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STAFF OF THE HA GROUP

GROUP LEADER: Taekjip Ha Abbreviated CV

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RESEARCHERS

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Jaya Yodh, PhD

Joined group: Aug. 2006
Research Assistant Professor and CPLC Director of Education and Outreach

Publications in collaboration with Ha Group

  • Yodh, J.G., M. Schlierf, T. Ha "Insight into helicase mechanism and function revealed through single-molecule approaches." Q Rev Biophys. 43 (02), 185-217 (2010).
  • Yodh, J.G., B. C. Stevens, R. Kanagaraj, P. Janscak and T. Ha. "BLM helicase measures DNA unwound before switching strands and hRPA promotes unwinding reinitiation." EMBO J 28(4), 405-416 (2009).

Complete Publication List on PubMed


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POST-GRADUATES

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Farhan Chowdhury, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow in the IGB theme: May 2012.


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Jingyi Fei, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Feb. 2011

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Hajin Kim, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: May 2009

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Hajin Kim, Guo-Qing Tang, Smita S. Patel, and Taekjip Ha, “Opening-Closing Dynamics of the Mitochondrial Transcription Pre-initiation Complex” Nucl. Acids Res. (2011, featured)
  • Jorge A. Lamboy*, Hajin Kim*, Kyung Suk Lee, Taekjip Ha, Elizabeth A. Komives, “Visualization of the Nanospring Dynamics of the IκBα Ankyrin Repeat Domain in Real Time” PNAS (2011)
  • Helen Hwang, Hajin Kim, Sua Myong “Protein Induced Fluorescence Enhancement as a Single Molecule Assay with Short Distance Sensitivity” PNAS (2011)


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Hye Ran Koh, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: May 2010 (Joint appointment with Sua Myong)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

Sorokina M., H. R. Koh, S. S. Patel and T. Ha, "Fluoresecent Lifetime Trajectories of a Single Fluorophore Reveal Reaction Intermediates During Transcription Initiation", J Am Chem Soc 131(28) & 131(36):13179, 9630–9631 (2009).


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I-Ren Lee, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: February 2012

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Benjamin Leslie, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: March 2009

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Lee, G., J. Yoo, B. J. Leslie and T. Ha, "Single-molecule analysis reveals three phases of DNA degradation by an exonuclease", Nature Chemical Biology 7 (6), 367-374 (2011)
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Isaac T.S. Li, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: September 2012 (Joint appointment with Yann Chemla)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Xinghua Shi, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: July 2007

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Shi. X and T. Ha, “Single-Molecule FRET: Technique and Applications to the Studies of Molecular Machines ”, In Joachim Frank, editor, Molecular Machines in Biology. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Yang, S. K., X. Shi, S. Park, S. Doganay, T. Ha, S. C. Zimmerman, “Monovalent and Clickable, Uncharged Water-Soluble Perylenediimide-Cored Dendrimers for Target-Specific, Fluorescent Biolabeling”, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 133, 9964-9967 (2011).
  • Shi, X., and T. Ha, “Seeing a molecular machine self-renew,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA, 108, 3459-3460 (2011).
  • Liu, C., M. C. McKinney, Y.H. Chen, T. M. Earnest, X. Shi, Li. J. Lin, Y. Ishino, K. Dahmen, I. K.O. Cann and T. Ha, “Reverse-Chaperoning Activity of an AAA+ Protein”, Biophysical J. 100, 1344-1352 (2011).
  • Shi, X., J. Lim and T. Ha, “Acidification of Oxygen Scavenging System in Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies: In Situ Sensing with a Ratiometric Dual-Emission Probe”, Analytical Chemistry 82, 6132–6138 (2010).


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Felix Tritschler, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: May 2012


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Xuefeng Wang, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: August 2010 (Joint appointment with Paul Selvin)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Christopher Thibodeaux, PhD

Joined group as an IGB post-doctoral fellow: November 2010

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Kyu Young Han, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: February 2011
Link to his CV.


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Qian "Elizabeth" Xu, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: August 2011

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

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Qiucen Zhang, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: September 2012

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Vasudha Aggarwal

Joined group: December 2011, dept: biophysics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Sultan Doganay

Joined group: Jan. 2008, dept: biophysics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Yang, S. K., X. Shi, S. Park, S. Doganay, T. Ha, S. C. Zimmerman, “Monovalent and Clickable, Uncharged Water-Soluble Perylenediimide-Cored Dendrimers for Target-Specific, Fluorescent Biolabeling”, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 133, 9964-9967 (2011).
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Boyang Hua

Joined group: November 2012, dept: Biophysics and Computational Biology

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Ankur Jain

Joined group: Dec. 2007, dept: biophysics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Jain, A., R. Liu, Y.K. Xiang and T. Ha, “Single molecule pull-down for studying protein interactions”, Nature Protocols (in press).
  • Means, C. K., B.Lygren, L.K. Langeberg, A. Jain, R.E. Dixon, A.L. Vega, M.G. Gold, S. Petrosyan, S.S. Taylor, A.N. Murphy, T. Ha, L.F. Santana, K. Tasken and J.D. Scott, “An entirely specific type I A-kinase anchoring protein that can sequester two molecules of PKA holoenzyme”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 108, E1227-35 (2011).
  • Jain, A., R. Liu, B. Ramani, E. Arauz, Y. Ishitsuka, K. Ragunathan, J. Park, J. Chen, Y. K. Xiang and T. Ha, “Probing cellular protein complexes using single-molecule pull-down”, Nature 473, 484-488 (2011).


