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Curriculum Vitae
Carlos J. Bustamante
carlosb@berkeley.edu or 510-643-9706
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley, CA

Education
1973 B.S.
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Biology
1975 M.S. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Biochemistry
1981 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Biophysics, Advisor: Ignacio Tinoco
Languages

English (fluent), Italian (fluent), and Spanish (native-speaker)

Post-doctoral Training
1975-1976
Fulbright Commission and Institute of International Education Fellow
1976-1981
Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley
1981-1982
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Administration
1982-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,NM
1986-1989
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico
1989-1990
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
1991-1998
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1998- present Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Professor of Physics, Professor of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley, CA
2005-2012
Luis Alvarez Chair of Experimental Physics
2012- present Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of Biophysics
Honors1973-1975
1975-1976
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1995
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Kellogg Foundation Scholarship during the Magister in Biochemistry
Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
Searle Scholar
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico
State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Honorary Professor, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Nominated for America’s Best in Time Magazine
Recipient of the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society

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20022002 - present
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Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru
Elected member of the National Academy of Science
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics of the National Academy of Sciences
Hans Neurath Prize of the Protein Society
Founders Award of the Biophysical Society Meeting
National Science Prize of Peru: Southern Peru Copper Corporation Prize
Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Chicago
Honorary Member of the Royal Spanish Biochemistry Society
Honorary Member of the Spanish Biophysical Society
Fellows of the Biophysical Society Award
Vilcek Prize
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Peruana Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics
Elected Member Academy of Science of Chile
Doctor Honoris Causa by Jiaotong University, China
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Appointments
1991-1998
1994 -1998
1997 - 2000
1998 - 2005
2000 - present
2001 - 2003
2002 - present
2003 - 20132006 - present

Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program
Director, Advance Microscopies Department, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Burroughs-Wellcome FundElected member of the National Academy of Sciences
Member of the Board of Directors of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund
Member of the California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California,
Berkeley, CA2014 - 2018
Member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science2014 – present Member of the of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2014 - present Member of the Advisory Board, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry andBiological Chemistry2014 - 2017
Member of the Executive Council, Protein Society
2014 - present Member of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley
2015
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016 – present Member of the External Advisory Board of the GRHD (Gene Regulation in Health &Disease of Cleveland State University
2017 – present Member of the Peruvian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2017 – present Member of the Advisory Committee, Pew Latin American Fellows Program
2018 – present Member of the Budget Committee, University of California, Berkeley
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2019 – present Member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Physical Sciences
Professional Society Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
Biophysical Society
American Academy of Microbiology
Publications
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Lizárraga B, Sánchez D, Bustamante C, Melgar E. 1975. pH and Ca++ Induced Conformational
Changes in Bovine Pancreatic DNAse. Fed Proc. 34:700.
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Lizárraga B, Bustamante C, Gil A, Melgar E. Multiple Conformation of Deoxyribonuclease A. 1979.
Their Separation at Alkaline pH & Low Ionic Strength in the Presence of Ca2+. Biochim. Biophys.
Acta 579(2):298-302.
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Melgar E, Lizárraga B, Gil A, Bustamante C, Sanchez RD. 1979. Role of Metals on the Activity of
Pancreatic Deoxyribonuclease. Archivos De Biologia Y Medicina Experimentales 12(2):236-237.
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Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C, Maestre MF. 1980. The Optical Activity of Nucleic Acids and theirAggregates. Ann. Rev. Biophys. Bioeng. 9:107-14.
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Bustamante C, Maestre, MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1980. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering of Helical
Structures. I. Theory", J. Chem. Phys. 73:4273-4281.
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Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1980. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering of Helical
Structures. II. Applications. J. Chem. Phys. 73(12):6046-6055.
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Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr, Maestre MF. 1981. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering of Helical
Structures. III. A General Polarizability and Anomalous Scattering, J. Chem. Phys. 74(9):48394850.
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Bustamante C. 1981. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering of Chiral Molecules [dissertation].
[Berkeley, (CA)]: University of California, Berkeley.
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Maestre MF, Bustamante, C, Hayes T, Subirana, J, Tinoco I Jr. 1982. Differential Scattering of
Circularly Polarized Light by the Helical Sperm Head of Octopus Eledone cirrhosa. Nature 298:773-774.
10. Maestre MF, Bustamante C, Hayes T, Subirana J, Tinoco I Jr. 1982. Differential Scattering of
Circularly Polarized Light by the Helical Sperm Head of Octopus Eledone cirrhosa. Nature 298:773-774.
11. Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr, Maestre MF. 1982. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering. IV.
Randomly Oriented Species. J. Chem. Phys. 76(7):3440-3446.
12. Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C, Maestre MF. 1982. Methods in Structural Molecular Biology, New York(NY): Plenum Press. Book Chapter. Chiroptical Methods and Their Applications to Biomolecular
Systems; p. 260-303.
13. Tinoco I Jr, Maestre MF, Bustamante, C. 1983. Differential Scattering of Circularly Polarized Light:
Its Effects on Measurements of Circular Dichroism. Emerging Techniques of Trends in Biochemical
Sciences 8:41-44.
14. Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr, Maestre MF. 1983. Circular Differential Scattering Can Be an Important
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Part of the Circular Dichroism of Macromolecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80: 3568-3572.
Bustamante C, Stigter D. 1984. Intercalation of Cationic Dyes in the DNA Double Helix.
Introductory Theory. Biopolymers. 23:629-645.
Bustamante C, Keller D, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1984. Circular Intensity Differential Scatteringof Dense Particles. J. Chem. Phys. 80:4817-4823.
Keller D, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 1984. Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering: The Elastic Process. J. Chem. Phys. 81:1643-1649.
Bustamante C, Wells KS, Keller D, Samorí B, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1984. Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering of Cholesteric & Blue Mesophases. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 111: 79-102.
Katz JE, Wells KS, Ussery D, Maestre MF, Bustamante C. 1984.Design and Construction of a
Circular Intensity Differential Scattering Instrument. Rev. Sci. Instr. 55:1574-1579.
Tinoco I Jr, Maestre MF, Bustamante C, Keller D. 1984. Use of Circularly Polarized Light to Study
Biological Macromolecules. Pure Appl. Chem. 56:1423-1428.
Bustamante C. 1984. The Contribution of Differential Scattering of Circularly Polarized Light to the
Optical Rotatory Dispersion of a Sample. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 1:1114.
Keller D, Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1985. Model Computations on the Differential
Scattering of Circularly Polarized Light (CIDS) by Dense Macromolecular Particles. Biopolymers
24:783-797.
Keller D, Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1985. Imaging of Optically Active Biological
Structures Using Circularly Polarized Light. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:401-405.
Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Keller D. 1985. Expressions for the Interpretation of Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering of Chiral Aggregates. Biopolymers 24:1595-1612.
Hall K, Wells KS, Keller D, Samorí B, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 1985. Applicationsof Circularly Polarized Radiation. New York (NY): Plenum Press. Book Chapter, Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering of Planar and Focal Conic Orientations of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.
Maestre MF, Keller D, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 1985. Applications of Circularly Polarized
Radiation. New York (NY): Plenum Press. Book Chapter, Circular Differential Imaging of Chiral
Objects.
Maestre MF, Salzman GS, Tobey R, Bustamante C. 1985. Circular Dichroism Studies on Single
Chinese Hamster Cells. Biochemistry 24:5152-5157.
Keller D, Bustamante C, 1985. Applications of Circularly Polarized Radiation. New York (NY):Plenum Press. Book Chapter, CIDS Calculations on Quartz at Hard X-Ray Wavelengths.
Allen FS, Bustamante C. 1985. Applications of Circularly Polarized Radiation. New York (NY):Plenum Press.
Mickols W, Katz JE, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 1985. An Imaging Differential
Polarization Microscope with Electronic Readout. Rev. Sci. Inst. 56:2228-2236.
Bustamante C, Mickols W, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1985. Circular Differential Imaging. Biotech.
3:711-714.
Wells KS, Beach DA, Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. The Measurement of the Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering of Chiral Aggregates: Studies on the Sperm Cell of Eledone cirrhosa.
Biopolymers 25:2043-2064.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. Theory of the Interaction of Light with Large Inhomogeneous
Molecular Aggregates. I. Absorption. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2961-2971.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. Theory of the Interaction of Light with Large Inhomogeneous

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Molecular Aggregates. II. Psi-type Circular Dichroism. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2972-2980.
Kim MH, Ulibarri L, Keller, D, Maestre MF, Bustamante C. 1986. The Psi-Type Circular Dichroismof Large Molecular Aggregates. III. Calculations. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2981-2989.
Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Wells KS. 1986. Recent Advances in Polarization Spectroscopy:
Perspectives of the Extension to the Soft X-Ray Region. J. Photochem. Photobio. 44: 331-341.
Patterson CW, Singham SB, Salzman, GC, Bustamante C. 1986. Circular Intensity Differential
Scattering of Light by Hierarchical Molecular Structures. J. Chem. Phys. 84:1916-1921.
Kim MH, Ulibarri L, Keller D, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. I. Theory.
Biophys. J. 52:911-927.
Kim MH, Ulibarri L, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. II. Symmetry
Properties of the Mueller Images and Calculations. Biophys. J. 52:928-946.
Beach DA, Wells, SW, Foucar K, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. III.
Experimental Studies on Red Blood Sickle Cells. Biophys. J. 52:947-954.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 1985. CIDS Calculations on Quartz at Hard X-Ray Wavelengths. In
Applications of Circularly Polarized Radiation. Allen FS & Bustamante C, eds. New York, NY:
Plenum Press.
Allen FS, Bustamante C. 1985. eds. Applications of Circularly Polarized Radiation. New York, NY:
Plenum Press.
Mickols W, Katz JE, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 1985. An Imaging Differential
Polarization Microscope with Electronic Readout. Rev. Sci. Inst. 56:2228-2236.
Bustamante C, Mickols W, Maestre MF, Tinoco I Jr. 1985. Circular Differential Imaging. Biotech.
3:711-714.
Wells KS, Beach DA, Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. The Measurement of the Circular Intensity
Differential Scattering of Chiral Aggregates: Studies on the Sperm Cell of Eledone cirrhosa.
Biopolymers. 25:2043-2064.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. Theory of the Interaction of Light with Large Inhomogeneous
Molecular Aggregates. I. Absorption. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2961-2971.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 1986. Theory of the Interaction of Light with Large Inhomogeneous
Molecular Aggregates. II. Psi-type Circular Dichroism. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2972-2980.
Kim M-H, Ulibarri L, Keller D, Maestre MF, Bustamante C. 1986. The Psi-Type Circular Dichroismof Large Molecular Aggregates. III. Calculations. J. Chem. Phys. 84:2981-2989.
Bustamante C, Maestre MF, Wells KS. 1986. Recent Advances in Polarization Spectroscopy:
Perspectives of the Extension to the Soft X-Ray Region. J. Photochem. Photobio. 44:331-341.
Patterson CW, Singham SB, Salzman GC, Bustamante C. 1986. Circular Intensity Differential
Scattering of Light by Hierarchical Molecular Structures. J. Chem. Phys. 84:1916-1921.
Kim M-H, Ulibarri L, Keller D, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. I. Theory,
Biophys. J. 52:911-927.
Kim M-H, Ulibarri L, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. II. Symmetry
Properties of the Mueller Images and Calculations. Biophys. J. 52:928-946.
Beach DA, Wells SW, Foucar K, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Imaging. III.
Experimental Studies on Red Blood Sickle Cells, Biophys. J. 52:947-954.
Beach DA, Wells SW, Bustamante C. 1987. Differential Polarization Microscope Using an Image
Dissector Camera & Phase-Lock Detection. Rev. Sci. Inst. 58:1987-1995.
Tinoco I Jr, Mickols W, Maestre MF, Bustamante C. 1987. Absorption, Scattering and Imaging ofC.V. of Carlos J. Bustamante, Ph.D.
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Biomolecular Structures with Polarized Light. Ann. Rev. Biophys. Chem. 16:319-349.
Spada GP, Gottarelli G, Samorí B, Bustamante C, Wells KS. 1988. A Study of Some Lyotropic
Cholesteric Mesophases by Circular and Linear Dichroism and by Circular Intensity Differential
Scattering. Liq. Cryst. 3:101-103.
Bustamante C, Kim M, Beach DA. 1988. Differential Polarization Imaging: Theory andApplications, In Polarized Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems, a NATO Advanced Studies Series(Samorí B & Thulstrup E, eds.). Vol. 242. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
Bustamante C, Keller D. 1988. Theory of Absorption and Circular Dichroism of Large
Inhomogeneous Molecular Aggregates. In Polarized Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems, a NATO
Advanced Studies Institute Series (Samorí B and Thulstrup E, eds.). Vol. 242. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht.
Dunlap D, Bustamante C, Samorí B. 1988. Why Does Sinusoidally Modulated Polarization
Introduce a Systematic Error in Linear Dichroism Measurements? Analytical and Instrumental
Solutions. In Polarized Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems, a NATO Advanced Studies Institute
Series (Samorí B & Thulstrup E, eds.). Vol. 242. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Bustamante C, Maestre MF. 1988. Statistical Effects in the Absorption and Optical Activity ofParticulate Suspensions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:8482-8486.
Juang Ch-B, Finzi L, Bustamante C. 1988. Design and Building of a Computer Controlled Confocal
Scanning Differential Polarization Microscope. Rev. Sci. Inst. 59:2399-2408.
Garab G, Wells KS, Finzi L, Bustamante C. 1988. Helically Organized Macroaggregates of
Pigment-Protein Complexes in Chloroplasts: Evidence from Circular Intensity Differential
Scattering. Biochemistry. 27:5839-5843.
Finzi L, Beach D, Bustamante C, Garab G. 1988. Differential Polarization Microscopy: Theory &Applications. In Proceedings of the Electron Microscope Society of America (Bailey GW, ed.), pp.
60-61.
Houseal T, Bustamante C, Stump R, Maestre MF. 1989. Imaging of the Motions of Single DNA
Molecules in Solution, Using Fluorescence Microscopy. Biophys. J. 56:507-516.
García R, Keller D, Panitz J, Bustamante C. 1989. Imaging of Metal-Coated Biological Samples by
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Ultramicroscopy. 27:367-374.
Keller D, Bustamante C, Keller RW. 1989. Imaging of Single DNA Molecules by Scanning
Tunneling Microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 86:5356-5360.
Finzi L, Bustamante C, Garab G. 1989. Direct Observation of Large Chiral Domains in Chloroplast
Thylakoid Membranes by Differential Polarization Microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
86:8748-8752.
Dunlap D, Bustamante C. 1989. Imaging of Single Stranded Nucleic Acids by Scanning TunnelingMicroscopy. Nature 342:204-206.
Bustamante C. 1989. From molecules to cells: Development of Advanced Microscopies, In
Proceedings of the III Balkan Conference in Electron Microscopy, (I. Margaritis, ed.), pp. 213-216.
Bustamante C, Houseal T, Beach D, Maestre MF. 1990. Fluorescence Microscopy Studies of theSupercoiling, Folding and Condensation of Bacterial Chromosomes Induced by Acridine Orange. J.
Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 8:643-655.
Ulibarri L, Bustamante C. 1990. The Superposition Principle in Circular Differential Scattering of
Hierarchical Chiral Structures. J. Chem. Phys. 92:875.
Gurrieri S, Rizzarelli E, Beach D, Bustamante C. 1990. Imaging of Kinked Configurations of DNA

