Recent Publications

Nascimento JM, Shi LZ, Chandsawangbhuwana C, Tam J, Durrant B, Botvinick EL, Berns MW.,: Use of laser tweezers to analyze sperm motility and mitochondrial membrane potential. J Biomed Opt. 2008 Jan-Feb;13(1):014002 (Link)

Shi LZ, Nascimento JM, Chandsawangbhuwana C, Botvinick EL, Berns MW.,: An automatic system to study sperm motility and energetics. Biomed Microdevices. 2008 Feb 26 (Link)

Nascimento JM, Shi LZ, Meyers S, Gagneux P, Loskutoff NM, Botvinick EL, Berns MW.,: The use of optical tweezers to study sperm competition and motility in primates. J R Soc Interface. 2008 Mar 6;5(20):297-302 (Link)

Berns MW, Greulich KO.,: Laser Manipulation of Cells and Tissues. Methods Cell Biology. 2007; Vol 82. (Link)

Berns MW.,: A History of Laser Scissors (Microbeams) . Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82C:1-58. (Link)

Botvinick EL, Shah JV.,: Laser-based measurements in cell biology. Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82:81-109. (Link)

Berns MW.,: Optical Tweezers: Tethers, Wavelengths, and Heat. Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82C:455-466. (Link)

Botvinick EL, Wang Y.,: Laser tweezers in the study of mechanobiology in live cells. Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82:497-523. (Link)

Shao B, Nascimento JM, Shi LZ, Botvinick EL.,: Automated motile cell capture and analysis with optical traps. Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82:601-27. (Link)

Greulich KO, Khodjakov A, Vogt A, Berns MW.,: Sergej stepanovich tschachotin: experimental cytologist and political critic (1883-1973). Methods Cell Biol. 2007;82:723-34. (Link)

Xu J, Van Keymeulen A, Wakida NM, Carlton P, Berns MW, Bourne HR.,: Polarity reveals intrinsic cell chirality. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2007 May 29;104(22):9296-300. (Link)

Wakida NM, Lee CS, Botvinick ET, Shi LZ, Dvornikov A, Berns MW.,: Laser nanosurgery of single microtubules reveals location-dependent depolymerization rates . J Biomed Opt. 2007 Mar-Apr;12(2):024022. (Link)

Gomez-Godinez V, Wakida NM, Dvornikov AS, Yokomori K, Berns MW.,: Recruitment of DNA damage recognition and repair pathway proteins following near-IR femtosecond laser irradiation of cells. J Biomed Opt. 2007 Mar-Apr;12(2):020505. (Link)

Shao B, Shi LZ, Nascimento JL, Botvinick EL, Ozkan M, Berns MW, Esener SC.,: High-throughput sorting and analysis of human sperm with a ring-shaped laser trap . Biomed Microdevices. Jun;9(3):361-9. (Link)

Nascimento JL, Botvinick EL, Shi LZ, Durrant B, Berns MW.,: Analysis of sperm motility using optical tweezers. J Biomed Opt. 2006 Jul-Aug;11(4):044001. (Link)

Shao B, Esener SC, Nascimento JM, Botvinick EL, Berns MW.,: Dynamically adjustable annular laser trapping based on axicons. Appl Opt. 2006 Sep 1;45(25):6421-8. (Link)

Z Shi L, Nascimento J, Chandsawangbhuwana C, Berns MW, Botvinick EL.,: Real-time automated tracking and trapping system for sperm. Microsc Res Tech. 2006 Jul-Aug;11(4):044001.(Link)

Wang Z, Shah JV, Berns MW, Cleveland DW.,: In vivo quantitative studies of dynamic intracellular processes using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Biophys J. 2006 Jul 1;91(1):343-51. (Link)

Botvinick EL, Berns MW.,: Internet-based robotic laser scissors and tweezers microscopy. Microsc Res Tech. 2005 Oct;68(2):65-74. (Link) (News) (Movie)

Wang Y, Botvinick EL, Zhao Y, Berns MW, Usami S, Tsien RY, Chien S.,: Visualizing the mechanical activation of Src. Nature. 2005 Apr 21;434(7036):1040-5. (Link) (News) (Movie1) (Movie2)

Botvinick EL, Venugopalan V, Shah JV, Liaw LH, Berns MW.,: Controlled ablation of microtubules using a picosecond laser. Biophys J. 2004 Dec;87(6):4203-12. (Link)

Berns MW, Krasieva T, Sun CH, Dvornikov A, Rentzepis PM.,: A polarity dependent fluorescence "switch" in live cells. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2004 Jul 19;75(1-2):51-6. (Link)

Shah JV, Botvinick E, Bonday Z, Furnari F, Berns M, Cleveland DW.,:Dynamics of centromere and kinetochore proteins; implications for checkpoint signaling and silencing. Curr Biol. 2004 Jun 8;14(11):942-52. (Link)

Wang Z, Shah JV, Chen Z, Sun CH, Berns MW.,: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy investigation of a GFP mutant-enhanced cyan fluorescent protein and its tubulin fusion in living cells with two-photon excitation. J Biomed Opt. 2004 Mar-Apr;9(2):395-403. (Link)

Hammer-Wilson MJ, Cao D, Kimel S, Berns MW.,: Photodynamic parameters in the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) bioassay for photosensitizers administered intraperitoneally (IP) into the chick embryo. Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2002 Sep;1(9):721-8. (Link)

Berns MW.,: Laser Scissors and Tweezers. Scientific American. 1998 Apr:62-67. (Link)

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