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Charles Knobler, Ph.D.

Website:

Charles Knobler's Home Page.

Work Email Address:

knobler@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Young Hall 2104

Office Address:

Student Office Young Hall 2085
Young Hall 2085

Work Address:

Young Hall 2077D

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 825-4330
Professor Emeritus
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry
(Retired)

Awards and Honors:

Union Carbide Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award, University of Mainz American Chemical Society Award in Colloid Chemistry Fulbright Scholar Herbert Newby McCoy Jerome Aaron Scholarship Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching UCLA College of Letters and Science Faculty Fellow of the American Physical Society

Publications:

Chang, C. B., Knobler, C. M., Gelbart, W. M. and Mason, T. G.   Curvature Dependence of Viral Protein Structures on Encapsidated Nanoemulsion Droplets, ACS Nano, 2008; 2: 281-6.
Evilevitch, A., Fang, L.-T., Yoffe, A. M., Castelnuovo, M., Rau, D. C., Parsegian, Gelbart W. M. and Knobler,. C. M.   Effects of Salt Concentrations and Bending Energy on the Extent of Ejection of Phage Genomes, Biophys. J., 2008; 94: 1110-20.
Hu, Y., Zandi, R., Anavitarte, A. Knobler, C. M. and Gelbart, W. M.   Packaging of a Polymer by a Viral Capsid: The Interplay Between Polymer Length and Capsid Size, Biophys. J., 2008; 94: 1428-36.
Gelbart, W. M. and Knobler, C. M.   The Physics of Phage, Physics Today, 2008; 61: 42-54.
W. S. Klug, R. F. Bruinsma, J.-P. Michel, C. M. Knobler, I. L. Ivanovska, C. F. Schmidt and G. J. L. Wuite   Failure of Viral Shells, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2006; 97: 228101-4.
Michel, J.P., Ivanovska, I.L., Gibbons, M. M., W. Klug, W. S., Knobler, C. M.,.Wuite, G. J. L., and Schmidt, C., F.   Nanoindentation studies of full and empty viral capsids and the effects of capsid protein mutations on elasticity and strength, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA), 2006; 103: 430-6.
Grayson, P., Evilevitch, A., Inamdar, M. M., Purohit, P. K., Gelbart, W. M., Knobler, C. M. and Phillips, R.   The effect of genome length on ejection forces in bacteriophage lambda, Virology, 2006; 348: 3845-8.
Evilevitch, A., Gober, J. W., Phillips, M., Knobler, C. M. and Gelbart, W. M.   Measurements of DNA lengths remaining in a viral capsid after osmotically suppressed partial ejection, Biophys. J., 2005; 88: 751-6.
Evilevitch, A. , Castelnovo, M., Knobler, C. M., and Gelbart, W. M.   Measuring the Force Ejecting DNA from Phage, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004; 108: 6838-43.
Evilevitch, A., Lavelle, L., Knobler, C. M., Raspaud, E. and Gelbart, W. M.   Osmotic pressure inhibition of DNA ejection from phage, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 2003; 100: 9292-9295.
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