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06/05/2012 - 5 urgent post-doctoral openings in the group
Upto 5 post-doctoral positions advertised in the opportunities page Research Fellows x 5 – CD1152 Schools of Physics and Astronomy, Medicine & Biology, £30,122 - £35,938 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed-Term for up to 2 years
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27/03/2012 - Article in Nano Letters
Congratulations to M. Ploschner et. al. for their new publication in Nano Letters Bidirectional optical sorting of gold nanoparticles M. Ploschner, T. Cizmar, M. Mazilu, A. Di Falco, and K. Dholakia, Nano Lett 12, 1923 (2012). DOI:10.1021/nl204378r (Featured as a Nature Research Highlight - "Lasers Sort Particle by size")
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03/12/2011 - - Top download in OE
Congratulations P. C Ashok et. al. for their paper "Near infrared spectroscopic analysis of single malt Scotch whisky on an optofluidic chip" becoming one of the top downloads in Optics express in November 2011.
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List of research groups around the globe involved in research related to optical trapping
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Colin Bain's Group (Univ. of Durham) |
Optical Binding |
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Paul Bartlett's Group (University of Bristol) |
Soft condensed matter - forces on colloids etc |
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Richard Berry's Group (Univ. of Oxford) |
Biophysics of molecular motors |
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COSMIC (University of Edinburgh) |
Optical tweezers and holographic techniques |
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Kishan Dholakia's Group (University of St. Andrews) |
Optical manipulation techniques, Properties of novel light fields, colloidal and nanoparticle dynamics in optical light fields. Biophotonics. |
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Mark Dickinson's Group (Univ. of Manchester) |
Surface profiling and force measurements |
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Jochen Guck's Group (University of Cambridge) |
Photonics with biological and medical relevance |
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David McGloin's Group (University of Dundee) |
Aerosols, holographic optical tweezers, colloids, biophotonics, , non-optical techniques, novel light beams |
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Justin Molloy's Group Nat. Inst. for Medical Research |
Molecular Motors |
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Miles Padgett's Group (University of Glasgow) |
Optical spanners and dynamic holographic techniques |
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Jonathan Reid's Group (University of Bristol) |
Particle dynamics (aerosols) |
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John Sanderson's Group (Univ. of Durham) |
Liposomal membranes and Raman tweezing - collaboration with CCLRC |
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John Sleep's Group (King's College London) |
Molecular motors |
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Richard Snook's Group (University of Manchester) |
Studies of single molecules |
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Z. Ulanowski's Group (Univ. of Hertfordshire) |
Light scattering studies |
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Claudia Veigel's Group Nat. Inst. for Medical Research |
Molecular Motors |
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Dario Anselmetti´s Group (Bielefeld University, Germany) |
DNA binding, single molecule translocation through nanopores, single cell analysis in microfluidic environments |
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Ove Axner's Group (Umeå University) |
Studies of cell signalling processes (Tweezers and Scalpel) |
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Clemens Bechinger's Group (University of Stuttgart) |
Colloid physics |
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A. van Blaaderen, A. Imhof and M. Dijkstra's Group (Utrecht University) |
Colloid physics - patterning of surfaces using optical tweezers |
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Kirstine Berg-Sørensen's Group (NBI, Copenhagen) |
Biophysical applications of tweezing |
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Optical Trapping Lab Grup de Biofotònica (BiOPT) University of Barcelona, Spain |
Holographic optical tweezers for the study of biological processes in vivo |
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Dan Cojoc's Group (OM Lab at TASC-INFM, Trieste, Italy) |
Optical Manipulation |
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Rumiana Dimova's Group (MPI-KG, Golm) |
Membrane and Vesicles science |
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Nynke Dekker's Group (Delft University of Technology) |
Optical tweezers for DNA- & RNA-protein interactions, nanopores |
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Jörg Enderlein's Group (Forschungszentum Jülich) |
Optical tweezers for probing surface topography |
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Jesper Gluckstad's Group (Risø National Laboratory) |
Developing the Generalized Phase Contrast Method to create user-interactive multi-beam optical micromanipulation. |
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Jan Greve's group (University of Twente) |
Single biomolecular interactions using optical tweezers |
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Dag Hanstorp's Group (Chalmers University, Gothenberg) |
Biophysical applications and manipulation of particles in small cavities |
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Martin Hegner's group (Trinity College Dublin) |
Single molecule manipulation and biosensing |
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Josef Kas' Group (Univ. of Leipzig) |
Polymers and Membranes in cells |
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Georg Marat's Group (Univ. Konstanz) |
Colloids and Biophysics |
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Jens Michaelis' Group (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Univ. Munich) |
Molecular mechanisms of proteins |
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Manuel Nieto Vesperinas's Group (Materials Science Inst. of Madrid) |
Photonic Force Microscopy, near field optics (Theory) |
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Pal Ormos' Group (University of Szeged, Hungary) |
Driving micromachines with light |
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Francesco Pavone's Group (LENS, Florence) |
Biophysics applications with optical and magnetic tweezers |