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Chang Ting Lin

Joined group: November 2012, dept: Biophysics and Computational Biology

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Thuy Ngo

Joined group: Feb. 2010, dept: biophysics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Seongjin Park

Joined group: Sep. 2008, dept: physics (Joint appointment with Ido Golding)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Yang, S. Y., X. Shi, S. Park, S. Doganay, T. Ha and S. C. Zimmerman, "Monovalent, Clickable, Uncharged, Water-Soluble Perylenediimide-Cored Dendrimers for Target-Specific Fluorescent Biolabeling", J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 133 (26), 9964-9967 (2011)
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Digvijay Singh

Joined group: November 2012, dept: Biophysics and Computational Biology

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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Salman Syed

Joined group: May 2005 as Support Personnel, HHMI; Received BS, University of Illinois, 2005, Became graduate student, 2009, dept: biophysics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Manjula Pandey, Salman Syed, Ilker Donmez, Gayatri Patel, Taekjip Ha amd Smita Patel, "Coordinating DNA replication by means of priming loop and differential synthesis rate", Nature 2009. (AOP)
  • Diao, J., Y. Ishitsuka, H. Lee, C. Joo, Z. Su, S. Syed, Y.K. Shin, T.Y. Yoon and T. Ha, "A single vesicle-vesicle fusion assay for in vitro studies of SNAREs and accessory proteins", Nature Protocols 7, 921-934 (2012) Pubmed ID: 22517262


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Jichuan Zhang

Joined group: Jan. 2011, dept: MatSE

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group


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SUPPORT STAFF

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Stephanie Johansson

Joined group: March. 2013

  • Office Support Specialist



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Betty Ujhelyi

Joined group: Aug. 2011

  • Laboratory Coordinator, Physics Department


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FORMER MEMBERS

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James Adrian

Joined group: January 2011, dept: biophysics; left group: May 2012; Received Masters Degree in Biophysics. Current location: Memphis, TN; jadrian117@gmail.com.


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Sinan Arslan, PhD

Joined group: May 2006, dept: physics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Shen, K., S. Arslan, D. Akopian, T. Ha and S. Shan, "Activated GTPase movement on an RNA scaffold drives cotranslational protein targeting", submitted to Nature (2012)
  • Balci, H., S. Arslan, S. Myong, T. M. Lohman, T. Ha, "Single-Molecule Nanopositioning: Structural Transitions of a Helicase-DNA Complex during ATP Hydrolysis", Biophys. J., 101:976-984 (2011)
  • Ishitsuka, Y., B. Okumus, S. Arslan, K.H. Chen, T. Ha, "Temperature Independent Porous Nanocontainers for Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies", Anal. Chem., 82(23):9694-9701 (2010)
  • Okumus, B., S. Arslan, S. Fengler, S. Myong, T. Ha, "Single Molecule Nanocontainers Made Porous Using Bacterial Toxin", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(41):14844-14849 (2009)
  • Iqbal, A., S. Arslan, B. Okumus, T. J. Wilson, G. Giraud, T. Ha, and D. M. J. Lilley, "Orientation dependence in fluorescent energy transfer between Cy3 and Cy5 terminally-attached to double-stranded nucleic acids", P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105(32):11176–11181 (2008)



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Hamza Balci, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Apr. 2007; left group: Aug. 2009

Current location: Assistant Professor of Physics, Kent State University

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • H. Balci, T. Ha, H. L. Sweeney, and P. R. Selvin, "Interhead Distance Measurements in Myosin VI via SHRImP supported a Simplified Hand-overHand model", Biophysical Journal (2005)
  • Joo, C., H. Balci, Y. Ishitsuka, C. Buranachai, and T. Ha , "Advances in Single-Molecule Fluorescence Methods for Molecular Biology", Annual Review of Biochemistry 77, 51-76 (2008)


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Michael Brenner, PhD

Joined group: Sep. 2006, dept: chemistry

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Brenner, M. D., R. Zhou and T. Ha, “Forcing a connection: Impacts of single-molecule force spectroscopy on in vivo tension sensing”, Biopolymers 95 (5), 332-344 (2011).
  • Grashoff, C., B. D. Hoffman, M. D. Brenner, R. Zhou, M. Parsons, M. T. Yang, M. A. McLean, S. G. Sligar, C. S. Chen, T. Ha and M. A. Schwartz, "Measuring Mechanical Tension Across Vinculin Reveals Regulation of Focal Adhesion Dynamics", Nature 466, 263–266 (2010)
  • M.D. Brenner, M.S. Scanlan, M.K. Nahas, T. Ha, and S.K. Silverman, "Multi-Vector Fluorescence Analysis of the xpt Guanine Riboswitch Aptamer Domain and the Conformational Role of Guanine", Biochemistry 49(8), 1596-1605 (2010)

Current Post-doc position: Lippincott Schwartz Lab, NIH (https://science.nichd.nih.gov/confluence/display/sob/Home


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Ibrahim Cisse, PhD

Joined group: Jun. 2004, dept: physics; left group Dec. 2009. Received PhD in physics: “Single Molecule Study of Weak and Transient Biological Interactions.” Current location: M. Dahan Group; Department of Physics and Biology; Ecole Normale Superieure; 46 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris France; Phone: (00 33) 1 44 32 33 99

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • I. Cisse, B. Okumus, C. Joo, T. Ha, "Fueling protein-DNA interactions inside porous nanocontainers", PNAS, 104(31) (2007)
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Matt Comstock, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Mar. 2008 (Joint appointment with Yann Chemla)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Comstock, M., T. Ha and Y. R. Chemla, “Ultra-high resolution optical trap with single fluorophore sensitivity”, Nature Methods, 8, 335-340 (2011).


