Peer-reviewed Publications

Philip P. Cheney, Alan W. Weisgerber, Alec Feuerbach, Michelle K. Knowles. " Single Lipid Molecule Dynamics on Supported Lipid Bilayers with Membrane Curvature." Membranes, March 2017, doi: 10.3390/membranes7010015.

Aml A. Alnaas, Carrie L. Moon, Mitchell Alton, Scott M. Reed, Michelle K. Knowles, "Conformational Changes in C-Reactive Protein Affect Binding to Curved Membranes in a Lipid Bilayer Model of the Apoptotic Cell Surface." J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121(12):2631-2639. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b11505 

Stephen M. Budy, Desmond J. Hamilton, Yuheng Cai, Michelle K. Knowles, Scott M. Reed. Polymer mediated layer-by-layer assembly of different shaped gold nanoparticles. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2017 Feb 1;487:336-347. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.10.022

Kathryn P. Wall, Rebecca Dillon, Michelle K. Knowles. "Fluorescence Quantum Yield Measurements of Fluorescent Proteins: A Laboratory Experiment for a Biochemistry or Molecular Biophysics Laboratory Course."  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education January 2015.

Joshua C Black, Philip P. Cheney, Travis Campbell, Michelle K. Knowles. "Membrane curvature based lipid sorting using a nanoparticle patterned substrate." Soft Matter, 2014, 10(12), 2016-23. doi: 10.1039/c3sm52522h

Philip Cheney, Mick Stachler, Michelle K. Knowles. “Single Molecule Tracking of P-glycoprotein in Live Cells Reveals Dynamic Heterogeneity.” IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine, 2012, 3159-62. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346635

Min S. Wang, Joshua C. Black, Michelle K. Knowles, and Scott M. Reed.“C-reactive protein (CRP) aptamer binds to monomeric but not pentameric form of CRP.”Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2011, 401(4), 1309-18.  doi: 10.1007/s00216-011-5174-1.

Michelle K. Knowles, Sebastian Barg, L. Wan, M. Midorikawa, X. Chen, and Wolfhard Almers, “Single secretory granules of live cells recruit syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein25 (SNAP-25) in large copy numbers.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2010, 107 (48), 20810-20815.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014840107

Sebastian Barg, Michelle K. Knowles, Lei Wan, Xi Chen, and Wolfhard Almers. “Syntaxin clusters assemble reversibly at sites of secretory granules in live cells.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2010, 107 (48), 20804-20809. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014823107

William Birdsong, Leonardo Fierro, Frank G Williams, Valeria Spelta, Ligia A Naves, Michelle K Knowles, Josephine Marsh-Haffner, John P Adelman, Wolfhard Almers, Robert P Elde, Edwin W McCleskey, “Sensing muscle ischemia: coincident detection of acid and ATP via interplay of two ion channels.” Neuron, 2010, 68, 739–749.doi10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.029

Michelle K. Knowles, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Direct measurement of relative and collective diffusion in a dilute binary colloidal suspension.” Journal of Chemical Physics, 2005, 122(23), 234909. doi: 10.1063/1.1926227

Michelle K. Knowles, Marina G. Guenza, Roderick A. Capaldi, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Cytoskeletal-Assisted Dynamics of the Mitochondrial Reticulum in Living Cells.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2002, 99 (23), 14772-14777.doi: 10.1073/pnas.232346999

Roderick A. Capaldi, R. Aggeler, R. Gilkerson, G. Hanson, M. Knowles, A. Marcus, D.Margineantu, M. Marusich, J. Murray, D. Oglesbee, S.J. Remington, and R. Rossignol, “A replicating module as the unit of mitochondrial structure and functioning.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2002, 1555, 192-195. doi:10.1016/S0005-2728(02)00277-3

Tyler J. Grassman, Michelle K. Knowles and Andrew H. Marcus, “Structure and Dynamics of Fluorescently Labeled Complex Fluids by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2000, 62 (6), 8245-8257.doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.8245

Michelle K. Knowles, Tyler J. Grassman and Andrew H. Marcus, “Measurement of the Dynamic Structure Function of Fluorescently Labeled Complex Fluids by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” Physical Review Letters, 2000, 85 (13), 2837-2840. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2837

Book Chapter

Michelle K. Knowles, Daciana Margineantu, Roderick A. Capaldi and Andrew H. Marcus, “Translational Dynamics of Fluorescently Labeled Species by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” American Chemical Society, Liquid Dynamics: Into the New Millennium (May2001).