Publications
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.
"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)
"DnaB helicase activity is modulated by DNA geometry and force." Biophysical Journal 99 (2010): 2170-2179.
"Magnetic tweezers for the study of DNA tracking motors." Methods in Enzymology 475 (2010): 297-320. (1.12 MB)
"Detailed scaling analysis of low-force polyelectrolyte elasticity." Physical Review E 80 (2009): 041803. (193.93 KB)
"A high-resolution magnetic tweezer for single-molecule measurements." Nucleic Acids Research 37 (2009): e136. (1.75 MB)
"Nonlinear low-force elasticity of single-stranded DNA molecules." Physical Review Letters 102 (2009): 068301. (193.45 KB)
"Polyelectrolytes: The de Gennes Legacy." P.G. de Gennes' Impact on Science, Volume II. (2009).
"Multiplexed single-molecule measurements with magnetic tweezers." Review of Scientific Instruments 79 (2008): 094301. (233.09 KB)
"Single-molecule studies using magnetic traps." In Single-Molecule Techniques: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008.
"Stabilizing method for reflection interference contrast microscopy." Applied Optics 47 (2008): 2070-2075.
"Studies of DNA-protein interactions at the single molecule level with magnetic tweezers." Lecture Notes in Physics 711 (2007): 123-140.
"DNA mechanics as a tool to probe helicase and translocase activity." Nucleic Acids Research 34 (2006): 4232-4244. (841.85 KB)
"Oriented loading of FtsK on KOPS." Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 13 (2006): 1026-1028.
"Analysis of DNA supercoil induction by FtsK indicates translocation without groove-tracking." Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 12 (2005): 436-440.
"KOPS: DNA motifs that control E. coli chromosome segregation by orienting the FtsK translocase." The EMBO Journal 24 (2005): 3770-3780.
"Single-molecule manipulation measurements of DNA transport proteins." Chemphyschem 6 (2005): 813-818.
"Statistical determination of the step size of molecular motors." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 (2005): S3811.
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