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Peter Cornish, PhD

Joined group: Nov. 2005; left group March 2010

Current location: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry; University of Missouri Address: 117 Schweitzer Hall; Columbia, MO 65211; phone: 573-882-0443; email: cornishp@missouri.edu

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • P.V. Cornish, D.N. Ermolenko, D.W. Staple, L. Hoang, R.P. Hickerson, H.F. Noller, and T. Ha, "Following Movement of the L1 Stalk Between Three Functional States in Single Ribosomes", PNAS 106, 2571-6 (2009).
  • S. Myong, S. Cui, P.V. Cornish, A. Kirchhofer, M.U. Gack, J.U. Jung, K.P. Hopfner, and T. Ha, "Cytosolic Viral Sensor RIG-I is a 5'-triphosphate-dependent Translocase on Double-Stranded RNA", Science 323, 1070-4 (2009)
  • P.V. Cornish, D.N. Ermolenko, H.F. Noller, and T. Ha, "Spontaneous Intersubunit Rotation in Single Ribosomes", Molecular Cell 30, 578-88 (2008).
  • P.V. Cornish and T. Ha, "A Survey of Single Molecule Techniques in Chemical Biology", ACS Chemical Biology 2, 53-61 (2006).


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Jiajie Diao, PhD

Joined group: Aug. 2005; Dept: Physics; left group October, 2010, (left with the wind: before the "2012")

Current location: Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Email: diaojj@gmail.com


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Tyler Earnest

Joined group: Aug. 2010, dept: physics; left group August 2011, presently a graduate student at University of Illinois.


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Sungchul Hohng, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Jan. 2002
Left group: Aug. 2006

Current location: Seoul National University, Physics Department (Assistant Professor) (http://smb.snu.ac.kr)

Contact: shohng AT phya DOT snu DOT ac DOT kr

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • R. Roy, S. Hohng & T. Ha, "A practical guide to single-molecule FRET", Nature Methods 5, 507-516 (2008)
  • S. Hohng, R. Zhou, M. K. Nahas, J. Yu, K. Schulten, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Fluorescence-force spectroscopy maps two-dimensional reaction landscape of the Holliday junction", Science 318, 279-283(2007)
  • V. Arluison+, S. Hohng+, R. Roy, O. Pellegrini, P. Regnier and T. Ha, "Spectroscopic observation of RNA chaperone activities of Hfq in post-transcriptional regulation by a small non-coding RNA", Nucleic Acids Research, (2006) (+co-authorship)
  • S. Hohng and T. Ha, "Single-molecule Quantum Dot FRET", ChemPhysChem 6, 956-960 (2005)
  • Nahas, T. J. Wilson, S. Hohng, K. Jarvie, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Observation of Internal Cleavage and Ligation Reactions of a Ribozyme", Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 1107-1113 (2004)
  • S. Hohng, C. Joo, and T. Ha, "Single-Molecule Three-color FRET", Biophysical Journal 87, 1328-1337 (2004)
  • S. Hohng and T. Ha, "Near-Complete Suppression of Quantum Dot Blinking in Ambient Conditions", Journal of American Chemical Society 126, 1324-1325 (2004)
  • S. Hohng, E. Tan, T. J. Wilson, R. M. Clegg, D. M. J. Lilley, and T. Ha, "Conformational Flexibility of Four-way Junctions in RNA", Journal of Molecular Biology 336, 69-79 (2004)


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Yuji Ishitsuka, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Nov. 2006 Left department, August 31, 2011
Current address: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Institut für Angewandte Physik; Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe Germany

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Y. Ishitsuka, B. Okumus, S. Arslan, K.H. Chen, and T. Ha, "Temperature-Independent Porous Nanocontainers for Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies", Analytical Chemistry web, (2010)
  • Diao, J. Z. Su, Y. Ishitsuka, B. Lu, K. S. Lee, Y. Lai, Y. K. Shin and T. Ha, "A single-vesicle content mixing assay for SNARE-mediated membrane fusion", Nature Communications 1, 54 (2010)*
  • Y. Ishitsuka and T. Ha, "DNA nanotechnology: a nanomachine goes live", Nat Nanotechnol. 4 (5), 281-282 (2009)
  • Su, Z., Y. Ishitsuka, T. Ha and Y.K. Shin, "The SNARE complex from yeast is partially unstructured on the membrane", Structure 16, 1138-1146 (2008)
  • C. Joo, H. Balci, Y. Ishitsuka, C. Buranachai & T. Ha, " Advances in single-molecule fluorescence methods for molecular biology", Annual Review of Biochemistry 77 (2008)


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Prakrit Jena, PhD

Joined group: Dec. 2005, dept: physics
Received Ph.D., May 2012

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Prakrit V. Jena, Pravin Shirude, Burak Okumus, Katta Laxmi-Reddy, Frederic Godde, Ivan Huc, Shankar Balasubramanian and Taekjip Ha, "G-Quadruplex DNA Bound by a Synthetic Ligand is Highly Dynamic", JACS (2009)
  • Daniel Heller, Hong Jin, Brittany Martinez, Dhaval Patel, Brigid Miller, Tsun-Kwan Yeung, Prakrit V. Jena, Claudia Hobartner, Taekjip Ha, Scott Silverman & Michael Strano, " Multimodal optical sensing and analyte specificity using singe-walled carbon nanotubes", Nature Nanotechnology (2008)
  • Hong Jin, Esther S. Jeng, Daniel A. Heller, Prakrit V. Jena, Robert Kirmse, Jörg Langowski, and Michael S. Strano, "Divalent Ion and Thermally Induced DNA Conformational Polymorphism on Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes", ACS Macromolecules (2007) [1]


