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David B Bensimon, M.M.Sc., M.M.Sc., Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry

Education:

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986

M.M.Sc.:

1980 Weizmann Institute, Applied Physics
1976 Technion, Electrical Engineering
1976 Technion, Physics

Certifications:

Certification Type:

2007 UCLA, Regent’s Professor
2006 ICAM, ICAM Fellow , KITP- UCSB

Contact Information:

Work Email Address:	bensimon@chem.ucla.edu

Work Address:	Young Hall 3077A UNITED STATES

Home Page:	http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/item?item_id=32439

Work Phone Number:	1 (310) 206-4600 Office

Selected Publications:

Mosconi, F., Allemand, J. F., Bensimon, D., Croquette, V., Measurement of the Torque on a Single Stretched and Twisted DNA Using Magnetic Tweezers, Physical Review Letters, 2009, 102 (7), 078301.

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.