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Molecules Undergoing OFAGE Using Fluorescence Microscopy. Biochemistry. 29:3396-3401.
Garab G, Finzi L, Bustamante, C. 1990. Differential Polarization Imaging of Chloroplasts.
Microscopic and Macroscopic Linear and Circular Dichroism. In Light in Biology and Medicine.
Vol. II (R.H. Douglas, ed.). Plenum Press: New York.
Bustamante C, Keller RW, García R, Gray C, Maestre MF. 1990. STM Images of Metal-Coated and
Un-Coated Biological Samples. In Proceedings of the IV International Conference on Scanning
Tunneling Microscopy. Oarai, Japan (1989) J. of Vacuum Science and Technology A-Vacuum
Surfaces and Films. 8(1):706-712.
Bustamante C, Smith S, Gurrieri S. 1990. Fluorescence Microscopy & Computer Simulation.
Studies of the Mechanisms of Reorientation of DNA Molecules Undergoing Pulsed Field Gel
Electrophoresis. In Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Bioimaging and Two-Dimensional
Spectroscopy. 1205:190-202.
Wang F, Juang CB, Bustamante C, Wu AY. 1990. Electro-Optic Properties of (Pb, La) (Zr, Ti)O3,
BaTiO3 (Sr, Ba)Nb2O6 and Ba2NaNb5O15, Thin Films by a Confocal Scanning Differential
Polarization Microscope, In The 4th International SAMPE Conference, Vol. 4. Electronic MaterialsOur Future, pp. 712-721 (Allred RE, Martinez RJ, & Wischmann KB, eds.). Society for the
Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.
Bustamante C. 1990. Recent Applications of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to the Imaging ofBiological Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Electron Microscopy
Colloquium. Bethesda, Maryland. June, pp. 1-3.
Smith S, Gurrieri S, Bustamante C. 1990. Fluorescence Microscopy and Computer Simulations of
DNA Molecules in Conventional and Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis. In Current Communications
in Molecular Biology, DNA Electrophoresis. Cold Spring Harbor, New York (L. Lerman, ed.), pp.
55-79.
Wu AY, Wang F, Juang CB, Bustamante C. 1990. Electro-Optic and Non-Linear Optical
Coefficients of (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3, BaTiO3, (Sr, Ba)Nb2O6, and Ba2NaNb5O15 Thin Films, In
The Symposium on Ferroelectric Thin Films, Spring Meeting, Materials Research Society
Symposium Proceedings Vol. 200, Pp. 261, Myers ER, ed: San Francisco, California.
Bustamante C, Gurrieri S, Smith SB. 1990. Observation of Single DNA Molecules during PulsedField Gel Electrophoresis by Fluorescence Microscopy, In Methods: A Companion in Methods in
Enzymology, San Diego, California (E. Lai & B. Birren, eds.), Academic Press, pp. 151-159.
Wu AY, Wang F, Juang C-B, Bustamante C, Yeh CY, Diels J-C. 1990. 2-D High Definition andHigh Resolution PLZT Thin Film Spatial Light Modulators. In The Seventh International
Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics, University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois.
Wu AY, Wang F, Juang, C-B, Bustamante C, Yeh C-Y, Diels J-C. 1990. Electro-optic and NonLinear Optical Properties of (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3, BaTiO3, (Sr, Ba)Nb2O6, Ba2NaNb5O15, and betaBaB2O4. In The Seventh International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics, University
of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois.
Kim M-H, Bustamante C. 1991. Differential Polarization Imaging IV: Images in Higher Born
Approximations. Biophys. J. 59:1171-1182.
Finzi L, Bustamante C, Ulibarri L. 1991. Differential Polarization Imaging V: Separation ofPreferential Scattering and Preferential Absorption Contributions to the CD Image. Biophys. J.
59:1183-1193.
Keller RW, Bustamante C, Bear DG. 1992. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of E. coli RNA

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Polymerase Electrochemically Deposited onto an Au Substrate, American Institute of Physics
Proceedings on Scanned Probe Microscopy 166-175 Santa Barbara, California.
86. Keller RW, Bear DG, Bustamante C. 1991. Method for Imaging E. coli RNA Polymerase
Holoenzyme with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in an Aqueous Environment. J. Vac. Sci.
Technol. B(9):1291-1297.
87. Bustamante C, Samorí B, Builes E. 1991. Daunomycin Inverts the Long Range Chirality of DNA
Condensed States. Biochemistry. 30:5661-5666.
88. Bustamante C. 1991. Direct Observation and Manipulation of Single DNA Molecules Using
Fluorescence Microscopy. Ann. Rev. Biophys. Biophys. Chem. 20:415-446.
89. Smith SB, Heller C, Bustamante C. 1991. Model and Computer Simulations of the Motion of DNA
Molecules During Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis. Biochemistry. 30:5264-5274.
90. Garab G, Kieleczawa J, Sutherland JC, Bustamante C, Hind G. 1991. Organization of Pigment
Complexes into Macrodomains in the Thylakoid Membranes of Wild-Type and Chlorophyll B-lessMutant of Barley as Revealed by Circular Dichroism. Photochem, Photobiol. 54:273-282.
91. Bustamante C, Finzi L, Sebring PE, Smith SB. 1991. Manipulation of Single DNA Molecules andMeasurement of Their Elastic Properties under an Optical Microscope. In Optical Methods for
Ultrasensitive Detection and Analysis: Techniques and Applications, SPIE Proceedings Series Vol.
1435, 179-187.
92. Keller RW, Bustamante C, Bear D. 1991. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of E. coli RNAPolymerase Deposited onto an Au Substrate by an Electrochemical Process, Proceedings of the 49th
Annual Meeting EMSA, San Jose, California, 378-379.
93. Dunlap D, Bustamante C. 1991. Applications of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Structural
Biology. In Seminars in Cell Biology. New Ways of Looking within Cells, Singer R ed., pps 179185. Saunders Scientific Publication: London, England.
94. Maestre MF, Bustamante C, Snyder P, Rowe E, Hansen R. 1991. Circular Intensity Differential
Scattering (CIDS) Measurements in the Soft X-ray Region of the Spectrum (~16EV to 500 EV),SPIE 1548:179-187.
95. Yuqiu J, Ching-Bo J, Keller D, Bustamante C, Beach D, Houseal T, Builes E, Maestre MF. 1992.
Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Manipulation of Single DNA Molecules, Nanotechnology
3:16-20.
96. Bustamante C, Vesenka J, Tang C, Rees W, Guthold M, Keller R. 1992. Circular DNA Molecules
Imaged in Air by Scanning Force Microscopy. Biochemistry. 31:22-26.
97. García R, Jiang Y, Dunlap D, Bustamante C. 1992. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Metal-coated
Biomolecules. SPIE. 1639:118-126.
98. García R, Jiang Y, Schabtach E, Bustamante C. 1992. Deposition and Images of Metal-coated DNA
with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Ultramicroscopy. 42-44:1250-1254.
99. Kenkre VM, Biscarini F, Bustamante C. 1992. A Theoretical Framework for the Interpretation of
STM Images of Adsorbates. Ultramicroscopy. 42-44:122-127.
100. Biscarini F, Bustamante C, Kenkre VM. 1992. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Adsorbed
Molecules: Theoretical Considerations. SPIE. 1639:111-116.
101. Vesenka J, Hansma HG, Siegerist C, Siligardi G, Schabtach E, Bustamante C. 1992. Scanning ForceMicroscopy of Circular DNA and Chromatin in Air and Propanol, SPIE. 1639:127-137.
102. Vesenka J, Guthold M, Tang C, Keller D, Delaine E, Bustamante C. 1992. A Substrate Preparation
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Keller R, Keller D, Bear D, Vesenka J, Bustamante C. 1992. Electro-deposition Procedure of E. coli
RNA Polymerase onto Au and Deposition of E. coli RNA Polymerase onto Mica for Observation
with Scanning Force Microscopy. Ultramicroscopy. 42-44:1173-1180.
Hansma HG, Vesenka J, Kelderman G, Morrett H, Sinsheimar R, Elings V, Bustamante C, Hansma
PK. 1992. Reproducible Imaging and Dissection of Plasmid DNA under Liquid with the Atomic
Force Microscopy. Science. 256:1180-1184.
*Smith SB, Finzi L, Bustamante C. 1992. Direct Mechanical Measurements of the Elasticity ofSingle DNA Molecules Using Magnetic Bead. Science. 258:1122-1126.
Bustamante C, Gurrieri S, Smith SB. 1993. Towards a Molecular Description of Pulsed Field Gel
Electrophoresis. Trends in Biotechnology. 11(1):23-30.
Samorí B, Siligardi G, Quagliariello C, Weisenhorn AL, Vesenka J, Bustamante C. 1993. Chiralityof DNA Supercoiling Assigned by Scanning Force Microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
90:3598-3601.
Rees WA, Keller RW, Vesenka JP, Yang, G, Bustamante C. 1993. Evidence of Bending in Open
Promoter and Elongation Complexes of RNA Polymerase by Scanning Force Microscopy. Science
260:1646-1649.
Bustamante C, Keller D, Yang G. Scanning Force Microscopy of Nucleic Acids and Nucleo-Protein
Assemblies. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 3:363-372.
Dunla, DD, García R, Schabtach E, Bustamante C. 1993. Masking Generates Contiguous Segmentsof Metal-coated and Bare DNA for STM Imaging. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90:7652-7655.
Pasternack RF, Bustamante C, Collings PJ, Giannetto A, Gibbs EJ. 1993. Porphyrin Assemblies on
DNA as Studied by a Resonance Light-Scattering Technique, J. of the American Chem. Soc.
115:5393-5399.
Bezanilla M, Bustamante C, Hansma HG. 1993. Improved Visualization of DNA in Aqueous Buffer
with the Atomic Force Microscope. Scanning Microscopy. 7(4):1145-1148.
Vesenka J, Manne S, Yang G, Bustamante C, Henderson E. 1993. Humidity Effects on Atomic
Force Microscopy of Gold-labeled DNA on Mica. Scanning Microscopy. 7(3):781-788.
Zlatanova J, Leuba SH, Yang G, Bustamante C, van Holde K. 1994. Linker DNA Accessibility in
Chromatin Fibers of Different Conformations: A Re-evaluation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
91:5277-5280.
Bustamante C, Gurrieri S, Pasternack RF, Purrello R, Rizzarelli E. 1994. Interaction of WaterSoluble Porphyrins with Single- and Double-Stranded Polyribonucleotides. Biopolymers. 34:10991104.
*Bustamante C, Marko JF, Siggia ED, Smith SB. 1994. Entropic Elasticity of λ-phage DNA.
Science. 265:1599-1600.
Guthold M, Bezanilla M, Erie DA, Jenkins B, Hansma H, Bustamante C. 1994. Following theAssembly of RNA Polymerase-DNA Complexes in Aqueous Solutions with the Scanning ForceMicroscope. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:12927-12931.
Erie DA, Yang G, Schultz HC, Bustamante C. 1994. DNA Bending by Cro Protein in Specific &Nonspecific Complexes: Implications for Protein Site Recognition and Specificity. Science 266:
1562-1566.
Leuba S, Yang G, Robert C, Samorí B, van Holde K, Zlatanova J, Bustamante C. 1994. Threedimensional Structure of Extended Chromatin Fibers as Revealed by Tapping-mode Scanning Force

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Bustamante C, Erie DA, Keller D. 1994. Biochemical and Structural Applications of Scanning ForceMicroscopy. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 4:750-760.
Yang G, Leuba S, Zlatanova J, van Holde K, Bustamante C. 1994. Role of Linker Histones inExtended Chromatin Fibre Structure: Modelling and Scanning Force Microscopy Studies. Nature
Structural Biology. 1(11):761-763.
Erie D, Bustamante C. 1995. DNA Bending by Cro Protein in Specific & Nonspecific Complexes:
Implications for Protein Site Recognition and Specificity Technical Comment. Science. 269:989990.
Wyman, C, Grotkopp E, Bustamante C, Nelson CM H. 1995. Determination of HSF2 Stoichiometryat Looped DNA Complexes using Scanning Force Microscopy. EMBO. 14(1):117-23.
Yang G, Leuba SH, Bustamante C. 1995. Scanning Force Microscopy Study of Native and Linker
Histone Depleted Chromatin Fibers. SPIE 2384:13-21.
Zlatanova J, Leuba SH, Bustamante C, van Holde K. 1995. Role of the Structural Domains of the
Linker Histones and Histone H3 in the Chromatin Fiber Structure at Low-ionic Strength: Scanning
Force Microscopy (SFM) Studies on Partially Trypsinized Chromatin. SPIE. 2384:22-32.
Leuba SH, Yang G, Robert C, van Holde K, Zlatanova J, Bustamante CJ. 1995. Extended Chromatin
Fibers: Evidence from Scanning Force Microscopy Studies. SPIE. 2384:33-44.
García R, Tamayo J, Soler JM, Bustamante C. 1995. Physical Parameters that Control the Imaging
of Purple Membranes with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Langmuir. 11:2109-2114.
Bustamante C, Keller D. 1995. Scanning Force Microscopy in Biology. Physics Today. 48(12):3238.
Dunlap D, Smith S, Bustamante C, Tamayo J, Garcia R.A. 1995. A Very Low Current Scanning
Tunneling Microscope. Review of Scientific Instruments. 66(10):4876-9.
Kenkre VM, Biscarini F, Bustamante C. 1995. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. I. Theoretical
Framework and Coherence Effects. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter). 51(16):11074-88.
Biscarini F, Bustamante C, Kenkre VM. 1995. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. II. Calculation of
Images of Atomic and Molecular Adsorbates. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter). 51(16):11089-102.
*Smith SB, Cui Y, Bustamante C. 1996. Overstretching B-DNA: The Elastic Response of
Individual Double Stranded and Single Stranded DNA Molecules. Science. 271:795.
Wheeler CJ, Sukhu L, Yang G, Tsai Y, Bustamante C, Felgner P, Norman, J, Manthorpe M. 1996.
Converting an Alcohol to an Amine in a Cationic Lipid Dramatically Alters the Co-lipid
Requirement, Cellular Transfection Activity and the Ultrastructure of DNA-cytofectin Complexes.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1280:1-11.
Bustamante C, Rivetti C. 1996. Visualizing Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions on a Large Scale with
the Scanning Force Microscope. Ann. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struc. 25:395-429.
Bustamante C, Erie DA, Yang G. 1996. Scanning Force Microscopy of Biological
Macromolecules: Present & Future. In Nanofabrication and Biosystems (Hoch HC, Jelinski LW& Craighead HG, Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. 159-179.
Yang G, Leuba SH, Bustamante C. 1996. Scanning Force Microscopy of Chromatin Fibers: A New
Approach to an Old Problem. In Journal of Biological Structure and Dynamics (Sarma RH & Sarma
MH, Ed.). New York: Adenine Press. 1:155-172.
Yang G, Vesenka JP, Bustamante C. 1996. Effects of Tip-sample Forces and Humidity on the

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Imaging of DNA with a Scanning Force Microscope. Scanning. 18:344-350.
Garcia RA, Bustamante C, Reich N.O. 1996. Sequence-specific Recognition by Cytosine C5 andAdenine N6 DNA Methyltransferases Requires Different Deformations of DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA. 93:7618-7622.
Singh S, Turina P, Bustamante C, Keller D, Capaldi R. 1996. “Topographical Structure of
Membrane-bound Escherichia coli F1F0 ATP Synthase in Aqueous Buffer. FEBS Letters. 397:3034.
Rivetti C, Guthold M, Bustamante C. 1996. Scanning Force Microscopy of DNA Deposited onto
Mica: Equilibration vs. Molecular Trapping Studied by Statistical Polymer Chain Analysis. J. of
Molecular Biology. 264(5):919-932.
Gurrieri S, Smith SB, Wells KS, Johnson ID, Bustamante C. 1996. Real-time Imaging of theReorientation Mechanisms of YOYO-labeled DNA Molecules during 90o and 120o Pulsed Field
Gel Electrophoresis, Nucl. Acids Res. 24(23):4759-4767.
Bustamante C, García R. 1997. El Microscopio de Fuerzas y sus Aplicaciones Biológicas.
Investigación y Ciencia, (Scientific American Edition in Spanish) Barcelona, No. 246, 76 – 82.
Wyman C, Rombel I, North AK, Bustamante C, Kustu S. 1997. Unusual Oligomerization Required
for Activity of NtrC, a Bacterial Enhancer-binding Protein, Science 275:1658 - 1662.
Bustamante C, Zuccheri G, Leuba, SH, Yang G, Samori B. 1997, Visualization and Analysis of
Chromatin by Scanning Force Microscopy, Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology
12:73-83.
*Kellermeyer MZ, Smith SB, Granzier HL, Bustamante C. 1997. Folding-Unfolding Transitions inSingle Titin Molecules Characterized by Force-Measuring Laser Tweezers. Science. 276:11121116.
Baumann CG, Smith SB, Bloomfield VA, Bustamante C. 1997. Ionic Effects on the Elasticity ofSingle DNA Molecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94:6185-6190.
Rippe K, Guthold M, Von Hippel, C, Bustamante C. 1997. Transcriptional Activation via DNAlooping: Visualization of Intermediates in the Activation Pathway of E. coli RNA Polymerase.σ54
Holoenzyme by Scanning Force Microscopy. Journal of Molecular Biology. 270:125-138.
Bustamante C, Godsey, M Yang, G Guthold, M, Rivetti C. 1997. Facilitated Targeting andTranscription Imaged in Real Time with the Scanning Force Microscope. Proceedings of the 1996
Welch Conference, Houston. Welch Foundation Press.
García R, Tamayo J, Bustamante C. 1997. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Imaging and Selective
Modification of Purple Membranes. Intl. J. of Imaging Systems and Technology. 8:168-174.
Bustamante C, Rivetti C, Keller D. 1997. Scanning Force Microscopy Under Aqueous Solutions.
Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 7(5):709-716.
Kasas S, Thomson, NH, Smith BL, Hansma HG, Zhu X, Guthold M, Bustamante C, Kool ET,
Kashlev M, Hansma P. 1997. Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase Activity Observed Using Atomic
Force Microscopy. Biochemistry. 36:461-468.
Gurrieri S, Bustamante C. 1997. Purification and Staining of Intact Yeast DNA Chromosomes andReal-time Observation of their Migration during Gel Electrophoresis. Biochem. J. 326:131-138.
Stigter D, Bustamante C. 1998. Theory for the Hydrodynamic and Electrophoretic Stretch of
Tethered B-DNA. Biophys. J. 75:1197-1210.
Leuba, SH, Bustamante C, Zlatanova, J, Holde KV. 1998. Contributions of Linker Histones andHistone H3 to Chromatin Structure: Scanning Force Microscopy Studies on Trypsinized Fiber.

