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United Kingdom TOP |
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| Colin Bain's Group (Univ. of Durham) |
Optical Binding |
| Paul Bartlett's Group (University of Bristol) |
Soft condensed matter - forces on colloids etc |
| Richard Berry's Group (Univ. of Oxford) |
Biophysics of molecular motors |
| CCLRC Group (Andy Ward) |
UK Optical Tweezers facility |
| COSMIC (University of Edinburgh) |
Optical tweezers and holographic techniques |
Nynke Dekker's Group |
Optical tweezers for DNA- & RNA-protein interactions, nanopores. |
| Kishan Dholakia's Group (University of St. Andrews) |
Optical manipulation techniques, Properties of novel light fields, colloidal and nanoparticle dynamics in optical light fields. Biophotonics. |
| Mark Dickinson's Group (Univ. of Manchester) |
Surface profiling and force measurements |
| Jochen Guck's Group (University of Cambridge) |
Photonics with biological and medical relevance |
| David McGloin's Group (University of Dundee) |
Aerosols, holographic optical tweezers, colloids, biophotonics, , non-optical techniques, novel light beams |
| Justin Molloy's Group Nat. Inst. for Medical Research |
Molecular Motors |
| Miles Padgett's Group (University of Glasgow) |
Optical spanners and dynamic holographic techniques |
| Jonathan Reid's Group (University of Bristol) |
Particle dynamics (aerosols) |
| John Sanderson's Group (Univ. of Durham) |
Liposomal membranes and Raman tweezing - collaboration with CCLRC |
| John Sleep's Group King's College London) |
Molecular motors |
| Richard Snook's Group University of Manchester |
Studies of single molecules |
| Z. Ulanowski's Group (Univ. of Hertfordshire) |
Light scattering studies |
| Claudia Veigel's Group Nat. Inst. for Medical Research |
Molecular Motors |
Rest of Europe TOP |
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| Ove Axner's Group (Umeå University) |
Studies of cell signalling processes (Tweezers and Scalpel) |
| Clemens Bechinger's Group (University of Stuttgart) |
Colloid physics |
| A. van Blaaderen, A. Imhof and M. Dijkstra's Group (Utrecht University) |
Colloid physics - patterning of surfaces using optical tweezers |
| Kirstine Berg-Sørensen's Group (NBI, Copenhagen) |
Biophysical applications of tweezing |
| Optical Trapping Lab Grup de Biofotònica (BiOPT) University of Barcelona, Spain |
Holographic optical tweezers for the study of biological processes in vivo |
| Dan Cojoc's Group (OM Lab at TASC-INFM, Trieste, Italy) |
Optical Manipulation |
| Rumiana Dimova's Group (MPI-KG, Golm) |
Membrane and Vesicles science |
| Jörg Enderlein's Group (Forschungszentum Jülich) |
Optical tweezers for probing surface topography |
| Jesper Gluckstad's Group (Risø National Laboratory) |
Developing the Generalized Phase Contrast Method to create user-interactive multi-beam optical micromanipulation. |
| Jan Greve's group (University of Twente) |
Single biomolecular interactions using optical tweezers |
| Dag Hanstorp's Group (Chalmers University, Gothenberg) |
Biophysical applications and manipulation of particles in small cavities |
| Martin Hegner's group (University of Basel) |
Dynamics and kinetics of interacting biomolecules |
| Josef Kas' Group (Univ. of Leipzig) |
Polymers and Membranes in cells |
| Georg Marat's Group (Univ. Konstanz) |
Colloids and Biophysics |
| Jens Michaelis' Group Ludwigs-Maximilians-Univ. Munich |
Molecular mechanisms of proteins |
| Manuel Nieto Vesperinas's Group (Materials Science Inst. of Madrid) |
Photonic Force Microscopy, near field optics (Theory) |
| Pal Ormos' Group (University of Szeged, Hungary) |
Driving micromachines with light |
| Theodore Papazoglou's Group (archived) (FORTH, Crete) |
Trapping and manipulation of particles and cells |
| Francesco Pavone's Group (LENS, Florence) |
Biophysics applications with optical and magnetic tweezers |
| Dmitri Petrov's Group (ICFO, Barcelona) |
Biochemical processes on trapped cells, Raman Tweezing |
| Herve Rigneault's Group (Institut Fresnel, Marseille) |
HOTs and cell membrane dynamics |
| M. Ritsch-Marte's Group (Innsbruck University) |
Optical fibre traps and stretchers - applications in medical physics |
| Alexander Rohrbach's Group (Univ. of Freiburg) |
Optical trapping of sub-lambda particles using Photonic Force Microscopy |
| Manfred Schliwa's Group (University of Munich) |