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Chirlmin Joo, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: January 2003
Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: May 2007
Left group: August 2007
Received B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University, Korea (2002)
Received Ph. D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (May 2007)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of BioNanoScience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Previous employment: V. Narry Kim's Lab; Seoul National University
Contact: chirlmin AT gmail DOT com (http://www.chirlmin.org)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • C. Joo, H. Balci, Y. Ishitsuka, C. Buranachai, T. Ha "Advances in Single-Molecule Fluorescence Methods for Molecular Biology", Ann. Rev. Biochemistry (2008)
  • C. Joo and T. Ha "Single Molecule FRET with Total Internal Reflection Microscopy" In 'Single Molecule Techniques: A Laboratory Manual' (ed P. Selvin and T. Ha) (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008)
  • I. Cisse, B. Okumus, C. Joo, T. Ha, "Fueling protein-DNA interactions inside porous nanocontainers", PNAS, (2007)
  • C. Joo, Single-Molecule FRET Study on the RecA-Mediated DNA Repair Doctoral Thesis, University of Illinois (2007)
  • S. A. McKinney, C. Joo, and T. Ha, "Analysis of Single Molecule FRET Trajectories using Hidden Markov Modeling", Biophysical Journal 91, 1941-1951 (2006)
  • C. Joo, S. A McKinney, M. Nakamura, I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Real Time Observation of RecA Filament Dynamics with Single Monomer Resolution", Cell 126, 515-527 (2006)
  • S. Myong, I. Rasnik, C. Joo, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "Repetitive Shuttling of a Motor Protein on DNA", Nature 437, 1321-1325 (2005)
  • S. Hohng, C. Joo, and T. Ha, "Single-Molecule Three-color FRET", Biophysical Journal 87, 1328-1337 (2004)
  • C. Joo, S. A. McKinney, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Exploring Rare Conformational Species and Ionic Effects in DNA Holliday Junctions using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy", Journal of Molecular Biology 341, 739-751 (2004)


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Sunghyun Kim

Joined group: Mar. 2007 Left group: Aug. 2007
Current location: Interdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Korea


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Yongsun Kim

Joined group as undergraduate: May 2006
Left group: May 2007
Current location: MIT, Physics Department (graduate student) (http://web.mit.edu/physics/)
Contact: kingmking AT gmail DOT com


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Hye Ran Koh

Joined group: Dec. 2006 as research scholar, left group Dec. 2007, chemistry, SNU, Korea.
Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ha Group, IGB, UIUC.


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Gwangrog Lee, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: November 2006
Left Group: January 2012
Current position: Assistant Professor of Life Science, Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.


Publication

  • Lee, G., J. Yoo, B. J. Leslie and T. Ha, "Single-molecule analysis reveals three phases of DNA degradation by an exonuclease", Nature Chemical Biology 7 (6), 367-374 (2011) Pubmed ID: 21552271
  • Lee, G., S. Hartung, K. P. Hopfner and T. Ha, "Reversible and Controllable Nanolocomotion of an RNA-Processing Machinery", Nano Letters 10(12), 5123-5130 (2010) Pubmed ID: PMC2999004


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Cheng Liu, Ph.D.

Joined group: May 2005, physics
Left group: December 2010, received PhD in physics: “Single-Molecule and Ensemble Studies of DNA Replication System.” Current position: Research Programmer, University of Notre Dame, Information Technology Center, Indiana

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Kyung Suk Lee, Ph.D

Joined group: Aug. 2006, dept: physics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Lamboy, J. A., H. Kim, K. Lee, T. Ha and E. A. Komives, “Visualization of the nanospring dynamics of the I?B? ankyrin repeat domain in real time”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 108, 10178-10183 (2011).
  • Diao, J., Z. Su, Y. Ishitsuka, B. Lu, K. S. Lee, Y. Lai, Y. K. Shin and T. Ha, “A single-vesicle content mixing assay for SNARE-mediated membrane fusion”, Nature Communications 1 (5), 1-6 (2010).


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Zigurts Majumdar, Ph.D.

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: January 2006
Left group: May 2006
Currently location: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
Contact: zmajumdar AT gmail DOT com


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Mary C. McKinney, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: May 2001
Received PhD in biophysics: May 2006
Left group: Aug. 2006
Post Doc: Brant Weinstein's Lab; NIH, Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD (http://dir.nichd.nih.gov/lmg/uvo/WEINSLAB.html) Current position: Research Specialist, Stowers Institute for Medical Research Contact: mckinnyc AT mail DOT nih DOT gov

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Y. Lin, C. E. Guzman, M. C. McKinney, S. K. Nair, T. Ha, and I. K. O. Cann, "Methanosarcina Acetivorans Flap Endonuclease 1 Activity is Inhibited by a Cognate Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein", J. Bacteriology 188, 6153-6167 (2006)
  • J. B. Robbins+, M. C. McKinney+, C. E. Guzman, B. Srinatana, S. Fits-Gibbon, T. Ha, and I. K. O. Cann, "The Euryarchaeota: Nature's Medium for Engineering of Single-stranded DNA Binding Proteins", J. Biol. Chem. 280, 15325-15339 (2005) (+co-authorship)
  • J. B. Robbins+, M. C. Murphy+, B. A. White, R. I. Mackie, T. Ha, and I. K. O. Cann, "Functional Analysis of Multiple Single-stranded DNA-binding Proteins from Methanosarcina Acetivorans and their Effects of DNA Synthesis by PolBI", Journal of Biological Chemistry 279, 6315-6326 (2004) (+co-authorship)
  • M. C. Murphy, I. Rasnik, W. Cheng, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "Probing Single Stranded DNA Conformational Flexibility using Flourescence Spectroscopy", Biophysical Journal 86, 2530-2537 (2004)


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Sean A. McKinney, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: May 2001
Received PhD in physics: May 2006
Left group: Aug. 2006
Post-Doc at: Loren Looger’s Lab; Janelia Farm, HHMI (http://www.hhmi.org/research/groupleaders/looger_bio.html)
Current: Research Specialist, Stowers Institute for Medical Research (http://research.stowers-institute.org/wiw/external/People/index.htm#Sean)
Contact: mckinneys AT janelia DOT hhmi DOT org