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Dmitri Petrov's Group (ICFO, Barcelona) |
Biochemical processes on trapped cells, Raman Tweezing |
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Herve Rigneault's Group (Institut Fresnel, Marseille) |
HOTs and cell membrane dynamics |
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M. Ritsch-Marte's Group (Innsbruck University) |
Optical fibre traps and stretchers - applications in medical physics |
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Alexander Rohrbach's Group (Univ. of Freiburg) |
Optical trapping of sub-lambda particles using Photonic Force Microscopy |
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Manfred Schliwa's Group (University of Munich) |
Cell biophysics incl. molecular motors |
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Christof Schmidt's Group (Virje University) |
Physics of complex systems |
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Ernst Stelzer's Group (EMBL) |
Optical forces and the Photonic Force Microscope |
| University of Barcelona Group | Holographic tweezers |
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Gijs Wuite's group (Vrije University, Amsterdam) |
DNA-Protein Interactions |
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Pavel Zemanek's Group (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) |
Micromanipulation and standing wave traps |
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Roberto Di Leonardo's Group (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") |
Holographic Optical Trapping, Impulsive Stimulated Scattering Aging and flow in soft materials |
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Antonio Sasso's Group (University of Naples "Federico II") |
Laser Spectroscopy and Optical Manipulation |
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Heimo Saarikko's Group (University of Helsinki) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
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René Paul Salathé's Group (Ecole Polytechnique Federale De lausanne) |
Optical trapping solutions for Lab-on-a-Chip applications. |
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Suzanne Amador Kane's Group (Haverford College) |
Studies of biopolymers and cell analysis |
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Bahman Anvari's Group (Rice University) |
Bio-studies, including mechanical properties of cochlear outer hair cells |
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Sangeeta Bhatia's Group (Univ. of California at San Diego) |
BioMEMS and tissue engineering |
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Michael W. Berns' Group (Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic) |
Mechanisms of light interaction with biological systems and the use of light to study fundamental problems in cell biology. |
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Steven Block's Group (Stanford University) |
Biophysical applications |
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Keith Bonin's Group (Wake Forest University) |
Nanomotors and biomolecular motors |
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William Brownell's Group (Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine) |
Cochlear biophysics |
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Carlos Bustamante's Group (Univ. of Berkeley) |
DNA-binding molecular motors |
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Daniel Chiu's Group (University of Washington) |
Nano and micro systems for bioanalysis (Updated 09/03/07) |
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Mark Cronin-Golomb's Group (Tufts Univ.) |
Fluid dynamics, local material properties, biophysics |
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Bogdan Dragnea's Group (Indiana University) |
Near-field optical trapping |
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Eric Dufresne's Group (Yale University) |
3D trapping and soft condensed matter research |
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Thomas Fischer's Group (archived) (Florida State University) |
Colloidal and interface science |
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Nancy Forde's Group (Simon Fraser University) |
Molecular Biophysics |
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Eric Furst's group (Univ. of Delaware) |
Colloid science - microrheology |
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Alice Gast's Group (MIT) |
The behavior of magnetorheological fluids |
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Robert Gauthier (Carleton University, Ottawa) |
Optical tweezing and studies of light induced forces in optical manipulation |
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David Grier's Group (New York University) |
The Grier group uses optical tweezers to study colloidal interactions, making use of dynamic holographic techniques. |
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Steven Gross' Group (Univ. of California at Irvine) |
Molecular motors |
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Kristian Helmerson's Group (NIST) |
Biochemical and biotechnology applications |
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Alan J. Hunt's Group (University of Michigan) |
Biological applications, in particular the biomechanical processes behind mitosis. |
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Scot C. Kuo's Group (Johns Hopkins University) |
Force measurement for cell mobility studies |
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Wolfgang Ketterle's Group (M.I.T) |
Optical Tweezers to move BEC. |
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J.A. Kong's Group (M.I.T) |
Optical Binding |
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Yong-qing Li's Group (East Carolina University) |
Raman Tweezers - combining optical tweezers and Raman spectroscopy |
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Jan Liphardt's Group (Berkeley) |
Force measurement of molecular systems, nanowires |
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Wolfgang Losert's Group (University of Maryland) |
Biophysics, mechanical properties of cells |
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David Marr's Group (Colarado School of Mines) |
Optical tweezers for colloidal control, including control of microfluidic devices |
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Thomas Mason's Group (UCLA) |
Microrheology |
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Jens-Christian Meiners' Group Univ. of Michigan |
Biophysics with single DNA molecules |
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Lucas Novotny's Group (Institute of Optics, Rochester) |
Sorting of nanoparticles. |