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Leuba, SH, Bustamante C, Holde KV, Zlatanova J. 1998. Linker Histones Tails and N-tails of
Histone H3 are Redundant: Scanning Force Microscopy Studies of Reconstituted Fibers. Biophys.
J. 74:2830-2839.
Rivetti, C, Walker, C, Bustamante, C. 1998. Polymer Chain Statistics and Conformational Analysis
of DNA Molecules with Bends or Sections of Different Flexibility. J. Mol. Biol. 280:41-59.
Kellermayer MS, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Granzier HL. 1998. Complete Unfolding of the TItin
Molecule Under External Force. J. Struct. Biol. 121:197-205.
Gurrieri S, Smith SB, Bustamante C. 1999. Trapping of Megabase-sized DNA Molecules During
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:453-459.
Bustamante C, Guthold M, Yang Z. 1999. Facilitated Target Location on DNA by Individual
Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase Molecules Observed with the Scanning Force Microscope
Operating in Liquid. J. Biol. Chem. 274:16665-16668.
*Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 1999. How RNA Folds. J. Mol. Biol. 293:271-281.
Rivetti C, Guthold M, Bustamante C. 1999. DNA Wrapping in E. coli RNA Polymerase Open
Promoter Complexes Revealed by Scanning Force Microscopy. EMBO Journal. 18:4464-4475.
Katritch V Olson W, Bustamante C. 2000. Analysis of Force-Extension Curves of Single Chromatin
Fibers Using by Monte Carlo Simulations. J. Mol. Biol. 295:29-40.
Leuba S, Bustamante C. 2000. Analysis of chromatin by Scanning Force Microscopy. ch.10 in
Chromatin Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. 119:143-160. P.B. Becker, ed. Humana Press
Inc: Totowa, NJ.
Hegner M, Smith SB, Bustamante C. 2000. Polymerization and Mechanical Properties of Single
RecA-DNA Filaments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96:10109 – 101114.
Keller D, Bustamante C. 2000. The Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors. Biophys. J. 78: 541456.
Cui Y, Bustamante C. 2000. Pulling a Chromatin Fiber Reveals the Forces that Maintain its Higher
Order Structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97: 127-132.
Wuite GL, Davenport RJ, Rappaport A, Bustamante C. 2000. An Integrated Laser Trap/FlowControl Video Microscope for the Study of Single Biomolecules. Biophys. J. 79:1155-1167.
Yang G, Cecconi C, Baase WA, Vetter IR, Bryer WA, Haack JA, Matthews BW, Dahlquist FW,
Bustamante C. 2000. Solid-State Synthesis and Mechanical Unfolding of Polymers of T4 Lysozyme.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:139-142.
Davenport JR, Wuite G, Landick RA, Bustamante C. 2000. Single-Molecule Study ofTranscriptional Pausing and Arrest by E. coli RNA Polymerase. Science. 287:2497-2500.
Wuite G, Smith SB, Young M, Keller D, Bustamante C. 2000. Single-Molecule Studies of the Effectof Template Tension on T7 DNA Polymerase Activity. Nature. 404:103-106.
Guthold M, Zhu X, Rivetti C, Yang G, Thomson NH, Kasas S, Hansma HG, Smith SB, Hansma
PK, Bustamante C. 2000. Direct Observation of One-Dimensional Diffusion and Transcription byEscherichia coli RNA Polymerase. Biophys. J. 77: 2284-2294.
Bustamante C, Smith SB, Liphardt J, Smith D. 2000. Single Molecule Studies of DNA Mechanics.
Current Opinion in Molecular Biology 10:279-285.
Baumann CB, Bloomfield VA, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Wang MD, Block SM. 2000. Stretchingof Single Collapse DNA Molecules. Biophys. J. 78:1965-1978.
Rivetti C, Guthold M, Bustamante C. 2000. DNA wrapping in Eschericia coli RNA polymerase

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University Press: Oxford.
Bustamante, C, Macosko, JC, Wuite GJL. 2000. Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Manipulating
Molecules One by One. Nature Reviews Molecular and Cell Biology. 1:130 – 136.
Kellermayer MSZ, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Granzier HL. 2000. Mechanical manipulation of single
titin molecules with laser tweezers. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 481:111-26.
Kellermeyer MK, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Granzier HL. 2001. Mechanical Fatigue in Repetitively
Stretched Single Molecules of Titin. Biophys. J. 80:852-863.
Postov L, Ullsperberger C, Keller RW, Bustamante C, Vologodskii A V, N R Cozzarelli. 2001.
Positive Torsional Strain Causes the Formation of a Four-way Junction in Replication Forks. J.
Biol. Chem. 276:2790-2796.
Bustamante C, Keller D, Oster G. 2001. The Physics of Molecular Motors. Acc. Chem. Res. 34:
412-420.
*Liphardt J, Onoa B, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2001. Reversible Unfolding of Single
RNA Molecule by Force. Science. 292:733-737.
*Smith DE, Tans SI, Smith SB, Grimes S, Anderson DE, Bustamante C. 2001. The Bacteriophage
phi29 Portal Motor can Package DNA Against a Large Internal Force. Nature. 413:748.
D'Erme M, Bustamante C. 2001. The Effect or Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation & Mg++ Ions on Chromatin
Structure Revealed by Scanning Force Microscopy. Biochemistry. 40:10047-10955.
Park WJ, Gerion D, Zanchet D, Woerz, AS, Pellegrino T, Micheel C, Williams SC, Seitz M, Bruehl
RE, Bryant Z, Bustamante C, Bertozzi CR, Alivisatos PL. 2002. Conjugation of DNA to Silanized
Colliodal Semiconductor Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots. Chemistry of Materials. 14: 2113-2119.
Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2002. The effect of Force on Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Single
Molecule Reactions. Biophys. Chem. 101-102:513-533.
*Liphardt J, Dumont S, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2002. Equilibrium Information from
Nonequalibrium Measurements in an Experimental test of Jarzynski’s Equality. Science. 296: 18321835.
Forde NR, Izhaky D, Woodcock GR, Wuite GJL, Bustamante C. 2002. Using Mechanical Force toProbe the Mechanism of Pausing and Arrest During Continuous Elongation by Escherichia coli
RNA Polymerase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:11682-11687.
Ritort F, Bustamante C, I Tinoco Jr. 2002. A Two-state Kinetic Model for the Unfolding of Single
Molecules by Mechanical Force. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99:13544-13548.
*Bustamante C, Bryant Z, Smith SB. 2003. Ten Years of Tension; Single-Molecule DNA
Mechanics. Nature. 421:423-427.
Keller D, Swigon D, Bustamante C. 2003. Relating single molecule measurements tothemodynamics. Biophys. J. 84:733-738.
Rivetti C, Codeluppi S, Dieci G, Bustamante C. 2003. Visualizing RNA Extrusion and DNA
Wrapping in Transcription Elongation Complexes of Bacterial and Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases J.
Mol. Bio. 326:1413-1426.
Onoa B, Dumont S, Liphardt J, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2003. Identifying the kinetic
barriers to mechanical unfolding of the T. thermophila ribozyme. Science. 299:1892-1895.
Smith SB, Cui Y, Bustamante C. 2003. An Optical Trap An Optical-Trap Force Transducer that
Operates By Direct Measurement of Light Momentum. Methods in Enzymology. 361:134-162.

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193. Stone MD, Bryant Z, Crisona NJ, Smith SB, Vologodskii A, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. 2003.
Chirality sensing by Escherichia coli topoisomerase IV and the mechanism of type II
topoisomerases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100:8654-8659.
194. Kellermayer M, Bustamante C, Granzier H. 2003. Mechanics and Structure of Titin Oligomers
explored with Atomic Force Microscopy. Biochim. et Biophys. Acta. 1604:105-114.
195. Bryant Z, Stone MD, Gore J, Smith SB, Cozzarelli NR, Bustamante, C. 2003. Structural Transitions
and Elasticity from Torque Measurements on DNA. Nature. 424:338-341.
196. Matouschek A, Bustamante C. 2003. Finding a protein’s Achilles Heel. Nature Structural Biology.
10-9: ]674-676.
197. Gore J, Ritort F, Bustamante C. 2003. Bias and error in estimates of equilibrium free-energy
differences from nonequilibrium measurements. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100:12564-12569.
198. Bustamante C, Chemla YR, Forde NR, Izhaky D. 2004. Mechanical Process in Biochemistry Annual
Review of Biochemistry. 73:705-748.
199. Goedken ER, Levitus M, Johnson A, Bustamante C, O’Donnell M, Kuriyan J. 2004. Fluorescence
Measurements on the E. coli DNA Polymerase Clamp Loader: Implications for Conformational
Changes during ATP and Clamp Binding. J. Mol. Bio. 5:1047-1059.
200. Trepagnier EH, Jarzynski C, Ritort F, Crooks GE, Bustamante C, Liphardt J. 2004. Experimental
Test of Hatano and Sasa’s Nonequilibrium Steady-state Equality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
101(42):15038-15041.
201. Li G, Levitus M, Bustamante C, Widom J. 2005. Rapid Spontaneous Accessibility of Nucleosomal
DNA. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 12:46-53.
202. Pease PJ, Levy O, Cost GJ, Gore J, Ptacin J, Sherratt D, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli N. 2005.
Sequence-Directed DNA Translocation by Purified FtsK. Science. 307:586-590.
203. Tang M, Cecconi C, Kim H, Bustamante C, Rio D. 2005. Guanosine triphosphate acts as a cofactor
to promote assembly of initial P-element transposase-DNA synaptic complexes. Genes andDevelopment. 19:1422-1425.
204. Chemla YR, Karunakaran A, Michaelis J, Grimes S, Jardine PJ, Anderson DL, Bustamante C. 2005.
Mechanism of force generation of a viral DNA packaging motor. Cell. 122:683-692.
205. *Collin D, Ritort F, Jarzynski C, Smith SB, Tinoco, I Jr, Bustamante C. 2005. Verification of the
Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies. Nature. 437:231-234.
206. Cecconi C, Shank EA, Bustamante C, Marqusee S. 2005. Direct observation of the three-state of asingle protein molecule. Science. 309:2057-2060.
207. *Bustamante C, Liphardt J, F Ritort. 2005. The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems.
Physics Today. 58:43-48.
208. Mao HB, Arias-Gonzalez JR, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2005. Temperature control
methods in a laser tweezers system. Biophys. Journal. 89:1308-1316.
209. Brown TA, Cecconi C, Tkachuk AN, Bustamante C, Clayton DA. 2005. Replication of
mitochondrial DNA occurs by strand displacement with alternative light-strand origins, not via a
strand-coupled mechanism. Genes and Development. 19:2466-2476.
210. Wilcox AJ, Choy J, Bustamante C, Matouschek A. 2005. Effect of protein structure on
mitochondrial import. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 102:15435-15440.
211. Martinez J, Yuzvinsky TD, Fennimore AM, Zettl A, Garcia R, Bustamante C. 2005. Length control
and sharpening of atomic force microscope carbon nanotube tips assisted by an electron beam.
Nanotechnology. 16:2493-2496.
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212. Gorostiza P, Tombola F, Verdaguer A, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Isacoff EY. 2005. Molecular
handles for the mechanical manipulation of single-membrane proteins in living cells. IEEE Trans
Nanobioscience. 4:269-76.
213. Levy O, Ptacin JL, Pease PJ, Gore J, Eisen MB, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. 2005. Identificationof oligonucleotide sequences that direct the movement of the Escherichia coli FtsK translocase.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 102:17618-17623.
214. Bustamante C. 2005. Unfolding single RNA molecules: bridging the gap between equilibrium andnon-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 38(4):291-301.
215. Li PT, Collin D, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2006. Probing the mechanical folding kinetics
of TAR RNA by hopping, force-jump, and force-ramp methods. Biophys. Journal. 90(1): 250-60.
216. *Dumont S, Cheng W, Serebrov V, Beran R K, Tinoco I Jr, Pyle AM, Bustamante C. 2006. RNAtranslocation and unwinding mechanism of HCV NS3 helicase and its coordination by ATP. Nature.
439:105-108.
217. *Gore J, Bryant Z, Stone MD, Nollmann M, Cozzarelli NR, Bustamante C. 2006. Mechanochemical
analysis of DNA gyrase using rotor bead tracking. Nature. 439:100-104.
218. Ritort F, Mihardja S, Smith SB, Bustamante C. 2006. Condensation transition in DNApolyaminoamide dendrimer fibers studied using optical tweezers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(11): 1183011 – 118301-4.
219. *Gore J, Bryant Z, Nöllmann M, Le MU, Cozzarelli NR, Bustamante C. 2006. DNA overwinds
when stretched. Nature. 442: 836-839.
220. Li PXT, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2006. Unusual mechanical stability of a minimal RNA kissing
complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103:15847-15852.
221. Mihardja, S, Spakowitz A, Zhang Y, Bustamante, C. 2006. Effect of force on mononucleosomal
dynamics. PNAS. 103(43):15871-15876.
222. Zhang Y, Smith CL, Saha A, Grill SW, Mihardja S, Smith, SB, Cairns BR, Peterson CL, Bustamante
C. 2006. DNA Translocation and Loop Formation Mechanism of Chromatin Remodeling by
SWI/SNF and RSC. Molecular Cell. 24(4):559-568.
223. Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Izhaky D, Bustamante C. 2006. Differential detection of dual traps
improves the spatial resolution of optical tweezers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103:9006-9011.
224. Ptacin JL, Nöllmann M, Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. 2006. Identification of the FtsK sequencerecognition domain. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 13:1023 – 1025.
225. Tinoco I Jr, Li PTX, Bustamante C. 2006. Determination of thermodynamics and kinetics of RNA
reactions by force. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 39(4):325-360.
226. Walter JM, Greenfield D, Bustamante C, Liphardt J. 2007. Light-powering Escherichia coli withproteorhodopsin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104:2408-2412.
227. Galburt, EA, Grill SW, Wiedmann A, Lubkowska L, Choy J, Nogales E, Kashlev M, Bustamante
C. 2007. Backtracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner.
Nature. 446:820-823.
228. Nöllmann M, Stone MD, Bryant Z, Gore J, Crisona NJ, Hong SC, Mitelheiser S, Maxwell A,
Bustamante C, Cozzarelli NR. 2007. Multiple modes of Escherichia coli DNA gyrase activity
revealed by force and torque. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 14(4):264-271.
229. Hugel T, Michaelis J, Hetherington CL, Jardine PJ, Grimes S, Walter, JM, Falk W, Anderson DL,
Bustamante C. 2007. Experimental Test of Connector Rotation during DNA Packaging into
Bacteriophage phi29 Capsids. PLoS Biology. 5(3):e59.
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230. Leschziner AE, Saha A, Wittmeyer J, Zhang Y, Bustamante C, Cairns BR, Nogales E. 2007.
Conformational flexibility in the chromatin remodeler RSC observed by electron microscopy andthe orthogonal tilt reconstruction method. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104(12):4913-4918.
231. Wen JD, Manosas M, Li P, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Ritort F, Tinoco I Jr. 2007. Force unfolding
kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. I. Effects of experimental variables on measured results.
Biophys. J. 92:2996-3009.
232. Manosas M, Wen JD, Li PTX, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr, Ritort F. 2007. Force unfolding
kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. II. Modeling experiments. Biophys J. 92:3010-3021.
233. Li PTX, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2007. Real-time control of the energy landscape by force directs
the folding of RNA molecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104(17): 7039-7044.
234. Choy JL, Parekh SH, Chaudhuri O, Liu A P, Bustamante C, Footer MJ, Theriot, JA, Fletcher JD.
2007. Differential force microscope for long time-scale biophysical measurements. Rev. Sci.
Instrum. 78(4):043711.
235. Cheng W, Dumont S, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2007. NS3 helicase actively separates RNA strands
and senses sequence barriers ahead of the opening fork. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104(35):1395413959.
236. Tang M, Cecconi C, Bustamante C, Rio DC. Analysis of P element transposase protein-DNA
interactions during early stages of transposition. 2007. J. Biol. Chem. 282(39):29002-12.
237. Vieregg J, Cheng W, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2007. Measurement of the Effect of Monovalent
Cations on RNA Hairpin Stability. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129(48):14966- 73.
238. Cecconi C, Shank EA, Marqusee S, Bustamante C. 2007. Studying Protein Folding with Laser
Tweezers. Proceedings of the International School Enrico Fermi. Società Italiana di Fisica. 145-160.
239. Bustamante C, Chemla YR, Moffitt JR. 2008. High-Resolution Dual-Trap Optical Tweezers withDifferential Detection. Ch 14 in Single-Molecule Techniques: A Laboratory Manual. Selvin, P. &T. Ha, eds. CSHL.
240. Green L, Kim CH, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2008. Characterization of the Mechanical Unfoldingof RNA pseudoknots. J. Mol. Biol. 375(2): 511-28.
241. Downing, K, Comolli LR, Spakowitz AJ, Siegerist CE, Jardine PJ, Grimes S, Anderson DL,
Bustamante C. 2008. Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Bacteriophage phi29 Packaged
Genome and Elucidation of its Packaging Process. Virology. 371(2):267-277.
242. Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Smith SB, Bustamante C. 2008. Recent Advances in Optical Tweezers.
Review of Biochemistry. 77:205-228.
243. *Wen JD, Lancaster L, Hodges C, Zeri AC, Yoshimura SH, Noller HF, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr.
2008. Following translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time. Nature. 452:598-603.
244. Ptacin JL, Nöllmann M, Becker EC, Cozzarelli NR, Pogliano K, Bustamante C. 2008. Sequencedirected DNA export guides chromosome translocation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Nat.
Struct. Mol. Biol. 15(5):485-493.
245. Chemla YR, Moffitt JR, Bustamante C. 2008. Exact Solutions for Kinetic Models of
Macromolecular Dynamics. Journal Phys. Chem. B 112(19):6025 -6044.
246. Bustamante C. 2008. Physical Biology at the Crossroads. ch. 5 in Physical Biology: From Atoms to
Medicine. Ahmed Zewail. Imperial College Press: London. 115-135.
247. Bustamante C. 2008. In singulo Biochemistry: When Less is More. Annual Review of Biochemistry77: 45-50.
248. Maragakis P, Ritort F, Bustamante C, Karplus CM, Crooks GE. 2008. Bayesian estimates of free
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energies from nonequilibrium work data in the presence of instrument noise. The Journal ofChemical Phyiscs. 129:024102.
Mejia, YX, Mao HB, Forde NR, Bustamante C. 2008. Thermal Probing of E.coli RNA Polymerase.
Journal of Molecular Biology. 382:682.
Alcaraz J, Xu R, Mor H, Nelson CM, Mroue R, Spencer VA, Brownfield D, Radisky DC,
Bustamante C, Bissell MJ. 2008. Laminin and biomimetic extracelllular elasticity enchancefunctional differentiation in mammary epithelia. The EMBO Journal. 9:1-10.
Cecconi C, Shank EA, Dahlquist FW, Marqusee S, Bustamante C. 2008. Protein-DNA Chimeras
for Single Molecule Mechanical Folding Studies with the Optical Tweezer. European Biophysics
Journal. 37:6.
Marquis KA, Burton BM, Nollmann M, Ptacin JL, Bustamante C, Ben-Yehuda S, Rudner DZ. 2008.
SpolllE strips proteins off the DNA during chromosome translocation. PMC. 1;22(13):1786-95.
*Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Aathavan K, Grimes S, Jardine PJ, Anderson DL, Bustamante C. 2009.
Intersubunit coordination in a homomeric ring ATPase. Nature. 457: 446-450.
Mangiarotti L, Cellai S, Ross W, Bustamante C, Rivetti C. 2009. Sequence-dependent upstream
DNA-RNA polymerase interactions in the open complex with lambdaR and lambdaPRM promotersand implications for the mechanisms of promoter interference. J. Mol. Biol. 385(3): 748-60.
Galburt EA, Grill S, Bustamante C. 2009. Single molecule transcription elongation. Methods. 48:
323-332.
*Hodges C, Bintu L, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante C. 2009. Nucleosomal Fluctuations
Govern in the Transcription Dynamics of RNA Polymeras II. Science. 325:1172926.
Ibarra, B, Chemla YR, Plyasunov S, Smith SB, Lazaro JM, Salas M, Bustamante C. 2009.
Proofreading Dynamics of Processive DNA Polymerase. The EMBO Journal. 28:2794-802.
Karunakaran A, Politzer A, Kaplan A, Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Grimes S, Jardine P, Anderson D,
Bustamante C. 2009. Substrate Interactions and Promiscuity in a Viral DNA packaging Motor.
Nature. 461:669-673.
Chen G, Chang KY, Chou MY, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2009. Triplex structures in an RNA
pseudoknot enhance mechanical stability and increase efficiency of-1 ribosomal frameshifting. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. 106:12706-11.
*Shank E, Cecconi E, Dill J, Marqusee S, Bustamante C. 2009. The folding cooperativity of aprotein is controlled by its chain topology. Nature. 465:637-640.
Bustamante C, Moffitt J. 2009. Past, Present, and Future of Single-molecule Studies ofTranscription. Royal Society of Chemistry: RNA Polymerases as Molecular Motors.
Yu J, Moffitt JR, Hetherington CL, Bustamante C, Oster G. 2010. Mechanochemistry of a Viral
DNA Packaging Motor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 400:186-203.
Flemming TC, Shin JY, Lee SH, Becker E, Huang KC, Bustamante C, Pogliano K. 2010 Dynamic
SpoIIIE assembly mediates septal membrane fission during Bacillus subtilis sporulation. Genes Dev.
24: 1160-1172.
Huguet JM, Bizarro CV, Forns N, Smith SB, Bustamante C, Ritort F. 2010. Single-molecule
derivation of salt dependent base-pair free energies in DNA. PNAS. 107:15431-15436.
Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Bustamante C. 2010. Mechanistic constraints from the substrateconcentration dependence of enzymatic fluctuations. PNAS. 10:15739-15744.
Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Bustamante C. 2010. Methods in Statistical Kinetics. Methods in
Enzymology. 475:221-257.

