UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry : UCLA Portal

Website:

David B Bensimon's Home Page.

Work Email Address:

bensimon@chem.ucla.edu

Work Address:

Young Hall 3077A

UNITED STATES

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 206-4600

Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry

Member
California NanoSystems Institute

Awards and Honors:

UCLA Regent’s Professor ; ICAM ICAM Fellow , KITP- UCSB

Publications:

P. Neveu, I. Aujard, C. Benbrahim, T. Le Saux, J.-F. Allemand, S. Vriz, D. Bensimon and L. Jullien A Caged Retinoic Acid for Use with One- and Two-Photon Excitation in Zebrafish Embryos Angewandte Chemie, 2008; 47(20): 3744-3746.

F.Mosconi, T.Julou, N.Desprat, D.Sinha, J.F.Allemand, V.Croquette and D. Bensimon Some nonlinear challenges in biology Nonlinearity, 2008; 21(8): T131-T147.

T. Lionnet, M.M. Spiering, S.C. Benkovic, D. Bensimon and V. Croquette Real-time observation of T4 gp41 helicase reveals a passive unwinding mechanism Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2007; 104(50): 19790-19795.

G.Lia, E.Praly, H.Ferreira, C.Stockdale, Y.C. Tse-Dinh, D.Dunlap, V.Croquette, D.Bensimon and T. Owen-Hughes Direct observation of DNA distortion by the RSC complex Molecular Cell, 2006; 21(3): 417-425.

T.Lionnet, S.Joubaud, R.Lavery, D.Bensimon and V.Croquette Wringing out DNA Physical Review Letters, 2006; 96(17): 178102.

O.A.Saleh, J.F. Allemand,V.Croquette and D.Bensimon Single-Molecule Manipulation Measurements of DNA Transport Proteins ChemPhysChem, 2005; 6(5): 813-818.

G.Charvin, T.R. Strick, D. Bensimon and V. Croquette Tracking topoisomerase activity at the single molecule level Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, 2005; 34: 201-219.

M.-N. Dessinges, T. Lionnet, X.Xi, D.Bensimon and V.Croquette Single molecule assay reveals strand switching and enhanced processivity of UvrD Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2004; 101(17): 6439-6444.

G.Charvin, J.-F. Allemand, T.R.Strick, D.Bensimon and V.Croquette Twisting DNA: single molecule studies Contemporary Physics, 2004; 45(5): 383-403.

G. Charvin, D. Bensimon and V. Croquette Single molecule study of DNA unlinking by eukaryotic and prokaryotic type II topoisomerases Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2003; 100(1): 9820-9825.