Publications
Complementary TEM and AFM force spectroscopy to characterize the nanomechanical properties of nanoparticle chain aggregates. Nano letters 4, 2287–2292 (2004).
Local nanomechanical motion of the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 305, 1147–1150 (2004).
Analysis of type IV pilus and its associated motility in Myxococcus xanthus using an antibody reactive with native pilin and pili. Microbiology 151, 353–360 (2005).
Methods and devices for determining a cell characteristic, and applications employing the same. (2005).
Nanoscale visualization and characterization of Myxococcus xanthus cells with atomic force microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102, 6484–6489 (2005).
Time dependence of the frequency and amplitude of the local nanomechanical motion of yeast. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 1, 178–183 (2005).
Atomic force microscopy study of the structure–function relationships of the biofilm-forming bacterium Streptococcus mutans. Nanotechnology 17, S1 (2006).
Self-organized and highly ordered domain structures within swarms of Myxococcus xanthus. Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 63, 141–148 (2006).
Distinct contributions of microtubule subtypes to cell membrane shape and stability. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 3, 43–52 (2007).
Dynamic mechanical oscillations during metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 6, 29–37 (2009).