Publications
] "Studies of DNA-protein interactions at the single molecule level with magnetic tweezers." Lecture Notes in Physics 711 (2007): 123-140.
"Contraction of polymer gels created by the activity of molecular motors." Soft Matter 15, no. 22 (2019): 4467-4475.
"Electrostatic effects on the conformation and elasticity of hyaluronic acid, a moderately flexible polyelectrolyte." Macromolecules (2017).
"Scale-Dependent Stiffness and Internal Tension of a Model Brush Polymer." Phys Rev Lett 119, no. 12 (2017): 127801.
"Locked nucleic acid oligomers as handles for single molecule manipulation." Nucleic Acids Research 42 (2014): e150.
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(359.26 KB) "Active, motor-driven mechanics in a DNA gel." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (2012): 17342-17347. (450.67 KB)
(450.67 KB) "KOPS: DNA motifs that control E. coli chromosome segregation by orienting the FtsK translocase." The EMBO Journal 24 (2005): 3770-3780.
"Oriented loading of FtsK on KOPS." Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 13 (2006): 1026-1028.
"Persistent X-ray photoconductivity and percolation of metallic clusters in charge-ordered manganites." EPL (Europhysics Letters) 47 (1999): 90. (280.54 KB)
(280.54 KB) "Engineering the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Networks with Flexible Self-Assembled V-Shaped Monomers." Macromolecules 51 (2018): 3149-3155.
"Emulsion imaging of a DNA nanostar condensate phase diagram reveals valence and electrostatic effects." J Chem Phys 157, no. 23 (2022): 234203.
"Increasing valence pushes DNA nanostar networks to the isostatic point." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116, no. 15 (2019): 7238-7243.
"Single-molecule methods for ligand counting: Linking ion uptake to DNA hairpin folding." Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014): 5974-5980.
"Single-molecule elasticity measurements of the onset of excluded volume in poly (ethylene glycol)." Physical Review Letters 107 (2011): 148301. (206.38 KB)
(206.38 KB) "Intrinsically disordered proteins at the nano-scale." Nano Futures 5 (2021): 022501.
"Controlling the size and adhesion of DNA droplets using surface- enriched DNA molecules." Soft Matter 20, no. 6 (2024): 1275-1281.
"Triggered disassembly and reassembly of actin networks induces rigidity phase transitions." Soft Matter 15, no. 6 (2019): 1335-1344.
"Flexible, charged biopolymers in monovalent and mixed-valence salt: Regimes of anomalous electrostatic stiffening and of salt insensitivity." Phys Rev E 104, no. 1-1 (2021): 014504.
"Single-Molecule Stretching Shows Glycosylation Sets Tension in the Hyaluronan-Aggrecan Bottlebrush." Biophys J (2020).
"Flexible, charged biopolymers in monovalent and mixed-valence salt: Regimes of anomalous electrostatic stiffening and of salt insensitivity." Phys. Rev. E 104 (2021): 014504.
"Surface-induced effects in fluctuation-based measurements of single-polymer elasticity: A direct probe of the radius of gyration." The Journal of Chemical Physics 148 (2018): 123314. (687.5 KB)
(687.5 KB) "Polyelectrolyte Conformation Controlled by a Trivalent-Rich Ion Jacket." Phys Rev Lett 123, no. 18 (2019): 187801.
"Magnetic tweezers force calibration for molecules that exhibit conformational switching." Review of Scientific Instruments 87 (2016): 094302.
"Quantifying the ion atmosphere of unfolded, single-stranded nucleic acids using equilibrium dialysis and single-molecule methods." Nucleic Acids Research 44 (2016): 3763. (652.83 KB)
(652.83 KB) "Single-stranded nucleic acid elasticity arises from internal electrostatic tension." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (2017): 5095-5100. (761.58 KB)
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