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • I. Rasnik, Y.J. Jeong, S.A. McKinney, V. Rajagpoal, S.S. Patel & T.Ha, "Branch Migration enzyme as a Brownian rachet" EMBO J 27(12) (2008)
  • I. Rasnik, S. A. McKinney, and T. Ha, "Nonblinking and Long-lasting Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging", Nature Methods , (2006)
  • C. Joo, S. A McKinney, M. Nakamura, I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Real Time Observation of RecA Filament Dynamics with Single Monomer Resolution", Cell 126, 515-527 (2006)
  • S. A. McKinney, C. Joo, and T. Ha, "Analysis of Single Molecule FRET Trajectories using Hidden Markov Modeling", Biophysical Journal 91, 1941-1951 (2006)
  • E. Toprak, J. Enderlein, Sh. Syed, S. McKinney, R. G. Perschek, T. Ha, Y. E. Goldman, and P. R. Selvin, "Defocused Orientation and Position Imaging (DOPI) of Myosin V", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103, 6495-6499 (2006)
  • C. Buranachai, S. A. McKinney, and T. Ha, "Single Molecule Nanometronome", Nano Letters 102, 18938-18943 (2006)
  • I. Rasnik, S. A. McKinney, and T. Ha, "Surfaces and Orientations: Much to FRET about?", Accounts of Chemical Research 38, 542-548 (2005) (pdf)
  • S. A. McKinney, A. Freeman, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Observing Spontaneous Branch Migration fo Holliday Junctions One Step at a Time", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 5715-5720 (2005)
  • J. Liu, A. C. Daclias, S. A. McKinney, T. Ha, D. G. Norman, and D. M. J. Lilley, "stereospecific Effects Determine the Structure of a four-way DNA Junction", Chemistry & Biology 12, 217-288 (2005)
  • C. Joo, S. A. McKinney, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Exploring Rare Conformational Species and Ionic Effects in DNA Holliday Junctions using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy", Journal of Molecular Biology 341, 739-751 (2004)
  • Yildiz, J. Forkey, S. A. McKinney, T. Ha, Y. Goldman, and P. R. Selvin, "Myosin V Walks Hand over Hand: Single Flourophore Imaging with 1.5 Nanometer Localization", Science 300, 2061-2065 (2003)
  • S. A. McKinney, A. C. Declais, D. M. J. Lilley, and T. Ha, "Structural Dynamics of Individual Holiday Junctions", Nature Structural Biology 10, 93-97 (2003)


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Sua Myong, PhD

Joined group: Jan. 2002
Left group: March 2009
Current: Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana. (http://www.bioen.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?smyong)

B.A. in Molecular Cell Biology, U.C. Berkeley (1994) Ph.D in Nutritional Science & Toxicology, U.C. Berkeley (2001)

Publications in Collaboration with the Ha Group:

  • Myong, S. and T. Ha, "Stepwise translocation of nucleic acid motors", Current Opinion in Structural Biology 20 (1), 121-127 (2010)
  • Burak Okumus, S. Arslan, S. Fengler, S.Myong and T.Ha, "Single Molecule Containers Made Porous Using a Bacterial Toxin", JACS 131 (2009).
  • S. Myong+, S. Cui+, P.V. Cornish, A. Kirchhofer, M.U. Gack, J.U. Jung, K.P. Hopfner & T. Ha, "Cytosolic viral sensor RIG-I is a 5'- triphosphate-dependent translocase on double-stranded RNA", Science 323(5917) (2009) (+ co-authorship)
  • S. Myong, M. M. Bruno, A. M. Pyle and T. Ha, "Spring-loaded mechanism of DNA unwinding by HCV NS3 helicase," Science 317, 513-516 (2007).
  • C. Joo, S. A McKinney, M. Nakamura, I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Real Time Observation of RecA Filament Dynamics with Single Monomer Resolution", Cell 126, 515-527 (2006).
  • I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Unraveling Helicase Mechanism One Molecule at a Time", Nucleic Acids Research 34, 4225-4231 (2006).
  • S. Myong, B. Stevens, and T. Ha, "Bridging Conformational Dynamics and Function using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy", Structure 14, 633-643 (2006).
  • S. Myong, I. Rasnik, C. Joo, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "Repetitive Shuttling of a Motor Protein on DNA", Nature 437, 1321-1325 (2005).
  • I. Rasnik+, S. Myong+, W. Cheng, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "DNA-binding Orientation and Domain Conformation of the E. Coli Rep Helicase Monomer Bound to a Partial Duplex Junction: Single-molecule Studies of Flourescently Labeled Enzymes", Journal of Molecular Biology 336, 395-408 (2004). (+co-authorship)


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Michelle Nahas, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: May 2002
Received PhD in physics: December, 2006
Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: December 2006
Left Group: May 2007 Currently: BD Biosciences, North Carolina email: michelleknahas at gmail dot com

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • T. J. Wilson, M. Nahas, L. Araki, S. Harusawa, T. Ha, D. M. Lilly, "RNA folding and the origins of catalytic activity in the hairpin ribozyme." Blood Cells Mol Dis. 38 (1), 8-14 (2007).
  • M. K. Nahas, Folding and catalysis of hairpin ribozyme. Doctoral Thesis, University of Illinois (2006).
  • M. K. Nahas, T. J. Wilson, S. Hohng, K. Jarvie, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Observation of Internal Cleavage and Ligation Reactions of a Ribozyme." Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 1107-1113 (2004).
  • S. A. McKinney, E. Tan, T. J. Wilson, M. K. Nahas, A. C. Declias, R. M. Clegg, D. M. J. Lilley, and T. Ha, "Single Molecule Studies of DNA and RNA Four-way Junctions." Biochemical Society Transactions 32, 41-45 (2004).
  • E. Tan, T. J. Wilson, M. K. Nahas, R. M. Clegg, D. M. J. Lilley, and T. Ha, "A Four-way Junction Accelerates Hairpin Ribozyme Folding via a Discrete Intermediate." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 9308 (2003).