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267. Yu J, Cheng W, Bustamante, C, Oster, G. 2010. Coupling Translocation with Nucleic Acid
Undwinding by NS3 Helicase. J. Molecular Biology. 404:439-455.
268. Zohar, H, Hetherington CL, Bustamante, C, Muller SJ. 2010. Peptide Nucleic Acids as Tools forSingle- Molecule Sequence Detection and Manipulation. American Chemical Society, Nano Lett.
10(11): 4697-4701.
269. Bustamante, C, Moffitt JR. 2010. Viral DNA Packaging: One Step at a Time. Single Molecule
Spectroscopy in Chemistry, Physics and Biology; Springer Series in Chemical Physics. 96(5):237269.
270. Bustamante, C, Cheng W, Mejia Y. 2011. Revisiting the Central Dogma One Molecule at a Time.
Cell. 144:480-491.
271. Maillard, RA, Chistol G, Sen M, Righini M, Tan J, Kaiser CM, Hodges C, Martin A, Bustamante,
C. 2011. ClpX(P) Generates Mechanical Force to Unfold and Translocate Its Protein Substrates Cell.
145:459-469.
272. Qu, X, Wen JD, Lancaster, L, Noller, HF, Bustamante, C, Tinoco I Jr. 2011. The ribosome uses
two active mechanisms to unwind messenger RNA during translation. Nature. 475:118-121.
273. Cheng W, Arunajadai SG, Moffitt JR, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2011. Single-Base Pair Unwinding
and Asynchronous RNA Release by the Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Helicase. Science. 33:1746-1749.
274. Bintu L, Kopaczynska M, Hodges C, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante C. 2011. The
elongation rate of RNA polymerase determines the fate of transcribed nucleosomes. Nature
Structural and Molecular Biology. 18:1394-1399.
275. *Kaiser CM, Goldman, DM, Chodera JD, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2011. The Ribosome
Modulates Nascent Protein Folding. Science. 334:1723-1727.
276. Sudhanshu B, Mihardja S, Koslover EF, Mehraeen S, Bustamante C, Spakowitz AJ. 2011.
Tension-dependent structural deformation alters single-molecule transition kinetics. PNAS.
108:1885.
277. Elms P, Chodera J, Bustamante C, Marquesee S. 2012. The molten globule state is unusually
deformable under mechanical force. PNAS. 109:3769-3801.
278. Qu X, Lancaster L, Noller HF, Bustamante C. 2012. Ribosomal protein S1 unwinds double-stranded
RNA in multiple steps. PNAS. 109:14458-14463.
279. Bintu L, Ishibashi T, Dangkulwanich M, Yi WY, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante C. 2012.
Nucleosomal Elements That Control the Topography of the Barrier to Transcription. Cell. 151:738749.
280. Zamft B, Bintu L, Ishibashi T, Bustamante C. 2012. Nascent RNA Structure modules thetranscription dynamics of RNA Polymerases. PNAS. 109:8949-8953.
281. Jagannathan B, Elms P, Bustamante C, Marqusee S. 2012. Direct Observation of a force-induced
switch in the anisotropic mechanical unfolding pathway of a protein. PNAS. 109(44):18820-17825.
282. Chistol G, Liu S, Hetherington CL, Moffitt JR, Grimes S, Jardine PJ, Bustamante C. 2012. High
Degree of Coordination and Division of Labor Among Subunits in a Homomeric Ring ATPase. Cell.
151:1017-1028.
283. Hetherington CL, Moffitt JR, Jardine PJ, Bustamante C. 2012. Viral DNA Packaging Motors in
Comprehensive Biophysics. Academic Press. 4:420-446.
284. Lee SH, Shin, JY, Lee A, Bustamante C. 2012. Counting single photoactivatable fluorescentmolecules by photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM). PNAS. 109:17436-17441.
285. Dangkulwanich M, Ishibashi T, Liu S, Kireeva ML, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante C.
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2013.Complete dissection of transcription elongation reveals slow translocation of RNA polymerase
II in a linear ratchet mechanism. eLife. 2:e00971.
Strycharska MS, Arias-Palomo E, Lyubimov AY, Erzberger JP, O'Shea VL, Bustamante C, Berger
JM. 2013. Nucleotide and partner-protein control of bacterial replicative helicase structure andfunction. Mol Cell. 52(6):844-54.
Sen M, Maillard RA, Nyquist K, Rodriguez-Aliaga P, Pressé S, Martin A, Bustamante C. 2013. The
ClpXP protease unfolds substrates using a constant rate of pulling but different gears. Cell.
155(3):636-46.
Moffitt J, Bustamante C. 2013. Extracting signal from noise: kinetic mechanisms from a Michaelis–Menten-like expression for enzymatic fluctuations. The FEBS Journal. 281(2):498–517.
Walter NG, Bustamante C. 2014. Introduction to single molecule imaging and mechanics: seeing
and touching molecules one at a time. Chem Rev. 2014. 114(6):3069-71.
Dangkulwanich M, Ishibashi T, Bintu L, Bustamante C. 2014. Molecular Mechanisms ofTranscription through Single-Molecule Experiments. Chem Rev.114(6):3203-23.
Liu S, Chistol G, Bustamante C. 2014. Mechanical Operation and Intersubunit Coordination of
Ring-Shaped Molecular Motors: Insights from Single-molecule Studies. Biophys. J. 106:1844-1858.
Ishibashi T, Dangkulwanich M, Coello Y, Lionberger TA, Lubkowska L, Ponticelli AS, Kashlev M,
Bustamante C. 2014. Transcription Factors IIS and IIF Enhance Transcription Efficiency byDifferentially Modifying RNA Polymerase Pausing Dynamics. PNAS. 111:3419 – 3424.
Kim HK, Liu F, Fei J, Bustamante C, Gonzalez RL Jr, Tinoco I Jr. 2014. A frameshifting stimulatory
stem loop destabilizes the hybrid state and impedes ribosomal translocation. Proc Natl Acad Sci
USA. 111(15):5538-43.
Liu S, Chistol, G, Hetherington CL, Tafoya S, Aathavan K, Schnitzbauer J, Grimes S, Jardine P,
Bustamante C. 2014. A Viral Packaging Motor Varies Its DNA Rotation and Step Size to Preserve
Subunit Coordination as the Capsid Fills. Cell. 157(3):702-713.
Liu T, Kaplan A, Alexander L, Yan S, Wen JD, Lancaster L, Wickersham CE, Fredrick K, Noller
H, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2014. Direct measurement of the mechanical work duringtranslocation by the ribosom e. eLife. 2014(3):e03406.
Bustamante C, Kaiser, CM, Maillard R, Goldman D, Wilson AM. 2014. Mechanisms of CellularProteostasis: Insights from Single-Molecule Approaches. Annual. Rev. Biophys. 43:119-140.
Rosenbloom AB, Lee SH, To M, Lee A, Shin JY, Bustamante C. Optimized two color superresolution imaging of Drp1 during mitochondrial fission with a slow-switching Dronpa variant.
PNAS. 111(36):13093-13098.
Onoa B, Schneider AR, Brooks MD, Grob P, Nogales E, Geissler P, Niyogi K, Bustamante C. 2014.
Atomic Force Microscopy of Photosystem II and Its Unit Cell Clustering Quantitatively Delineate
the Mesoscale Variability in Arabidopsis Thylakoids. Plos One. 9(7):e101470.
Presse S, Peterson J, Lee J, Elms P, MacCallum JL, Marqusee S, Bustamante C, Dill K 2014. Single
Molecule Conformational Memory Extraction: P5ab RNA Hairpin. J. Phys. Chem. B. 118(24):65976603.
Llorente-Garcia I, Lenn T, Erhardt H, Harriman OL, Liu L, Robson A, Chiu SW, Matthews S, Willis
NJ, Bray CD, Lee SH, Shin JY, Bustamante C, Liphardt J, Friedrich T, Mullineaux CW, Leake
MC. 2014. Single-molecule in vivo imaging of bacterial respiratory complexes indicates delocalizedoxidative phosphorylation. Elsevier. 1837:811-824.
Mejia Y, Nudler E, Bustamante C. 2014. Trigger loop folding determines rate of Escheriachia coli’s

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RNA polymerase. PNAS. 111:52 (2014)
302. Riedel C, Gabizon R, Wilson CAM, Hamadani K, Tsekouras K, Marqusee S, Pressé S, Bustamante
C. 2015. The heat released during catalytic turnover enhances the enzymes diffusion. Nature
517:227–230.
303. Yan S, Wen JD, Bustamante C, Tinoco I Jr. 2015. Ribosome Excursions during mRNA
Translocation Mediate Broad Branching of Frameshift Pathways. Cell. 160(5):870-881.
304. *Goldman DH, Kaiser CM, Milin A, Righini M, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. 2015. Mechanical force
releases nascent chain-mediated ribosome arrest in vitro and in vivo. Science 348:457-460.
305. Doniselli N, Rodriguez PA, Amidani D, Bardales JA, Bustamante C, Guerra DG, Rivetti C. 2015.
New insights into the regulatory mechanisms of ppGpp and DksaA on Escherichia coli RNA
polymerase-promoter complex. Nuc. Ac. Res. 43:5249-5262.
306. Shin JY, Lopez-Garrido J, Lee SH, Diaz-Celis C, Fleming T, Bustamante C, Pogliano K. 2015.
Visualization and functional dissection of coaxial paired SpoIIIE channels across the sporulation
septum. eLife 2015; 4:e06474.
307. Kramer JR, Onoa B, Bustamante C, Bertozzi CR. 2015. Chemically tunable mucin chimeras
assembled on living cells. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 112(41): 2574–12579.
308. Liu N, Chistol G, Bustamante C. 2015. Two-subunit DNA escort mechanism and inactive subunit
bypass in an ultra-fast ring ATPase. eLife 2015; 4:e09224.
309. Rodriguez-Aliaga P, Ramirez L, Kim F, Bustamante C, Martin A. 2016. Substrate-translocating
loops regulate mechanochemical coupling and power production in AAA+ protease ClpXP. Nat
Struct Mol Biol. 2016; 23(11): 974–981.
310. Herrera-Asmat O, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante CJ, Guerra DG, Kireeva ML. 2017.
Production and characterization of a highly pure RNA polymerase holoenzyme from
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Protein Expression and Purification 134: 1–10.
311. San-Martin A, Rodriguez-Aliaga P, Molina JA, Martin A, Bustamante C, Baez M. 2017. Knots can
impair protein degradation by ATP-dependent proteases. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA),114(37):9864-9869.
312. Lee A, Tsekouras K, Calderon C, Bustamante C, Presse S. 2017. Unraveling the Thousand Word
Picture: An Introduction to Super-Resolution Data Analysis. Chemical Reviews 117(11):7276-7330.
313. Bustamante C. 2017. Molecular machines one molecule at time. Protein Science 26(7):1245-1248.
314. Bustamante A, Sotelo-Campos J, Guerra DG, Floor M, Wilson CAM, Bustamante C, Baez M. 2017.
The energy cost of polypeptide know formation and its folding consequences. Nature
Communications 8(1):2195.
315. Righini M, Lee A, Canari-Chumpitaz C, Lionberger T, Gabizon R, Coello Y, Tinoco I Jr,
Bustamante C. 2018. Full molecular trajectories of RNA polymerase at single base-pair resolution.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 115(6):1286-1291.
316. Liu N, Chistol G, Cui Y, Bustamante C. 2018. Mechanochemical coupling and bi-phasic forcevelocity dependence in the ultra-fast ring ATPase SpoIIIE. eLife 2018;7:e32354.
317. Tafoya S, Bustamante C. 2018. Molecular switch-like regulation in motor proteins. PhilosophicalTransactions of the Royal Society B. 19;373(1749).

