Publications
A novel resistive pulse sensor for biological measurements. Ph.D. Thesis: Princeton University, 2003. (3.8 MB)
X-Ray effects in charge-ordered manganites: A magnetic mechanism of persistent photoconductivity." Materials Science and Engineering: B 63 (1999): 30-35.
"Vacuole dynamics and popping-based motility in liquid droplets of DNA." Nature Communications 14 (2023): 3574.
"Tweezepy: A Python package for calibrating forces in single-molecule video-tracking experiments." PLoS One 16, no. 12 (2021): e0262028.
"Tuning phase and aging of DNA hydrogels through molecular design." Soft Matter 13 (2017): 5421-5427.
"Triggered disassembly and reassembly of actin networks induces rigidity phase transitions." Soft Matter 15, no. 6 (2019): 1335-1344.
"A thin permeable-membrane device for single-molecule manipulation." Review of Scientific Instruments 87 (2016): 014301. (1.37 MB)
"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)
"Studies of DNA-protein interactions at the single molecule level with magnetic tweezers." Lecture Notes in Physics 711 (2007): 123-140.
"Statistical determination of the step size of molecular motors." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 (2005): S3811.
"Stabilizing method for reflection interference contrast microscopy." Applied Optics 47 (2008): 2070-2075.
"Spatial Organization of Phase-Separated DNA Droplets." Physical Review X 13 (2023): 031014.
"The snakelike chain character of unstructured RNA." Biophysical Journal 105 (2013): 2569-2576.
"Single-stranded nucleic acid elasticity arises from internal electrostatic tension." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (2017): 5095-5100. (761.58 KB)
"Single-Molecule Stretching Shows Glycosylation Sets Tension in the Hyaluronan-Aggrecan Bottlebrush." Biophys J (2020).
"Single-Molecule Polypeptoid Stretching Reveals the Effects of Charge Sequence on Chain Conformation." Macromolecules 56 (2023): 8558-8564.
"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 manipulation measurements of DNA transport proteins." Chemphyschem 6 (2005): 813-818.
"Single-molecule elasticity measurements of the onset of excluded volume in poly (ethylene glycol)." Physical Review Letters 107 (2011): 148301. (206.38 KB)
"Single-molecule and bulk approaches to the DnaB replication fork helicase." Frontiers in Bioscience (Landmark Edition) 18 (2013): 224.
"Simulations of stretching a strong, flexible polyelectrolyte: Using long chains to access the Pincus scaling regime." Macromolecules 46 (2013): 6369-6373.
"Simulations of stretching a strong, flexible polyelectrolyte." Macromolecules 45 (2012): 5757-5765.
"Simulations of stretching a flexible polyelectrolyte with varying charge separation." The European Physical Journal Special Topics 225 (2016): 1683-1692.
"Sequence-dependent elasticity and electrostatics of single-stranded DNA: Signatures of base-stacking." Biophysical journal 106 (2014): 659-666.
"Sequence-Controlled Adhesion and Microemulsification in a Two-Phase System of DNA Liquid Droplets." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2020).
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