Cell biophysics incl. molecular motors |
| Christof Schmidt's Group (Virje University) |
Physics of complex systems |
| Ernst Stelzer's Group (EMBL) |
Optical forces and the Photonic Force Microscope |
| University of Barcelona Group | Holographic tweezers |
| Gijs Wuite's group (Vrije University, Amsterdam) |
DNA-Protein Interactions |
| Pavel Zemanek's Group (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) |
Micromanipulation and standing wave traps |
| Roberto Di Leonardo's Group (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") |
Holographic Optical Trapping, Impulsive Stimulated Scattering Aging and flow in soft materials |
| Antonio Sasso's Group (University of Naples "Federico II") |
Laser Spectroscopy and Optical Manipulation |
| Heimo Saarikko's Group (University of Helsinki) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
| René Paul Salathé's Group (Ecole Polytechnique Federale De lausanne) |
Optical trapping solutions for Lab-on-a-Chip applications. |
US & Canada TOP |
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| Suzanne Amador Kane's Group (Haverford College) |
Studies of biopolymers and cell analysis |
| Bahman Anvari's Group (Rice University) |
Bio-studies, including mechanical properties of cochlear outer hair cells |
| Sangeeta Bhatia's Group (Univ. of California at San Diego) |
BioMEMS and tissue engineering |
| Michael W. Berns' Group (Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic) |
Mechanisms of light interaction with biological systems and the use of light to study fundamental problems in cell biology. |
| Steven Block's Group (Stanford University) |
Biophysical applications |
| Keith Bonin's Group (Wake Forest University) |
Nanomotors and biomolecular motors |
| William Brownell's Group (Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine) |
Cochlear biophysics |
| Carlos Bustamante's Group (Univ. of Berkeley) |
DNA-binding molecular motors |
| Daniel Chiu's Group (University of Washington) |
Nano and micro systems for bioanalysis (Updated 09/03/07) |
| Mark Cronin-Golomb's Group (Tufts Univ.) |
Fluid dynamics, local material properties, biophysics |
| Bogdan Dragnea's Group (Indiana University) |
Near-field optical trapping |
| Eric Dufresne's Group (Yale University) |
3D trapping and soft condensed matter research |
| Thomas Fischer's Group (archived) (Florida State University) |
Colloidal and interface science |
| Nancy Forde's Group (Simon Fraser University) |
Molecular Biophysics |
| Eric Furst's group (Univ. of Delaware) |
Colloid science - microrheology |
| Alice Gast's Group (MIT) |
The behavior of magnetorheological fluids |
| Robert Gauthier (Carleton University, Ottawa) |
Optical tweezing and studies of light induced forces in optical manipulation |
| David Grier's Group (New York University) |
The Grier group uses optical tweezers to study colloidal interactions, making use of dynamic holographic techniques. |
| Steven Gross' Group (Univ. of California at Irvine) |
Molecular motors |
| Kristian Helmerson's Group (NIST) |
Biochemical and biotechnology applications |
| Alan J. Hunt's Group (University of Michigan) |
Biological applications, in particular the biomechanical processes behind mitosis. |
| Scot C. Kuo's Group (Johns Hopkins University) |
Force measurement for cell mobility studies |
| Wolfgang Ketterle's Group (M.I.T) |
Optical Tweezers to move BEC. |
| J.A. Kong's Group (M.I.T) |
Optical Binding |
| Yong-qing Li's Group (East Carolina University) |
Raman Tweezers - combining optical tweezers and Raman spectroscopy |
| Jan Liphardt's Group (Berkeley) |
Force measurement of molecular systems, nanowires |
| Wolfgang Losert's Group (University of Maryland) |
Biophysics, mechanical properties of cells |
| David Marr's Group (Colarado School of Mines) |
Optical tweezers for colloidal control, including control of microfluidic devices |
| Thomas Mason's Group (UCLA) |
Microrheology |
| Jens-Christian Meiners' Group Univ. of Michigan |
Biophysics with single DNA molecules |
| Lucas Novotny's Group (Institute of Optics, Rochester) |
Sorting of nanoparticles. |
| H. Daniel Ou-Yong's Group (Lehigh Univ.) |
Hydrodynamics, microfluidics |
| Mihri Ozkan's Group (Univ. of California, Riverside) |
Biophotonics: Manipulation of cells with VCSEL arrays |
| Tom Perkin's Group (JILA) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