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H. Daniel Ou-Yong's Group (Lehigh Univ.) |
Hydrodynamics, microfluidics |
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Mihri Ozkan's Group (Univ. of California, Riverside) |
Biophotonics: Manipulation of cells with VCSEL arrays |
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Tom Perkin's Group (JILA) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
| Tom Perkin's Optical Trapping Simulations (PhET, Univ. of Colorado) | An interactive way to understand the basics of optical trapping |
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Mara Prentiss' Group (Harvard University) |
Optical and magnetic tweezers for biological applications |
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Stephen Quake's Group (CalTech) |
Single molecule polymer dynamics using optical tweezers |
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Raj Rajagopalan's Group (Univ. of Florida) |
Single particle/molecule force spectroscopy and microrheology |
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Doug Smith's Group (UCSD) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
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Gabe Spalding's Group (Illinois-Wesleyen University) |
Holographic optical tweezers |
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James Spudich's Group (Stanford University) |
Molecular Motors |
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Ron Vale's Lab (UCSF) |
Molecular Motors |
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Koen Visscher (Univ. of Arizona) |
Molecular Motors |
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David Walt's Group (Tufts University) |
Large area optical tweezers |
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Michelle Wang's Group (Cornell University) |
Molecular motors |
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Paul Weiss' Group (Penn. State University) |
Molecular-Scale Control & Measurement of Composition & Properties in Membranes |
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John G. White's Group - LOCI (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
Instrumentation for imaging and manipulating living specimens |
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Mark William's Group (Northeastern University) |
Stretching single molecules |
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Ming Wu's Group (Berkeley) |
Manipulation via optoelectrowetting |
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John Yukich's Group Davidson College |
Cell motility |
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John C. Crocker |
Single and Few Molecule Physics with Extended Optical Tweezers, Cell Microrheology |
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Rolf Hubmayr |
Membrane and cytoskeletal biomechanics |
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Joshua W. Shaevitz |
Mechanical perturbation of cells and molecules with visualization of key protein and macromolecular structures |
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Jennifer Curtis Georgia Tech |
Probe the coupling of the mechanical and chemical circuitry of the cell. |
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Denis Evans' Group (Australian National University) |
Tweezers and thermodynamics |
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Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop's Group (University of Queensland) |
Optical rotation and alignment, theoretical aspects of optical tweezing |
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Min Gu's Group (Univ. of Swinburne) |
Optical tweezers for bio- and nano-photonic applications |
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Arthur Chiou's Group (National Yang-Ming Uni, Taiwan) |
Optical manipulation and sensing for biomedical applications |
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Sow Chorng Haur's Group (National Univ. of Singapore) |
Colloidal interactions, optical tweezers arrays |
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B.M. Jaffar's Group (Anna University, India) |
Nano manipulation, Biophotonics |
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G. R. Kulkarni's Group (University of Pune, India) |
Biophysics and Particle trapping |
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Yong-Gu Lee's Group (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) |
Formation and assembly of micro parts using lasers |
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Hiroshi Masuhara's Group (Univ. of Osaka) |
Manipulation of nano-particles |
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G. V. Shivashankar's Group (National Center for Biological Research, Bangalore) |
Single Molecule Biophysics, particle tracking |
Useful Resources/information on Optical tweezers
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RESOURCES |
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Mazilu et al 2009 | A review of advanced beamshaping for optical tweezers |
| Optical Tweezers Blog | A comprehensive guide to recent optical tweezers publications | |
| K. Dholakia et al Physics World Article (pdf) | Recent review of state of the art tweezers | |
| D. McGloin et al OE Magazine Article (pdf) | Review of Bessel beam optical tweezers | |
| M. Lang and S. Block | Am. J. Phys. Resource Letter on Optical Tweezers | |
| A. Ashkin | Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles using lasers | |
| S. Block | Construction of Optical Tweezers, from Cells: A Laboratory Manual | |
| M. Williams | Optical tweezers: measuring piconewton forces, from Biophysics Textbook Online | |
| Special Edition of Journal of Modern Optics | A selection of optical tweezers papers from some of the leading groups | |
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Lab manual for Optical Tweezers, Student report on trapping and ablation |
From UCSD website, experiments run by Prof. David Kleinfeld Gentle intro to Tweezers, with experimental advice. | |
| Carlos Bustamante Video Lecture | Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of Baceriophage phi29 | |
| K. C. Neuman and S. Block (pdf) | Recent optical trapping review paper (New 9/09/05) | |
| K.C. Neuman Video lecture | Introduction to optical trapping: the single beam gradient trap (New 9/09/05) | |
| S. B. Smith Video Lectures (1) + (2) | Biophysics with optical tweezers (1) and Introduction to optical tweezers (2) (New 9/09/05) | |
| Shaevitz Lab | A Practical Guide to Optical Trapping | |
| Holographic Optics Tweezers | Holographic Optical Trapping," G. C. Spalding, J. Courtial, R. Di Leonardo , in Structured Light and its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces , edited by D. L. Andrews, Elsevier Press (2008) In Press. | |