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Muneaki Nakamura

Joined group as REU undergraduate: June 2006
Left group: Aug. 2006

Current location: Stanford University, Department of Chemistry (graduate student) (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/chemistry/)

Contact: mrn AT stanford DOT edu

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • C. Joo, S. A McKinney, M. Nakamura, I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Real Time Observation of RecA Filament Dynamics with Single Monomer Resolution", Cell 126, 515-527 (2006)


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Burak Okumus, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: January 2001
Received PhD in biophysics: September 2006
Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: October 2006
Left group: May 2007

Current location: Paulsson Lab (http://paulsson.med.harvard.edu/Paulsson_Lab.htm)
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Ave, Alpert 536
Boston, MA 02115

Contact: burakokumus AT yahoo DOT com

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • B. Okumus, and T. Ha, "Real-time observation of G-quadruplex dynamics using single molecule FRET microscopy", Methods in Molecular Biology 608, 81-96 (2010)
  • Burak Okumus, S. Arslan, S. Fengler, S.Myong and T.Ha, "Single Molecule Containers Made Porous Using a Bacterial Toxin", JACS 131 (2009).
  • Prakrit V. Jena, Pravin Shirude, Burak Okumus, Katta Laxmi-Reddy, Frederic Godde, Ivan Huc, Shankar Balasubramanian and Taekjip Ha, "G-Quadruplex DNA Bound by a Synthetic Ligand is Highly Dynamic", JACS (2009)
  • A. Iqbal+, S. Arslan+, B. Okumus+, T.J. Wilson, G. Giraud, D.G. Norman, T. Ha & D.M. Lilley, "Orientation dependence in fluorescent energy transfer between Cy3 and Cy5 terminally attached to double-stranded nucleic acids", PNAS 105(32) (2008) (+ co-authorship)
  • B. Okumus, "Exploring novel techniques for the single molecule toolkit: Vesicle encapsulation and immobilization", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois (2007).
  • P. S. Shirude, B. Okumus, L. Ying, T. Ha and S. Balasubramanian, "Single Molecule Conformational Analysis of G-Quadruplex Formation in the Promoter DNA Duplex of the Proto-Oncogene C-kit", JACS, (2007) (In Print)
  • I. Cisse, B. Okumus, C. Joo, T. Ha, "Fueling protein-DNA interactions inside porous nanocontainers", PNAS, (2007) (In Print)
  • T. Yoon+, B. Okumus+, F. Zhang+, Y.K. Shin and T. Ha, "Multiple intermediates in SNARE-induced membrane fusion", PNAS 103, 19731-19736 (2006) (+co-authorship)
  • J. Y. Lee+, B. Okumus+, D. S. Kim, and T. Ha, "Extreme Conformational Diversity in Human Telomeric DNA", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 18938-18943 (2005) (+co-authorship)
  • B. Okumus, T. J. Wilson, D. M. J. Lilley, and T. Ha, "Vesicle Encapsulation Studies Reveal that Single Molecule Ribozyme Heterogeneities are Intrinsic", Biophysical Journal 87, 2798-2806 (2004)


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Jeehae Park, PhD

Joined group: Jan. 2005, dept: biophysics;
Received PhD November 2011: “Single-molecule study of the DNA helicase regulating genomic stability.”; left group: November 2011. Current address: Research Associate at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussets.

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Y. Liu, J. Park, K.A. Dahmen, Y.R. Chemla, and T.Ha, "A Comparative Study of Multivariate and Univariate Hidden Markov Modelings in Time-Binned Single-Molecule FRET Data Analysis", J.Phys.Chem.B., 114(16), 2010
  • M. Honda, J. Park, R.A. Pugh, T. Ha and M. Spies, "Single-molecule analysis reveals differential effects of ssDNA-binding proteins on DNA translocation by XPD helicase", Molecular Cell, 35 694-703, 2009


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Kaushik Ragunathan, PhD

Joined group: Jan. 2006, dept: biophysics
Left Group: May 15, 2012; Received PhD, May 2012, Thesis: molecule FRET study on the mechanism of RecA mediated strand exchange. Location after May 15, 2012: Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology, Boston, MA.

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Jain, A., R. Liu, B. Ramani, E. Arauz, Y. Ishitsuka, K. Ragunathan, J. Park, J. Chen, Y. K. Xiang and T. Ha, “Probing cellular protein complexes using single-molecule pull-down”, Nature 473, 484-488 (2011).
  • Ragunathan, K., C. Joo and T. Ha, “Real time observation of strand exchange reaction with high spatiotemporal resolution”, Structure 19, 1064-1073 (2011).
  • Lee, J., S. Lee, K. Ragunathan, C. Joo, T. Ha and S. Hohng, “Single-molecule four-color FRET”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49(51), 9922-9925 (2010).
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Ivan Rasnik, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: December 2000
Left group: Aug. 2005

Current location: Emory University, Department of Physics (Assistant Professor) (http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/rasnik/)