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318. Tafoya S, Liu S, Castillo JP, Atz R, Morais MC, Grimes S, Jardine PJ, Bustamante C. 2018.
Molecular Switch-Like Regulation Enables Global Subunit Coordination in a Viral Ring ATPase.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 115 (31) 7961-7966.
319. Gabizon R, Lee A, Vahedian-Movahed H, Ebright RH, Bustamante C. 2018. Pause Sequences
Facilitate Entry into Long-lived Pause States by Reducing the Transcription Rate of RNAPolymerase. Nature Communications, 9: 2930.
320. Bustamante C, Tafoya S. 2018. Biochemistry and Biophysics in Singulo: When Less is More. Cell
Biology and Genetics. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia, 137.
321. Schöneberg J, Pavlin MR, Yan S, Righini M, Lee I-H, Carlson L-A, Bahrami AH, Goldman DH,
Ren X, Hummer G, Bustamante C, Hurley JH. 2018. ATP-dependent force generation andmembrane scission by ESCRT-III and Vps4. Science, 362: 1423 – 1428.
322. Zhang H, Wang Y, Zhang H, Liu X, Lee A, Huang Q, Wang F, Chao J, Liu H, Li J, Shi J, Zuo X,
Wang L, Wang L, Cao Z, Bustamante C, Tian ZQ, Fan C. 2019. Programming chain-growth copolymerization of DNA hairpin tiles for in-vitro hierarchical supramolecular organization. Nature
Communications 10: 1006.
323. Tafoya S., Large SJ, Liu S., Bustamante C., and Sivak DA, 2019. Using a system’s equilibrium
behavior to reduce its energy dissipation in nonequilibrium processes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA),116: 5920 – 5924.
324. Alexander LM, Goldman DH, Wee LM, Bustamante C. 2019. Non-equilibrium Dynamics of a
Nascent Polypeptide During Translation Suppress its Misfolding. Nature Communications, 10:2709.
325. Feng B., Sosa RP, Mårtensson AKF, Jiang K, Tong A., Dorfman KD, Takahashi M.,

Lincoln P., Bustamante CJ, Westerlund F. and Nordén B. 2019. Hydrophobic catalysis anda potential biological role of DNA unstacking induced by environment effects. Proc.Nat.
Acad. Sci. (USA), 116: 17169 – 17174.
326. Desai VP, Frank F., Lee A., Righini M., Lancaster L, Noller HF., Tinoco Jr. I, and Bustamante C.,
2019. Co-temporal force and fluorescence measurements reveal a ribosomal gear shiftmechanism of translation regulation by structured mRNAs. Mol. Cell., 75(5):1007-1019.
327. Chen Z., Gabizon, R., Brown, AI, Lee, A., Song, A., Diaz, CD, Kaplan, A., Koslover, E., Yao, T.,
Bustamante, C., 2019. High-resolution and high-accuracy topographic and transcriptional maps ofthe nucleosome barrier. eLife.:e48281.
328. Fukuda S, Yan S, Komi Y, Sun M, Gabizon R, Bustamante C., 2019. The Biogenesis of SRP RNA
Is Modulated by an RNA Folding Intermediate Attained during Transcription. Mol Cell., 77(2):241250.
329. Onoa B., Fukuda S., Iwan M., Bustamante C., Niyogi K., 2020. Atomic Force Microscopy
Visualizes Mobility of Photosynthetic Proteins in Grana Thylakoid Membranes. BiophysicalJournal 118: 1876-1886.
330. Wang, F., Hao, Y., Li, Q., Zhang, H., Zhang, X., Wang, L., Bustamante, C., Fan, C., 2020.
Programing PAM antennae for efficient CRISPR-Cas9 DNA editing. Science Adv. 6(19) 1-11.

