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Skip to main content. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Press release highlighting our research on copper-induced misfolding of prion proteins. July 4, 2016. Iowa State University researchers have described with single-molecule precision how copper ions cause prion proteins to misfold and seed the misfolding and clumping of nearby prion proteins. - Read complete press release -. Press release on our research resolving the mechanism of cell-to-cell catch bond formation. June 5, 2014. May 10, 2013.
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Skip to main content. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Resolve how cells withstand mechanical stress. One of the long term goals of our group is to resolve the physical mechanisms by which tissues maintain their integrity in the presence of mechanical stress. Read more about Resolve how cells withstand mechanical stress. Characterize molecular triggers for neurodegenerative diseases. Develop novel nanotechnologies to image and manipulate single biological molecules with ultra-high resolution.
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RA in NV-centers in diamond optical magnetometry
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GRADUATE Research Associate in Advanced NanoMagnetic Imaging. J M Taylor et al.,. Ldquo;High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution”. Nature Physics 4, 810 - 816 (2008). doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.50. P Maletinsky et al.,. Ldquo;A robust scanning diamond sensor for nanoscale imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centres”. Nature Nanotechnology 7, 320 - 324 (2012). doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.50. D Le Sage et al.,. Ldquo;Optical magnetic imaging of living cells”. US DoE Ames Laboratory.
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Press Release describing our discovery of cadherin catch, slip and ideal bonds | Sivasankar Laboratory
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Skip to main content. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Press release on our research resolving the mechanism of cell-to-cell catch bond formation. Press release discussing single molecule research in the Sivasankar Lab. Ideal, catch, and slip bonds in cadherin adhesion. Press release on the award of a Research Scholar Grant by the American Cancer Society. Press Release describing single molecule axial localization technology developed by our group. November 1, 2012. How long before they break?
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Different roles of cadherins in the assembly and structural integrity of the desmosome complex | Sivasankar Laboratory
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Skip to main content. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Characterizing the initial encounter complex in cadherin adhesion. Methods of bonding optical structures, bonding and silylation of optical structures, bonded optical structures, and silylated bonded optical structures. Resolving cadherin interactions and binding cooperativity at the single-molecule level. Copper-induced structural conversion templates prion protein oligomerization and neurotoxicity. Tuning the kinetics of cadherin adhesion.
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Resolve how cells withstand mechanical stress | Sivasankar Laboratory
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Skip to main content. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Press release on our research resolving the mechanism of cell-to-cell catch bond formation. Press Release describing our discovery of cadherin catch, slip and ideal bonds. Resolving the molecular mechanism of cadherin catch bond formation. Resolve how cells withstand mechanical stress. Nature Communications 2014; PNAS 2012; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2014; J Invest. Dermatol. 2013). We showed that cadherins resist mechanical force by changing their b...
