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Outcomes for two cohorts of Jump Start second-year bridge participants (#1525367)

Catherine L. Cohan, Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay, Ryan Scott Hassler, Mark William Johnson, Mikhail Kagan, Ann Marie Schmiedekamp, Peter J. Shull, Peter J. Butler, Helen Edson, 2019, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Motility of Enzyme-Powered Vesicles

Subhadip Ghosh, Darrell Velegol, Subhadip Ghosh, Farzad Mohajerani, Farzad Mohajerani, Seoyoung Son, D Velegol, Seoyoung Son, Peter Butler, Ayusman Sen, 2019, Nano Letters on p. 6019--6026

Most-Cited Papers

Highly permeable artificial water channels that can self-assemble into two-dimensional arrays

Yue Xiao Shen, Wen Si, Mustafa Erbakan, Karl Decker, Rita De Zorzi, Patrick O. Saboe, You Jung Kang, Sheereen Majd, Peter J. Butler, Thomas Walz, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Jun Li Hou, Manish Kumar, David A. Weitz, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 9810-9815

Substrate-driven chemotactic assembly in an enzyme cascade

Xi Zhao, Henri Palacci, Vinita Yadav, Michelle M. Spiering, Michael Gilson, Peter Butler, Henry Hess, Stephen J. Benkovic, Ayusman Sen, 2018, Nature Chemistry on p. 311--317

Achieving high permeability and enhanced selectivity for Angstrom-scale separations using artificial water channel membranes

Yue-xiao Shen, Woochul Song, D. Ryan Barden, D Barden, Tingwei Ren, Chao Lang, Hasin Feroz, Codey Henderson, Patrick Saboe, Daniel Tsai, Hengjing Yan, Peter Butler, Guillermo C. Bazan, William A. Phillip, Robert J. Hickey, Paul S. Cremer, Harish Vashisth, Manish Kumar, 2018, Nature Communications on p. 2294

The use of nanoparticulates to treat breast cancer

Xiaomeng Tang, Welley Loc, Cheng Dong, Gail L. Matters, Peter Butler, M Kester, Craig Meyers, Yixing Jiang, James H. Adair, 2017, Nanomedicine on p. 2367--2388

Tumor-promoting effects of pancreatic cancer cell exosomes on THP-1-derived macrophages

Samuel Linton, Thomas Abraham, Jason Liao, Gary A. Clawson, Peter Butler, T Fox, M Kester, Gail L. Matters, 2018, PLoS One on p. e0206759

Exothermicity Is Not a Necessary Condition for Enhanced Diffusion of Enzymes

Pierre Illien, Xi Zhao, Krishna K. Dey, Peter J. Butler, Ayusman Sen, Ramin Golestanian, 2017, Nano Letters on p. 4415-4420

Anatomy of Nanoscale Propulsion

Vinita Yadav, Wentao Duan, Peter J. Butler, Ayusman Sen, 2015, Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure on p. 77-100