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Speaking Engagements
2019
Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting: “ Co-temporal Force and Fluorescence Measurements Reveal a
Ribosomal Gear-shift Mechanism of Translation Regulation by mRNA Secondary Structures,”
UTEC – Universidad de Ingenieria y Technologia, July 18, 2019
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated
Ring ATPase,” University of Chicago, June 4, 2019.
The Harkins Lecture: “The Ribo.some Modulates Nascent Protein Folding and Nascent Protein Folding
can Modulate the Ribosome Activity,” University of Chicago, June 3, 2019.
Ribosome 2019 Conference: “Ribosomes shift to a lower ‘gear’ in response to stable mRNA secondary
structures,” Merida, Mexico, January 8, 2019.
2018
Christian B. Anfinsen Lecture: “"Co-translational protein folding, one molecule at a time,” Johns Hopkins
University, November 13, 2018.
Winton Symposium: “Power at the Nanoscale: Speed, Strength and Efficiency in Biological Motors,”
University of Cambridge, November 1, 2018.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientific Meeting: “Crossing the Wall: Transcription Across the
Nucleosomal Barrier”, September 4-6, 2018
Single Biomolecules Meeting: “Use of the high resolution ‘fleezers’ to study barrier crossing by
individual ribosomes,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, August 31, 2018.
Gordon Research Conference on Chromatin Structure and Function: “High-resolution and High-accuracy
Topographic Map of Nucleosome Barrier Crossing by Pol II,” Newry, Maine, July 22-27, 2018.
New Horizons in Optical Trapping: Applications to Biophysics, Statistical Mechanics, and Optics, “Useof High Resolution Optical Tweezers and Single Molecule Fluorescence Detection Capability to
Study Barrier Crossing Individual Ribosomes,” Neve Ilan, Israel, June 26, 2018.
Northwestern Biophysics Symposium, “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated
Ring ATPase,” Northwestern University, June 20, 2018.
Department of Chemistry Colloquia. “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated
Ring ATPase,” Rochester University, May 23, 2018.
The Albrecht Lecture: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,”
Cornell University, April 26, 2018.
Kolthoff Lecture in Chemistry: Lecture 1 - “Use of Crooks’ Theorem to Study the Interdomain Folding
Cooperativity of a Protein,” Lecture 2 - “The Ribosome Modulates Nascent Protein Folding and NascentProtein Folding Can Modulate the Ribosome Activity”, Lecture 3 - “Division of Labor Among the
Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” University of Minnesota, April 18-20, 2018.
Festival Puerto de Ideas: “Estudiando la Maquinaria Celular una Molécula a la Vez,” Antofagasta, Chile.
April 14, 2018.
The Linus Pauling Lecture: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring
ATPase,” Stanford University, March 9, 2018.
Peruvian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of aHighly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” Lima, Peru, March 1-2, 2018.
Learning in Retirement Series: "Biophysics, One Molecule at a Time,” University of California, Berkeley,
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February 13, 2018.
20172017 ASCB | EMBO Meeting: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring
ATPase,” Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 2017
FEBS3+: 1st Joint Meeting of the French-Portuguese-Spanish Biochemical and Molecular Biology
Societies: “Division of labor and allosteric regulation among the subunits of a DNA packaging
ring ATPase,” Barcelona, Spain, October 26, 2017.
Workshop on Cell Biology and Genetics – PAS: “Biophysics and Biochemistry in Singlo: When Less isMore,” Rome, Italy, October 23, 2017.
Royal Society Symposium Allostery and Molecular Machines: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits ofa Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” London, June 19-20, 2017.
Free University Invited Speaker “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated
Ring ATPase,” Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 2017.
Physical Biology Conference: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring
ATPase,” Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017.
Sanders Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Seminar Series: "The Folding Cooperativity of a Protein isControlled by the Topology of its Polypeptide Chain," Tri-Institute, May 2, 2017.
Rockefeller University Seminar: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring
ATPase,” Rockefeller University, May 1, 2017.
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics Lecturer: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly
Coordinated Ring ATPase,” Rice University, April 11, 2017.
ASU Physics Colloquium: “Use of Crooks’ Theorem to Study Interdomain Folding Cooperativity of aProtein,” Arizona State University, April 6, 2017.
1st Biology for Physics: Is there New Physics in Living Matter: “Physical Biology or Biological Physics,”
Barcelona, Spain, January 15-18, 2017.
Centro de Biotechnologia Madrid, Spain Invited Speaker: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of aHighly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” Madrid, Spain, Jan 13, 20172016
Single Molecule Symposium: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring
ATPase,” Saint Louis University, December 2, 2016.
The Technological Revolution in Structural Biology: Its Impact on Biology and Chemistry: “Division ofLabor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” The Weizmann Institute of
Science, November 6, 2016.
Trends in Quantitative Biology and Biophysics Symposium: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of aHighly Coordinated Ring ATPase.” Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, October 20-21,
2016.
nd
The 22 Annual Shih-I Pai Lecture: “The folding cooperativity of a protein controlled by the topology ofits polypeptide chain,” University of Maryland, October 4, 2016.
The 2016 Biochemistry IMPACT Lecture: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly
Coordinated Ring ATPase,” University of Notre Dame, September 15, 2016.
Nascent Chain Biology Meeting: “Mechanical Force Releases Nascent Chain-Mediated Ribosome Arrestin vitro and in vivo,” Yamanashi, Japan, September 1-3, 2016.
Keynote Lecture of the XXV Scientific of ICNAR: “Mechanical Force Releases Nascent Chain-Mediated
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Ribosome Arrest in vitro and in vivo,”Universidad Nacional Mayor De San Marcos, Lima,
August 15, 2016.
ICFO Colloquium: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,”
Barcelona, Spain, July 22, 2016.
Universidad de Ingeneria, Lima Invited Speaker:” Use of Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study theInterdomain Folding Cooperativity of a Protein,” Lima, Peru, June 7, 2016.
Tinoco Symposium Invited Lecture: “The Role Mehanical Force on the Release of Ribosome
Translational Arrest at the Sec M Sequence,” UC Berkeley, March 26, 2016.
The RNA Institute Symposium on RNA Science: Epitranscriptomics: “Following Translation by Single
ribosomes one column at a time,” Albany, New York, March 18, 2016.
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated
Ring ATPase,” University of Pennsylvania, March 7, 2016.
The 2015 David S. Sigman Memorial Lecture: “The Role of Mechanical Force on the Release of
Ribosome Translational Arrest at the Sec M Sequence,” University of California, Los Angeles,
January 14, 2016.
2015
Invited Lecture Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics: “Division of Labor and Coordination among thesubunits Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” Shanghai, China, Nov 10, 2015.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientific Meeting: Division of Labor and Coordination among thesubunits Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” HHMI, November 4, 2015.
UCLA Seaborg Symposium Invited Speaker: “Division of Labor and Coordination among the subunits
Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” UCLA, October 18-20, 2015.
The McDowell Lecture at Univ. of British Columbia, Simon Fraser Univ. & Univ. of Victoria: “Divisionof Labor and Coordination among the subunits Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase,” Canada,
September 20-24, 2015.
Uppsala Universitet: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATpase,”
Stockholm, September 3, 2015.
Karolinska Institute: “Mechanical Force Release Nascent Chain-mediated Ribosome Arrest in vitro and invivo,” Stockholm, September 1, 2015.
Instituto de Fisica UNAM: “Use of Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study the Interdomain Folding
Cooperativity of a Protein,” Mexico City, August 21, 2015.
Summer School LiSci 2015: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from Single MoleculeStudies,” Mexico City, August 17, 2015.
Italian Institute of Science: Laurea Honoris Causa Lecture at (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati )SISSA: “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATpase,”,
Italy, June 22, 2015.
Janssen R&D presentation: “Use of Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study the Interdomain Folding
Cooperativity of a Protein,” Spring House, PA, June 14-16, 2015.
41st Annual Naff Symposium: “Division of Labor and Coordination among the subunits of the Nearly
Perfect Biological Machine,” University of Kentucky, March 5-7, 2015.
2014
Weizmann Lecturer: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from Single Molecule Approaches,”
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Weizmann Institute, Israel, December 3, 2014.
Weizmann Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Units of a Nearly Perfect
Biological Machine,” Weizmann Institute, Israel, December 2, 2014.
Invited Speaker: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from Single Molecule Approaches,”
Technion Institute, Israel, December 1, 2014.
Mendel Lecturer: “Grabbing the cat by the tail: How a viral molecular motor packages DNA,” Mendel
Lecture, Brno, Czech Republic, October 24, 2014.
Keynote speaker, Latin American and Peruvian Congress of Chemistry: “Q&A A Journey ThroughCellular Processes: One Molecule at a Time,: Lima, Peru, October 15, 2014.
Max Birnstiel Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Viral Ring
ATPase,” Research Institute of Molecular Pathology. Vienna, Austria, October 8, 2014.
Speaker of the Year, Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: “The folding
cooperativity of a protein is controlled by the topography of its polypeptide chain” and “Divisionof Labor and Coordination Among the Units of a Nearly Perfect Biological Machine,” September
14-19, 2014.
Invited Lecturer: “Discrete Steps and Inter-Subunit Coordination of a DNA-Packaging Ring ATPase,”
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, September 11, 2014.
Invited Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Nearly Perfect
Biological Machine,” FASEB Machines on Genes Conference, June 24, 2014
Franklin Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Viral Ring ATPase,”
University of Missouri, May 28, 2014.
Invited Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Nearly Perfect
Biological Machine,” NANO Conference, University of Buenos Aires, May 14, 2014.
Invited Lecturer: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from Single Molecule Approaches,”
ASBMB Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 28, 2014.
T.Y. Shen Lecturer (Faculty Seminar): “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a
Viral Ring ATPase,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 23, 2014.
T.Y. Shen Lecturer (Public): “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from single-molecule
approaches,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 22, 2014.
Invited Lecturer: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Nearly Perfect
Biological Machine,” Foundation of Nanoscience Annual Conference, Utah, April 17, 2014
Bühl Lecturer: “Biochemistry and Biophysics One Molecule at a Time: When Less is More,” Bühl
Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, March 25, 2014.
National Lecturer, Biophysical Society: “A Journey Through Cellular Processes: One Molecule at aTime”, BPS National Lecture, San Francisco, CA, February 18, 20142013
Invited Speaker: “Slugging Through: When Polymerase Meets the Ribosome”, Lecture, MIT, Departmentof Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 15, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Nucleosomal Fluctuations Govern the Transcription Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II,”
Lecture, Peking University Dept. of Physics, August 25, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Viral Ring ATPase,”
Seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Biophysics, August 24, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Recent Advances in molecular bioimages,” Lecture, CSH Conference New Advances in
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Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms, Suzhou, China, August 20, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Following Translation by single ribosomes one codon at at time,” Lecture, Ribosomes
Conference, Napa Valley, CA, July 11, 2013
Invited Speaker: “Nucleosomal Fluctuations Govern the Transcription Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II”,
Seminar, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research, June 26, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from single molecule approaches,”
Seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences National Laboratory of Protein Science, Shanghai,
China, June 10, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Viral Ring ATPase.”
Seminar, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China,
May 29, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Biophysics one molecule at a time,” Public Lecture, Shanghai JiaoTong University,
Shanghai, China, May 27, 2013.
2012
Invited Speaker: “The folding cooperativity of a protein is controlled by the topology of its polypeptide
chain”, specially organized seminar by the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, December 14,
2012.
Invited Speaker: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostasis: Insights from single molecule approaches”,
BioPhysics Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 13, 2012.
Laureate Speaker: “Division of Labor and Coordination Among the Subunits of a Viral Ring ATPase”,
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics Awards Ceremony, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 12, 2012.
Invited speaker: “Discrete Steps and Inter-Subunit Coordination of a DNA-Packaging Ring ATPase”,
Microbiology Seminar Series, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AB, November 12-14, 2012.
Kistiakowsky Lecturer: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule BioPhysics”, Kistiakowsky Lecture,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 4-6, 2012.
Invited speaker: “Single Molecule Characterization of a DNA-packaging Nano-motor”, Annual
Symposium of the International Institute of Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston
IL, October 17-19, 2012.
Invited speaker: "Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-packaging Ring ATPase",
Biophysics Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 3-4, 2012.
Invited speaker: “Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-packaging Ring ATPase", Cell
Biology Seminar, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 1-2,
2012
Invited speaker: "Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-packaging Ring ATPase",
University of Illinois Physics Colloquium, Urbana-Champaign, IL, September 25-27, 2012.
Invited plenary lecturer: “Mechanisms of Cellular Proteostatis; Insights from single molecule
approaches”, 22nd IUBMB, 37th FEBS Conference, Seville, Spain, September 8, 2012.
Invited Speaker: "Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-packaging Ring ATPase",
Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience and Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway, September 6,
2012.
Keynote speaker: "Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-packaging Ring ATPase",
2nd Midwest Single Molecule Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 16-19,
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2012.
Invited speaker: “Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the Inter-Subunit Coordination in a
Ring-ATPase”, Gordon Research Conference, West Dover, VT, July 15-20, 2012.
2011
Plenary speaker: “Single Molecule Biophysics”, Gordon Conference; Stochastic Physics in Biology,
Ventura, CA, Jan 24-26, 2011.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Robert and A-Young Woody Lecture, Colorado State,
Mar 3, 2011.
Invited speaker:” Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Institut de Science et d’Ingenierie
Supramoleculaires(I.S.I.S), Strasbourg, France, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2011.
Keynote speaker: “The Role of Topology on the Folding Cooperativity of a Protein”, Molecular andCellular Biophysics Symposium, University of Denver, April 7-9, 2011.
Invited lecturer: Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma De San Luis Potosi, Mexico, May 22-28,
2011.
Keynote lecturer:” Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics”, Gordon Research Conference:
Nucleic Acids, University of New England, ME, June 5-10, 2011.
Invited lecturer: Curso Avanzado de Microscopía Confocal 2011: “Detección y Análisis de interacciones
moleculares en células”, Instituto de Investigación Médica "Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra”, Córdoba,
Argentina, June 13-18, 2011.
Plenary lecturer: ”Slugging Through: When Polymerase Meets the Nucleosome”, ICBP 7th International
Conference on Biological Physics, San Diego, CA, June 23, 2011.
Invited speaker:” Grabbing the Cat by the Tail:Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and theIntersubunit Coordination of a Ring ATPase”, Gordon Research Conference: Enzymes, Coenzymes
and Metabolic Pathways, Waterville, NH, July 10-15, 2011.
Invited speaker: ”Use of Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study the Interdomain Folding Cooperativity ofa Protein”, AFM BioMed Conference,Paris, France, Aug 21-31, 2011.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and theIntersubunit Coordination of a Ring ATPase”, NIH WALS Lecture Series 2011-2012, Sept. 7,
2011.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail:Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and theIntersubunit Coordination of a Ring ATPase”, Valdivia, Chile, Sept 23-27, 2011.
Invited speaker: The Dynamic of Transcription of RNA Polymerase II through a Nucleosome”, NIH/NCI
Symposium, Frederick, MD, Nov 1-2, 2011.
Invited lecturer: "Principles of Single Molecule Biophysics" Phd course, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y
Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Chile, March 21-25, 2011
Invited lecturer:"Sugging Through:When Polymerase Meets the Nucleosome" Coloquios deMicrobiología, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile, March, 25, 2011
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase" Seminar Series Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias
de Valparaiso, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, March 25, 2011
Invited speaker: "The Role of Chain Topology in the Folding Cooperativity of a Protein", seminar Center
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for Optics and Photonics, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, September 26, 2011
2010
Keynote speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail:Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and theIntersubunit Coordination of a Ring ATPase”, Biomolecular Interactions and Methods, GordonKenan Research Seminar, Galvenston, TX, January 16-17, 2010.
Invited lecturer: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single 29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers”, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and The Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel, February 14-18, 2010.
Invited Lecture: “Doing Biochemistry in Singulo: When less is more”, Timothy J. O’Leary, S.J.
Distinguished Scientist lecturer, Gonzaga University, March 22, 2010.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Physics Colloquium, University of Oregon, April 28,
2010.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Quad Seminar Series, Washington University in St.
Louis, April 29, 2010.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Nanoengineering Seminar Series, University of San
Diego, May 5,2010.
Invited speaker:” Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, ASM2010 Colloqium Conference, San Diego, May 2526, 2010.
Invited lecturer:”Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole on Cape
Cod, MA, June 14-16, 2010.
Invited lecturer", Single Molecule Manipulation Methods”, Federal University of Rio Grande De Norte,
Natal, Brazil June 28-July 5, 2010.
Invited lecturer", The Folding Cooperatively of a Protein is Controlled by the Topology of its Polypetide
chain”, 2nd International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC 2010), Granada, Spain, July 5-8, 2010.
Invited lecturer:", Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Spanish Biophysical Society Meeting, Zaragoza, Spain,
July 7-10, 2010.
Keynote speaker: Optical Trap and Optical Micromanipulation (OTOM) conference for 24th Symposiumof the Protein Society, San Diego, CA Aug 1-5, 2010.
Invited lecturer: iBioSeminars Lecture, UCSF, Sept. 21, 2010.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Rockefeller University, Sept. 23-25, 2010.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, 11th Annual James P. Holland Memorial Lecture,
Indiana University, Oct. 3-5, 2010.
Plenary lecturer: “The folding cooperativity of a protein is controlled by the topology of its polypeptide
chain”, 3rd Latin America Protein Society, Salta Argentina, Oct. 13-16, 2010.
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2009 and earlier
Invited Lecture: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Distinguished Lecture Series for Biological Chemistry,
UCLA, March 2, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Honors Program Lecture Series, New York University
School of Medicine, March 9, 2009.
Invited speaker: “Stepsize and intersubunit coordination of a ring ATPase”, NIH NanoWeek 2009,
Bethesda, Maryland, April 7, 2009.
Invited speaker: a workshop at the Center for Advanced Microscopy, University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, May 17-22, 2009
Invited speaker: Single Molecule Studies Seminar, Bioénergétique et Ingéniérie des Protéines of theInstitut Fédératif Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, CNRS, Marseilles, France, June 19, 2009.
Invited speaker: “Single Molecule Studies of the Stepping and Subunit Coordination in a DNA-Packaging
Ring ATPase”, Protein Gordon Research Conference, Manchester, NH, June 25, 2009
Invited speaker: Optimization at A Small Scale Conference, UCSD, July 20-21, 2009.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers”, St. John College, NM, Aug. 5-9, 2009.
Invited Lectures: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Falk-Plaut Lecture, Columbia University, New York,
Sept 7-11, 2009.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, XXXXII Congreso SEBBM Seminar, Universidad de
Oviedo, Spain, Sept 22-25,2009.
Invited speaker.”Grabbing the cat the tail: DNA packaging motor”, Secretariat of AtomByAtom
Conference, San Sebastian, Spain, Sept 27-30,2009.
Invited speaker “Grabbing the cat the tail:Single Molecule Studies of a Viral DNA packaging motor”,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, November 12, 2009.
Invited speaker “Grabbing the cat the tail:Single Molecule Studies of a Viral DNA packaging motor”.
Argonne National Laboratory, Argone, IL, November 13, 2009.
Invited speaker “Biological Single-Molecule Spectroscopy”, Paris Interdisciplinary PhD. Symposiums,
Paris, France, Dec. 7, 2009.
Invited speaker ”Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase”, Institute Curie Research, Paris, France, Dec. 8, 2009.
Invited Speaker: "The Role of Topology in the Folding Cooperativity of a Protein", seminar Facultad deCiencias, Universidad de Chile, Chile, December 17, 2009.
2008
Invited speaker: First annual Schaeffer lecture, University of New Mexico, October 31, 2008.
Invited speaker: 2008 Lamport Lecture, University of Washington, October 23, 2008.
Invited speaker: Arizona State University, Distinguished lecturer, September 24-25, 2008.
Invited speaker: University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center, September 23, 2008.
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Centennial Symposium of the Physical Division of the ACS,
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Philadelphia, PA, August 18-19, 2008.
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", ISMB (Institute of Structural Molecular Biology) Symposium,
University College London/Birkbeck Institute, June 20, 2008.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the InterSubunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase", Nobel Symposium on Single Molecule Spectroscopy in
Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Sånga-Säby conference center, Sweden, June 1-June 6, 2008.
Invited Lecture: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Fox Chase Cancer Center Distinguished Lecture series, May 30th,
2008.
Invited Lecture: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Distinguished Lecture for Biomechanical Engineering, Stanford
University, May 27, 2008.
Invited Seminar: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Joint seminars in Molecular and Cellular Biology speaker series,
UC-Davis, May 22 2008.
Invited Lecture: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Sarkar Lecture 2008, Molecular Structure and Function Research
Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, May 9, 2008.
Invited Lecture: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage
particles using optical tweezers", Compass Project Lecture Series, University of California
