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Alexander Levine, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Physical Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Member, California NanoSystems Institute

Education:

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles., 1996

Honors and Awards:

1993 - 1996 AT&T Graduate Fellowship
1989 Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship
1989 Julian Schwinger Graduate Fellowship
1988 Election to Mathematics Honors Society
1988 Election to Phi Beta Kappa
1987 Sigma Pi Sigma, Joined Physics Honor Society Sigma Pi Sigma
1985 University of California, Four Year Regents Scholarship
1985 Freshman Honors Society
1985 Golden Key Honors Society

Certifications:

Professional Societies:

American Physical Society , American Physical Society
Materials Research Society, Materials Research Society
Society of Rheology, Society of Rheology

Contact Information:

Email Address:	alevine@chem.ucla.edu

Office Address:	Student Office Young Hall 3086
Work Address:	Young Hall 3044A

Home Page:	http://alevine.chem.ucla.edu/

Fax Number:	1 (310) 206-4038
Work Phone Number:	1 (310) 794-4436

Additional Information:

Alex Levine has been a faculty member at UCLA since July of 2005. Before that he was an assistant professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He has done postdoctoral work at Exxon Research & Engineering Co., UPENN, and UCSB. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1996 where he did research on the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of sedimenting suspensions and on the fractional quantum hall effect. In addition, he worked with Sue Coppersmith at AT&T Bell Labs on the dynamics of driven charge density waves. He is currently a member of the California Nanosystems Institute and the UCLA representative on the Science Steering Committee of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter. He is the co-organizer of the Frontiers in Microrheology Workshop to be held at UCLA in February 2008. He currently works on a variety of problems at the interface of soft condensed matter physics and biophysics.

Selected Publications:

Mark L. Henle and Alex J. Levine, Effective Viscosity of a Dilute Suspension of Membrane-bound Inclusions, Physics of Fluids, 2009, 21, 033106.

Moumita Das and Alex J. Levine, The effect of network architecture on the mechanics of disordered biopolymer, Physical Review E., 2009, To be submitted.

Moumita Das, Don Blair, and Alex J. Levine, The effect of topological defects on sublimation kinetics in, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009, To be submitted.

Mark L. Henle and Alex J. Levine , The mobility of point and extended particles on spherical viscous interfaces, Physical Review E, 2009, To be submitted.

Jeremy D. Schmit and Alex J. Levine, The role of solitonic excitations in intermolecular adhesion in undoped, Physical Review E, 2009, Submitted.

Moumita Das, Alex J. Levine, and F.C. MacKintosh, Buckling and force propagation along intracellular, Europhysics Letters, 2008, 84, 18003.

Robert Brewster and Alex J. Levine, Effects of Cohesion on the Surface Angle and Velocity Profiles of Sand, Physical Review E, 2008, Accepted.

YongKeun Park, Catherine Best-Popescu, Kamran Badizadegan, Ramachandra R. Dasari, Michael S. Feld, Tatiana Kuriabova, Mark L. Henle, Alex J. Levine, and Gabriel Popescu, Measurement of red blood cel l mechanics during morphological changes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, Submitted.

Tatiana Kuribova and Alex J. Levine, Nanorheology of viscoelastic shells: Applications to viral capsids,, Physical Review E, 2008, 77, 031921.

F. C. MacKintosh and Alex J. Levine, Non-equilibrium mechanics and dynamics of motor-activated gels, Physical Review Letters, 2008, 100, 018104.

Robert Brewster, Leonardo Silbert, Gary S. Grest, and Alex J. Levine, Relationship between interparticle contact lifetimes and rheology in gravity-driven granular ﬂows, Physical Review E, 2008, 77, 061302.

Robert Walder, Alex J. Levine, and Michael Dennin, Rheology of two-dimensional F-actin networks associated with a lipid interface, Physical Review E, 2008, 77, 011909.

David Schwab, Robijn F. Bruinsma, and Alex J. Levine, Rhythmogenic Neuronal Networks and k-Core Percolation, Physical Review Letters, 2009, Submitted.

Jeremy D. Schmit and Alex J. Levine, Statistical model for intermolecular adhesion in pi-conjugated systems, Physical Review Letters, 2008, 100, 198303.

Biswaroop Mukherjee and Alex J. Levine, The effect of colored noise on stochastic resonance, American Journal of Physics, 2008.

Mark L. Henle, Ryan McGorty, A.D. Dinsmore, and Alex J. Levine , The effect of curvature and topology on membrane hydrodynamics, Europhysics Letters, 2008, 84, 48001.

Alex J. Levine and F.C. MacKintosh, The mechanics and ﬂuctuation spectrum of active gels, J. Phys. Chem., 2008, Accepted (De Gennes Memorial Issue).

Alex J. Levine and F.C. MacKintosh, The mechanics and ﬂuctuation spectrum of active gels, , 2008, Accepted.

Mark L. Henle and Alex J. Levine, Capillary wave dynamics on supported viscoelastic films: Single and double layers, Physical Review E, 2007, 75.

Ali Naji, Alex J. Levine, and P.A. Pincus, Corrections to the Saffman-Delbruck mobility for membrane bound proteins, Biophysical Journal: Biophysical Letters, 2007, 93, L49-L51.

Moumita Das, F.C. MacKintosh, and Alex J. Levine, Effective medium theory of semiflexible filamentous networks, Physical Review Letters, 2007 (99), 038101.

M.L. Henle and Alex J. Levine, Erratum: Capillary wave dynamics on supported viscoelastic films: Single and double layers, Physical Review E, 2007, 75, 059909(E).