Contact: irasnik@physics.emory.edu

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • I. Rasnik, Y.J. Jeong, S.A. McKinney , V. Rajagpoal, S.S. Patel & T.Ha, "Branch Migration enzyme as a Brownian rachet" EMBO J 27(12) (2008)
  • H.K. Kim, I. Rasnik, J. Liu, T. Ha & Y. Lu, " Dissecting metal ion-dependent folding and catalysis of a single DNAzyme", Nature Chemical Biology 3 763-768 (2007)
  • I. Rasnik, S. A. McKinney, and T. Ha, "Nonblinking and Long-lasting Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging", Nature Methods , (2006)
  • C. Joo, S. A McKinney, M. Nakamura, I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Real Time Observation of RecA Filament Dynamics with Single Monomer Resolution", Cell 126, 515-527 (2006)
  • I. Rasnik, S. Myong, and T. Ha, "Unraveling Helicase Mechanism One Molecule at a Time", Nucleic Acids Research 34, 4225-4231 (2006)
  • S. Myong, I. Rasnik, C. Joo, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "Repetitive Shuttling of a Motor Protein on DNA", Nature 437, 1321-1325 (2005)
  • I. Rasnik, S. A. McKinney, and T. Ha, "Surfaces and Orientations: Much to FRET about?", Accounts of Chemical Research 38, 542-548 (2005)
  • I. Rasnik, S. Myong, W. Cheng, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "DNA-binding Orientation and Domain Conformation of the E. Coli Rep Helicase Monomer Bound to a Partial Duplex Junction: Single-molecule Studies of Flourescently Labeled Enzymes", Journal of Molecular Biology 336, 395-408 (2004)
  • M. C. Murphy, I. Rasnik, W. Cheng, T. M. Lohman, and T. Ha, "Probing Single Stranded DNA Conformational Flexibility using Flourescence Spectroscopy", Biophysical Journal 86, 2530-2537 (2004)


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Richard Renfrew

Left group: May. 2007 (computer technician)

Current location: Univesity of Illinois, Urbana.

Contact: renfrew AT uiuc DOT edu


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Eli Rothenberg, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Aug. 2005
Left Group July 15, 2008.
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, New York University

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Grimme, J. M., M. Honda, R. Y. Wright, Y. Okuno, E. Rothenberg, A. V. Mazin, T. Ha and M. Spies, "Human Rad52 binds and wraps single-stranded DNA and mediates annealing via two hRad52-ssDNA complexes", Nucleic Acids Research(2010)
  • E. Rothenberg,, and T. Ha, "Single-Molecule FRET Analysis of Helicase Functions", Methods Mol Biol. 587, 29-43. (2010)
  • E. Rothenberg, J.M. Grimme, M. Spies & T.Ha, " Human Rad52-mediated homology search and annealing occurs by continuous interactions between overlapping nucleoprotein complexes", PNAS 105(51) (2008)
  • E. Rothenberg, M.A. Trakselis, S.D. Bell & T.Ha, " MCM forked substrate specificity involves dynamic interaction with the 5'-tail", JBC 282 (47) (2007)


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Reza Vafabakhsh, PhD

Joined group: Aug. 2006, dept: physics

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Zhang, Z., K. Vishal, R. Vafabakhsh, L. Dai, Y.R. Chemla, T. Ha and V. Rao, “A Promiscuous DNA Packaging Machine from Bacteriophage T4”, PLoS Biology 9, e1000592 (2011).
  • Morrison, E. A., G. T. DeKoster, S. Dutta, R. Vafabakhsh, M. Charkson, A. Bahl, D. Kern, T. Ha and K. A. Henzler-Wildman, “Antiparallel EmrE exports drugs by exchanging between asymmetric structures”, Nature 481, 45-50 (2012).

Current location: University of California, Berkeley (http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/isacoff/)

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Rahul Roy, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: January 2002
Received PhD in biophysics: May 2007
Post-doctoral fellow, June - Sept 2007

Current: Xie Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge (http://bernstein.harvard.edu/)

Contact: rahulfx16 AT gmail DOT edu

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Tang, G. Q., R. Roy, R. P. Bandwar, T. Ha and S. S. Patel, "Real-time observation of the transition from transcription initiation to elongation of the RNA polymerase", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. , (2009)
  • R. Roy, A.G. Kozlov, T.M. Lohman and T.Ha, "SSB protein diffusion on single-stranded DNA stimulates RecA filament formation". Nature, 461(7267), (2009).
  • G.Q. Tang, R. Roy, T. Ha and S.S. Patel, "Transcription initiation in a single-subunit RNA polymerase proceeds through DNA scrunching and rotation of the N-terminal subdomains". Molecular Cell 30(5):567-77 (2008)
  • R. Roy, S. Hohng & T. Ha, "A practical guide to single-molecule FRET", Nature Methods 5, 507-516 (2008)
  • R. Roy, A. G. Kozlov, T. M. Lohman and T. Ha, "Dynamic structural rearrangments between DNA binding modes of E. coli SSB protein", Journal of Molecular Biology, 369 (5): 1244-1257 (2007)
  • R. Roy, Single molecule FRET studies of DNA binding and RNA polymerizing proteins. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois (2007).
  • V. Arluison, S. Hohng, R. Roy, O. Pellegrini, P. Regnier and T. Ha, "Spectroscopic observation of RNA chaperone activities of Hfq in post-transcriptional regulation by a small non-coding RNA", Nucleic Acids Research, 35 (3): 999-1006 (2007).
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Ruobo Zhou, PhD

Joined group: May 2006, dept: physics Received PhD in physics May 2012; Currently a Post-doctoral Associate in the Ha Group, University of Illinois.