Berkeley, Physics Department, April 22, 2008
Invited lecturer: "Catalyzed and uncatalyzed mechanical unfolding of single RNA molecules by force",(Wed April 16); "Studies of the torsional properties of single DNA molecules: an old problem witha new twist", (Thursday April 17); "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Following the packaging of DNA
by single particles of bacteriophage phi 29 using optical tweezers", (Friday April 18); MIT Arthur
D. Little Lecture Series, Boston, MA, April 16- 18, 2008.
Invited Seminar: "Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target", UC San Diego
Chemistry department (Molecular Biophysics Training Grant), April 11, 2008.
Invited Seminar: "Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29
Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers", New York University, Center for Soft Matter
Research, January 28th, 2008.
2007
Invited Speaker: "Following Translation by Single Ribosomes One Codon at a Time", Seminar Centro de
Neurociencias de Valparaiso, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, December 13, 2007.
Invited Speaker: "Following Translation by Single Ribosomes One Codon at a Time ", Departamental
seminar Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Chile, December 12, 2007.
Invited Lecturer: "Biofísica de Manipulación de Moléculas Individuales (Biophysics and manipulation of
single molecules)" Phd course, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Chile, December 10-12,
2007
Invited speaker: "Signposts along the chromosomal highway: how FtsK finds its target", BaMBA(Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area) III, November 10, 2007.
San Jose State University, Invited speaker: 2007 Welch Conference: “Biological Single-Molecule
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Spectroscopy", Physical Biology—from Atoms to Cells, Houston, Texas, October 22, 2007.
Invited plenary speaker: “Proofreading and Editing by a Processive DNA Polymerase", Single Molecules
and Molecular Machines Symposium, University of California Berkeley, October 20, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: how FsK finds its target", Emory
University, Luminaries in Science Lecture Series, October. 9, 2007.
Invited speaker: University of Panama, October 5, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation in Biophysics", 21st Gibbs
Conference on Biothermodynamics, Carbondale, Il, October 1, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers", 6th International Conference of Biological Physics,
Montevideo, Uruguay, August 29 2007.
Invited speaker: IV Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Genetica y Biotecnologia, UNM de San
Marcos, Lima Peru, August. 22, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target", Gordon
Research Conferences, Chromosome Dynamics, University of New England, August 12-17, 2007,
Invited Plenary speaker: Burroughs Wellcome fund, Dana Point California, July 27, 2007
Invited speaker: “Single Molecule Studies of FtsK", FASEB Summer Research Conferences: Helicases
and NTP-Driven Nucleic Acid Motors: Structure, Function, Mechanisms and Roles in Human
Disease (Indian Wells, CA), June 25, 2007.
Invited Plenary speaker: “Recent advances of single molecule manipulation methods in biophysics", 2007
Summer Bioengineering Conference, (Keystone, CO), June 21, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the Chromosomal Highway: How FtsK finds its target", NIH
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, May 30, 2007.
Invited Plenary speaker: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Packaging of DNA by single particles ofbacteriophage phi 29 using optical tweezers”, XXX Brazilian National Meeting of Condensed
Matter Physics, São Lourenço Brazil, May 10th, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target", University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, April 16, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Following the packaging of DNA inside the capsid ofbacteriophage phi 29 one molecule at a time and at base-pair resolution", Case Western Reserve
University, annual Wood lecture, April 11, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Following the packaging of DNA inside the capsid ofbacteriophage phi 29 one molecule at a time and at base-pair resolution", Dean’s Proteins
Symposium, University of California, San Diego, April 6, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Following the packaging of DNA by single particles of bacteriophage phi29, using
optical tweezers", Scripps Research Institute, Structure and Affinity Group Series, March 22, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Grabbing the cat by the tail: Packaging of DNA by single particles of bacteriophage phi
29 using optical tweezers”, McGill University, Department of Chemistry Purves Lecture, March 9,
2007.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Following the packaging of DNA inside the capsid ofbacteriophage phi 29 one molecule at a time and at base-pair resolution”, Harvard University,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, March 1, 2007.
Invited speaker: "Signposts along the Chromosomal Highway: How FtsK finds its target", University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program Seminar Series,
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February 16, 2007,
Invited speaker: “Following the Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of Bacteriophage Phi29: An Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Tweezers Study”, HHMI Science Meeting, Chevy Chase, Maryland,
February 12, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation Biophysics”, Molecular Frontiers
Symposium, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, February 2, 2007.
Invited Seminar: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation Biophysics”, Trieste, Italy, January
30, 2007.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation Biophysics”, XI School ofBiophysics, Palazzo Franchetti, Istituto di Scienze Lettere e Arti (IVSLA), Venice, Italy, January
29, 2007.
Invited Seminar: “How FtsK finds its target: Signposts along the chromosomal highway”, University ofTexas Medical Branch, January 24, 2007.
Invited speaker: “How FtsK finds its target: Signposts along the chromosomal highway”, University ofTexas Southwestern, Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Discussion Group, January 23, 2007.
2006
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single f29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers", Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden,
December 14, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation Biophysics”, Weizmann Institute of
Science Minisymposium on Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Rehovot, Israel, November 5,
2006.
Colloquium speaker: “Recent Developments in the Biophysics of Single Molecules”, Emory University
Physics Colloquium, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, Extraordinary
Thursday Seminar, Max Planck Institute CBG, Dresden, Germany, October 5, 2006.
Colloquium speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, Müncher
Physiks Kolloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, October 4. 2006.
Invited lecturer: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, Leonardo
Lecture, San Raffaele Scientific Institute (DiBiT), Milan, Italy, October 2, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Recent advances in single molecule manipulation biophysics”, at BergamoScienza,
Bergamo, Italy, September 30, 2006.
Plenary speaker: “Recent advances in the manipulation of single molecules”, at the Congreso IberoAmericano de Biofísica, Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, at the
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar, UC San Francisco, September 19, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, at the Alumni
Distinguished Lecture, Michigan State University East Lansing, September 14, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Signposts along the chromosomal highway: How FtsK finds its target”, HHMI Science
Meeting, Janelia Farm Research Center, Ashburn, VA, September 12, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Direct observation of the three-state folding of single molecules of RNase H using
optical tweezers”, International Conference on Bioengineering, UC Santa Barbara, Wednesday
September 6, 2006.
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Invited lecturer: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics”, at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
Escuela Giambiagi.
Keynote speaker: Center for Biophotonics Annual Retreat, Olympic Valley, CA, July 10, 2006.
Invited speaker: Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics”, Gordon Research Conference on
Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 22, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Single molecule studies of FtsK, a fast, sequence-directed DNA translocase”, TriInstitutional Structural Biology Seminar Series, Weill Medical College of Cornell U./Rockefeller
U./Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, June 8, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Single molecule manipulation in biophysics”, “The unwinding mechanism of an RNA
Helicase”, H.L. Welsh Lectures in Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, April 27- 28, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Direct Observation of Substeps Reveals the RNA Unwinding Mechanism of HCV NS3
Helicase”, CSBI Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 20, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single 29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers”, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Seminar Series, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, April 18, 2006.
Colloquium speaker: “Packaging of DNA by Single Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers”,
Kavli Nanoscience Institute Colloquia Series, Caltech Institute for Technology, March 13, 2006.
Colloquium speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single 29
Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers”, UC Riverside Physics Colloquia Series,
Riverside, CA, March 2, 2006.
Plenary speaker: “Direct Observation of Substeps Reveals the RNA Unwinding Mechanism of HCV NS3
Helicase”, Joint Annual Conference of the National Societies of Black and Hispanic Physicists, San
Jose, CA, February 16, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of BacteriophagePhi29 Studied One Molecule at a Time”, Biophysics Symposium, Ohio State University, Ohio,
February 8, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Protein Unfolding”, Gordon Research Conference: Reversible Associations in Structural
and Molecular Biology, Ventura, CA, January 17, 2006.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single 29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers”, Nanoscience and Quantum Physics Symposium, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, January 5, 2006.
2005
Invited lecturer: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of BacteriophagePhi 29 Studied One Molecule at a Time”, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, December 6, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation", International Symposium forProtein Nanomechanics, Madrid, Spain, October 18-19, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", Federation of European Biochemical
Societies - International Union, for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Budapest, Hungary, July
4-7, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", Institute of Plant Biology, Szeged,
Hungary, July 4, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Unfolding Single RNA Molecules: Bridging the Gap between Equilibrium andNonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics", Statistical Physics FisEs Conference in Madrid,
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Spain June 27-29, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Following the Footsteps of Single Bio-Molecular Motors", Nobel Symposium on
Controlled Nanoscale Motion in Biological and Artificial Systems, Backaskog Slott, Sweden, June
13-17, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Single Molecule Observation of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Helicase at Work", Universityof Chicago, Chicago, IL June 9-10, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Mechanism of Force Generation of a Viral DNA Packaging Motor", Gordon Nucleic
Acid Research Conference, Newport, RI, June 7-9. 2005.
Invited speaker: “Unfolding Single RNA Molecules: Bridging the Gap between Equilibrium andNonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics", Nobel Committee of Chemistry in Coimbra,
Portugal, May 1-4, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Direct Observation of the Three-State Folding of a Single Protein Molecule by OpticalTweezers", Protein Society Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, April 30-May 4, 2005.
Davidson lecturer for “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", University of Kansas, KS, April
21, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Direct Measurement of Torque on Single DNA Molecules: An Old Problem with a New
Twist", American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 21, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", at the University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, March 4, 2005.
Distinguished lecturer: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February
16, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Gyrase”, Biophysical Society Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 12-13, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", University of California, Berkeley,
January 25, 2005.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics: Reversible Unfolding of a Single
RNA Molecule by Force", University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Mexico, January 21, 2005.
Distinguished lecturer: “Unfolding Single RNA by Force", University of Texas, Austin, TX, January 19,
2005.
2004
Trailblazers Distinguished lecturer: “Mechanical unfolding of a single RNA molecule by force",
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MI, Nov 3-4, 2004.
Moses Gomberg lecturer: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
October 25-26, 2004.
Invited speaker: “MukBEF a bacterial condensing organizes DNA into condense periodic and stablestructure in ATP-dependent manner", Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA, August 14-18,
2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", Bioscience 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland, July 18-24, 2004.
FASEB lecturer: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", Saxton River, VT, June 12-17, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
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Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, May 27, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, May 2426, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 13-14, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", American Physical Society, College Park, MD, May 1-4, 2004.
Louis Jacob Bircher lecturer, “Unfolding of Single RNA Molecule by Force", Vanderbilt U., Nashville,
TN, April 22-23, 2004.
Ernest C. Pollard lecturer, “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", Pennsylvania State University, PA, April 11-12,
2004.
Invited Keynote/Distinguished lecturer for RECOMB 2004, “Recent Advances in Single Molecule
Manipulation in Biophysics", San Diego, CA, March 27-31, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation in Biophysics", and “Grabbing theCat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", University of North Carolina, NC, March 22-24, 2004.
Edgar Fahs Smith lecturer for “Unfolding of Single RNA Molecule by Force", University ofPennsylvania, March 17-19, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", UCLA Nanosystems Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, March 9-10,
2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of Oregon, OR, March 1-3, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation in Biophysics", Biophysical Society,
Bethesda, MD, Feb. 15-17, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation in Biophysics", Western
Spectroscopy Association Annual Conference, Asilomar, CA, January 28-30, 2004.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", Arizona State University, AZ, January 22-24, 2004.
2003
Invited speaker: “Steps to a Career in Academia", Burroughs Wellcome Fund, San Diego, CA, December
3-5, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", Washington University School of Medicine, MO, November 59, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation in Biophysics", University Chicago,
IL October 28-31, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Recent and Future Advances in the Manipulation of Single Molecules and its
Applications to Biophysics", Frontiers Symposium, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA,
October 21, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
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Particles using Optical Tweezers", Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority
Students(ABRCMS), San Diego, October 15-18, 2003.
Invited speaker: “The Bacteriophage ø29 Portal Motor can Package DNA Against a Large Internal
Force", ACS 226th Fall National Meeting, NY, September 8-10, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", Frontiers in Chemical Biology: Biomolecular Dynamics and Force Generation,
Manchester, London, September 4-6, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", 2nd International ASTATPHYS-MEX 2003, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico, August 25-30, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", The Protein Society 17th Annual Symposium,
July 26-30, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29
Bacteriophage Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of Albany, NY, Jun 17-21, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Measuring the Torsional Rigidity of DNA: an old problem with a new twist", Universityof California, San Diego, May 22, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles using Optical Tweezers", University of Texas, May 2-4, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Measuring the Torsional Rigidity of DNA: an old problem with a new twist", atNational Academy of Sciences, April 28, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers, Unfolding of a Single RNA Molecule by Force and Measuring of Torsional Rigidity of
DNA: an old problem with a new twist", University of Maryland, April 20-23, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", University of Iowa, April 9-11, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Unfolding of a Single RNA Molecule by Force", John Hopkins University, March 2223, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", at University of Wisconsin, March 13-14, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", at Sonoma State University, March 10, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", at Texas AandM University, February 17-19, 2003.
Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage Particles using OpticalTweezers", at Institute of Physics National University of Mexico, February 2-4, 2003.
2002
Invited speaker: Dutch Biophysical Society Conference at Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, October 7 –8,
2002.
Invited speaker: Center de Fisica and Center of Biotechnology at University Autonoma of Mexico City in
Cuernava, July 3-7, 2002.
ELAF 2002 Conference speaker “Single Molecules Studies of DNA Packaging by Bacteriophage phi29",
Universida Nacional de Ingeniera anc Countri Club El Bosque, Peru, Lima, June 23-28, 2002.
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Invited speaker: “Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29 Bacteriophage particles using OpticalTweezers", Rockefeller University, NY, June 4-5, 2002.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29
Bacteriophage Particles", Pfizer Lecture (Konrad Bloch), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
May 30 - June 1, 2002.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29
Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers", XIV International Biophysics Congress, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, April 27-May 3, 2002.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29
Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers", California Institute of Technology, California,
April 7-8, 2002.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single phi29
Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers", American Physical Society, Maryland, March
17-19, 2002.
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Recent Advances in Single
Molecule Biophysics", San Francisco, California, February 26, 2002.
Annual BMB Research Conference and Retreat speaker “Grabbing the cat by the tail: Single MoleculeStudies of DNA Packaging by Bacteriophage phi29", Pacific Grove, California, Jan 13-15, 2002.
Invited speaker: “Recent advances in single molecule biophysics: reversible unfolding of single RNA
molecules by force” Keystone Symposium, Colorado, January 6, 2002.
2001
Invited speaker: “Mecanoquimica del empaquetamiento del DNA en el baceriofago f-29", at Unversidad
Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, December 6-9, 2001.
Invited speaker: "Single molecule methods and applications to the study of DNA-binding molecularmotors", Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, November 30, 2001.
Invited speaker: “Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of DNA Packaging by Single 29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers", at UC Santa Barbara, November,12-13, 2001.
Invited speaker: "Recent Advances In Single Molecule", LBNL in Washington, DC office, November 46, 2001.
Invited speaker: "Reversible Unfolding of Single RNA Molecules by Mechanical Force", University ofColorado, Boulder, Oct 23-25, 2001.
Advisory Committee Meeting at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, RTP, NC, October 9-10, 2001.
Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE,
October 2-4, 2001.
Invited speaker: “Some issues regarding the thermodynamics of Single Molecule", Touch of Nature
Conference Center, Carbondale, IL, September 29-October. 2, 2001.
Invited speaker: "Studies of the Packaging of DNA by Singlephi29 Bacterophages Using OpticalTweezers", Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, August 20-24, 2001.
Invited speaker: “Following DNA Replication One Molecule at a Time", Microscopy and Microanalysis
at Long Beach, CA , August 5-9, 2001.
Presented seminar: University of Chicago for the Chemistry Department, IL, May 20-22, 2001.
Presented seminar: Unitat de Biofisica I Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina, Barcelona Spain, April 28May 5, 2001.
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Invited speaker: “Recent Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics", Evanston, IL, April 12-14, 2001.
Presented seminar: "Recent Advances on Single Molecule Manipulation", UCSF, San Francisco, CA,
April 12, 2001.
Presented seminar: Allan Gwathmey Lectures, Charlottesville, VA, April 4-6,2001.
Invited speaker: "DNA and RNA Polymerases", College Park, MD, March 13-15,2001
Invited speaker: for” Following DNA Replication One Molecule at a Time", St. Louis, MO, March 6-8,
2001.
Invited speaker: “Sizing up Single Molecules", Biophysical Society, Boston, MA, February 17-21, 2001.
2000
Invited speaker: “Following RNA Replication One Molecule at at Time", University of California, Davis,
November 27, 2000.
Invited speaker: “Following RNA Replication One Molecule at at Time", University of Washington, WA,
October 5, 2000.
Keynote speaker: IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Biofisica, Alicante, Spain, October 9-16, 2000.
Member of the Washington Advisory Group Study Section Meeting, Washington D.C., October 1-3,
2000.
Presented seminar: “Following DNA Replication one Molecule at a Time", University of Pennsylvania,
September 13, 2000.
Invited speaker: Protein Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 6-9, 2000.
Invited speaker: “Protein Folding in the Cell", section of the 2000 FASEB Summer Research Conference,
Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, VT, July 22-27, 2000.
Keynote speaker, Gordon Conference in Biopolymers, PA, June 18, 2000.
Invited presenter: Colloquium in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Division of DuPont Corp.,
June 9, 2000.
Invited presenter: Biophysics seminar, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, May 22, 2000.
Invited presenter: Joint MIT-Harvard Physical Chemistry colloquium, MA, May 4, 2000.
Invited organizer: National Institute of Health, Workshop on single molecule methods in Biology, April
16-18, 2000.
Keynote speaker for the Molecular and Cell Biology Dept., Cal Day 2000 University of California, April
15, 2000.
Invited presenter: Biophysics Seminar, Brandeis University, MA, April 4, 2000.
Invited presenter: Molecular Biology Seminar, Mayo Clinic, MN, April 3, 2000.
Keynote speaker: Biophysics Group Retreat, University of California, Berkeley, March 20, 2000.
Invited speaker: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, February 8, 2000.
Invited presenter: Molecular Biology Colloquium, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA, January 13, 2000.
1999 and previous
Invited presenter: Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Dept. Colloquium, Yale University, CT, December
6, 1999.
Attendee: DOE Advisory Committee meeting on BERAC, Washington DC, November 30-December 1,
1999.
Invited presenter: Seminar at the US Department of Agriculture, Albany, NY, October 11, 1999.
Served as an ad-hoc member in the Biophysics study section for NSF, Bethesda, MD, October 25-26,
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1999.
Invited presenter: Biochemistry Dept. seminar, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, October 8, 1999.
