Ji Yu Lab

The world of microscopy

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Publications

Original journal papers

Tatavarty V, Ifrim MF, Levin M, Korza G, Barbarese E, Yu J, Carson JH.
Single-molecule imaging of translational output from individual RNA granules in neurons
Mol Biol Cell. 23(5):918-29 (2012)

Zhang J, Garner W, Setlow P, Yu J.
Quantitative Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Correlations during Germination of Spores of Bacillus Species.
J Bacteriol. 193(15):3765-72 (2011)

Griffiths KK, Zhang J, Cowan AE, Yu J, Setlow P.
Germination proteins in the inner membrane of dormant Bacillus subtilis spores colocalize in a discrete cluster.
Mol Microbiol. (2011)

Pengfei Zhang, Will Garner, Xuan Yi, Ji Yu, Yong-qing Li and Peter Setlow
Factors Affecting Variability in Time between Addition of Nutrient Germinants and Rapid Dipicolinic Acid Release during Germination of Spores of Bacillus Species
Journal of Bacteriology 192(14), p3608-3619 (2010)

Vedakumar Tatavarty, Eun-Ji Kim, Vladimir Rodionov, Ji Yu
Investigating sub-spine actin dynamics in rat hippocampal neurons with super-resolution optical imaging
Plos One (2009)

Lili Niu and Ji Yu
Investigating Intracellular Dynamics of FtsZ Cytoskeleton with Photo-activation Single-molecule Tracking
Biophysical Journal (2008)

J. Yu*, J. Xiao*, X. Ren K.Q. Lao and X. Sunney Xie
Probing gene expression in live single Escherichia coli cells - one molecule at a time
Science 311, 1600-1603 (2006)

W. Min, L. Jiang, J. Yu, S.C. Kou, H. Qian and X. Sunney Xie
Nonequilibrium Steady State of a Nanometric Biochemical System: Determining the Thermodynamic Driving Force from Single Enzyme Turnover Time Traces
Nanoletters 5, 2373-2378 (2005)

J. Yu, R. Lammi, A.J. Gesquiere, P.F. Barbara
Singlet-Triplet and Triplet-Triplet Interactions in Conjugated Polymer Single Molecules
J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 10025-10034 (2005)

A.J. Gesquiere, Y.J. Lee, J. Yu, P.F. Barbara
Single Molecule Modulation Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers
J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 12366-12371 (2005)

J. Yu, N.W. Song, J.D. McNeill and P.F. Barbara
Efficient Exciton Quenching by Hole Polarons in the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV
Israel Journal of Chemistry 44, 127-132 (2004)

S. Park, A. Gresquiere, J. Yu and P.F. Barbara
Charge injection and photo-oxidation of single conjugated polymers molecule
J. Am. Chem. Soc 126, 4111-7 (2004)

D. Hu, J. Yu, G. Padmanaban, S. Ramakrishanan and P.F. Barbara
Spatial Confinement of Exciton Transfer and the Role of Conformational Order in Organic Nanoparticles
Nanoletters 2, 1121-1124 (2002)

J. Yu, D. Hu and P. F. Barbara
Unmasking Electronic Energy Transfer of Conjugated Polymers by Suppression of O2 Quenching
Science 289, 1327 (2000)

D. Hu, J. Yu, K. Wong, B. Bagchi, P. J. Rossky and P. F. Barbara
Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations"
Nature 405, 1030-1033 (2000)

D. Hu, J. Yu and P. F. Barbara
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 6936-6937 (2000)

W. T. Yip, D. Hu, J. Yu, D. A. Vanden Bout and P. F. Barbara
Classifying the photophysical dynamics of single- and multiple-chromophoric molecules by single molecule spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 7564-7575 (1998)

Reviews and book chapters

Vats P, Yu J, Rothfield L.
The dynamic nature of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
Cell Mol Life Sci. 66(20):3353-62(2009)

X. Sunney Xie, Ji Yu and Wei Yuan Yang
Living Cells as Test Tubes
Science, 312, 228-230 (2006)

Ji Yu, Dehong Hu and P.F. Barbara
Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers
Nobel Conference Lectures, R. Rigler, M. Orrit, and T. Basche (eds.), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 144-160