Perkins Lab
Single Molecule Biophysics

Recent Papers:
"Back-scattered detection provides atomic-scale localization precision, stability, and registration in 3D" -- Optics Express (2007)
"Elasticity of Short DNA molecules: theory and experiment for contour lengths of 0.6-7 µm" -- Biophysical Journal (2007) -- New and Notable
"TFIIA Changes the Conformation of the DNA in TBP/TATA Complexes and Increases their Kinetic Stability" -- Journal of Molecular Biology (2007)
"Stabilization of an optical microscope to 0.1 nm in 3D" -- Applied Optics (2007)
"Gold nanoparticles: enhanced optical trapping and sensitivity coupled with significant heating." -- Optics Letters (2006)
"Measuring 0.1-nm motion in 1 ms in an optical microscope with differential back focal plane detection" -- Optics Letters (2004)
      (Highlighted in Science as an Editor's choice.)
"Forward and Reverse Motion of Single RecBCD Molecules on DNA" -- Biophysical Journal (2004)
"Sequence-dependent pausing of single lambda exonuclease molecules" -- Science (2003)
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JILA, Room S-175
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309

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Thomas Perkins
JILA, 440 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0440