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • Wessel, S.R., A.H. Marceau, S.C. Massoni, R. Zhou, T. Ha, S.J. Sandler , J.L. Keck,"PriC-mediated DNA replication restart requires PriC complex formation with the single-stranded DNA-binding protein",J Biol Chem. PMID: 23629733 (2013)
  • Lue, N. F., R. Zhou, L. Chico, N. Mao, O. Steinberg-Neifach, T. Ha, "The Telomere Capping Complex CST Has an Unusual Stoichiometry, Makes Multipartite Interaction with G-Tails, and Unfolds Higher-Order G-Tail Structures", PLoS Genetics 9, 14 pp (2013)
  • Yang, S.H., R. Zhou, J. Campbell, J. Chen, T. Ha and T.T. Paull, "The SOSS1 single-stranded DNA binding complex promotes DNA end resection in concert with Exo1", EMBO J , doi:10.1038/emboj.2012.314 (2012) Pubmed ID: 23178594
  • Zhou, R. and T. Ha., "Single-molecule Analysis of SSB Dynamics on Single-stranded DNA.", Methods Mol. Biol. 922, 85-100 (2012)
  • Zhou, R., S. Kunzelmann, M.R. Webb and T. Ha, “Detecting intramolecular conformational dynamics of single molecules in short distances range with sub-nanometer sensitivity”, Nano Letters 11, 5482-5488 (2011).
  • Zhou, R., A. G. Kozlov, R. Roy, J. Zhang, S. Korolev, T. M. Lohman and T. Ha, "SSB Functions as a Sliding Platform that Migrates on DNA via Reptation", Cell 146, 222-232 (2011).
  • Brenner, M. D., R. Zhou and T. Ha, “Forcing a connection: Impacts of single-molecule force spectroscopy on in vivo tension sensing”, Biopolymers 95 (5), 332-344 (2011).
  • Grashoff, C., B. D. Hoffman, M. D. Brenner, R. Zhou, M. Parsons, M. T. Yang, M. A. McLean, S. G. Sligar, C. S. Chen, T. Ha and M. A. Schwartz, "Measuring Mechanical Tension Across Vinculin Reveals Regulation of Focal Adhesion Dynamics", Nature 466, 263–266 (2010).
  • Zhou, R., M. Schlierf and T. Ha, "Force-Fluorescence Spectroscopy at the Single-Molecule Level", Methods in Enzymology 475C, 405-426 (2010) Pubmed ID: 20627166
  • S. Hohng, R. Zhou, M. K. Nahas, J. Yu, K. Schulten, D. M. J. Lilley and T. Ha, "Fluorescence-force spectroscopy maps two-dimensional reaction landscape of the Holliday junction", Science 318, 279-283(2007).

Current Post-doc position: Zhuang Lab, Harvard University (http://zhuang.harvard.edu/)


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Michael Schlierf, Dr.

Joined group: October 2008
Left group: August 2010

Currently Assistant Professor, Technical University of Dresden, Germany -- link to personal webpage

Publications on PubMed


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Divya Srinivasan

Joined group: June 2010, dept: biochemistry (Joint appointment with Sua Myong)
Left Group: May 2012


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Maria Sorokina

Joined group: Nov. 2006
Left group: Jan. 2009

Current: Alex Dunn Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/~ardunn/home.html)

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • M. Sorokina, H.R. Koh, S.S. Patel & T.Ha, "Fluorescent Lifetime Trajectories of a Single Fluorophore Reveal Reactions Intermediates During Transcription Initiation", JACS (2009)


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Benjamin C. Stevens, PhD

Joined group as graduate student: May 2001
Received PhD in physics: May 2006
Left group: Aug. 2006

Previously Employed at: Visigen Inc., Houston, TX (http://www.visigenbio.com/)
Current Post-doc position: Yale Goldman Lab, University of Pennsylvania (http://www.med.upenn.edu/pmi/members/goldman.shtml)

Contact: benstevens2 AT gmail DOT com

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • J.G. Yodh, B.C. Stevens, R. Kanagaraj, P. Janscak & T. Ha, "BLM helicase measures DNA unwound before switching strands and hRPA promotes unwinding reinitiation", EMBO J. 28 (4): 405-16 (2009)
  • S. Myong, B.C. Stevens, and T. Ha, "Bridging Conformational Dynamics and Function using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy", Structure 14, 633-643 (2006)
  • B. C. Stevens and T. Ha, "Discrete and Heterogeneous Rotational Dynamics of Single Membrane Probe Dyes in Gel Phase Supported Bilayers", Journal of Chemical Physics 120, 2020-2029 (2004)


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Nathan VanHoudnos

Joined group: May 2007, dept: physics Worked on: Single, Double, hadata.igb, phyhaclu Left group: September 2008


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Jungmin Yoo, PhD

Joined group: Feb. 2009 and Visiting Scholar
Left group: January 2012
Current position: Researcher, Lee Lab, Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea


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Tae-Young Yoon, PhD

Joined group as post-doctoral fellow: Aug. 2005 Left group: December 2007
Current position: Assistant Professor of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. - http://tylab.kaist.ac.kr/ - Email: tyyoon AT kaist DOT ac DOT kr

Publications in collaboration with the Ha Group

  • J.Diao+, Z. Su+, X. Lu, T.-Y. Yoon, Y.K. Shin & T. Ha, "Single-Vesicle Fusion Assay Reveals Munc18-1 Binding to the SNARE Core Is Sufficient for Stimulating Membrane Fusion", ACS Chemical Neuroscience 1, 168 (2010) (+co-authorship)
  • J.Diao+, T.-Y. Yoon+, Z.Su+, Y.-K Shin & T.Ha, "C2AB: A Molecular Glue for Lipid Vesicles with a Negatively Charged Surface", Langmuir 25, 7177 (2008) (+co-authorship)
  • T.-Y. Yoon+, X.Lu+, J.Diao+, T.Ha & Y.-K. Shin, "Complexin and Ca2+ stimulate SNARE-mediated membrane fusion", Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 15, 707 (2008) (+co-authorship)
  • T.-Y. Yoon+, B. Okumus+, F. Zhang+, Y.K. Shin & T. Ha, From the cover: "Multiple intermediates in SNARE-induced membrane fusion", PNAS 103, 19731 (2006) (+co-authorship)


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