Steven B. Smith

Research Assistent
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Tel: (510) 643-9492
Fax: (510) 642-5943

steve@alice.berkeley.edu

Born August 13,1946 in Seattle, Washington. Married with two children. University of Washington, B.S., Physics, 1985 University of Washington, M.S. Physics, 1989

Selected Publications:

Smith, S. B. , Cui, Y., and Bustamante, C.,"Overstretching B-BNA: the Elastic Response of Individual Double-Stranded and Single-Stranded DNA Molecules" Science 271: 795-799 (1996)

Smith, S. B. , Finzi, L. and Bustamante, C.,"Direct Mechanical Measurements of the Elasticity of Single DNA Molecules by Using Magnetic Beads" Science 258: 1122-1126 (1992)

Smith, S. B., Heller, C. and Bustamante, C.,"Model and Computer Simulations of the Motion of DNA Molecules during Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis" Biochemistry 30: 5264-5274 (1991)

Smith, S. B., Aldridge, P. D., and Callis, J. B.,"Observation of Individual DNA Molecules Undergoing Gel Electrophoresis" Science 243: 203-206 (1989)

Keywords:

Single molecule manipulation, Electrophoresis, Elasticity of DNA.

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