Invited speaker: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Dept. Colloquium, Columbia University, NY,
October 7, 1999.
Invited speaker: Physical Chemistry Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September
8, 1999.
Chair and speaker: Single Molecule Studies Session Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology,
Santa Fe, NM, January 9–14, 1999.
Invited speaker: “Novel Developments in Biotechnology”, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, sponsored by
J. P. Morgan, Syosset, NY, September 25-28, 1998.
speaker: Scientific Workshop on Modern Trends in Cell Biology. Howard Hughes Medical InstituteHeadquarters, Bethesda, MD, September 7-10, 1998.
Chair and speaker: Atomic Force Microscopy Session, XIV International Electron Microscopy Meeting,Cancún, Mexico, August 31-September 4, 1998.
speaker: Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, June 14-19, 1998.
Invited presenter: Seminar at the American Physics Society Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, May 27-30, 1998.
Invited presenter: "RNA Polymerase Structure and Function", Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Microbiology, Atlanta, GA. “Single-molecule Observations of Transcription", May 17-21,
1998.
Invited presenter: “Imaging Protein-nucleic Acid Complexes with a Scanning Force Microscope",
University of Miami, School of Medicine, FL, May 8, 1998.
Keynote speaker: Annual Molecular Biophysics Mini-symposium, Center for Molecular Biophysics andBiophysical Chemistry, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, May 1, 1998.
Invited presenter: “Mechanical Folding and Unfolding Transitions in Globular Proteins Using Singlemolecule Manipulation Methods", Frontiers in Biochemistry Series, Stanford University, CA, April
22, 1998.
Invited speaker: “Imaging Protein/DNA Interactions with the Scanning Force Microscope", Keystone
Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Incline Village, NV, March 28-April 3, 1998.
Invited presenter: “Recent Advancements in the Imaging Protein-nucleic Acid Complexes with the
Scanning Force Microscope", Biophysical Sciences Channel Group, State University of New York,March 30, 1998.
Member of the Searle Scholars Advisory Board Meeting in Palo Alto, CA, March 1-3, 1998.
Member of the Council of the Biophysical Society, Kansas City, MI, February 22-26, 1998.
Presenter: Scanning Force Microscopy Lecture Series, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru,
December 10-16, 1997.
Invited speaker: "Major Issues in Modern Biology", University of California, Davis, November 5, 1997.
Invited presenter: “Imaging Protein Nucleic Acid Complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope",
University of Massachusetts, September 24, 1997.
Invited presenter: “Imaging Protein Nucleic Acid complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope”,
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, September 11, 1997.
Invited presenter: Molecular Biology Department Seminar, University of Cape Town, AZ, August 13,
1997.
Invited speaker: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference, VT, July 19-23,
1997.
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Invited speaker: Protein Society Meeting, Boston, MA, July 12-16, 1997.
BBCA Study Section, NIH, Chevy Chase, MD, June 5-6, 1997,
Invited presenter: Department of Biology, University of California, Berkeley, April 24, 1997.
Invited presenter: Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley April 8, 1997.
Invited presenter: University of California at Irvine, March 11, 1997.
Invited presenter: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 5, 1997.
Invited presenter: University of California, Los Angeles, January 28, 1997.
Invited presenter: California Institute of Technology, January 9, 1997.
Invited participant: Review of the Electron Microscopy Center, Texas A and M University, December 1113, 1996.
Invited speaker: “Facilitated target location and transcription by E. coli RNA polymerase imaged inbuffer by scanning force microscopy”, Biophysics Workshop, University of California, Los
Angeles, December 6, 1996,
Member: Review Board BBCA Study Section, National Institutes of Health, October 24-25, 1996.
Invited speaker: “Real-time imaging of transcription by individual E. coli RNA polymerase molecules”,
Welch Foundation 40th Conference on Chemical Research, October 21-22, 1996, Houston, TX.
Invited speaker: “Real-time imaging of a transcribing RNA polymerase in aqueous buffer”, American
Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting, Houston, TX, October 18-19, 1996.
Invited speaker: “Force measurements and micromanipulation of single DNA molecules”, International
Interdisciplinary Workshop: Structure and Function of DNA, Abbaye Mt. St. Odille, France,
September 30-October 5, 1996.
Invited speaker: Chemistry Department, University of Parma, Italy, September 30, 1996.
Invited presenter: Chemistry Department, University of Bologna, Italy, September 27, 1996.
Invited speaker: Scanning Force Microscope, Universidad Peruana Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú,
August 19-22, 1996.
Co-chair of the Biopolymers Gordon Conference, Salve Regina College, Newport, RI, June16-21, 1996.
Member: Review Board BBCA Study Section, National Institutes of Health, June 13-14, 1996.
Invited presenter: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2223, 1996.
Presented seminar: "Imaging protein-nucleic acid complexes with the scanning force microscope",
Structural Biology Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, April 8, 1996.
Attendee: The Structural Analysis of Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Scientific Meeting, MD, March 17-March 20, 1996.
Member: Review Panel for the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD, March 11-13, 1996.
Member: Review Board BBCA Study Section, National Institutes of Health, March 6-7, 1996.
Invited presenter: "The Elastic Behavior of DNA Molecules Using Single Molecule Manipulation
Methods", Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 17-21, 1996.
Presented seminar: "Mechanical Manipulation of Single DNA Molecules", Department of Molecular
Biology, Princeton University, December 7, 1995.
Member: Review Board BBCA Study Section, National Institutes of Health, October 26-27, 1995.
Presented seminar: "Recent Developments in the Biological Application of the Scanning ForceMicroscopy", Laboratory of Molecular Biology National Institutes of Health, NIDDK, Bethesda,
MD, October 25, 1995.
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Presented seminar: "Nano-mechanical Studies of Single Biomolecules: Present Capabilities and Future
Perspectives", Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, October 18, 1995.
Presented seminar: "Single-Molecule Studies of DNA Mechanics", John Schellman Celebration,
Macromolecular Conformations, Interactions, and Mechanisms Symposium, University of Oregon,
October 6-7, 1995.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein DNA Complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope", Rockefeller
University Lecture Series, New York, NY, September 29, 1995.
Keynote speaker: "Scanning Force Microscopy of Nucleo-Protein Assemblies”, Biomolecular
Recognition Symposium, University of Michigan, September 21-23, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Structure of Native and Linker Histone-Depleated Chromatin Fibers Revealed by
Scanning Force Microscopy", ACS Frontiers in Biophysical Chemistry Symposium, Chicago, IL,
August 20-22, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Structure of E. coli F1Fo ATP Synthase Revealed by Scanning Force Microscopy",
Protein Society Meeting, Boston, MA, July 8-12, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Biological Applications of Scanning Force Microscopy”, Ninth Conversation in
Biomolecular Stereodynamics, University at Albany, NY, June 20-24, 1995.
Invited speaker: “Scanning Force Microscopy of Biological Samples”, Emerging Techniques in Atomic
Force Microscopy Symposium, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, San
Francisco, CA, May 21-25, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Scanning-Force-Microscopy Studies of RNA Polymerase Structure and Function.”,RNA Polymerase Structure and Function Session of the 95th General Meeting of the American
Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., May 21-25, 1995:
Presented seminar: "Studies of DNA Elasticity Using Single-molecule Manipulation Methods", Physics
Department Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, May 8, 1995.
Presented seminar: "SFM of Protein DNA Complexes", Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, April 25, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Studying Protein DNA Interactions using Scanning Force Microscopy”, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Scientific Meeting, Bethesda, MD, March 19-22, 1995.
Presented: "Overstretching DNA", Biophysical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 12, 1995.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein DNA Complexes with a Scanning Force Microscope", University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, January 15, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Measurements of the elastic response of single DNA Molecules using Magnetic Beads”,
Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Chicago, IL, January 6, 1995.
Invited speaker: "Studying biological systems through single-molecule manipulation methods”,
Physics Colloquium, University of Chicago, IL, January 5, 1995.
Presented seminar: Galveston University, Galveston, TX, December 15, 1994.
Presented seminar: Rice University, Houston, TX, December 14, 1994.
Presented seminar: Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 3-6, 1994.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein DNA Complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope", Oregon
Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, Nov. 15, 1994.
Presented seminar: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, October 12-14, 1994.
Invited speaker: CAM 94 Physics Meeting, Cancún, Mexico, September 26-30, 1994.
Invited speaker: San Luis Potosí Conference on Physics and Biophysics of Complex Fluids, Mexico, July
31-August 3, 1994.
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Presented seminar: "Visualizing and Manipulating DNA molecules through an optical microscope",
Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, University of
Minnesota, MN, July, 1994.
Invited speaker: Gordon Conference on Biopolymers; Nucleic Acid structures, Salve Regina College,
Newport, RI, June 26-July 1, 1994.
Invited speaker: "Experimental manipulation of single molecules", Princeton lectures on Biophysics,
sponsored by NEC Research Institute, 1994.
Member: NIH BBCA Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Study Section, June 8-10, 1994.
Invited speaker: Engineering Conference on Nanofabrication in Biosystems, Kona, Hawaii, May 6-12,
1994.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein-DNA complexes with the Scanning Force Microscopy", North
Western Ohio University, April 1994.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein-DNA complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope", CaseWestern Reserve Ohio University, April 1994.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein DNA Complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope", Universityof Virginia, April 1994.
Presented seminar: "Imaging Protein DNA Complexes with the Scanning Force Microscope", School of
Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, March 1994.
Presented seminar: Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, OH, March 1994.
Member: NIH Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Study Section, BBCA Chevy Chase, MD, February 2426, 1994.
Presented seminar: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, February
1994.
Presented seminar: "Scanning Force Microscopy of Protein-DNA Complexes", California Technological
Institute, Pasadena, CA, February 1994.
Invited speaker: Gordon Conference on Dynamics of Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions,
Oxnard, CA, February 7-11,1994.
Invited speaker: Fifteenth Annual West Coast Chromatin and Chromosomes Meeting, Asilomar, CA,
December 9-12, 1993.
Presented seminar: Stanford University, CA, November 21-23, 1993.
Member: NIH BBCA Study Section, October 1993.
Presented seminar: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 28-30, 1993.
Invited speaker and poster presenter: "Imaging Transcription Complexes with the Scanning ForceMicroscope" (talk), "Direct Measurement of the Elasticity of Single DNA Molecules through an
Optical Microscope" (poster), Science Innovation, Boston, MA August 6-10, 1993.
Invited speaker: MSA Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August 3-8, 1993.
Invited speaker: : 11th International Congress of Biophysics, International Union of Pure & Applied
Biophysics, Budapest, Hungary, July 25-30, 1993.
Invited speaker: 22nd Steenbock Symposium on Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, WI, May 22-26, 1993.
Presented seminar: Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, OR, March 12, 1993.
Invited speaker: Chemistry Department, University of Washington, WA, March 2-3, 1993.
Invited lecturer: "Inside the Single Cell", Nalbandov Symposium, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Champaign, IL, February 18-21, 1993.
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Invited speaker: Biophysics of DNA Symposium, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, February 5-6, 1993.
Invited speaker: SPIE International Symposia on Biomedical Optics, Los Angeles, CA, January 16-23,
1993.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, University of New Mexico, NM, December 12-14, 1992.
Invited speaker: Gordon Research Conferences on Polymer Physics, Newport, RI, August 3-8, 1992.
Invited speaker: 5th International Congress on Cell Biology, Madrid, Spain, July 26-30, 1992.
Presented seminar: Oregon Materials Science Symposium Program, Oregon State University, OR, May 9,
1992.
Invited speaker: ASTI Conference, Portland State University, Portland, OR, May 4, 1992.
Invited speaker: American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 5-10, 1992.
Presented seminar: Biology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratories, March 23, 1992.
Presented seminar: Biochemistry Department, University of Iowa, IA, March 19, 1992.
Invited speaker: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department, Medical School at the Universityof Washington, Seattle, WA, March 11-12, 1992.
Member: NIH BBCA Study Section, February 26-28, 1992.
Invited speaker: Symposium on Scanning Probe Microscopy, SPIE Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, January
20-22, 1992.
Invited speaker poster presenter: Symposium on the New Scanning Probe Microscopies, Twente
University, Netherlands, December, 11-14, 1991.
Invited presenter: Biophysical Chemistry Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 20,
1991.
Presented: "Imaging of DNA Molecules", Fourth Mammoth Lakes Discussions, Mammoth Lakes, CA,
September 27-28, 1991.
Invited speaker: EMSA (Electron Microscopy Society of America) San Jose, CA, August 4-11, 1991.
Site visit: NSF, Des Moines, IA, July 11, 1991.
Presented lecture at the American Society of Photobiology, San Antonio, Texas, June 24-27, 1991.
Invited speaker: to the Gordon Research Conferences on Nucleic Acids at Rhode Island, June 10-14,
1991.
Invited speaker: Canadian Seminar on Surface Science, Trent University, Ontario, Canada, May 28-30,
1991.
Invited speaker: Symposium on Characterizing the Structure of Large Molecules, American Chemical
Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 15-17, 1991.
Presented seminar: Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Washington, D.C., April 13-15,
1991.
Invited speaker: ICN-UCI Symposium on the Advances in Genetic Disease, Newport Beach, California,
February 28 - March 2, 1991.
Poster: Human Genome Conference, Santa Fe, NM, February 16-19, 1991.
Invited speaker: Engineering Institute Conference on Scanned Probe Microscopies, Santa Barbara, CA,
January 6-11, 1991.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, Haverford College, Haverford, CT, November 1990.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, November 1990.
Chairman: Symposium on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Biotechnology Conference, Washington,
D.C., Nov 27-28, 1990.
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Presented seminar: American Electrochemical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 17-19, 1990.
Invited speaker: Italian Conference on Chemical Physics, Maratea, Italy, October 9-12, 1990.
Invited speaker: International Conference of the Italian Chemical Society, San Benedetto del Tronto,
Italy, October 2-5, 1990.
Presented seminar: Microbiology Department, Medical School of the University of Bologna, Bologna,
Italy, October 1, 1990.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, University of Catania, Catania, Sicily, September 28, 1990.
Invited speaker: Institute of Molecular Biology Retreat, Marine Biological Laboratory, OR, September
10-13, 1990.
Invited speaker: Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA, September 4-6, 1990.
Presented seminar: Physics Department, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL, August 3-9,
1990.
Plenary lecturer: Fifth International Conference on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (NANO I),
Baltimore, MD, July 21-25, 1990.
Invited speaker: Micro 90: Novotel Symposium on Novel Microscopies, London, England, July 1-6,
1990.
Invited speaker, site-visit session: Human Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Departmentof Energy, Berkeley, June 28-29, 1990.
Invited speaker: American Society of Microbiology Biotechnology Conference, Chicago, IL, June 7-10,
1990.
Invited speaker: Bi-annual Symposium on Electron Microscopy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, May
10-13, 1990.
Invited speaker: Electron Microscopy International Conference, Bethesda, MD, May 9-13, 1990.
Presented seminar: Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 1-3, 1990.
Invited speaker: Methods on Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Symposium, American Physical Society
Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 13-14, 1990.
Keynote speaker: Advances in Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Symposium, Bambury Center, Cold
Spring Harbor Lab, Spring Harbor, NY, March 4-8, 1990.
Presented seminar: Department of Microbiology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain,
March 2, 1990.
Invited speaker: "Symposium on New Imaging Technologies" 50th Anniversary of the Biophysics Dept.
Celebration, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 22, 1990.
Invited presenter: Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD, February 17-23, 1990.
Invited colloquium speaker: Biophysics Department in Baylor Medical Center, Dallas, TX, January 2526, 1990.
Invited speaker: SPIE symposium, Los Angeles, CA, January 17-19, 1990.
Invited speaker: Third Berkeley Symposium on Structural and Dynamical Biology, January 9-12,
Berkeley, CA, 1990.
Invited speaker: Symposium on Nucleic Acids and Ligands Interactions, American Chemical Society
Regional Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, Dec. 1989.
Invited speaker: (invitation extended by University President and Regents), Summary Laboratory
Research Efforts, Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 1989.
Presented seminar: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 1989.
Invited speaker: Human Genome Symposium at the Annual MBRS Symposium, Houston, TX, October
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1989.
Invited speaker: III Balkan Conference in Electron Microscopy, Athens, Greece, September 1989.
Presented seminar: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, September 1989.
Presented seminar: the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, August 1989.
Invited presenter: IV International Meeting on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Oarai, Japan, July 1989.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, University of Catania, Sicily, May 1989.
Invited presenter: Biological Application of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, NATO Conference of
STM, Erice, Italy, May 1989.
Invited presenter: Biophysical Society Meeting in Cincinnati, OH, February 1989.
Presented seminar: University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, January
1989.
Presented seminar: Applied Science Department, University of California, Davis, November 1988.
Invited speaker: Symposium on Modern Optical Microscopy, Meeting of the Society for Analytical
Cytology, Breckenridge, CO, Sept. 1988.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, September 1988.
Invited speaker: 46th Meeting of the Electro Microscopic Society of America (EMSA), Milwaukee, WI,
August 1988.
Presented seminar: Biochemistry Department at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 2, 1988.
Visiting professor: University of Modena, Modena, Italy, May 1988.
Presented seminar: Biophysics Department, Chemical Biodynamics Laboratory at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, April 26, 1988.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department of the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April, 1988.
Presented seminar: Differential Polarization Microscopy, Genetics group in Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, April 1988.
Presented seminar: Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley, January 1988.
Invited presenter: "Patterns of Polymerization in Red Blood Sickle Cells by Differential Polarization
Microscopy", Biophysical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1987.
Invited presenter: "Theory of Differential Polarization Imaging", Biophysical Society Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, 1987.
Invited presenter: "Differential Polarization Imaging: Theory and Applications", NATO Advanced Study
Institute, Rimini, Italy, October 1987.
Keynote speaker: "Recent Developments of Polarized Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems", NATO 900th
Anniversary of the University of Bologna, Italy, October 1987.
Invited speaker: NATO Advanced Studies Institute, Rimini, Italy, October 1987.
Presented seminar: "Differential Polarization Imaging", Chemistry Department of Catholic University,
Lima, Peru, 1987.
Presented seminar on "Theory of Duysens Flattening" at the Chemistry Department of Catholic
University, Lima, Peru, 1987.
Presented a paper on "Theory of Mueller Imaging", M.H. Kim, L. Ulibarri and Bustamante, C. at
Biophysical Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1986.
Attended the Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society, Ft. Worth, Texas, August 1986.
Presented seminar: "Differential Polarization Imaging" at the Chemistry Department of University ofDenver, Colorado, March 1986.
Invited to present seminar entitled "Differential Polarization Microscopy" at the Biochemistry
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Department, Universidad San Marcos and at the Chemistry Department of Catholic University,
Lima, Peru, March 1986.
Presented a paper "_-type Circular Dichroism: A New Theory" at the Biochemistry Department,
Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru, March 1986.
Presented a paper "Theory of Duysens Flattening" at the Biochemistry Department, Universidad San
Marcos & at the Chemistry Department of Catholic University, Lima, Peru, March 1986.
Seminar presentation "Differential Polarization Microscopy: An Emerging Technique in BiologicalResearch" at the Polymer and Solid State Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
February 1986.
Presented seminar on "Polarized Light Methods: Theory and Experimental Studies" at the theoreticalbiology group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, February 1986.
Invited seminar at the Biology Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, January
1986.
Invited speaker: "CIDS at Short Wavelengths", New Frontiers of Synchrotron Radiation Sources,
Berkeley, CA, November 1985.
Presented seminar: "Differential Polarization Imaging" at the Chemistry Department of University ofTexas at Houston, November 1985.
Invited speaker: on "Circularly Polarized Scattering in the Visible and the Prospects for Similar
Experiments Using Soft X-Rays" at Japan-U.S. Seminar on Ultraviolet Photobiology andSpectroscopy Using Synchrotron Radiation, Brookhaven National Laboratories, October 1985.
Presented a paper on "_-Type Circular Dichroism: A General Theory" at Gordon Conference on Liquid
Crystals, Welfboro, New Hampshire, July 1985.
Presented a paper on "Theory of _-Type Circular Dichroism" at Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore,
February 1985.
Invited presenter: "The CIDS of Oriented and Rotationally Disorder Samples", Biophysical Society
Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 1985.
Invited speaker: "New Frontiers in Optical Activity Research", Southwest Regional Meeting, American
Chemical Society, Lubbock, TX, February 1985.
Invited presenter: "The CIDS of Planar and Focal Conic Orientations of Liquid Crystals", BiophysicalSociety Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, May 1984.
Invited speaker: "CIDS of Cholesteric and Blue Mesophases", Meeting of the American Chemical
Society, St. Louis, MI, May 1984.
Invited presenter: "A New Optical Microscopy Technique Using Circularly Polarized Light", BiophysicalSociety Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 1984.
Invited presenter: "Circular Intensity Differential Scattering in the Short Wavelengths", Stanford
Conference on New Ring Technology, Stanford, CA, July 28-31, 1983.
Invited presenter: "The CIDS of Planar Cholesteric Samples", Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals,
Wolfeboro, NH, June 25-30, 1983.
Invited presenter: "The Circular Intensity Differential Scattering of Chiral Aggregates", BiophysicalSociety Meeting, San Diego, CA, February, 1983.

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