B.A. DiDonna and Alex J. Levine, Filamin cross-linkers as rheology regulators in F-actin networks, Physical Review E, 2007, 75, 041909.

Robert Brewster, Leonardo Silbert, Gary S. Grest, and Alex J. Levine , Relationship between two-particle contact lifetimes and rheology in gravity driven granular flows, Physical Review E, 2007, Submitted.

L.E. Silbert, G.S. Grest, R. Brewster, and A.J. Levine, Rheology and Contact Lifetimes in Dense Granular Flows, Physical Review Letters, 2007 (99), 068002.

M. Atakhorrami, J.I. Sulkowska, K.M. Addas, G.H. Koenderink, J.X. Tang, A.J. Levine, F.C. MacKintosh, and C.F. Schmidt, Correlated ﬂuctuations of microparticles in viscoelastic solutions: Quantitative measurement of material properties by microrheology in the presence of optical traps, Physical Review E, 2006, 73 (061501).

B.A. DiDonna and Alex J. Levine, Filamin cross-linked semiflexible networks: Fragility under strain, Physical Review Letters, 2006 (97), 068104.

J.R. Savage, D. Blair, A.J. Levine, R.A. Guyer, and A.D. Dinsmore, Imaging the Sublimation Dynamics of Colloidal Crystallites , Science, 2006, 314 (5800), 795-798.

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and Alex J. Levine, The nonlinear elasticity of an alpha-helical polypeptide: Monte Carlo studies, Physical Review, 2006 (E 74), 031903.

R. Brewster, J. Landry, G.S. Grest, and A.J. Levine, Breakdown of Bagnold scaling in cohesive granular flows, Physical Review E 72, 2005 (061301).

Jeremy D. Schmit and Alex J. Levine, Intermolecular adhesion in conducting polymers, Physical Review E 71, 2005 (051802).

David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F.C. MacKintosh, Mechanical response of semiﬂexible networks to , Physical Review E, 2005, 72 (061914).

Levine, Alexander , Microrheollogy in polymer solutions: Depletion and the shell model, Abstracts of Papers American Chemical Society, 2005, 230, U1060.

David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F.C. MacKintosh, Short-range deformation of semiflexible networks: deviations from continuum elasticity., Physical Review E 72, 2005 (061914).

Alex J. Levine, T.B. Liverpool, and F.C. MacKintosh, Dynamics of extended bodies in viscous films and membranes, Physical Review Letters, 2004, 93 (038102).

Alex J. Levine, David A. Head, and F.C. MacKintosh, The Deformation Field in Semiflexible Networks, Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter, 2004, 16 (S2079).

Alex J. Levine, David A. Head, and F.C. MacKintosh, The elasticity of semiflexible networks, Proceedings of the XIVth Congress on Rheology. ed. The Korean Society of Rheology, 2004.

Alex J. Levine, T.B. Liverpool, and F.C. MacKintosh, The mobility of extended bodies in viscous films and membranes, Physical Review E, 2004, 69 (021503).

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and Alex J. Levine, The nonlinear elasticity of an alpha-helical polypeptide, Physical Review E 71, 2004 (031905).

David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F.C. MacKintosh, Deformation of cross-linked semiflexible polymer networks, Physical Review Letters, 2003, 91 (108102).

David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F.C. MacKintosh, Distinct regimes of elastic response and deformation modes of cross-linked cytoskeletal and semiflexible polymer networks, Physical Review , 2003, E 68 (061907).

David A. Head, F.C. MacKintosh, and Alex J. Levine, Non-universality of elastic exponents in random bond-bending networks., Physical Review , 2003, E 68 (025101).

D.T. Chen, E.R. Weeks, J.C. Crocker, M.F. Islam, R. Verma, J. Gruber, A.J. Levine, T.C. Lubensky, and A.G. Yodh, Rheological Microscopy:Local Mechanical Properties from Microrheology, Physical Review Letters, 2003, 90 (108301).

Victor Breedveld and Alex J. Levine, Shear induced diffusion in dilute suspensions of charged colloids, Soft Materials, 2003, 1, 235-244.

Alex J. Levine and F.C. MacKintosh, Dynamics of viscoelastic membranes, Physical Review, 2002, E 66 (061606).

K.M. Addas, J.X. Tang, A.J. Levine, and C.F. Schmidt, Extracting local and bulk viscoelasticity of entangled FD virus solutions by two-bead microrheology, Biophysical Journal, 2002, 82 (1), 2432.

Karim M. Addas, Alex J. Levine, Jay X. Tang, and Christoph F. Schmidt, One- and Two-Particle Microrheology in Entangled Solutions of fd Virus, Physical Characterization of Biological Materials and Systems Symposium. Boston, MA USA 26 Nov. - 30 Nov. 2001. Warrendale, PA, USA Materials Research Society, 2002.

Deniz Ertas, Thomas C. Halsey, Alex J. Levine, and Thomas G. Mason, Stability of monomer-dimer piles, Physical Review, 2002, E 66 (051307).

R. Bruinsma, F. Rondelez, and A. Levine, Flow-Control led Island Growth in Langmuir Monolayers, European Physics Journal E, 2001, 6, 191.

Alex J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, The response function of a sphere in a viscoelastic two–ﬂuid medium, Physical Review E, 2001, 63, 041510-1.

Alex J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, Two–point microrheology and the electrostatic analogy, Physical Review E, 2001, 65, 011501.

Randall D. Kamien and Alex J. Levine, Boundary Effects in Chiral Polymer Hexatics, Physical Review Letters, 2000, 84, 3109.

Alex J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, One- and two–particle microrheology, Physical Review Letters, 2000, 85, 1774.