Publications
Magnetic tweezers for the study of DNA tracking motors." Methods in Enzymology 475 (2010): 297-320. (1.12 MB)
"Salt species-dependent electrostatic effects on ssDNA elasticity." Macromolecules 44 (2011): 2328-2333.
"Single-molecule elasticity measurements of the onset of excluded volume in poly (ethylene glycol)." Physical Review Letters 107 (2011): 148301. (206.38 KB)
"Active, motor-driven mechanics in a DNA gel." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (2012): 17342-17347. (450.67 KB)
"Bandpass filtering of DNA elastic modes using confinement and tension." Biophysical Journal 102 (2012): 96-100.
"Direct correlation between creep compliance and deformation in entangled and sparsely crosslinked microtubule networks." Soft Matter 8 (2012): 1776-1784.
"Ionic excesses and entropies in mean-field screening models." Soft Matter 8 (2012): 9368-9375.
"Power spectrum and Allan variance methods for calibrating single-molecule video-tracking instruments." Review of Scientific Instruments 83 (2012): 025115. (851.98 KB)
"Quantifying screening ion excesses in single-molecule force-extension experiments." Physical Review Letters 109 (2012): 048301. (347.62 KB)
"Simulations of stretching a strong, flexible polyelectrolyte." Macromolecules 45 (2012): 5757-5765.
"Active DNA gels." In AIP Conference Proceedings, 517-519. Vol. 1518. AIP, 2013. (209.46 KB)
"DNA unwinding by ring-shaped T4 helicase gp41 is hindered by tension on the occluded strand." PloS one 8 (2013): e79237. (314.47 KB)
"A high-speed magnetic tweezer beyond 10,000 frames per second." Review of Scientific Instruments 84 (2013): 044301. (1.19 MB)
"Simulations of stretching a strong, flexible polyelectrolyte: Using long chains to access the Pincus scaling regime." Macromolecules 46 (2013): 6369-6373.
"Single-molecule and bulk approaches to the DnaB replication fork helicase." Frontiers in Bioscience (Landmark Edition) 18 (2013): 224.
"The snakelike chain character of unstructured RNA." Biophysical Journal 105 (2013): 2569-2576.
"Image-based synchronization of force and bead motion in active electromagnetic microrheometry." Measurement Science and Technology 25 (2014): 125010.
"Locked nucleic acid oligomers as handles for single molecule manipulation." Nucleic Acids Research 42 (2014): e150. (359.26 KB)
"Sequence-dependent elasticity and electrostatics of single-stranded DNA: Signatures of base-stacking." Biophysical journal 106 (2014): 659-666.
"Single-molecule methods for ligand counting: Linking ion uptake to DNA hairpin folding." Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014): 5974-5980.
"Measuring the differential stoichiometry and energetics of ligand binding to macromolecules by single-molecule force spectroscopy: an extended theory." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119 (2015): 1930-1938.
"Perspective: Single polymer mechanics across the force regimes." The Journal of Chemical Physics 142 (2015): 194902. (390.62 KB)
"Counting the ions surrounding nucleic acids." Nucleic Acids Research (2016). (628.74 KB)
"Electrostatics and depletion determine competition between 2D nematic and 3D bundled phases of rod-like DNA nanotubes." Soft Matter 12 (2016): 5089-5095.
"Magnetic tweezers force calibration for molecules that exhibit conformational switching." Review of Scientific Instruments 87 (2016): 094302.
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