| Tom Perkin's Optical Trapping Simulations (PhET, Univ. of Colorado) | An interactive way to understand the basics of optical trapping |
| Mara Prentiss' Group (Harvard University) |
Optical and magnetic tweezers for biological applications |
| Stephen Quake's Group (CalTech) |
Single molecule polymer dynamics using optical tweezers |
| Raj Rajagopalan's Group (Univ. of Florida) |
Single particle/molecule force spectroscopy and microrheology |
| Doug Smith's Group (UCSD) |
Single Molecule Biophysics |
| Gabe Spalding's Group (Illinois-Wesleyen University) |
Holographic optical tweezers |
| James Spudich's Group (Stanford University) |
Molecular Motors |
| Ron Vale's Lab (UCSF) |
Molecular Motors |
| Koen Visscher (Univ. of Arizona) |
Molecular Motors |
| David Walt's Group (Tufts University) |
Large area optical tweezers |
| Michelle Wang's Group (Cornell University) |
Molecular motors |
| Paul Weiss' Group (Penn. State University) |
Molecular-Scale Control & Measurement of Composition & Properties in Membranes |
| John G. White's Group - LOCI (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
Instrumentation for imaging and manipulating living specimens |
| Mark William's Group (Northeastern University) |
Stretching single molecules |
| Ming Wu's Group (Berkeley) |
Manipulation via optoelectrowetting |
| John Yukich's Group Davidson College |
Cell motility |
John C. Crocker |
Single and Few Molecule Physics with Extended Optical Tweezers, Cell Microrheology |
Rolf Hubmayr |
Membrane and cytoskeletal biomechanics |
Joshua W. Shaevitz |
Mechanical perturbation of cells and molecules with visualization of key protein and macromolecular structures |
| Jennifer Curtis Georgia Tech |
Probe the coupling of the mechanical and chemical circuitry of the cell. |
Australia TOP |
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| Denis Evans' Group (Australian National University) |
Tweezers and thermodynamics |
| Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop's Group (University of Queensland) |
Optical rotation and alignment, theoretical aspects of optical tweezing |
| Min Gu's Group (Univ. of Swinburne) |
Optical tweezers for bio- and nano-photonic applications |
Asia TOP
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| Arthur Chiou's Group (National Yang-Ming Uni, Taiwan) |
Optical manipulation and sensing for biomedical applications |
| Sow Chorng Haur's Group (National Univ. of Singapore) |
Colloidal interactions, optical tweezers arrays |
| B.M. Jaffar's Group (Anna University, India) |
Nano manipulation, Biophotonics |
| G. R. Kulkarni's Group (University of Pune, India) |
Biophysics and Particle trapping |
| Yong-Gu Lee's Group (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) |
Formation and assembly of micro parts using lasers |
| Hiroshi Masuhara's Group (Univ. of Osaka) |
Manipulation of nano-particles |
| G. V. Shivashankar's Group (National Center for Biological Research, Bangalore) |
Single Molecule Biophysics, particle tracking |
Useful Resources/information on Optical tweezers
RESOURCES TOP |
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| K. Dholakia et al Physics World Article (pdf) | Recent review of state of the art tweezers | |
| D. McGloin et al OE Magazine Article (pdf) | Review of Bessel beam optical tweezers | |
| M. Lang and S. Block | Am. J. Phys. Resource Letter on Optical Tweezers | |
| A. Ashkin | Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles using lasers | |
| S. Block | Construction of Optical Tweezers, from Cells: A Laboratory Manual | |
| M. Williams | Optical tweezers: measuring piconewton forces, from Biophysics Textbook Online | |
| Special Edition of Journal of Modern Optics | A selection of optical tweezers papers from some of the leading groups | |
| Lab manual for Optical Tweezers, Student report on trapping and ablation |
From UCSD website, experiments run by Prof. David Kleinfeld Gentle intro to Tweezers, with experimental advice. | |
| Carlos Bustamante Video Lecture | Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of Baceriophage phi29 | |
| K. C. Neuman and S. Block (pdf) | Recent optical trapping review paper (New 9/09/05) | |
| K.C. Neuman Video lecture | Introduction to optical trapping: the single beam gradient trap (New 9/09/05) | |
| S. B. Smith Video Lectures (1) + (2) | Biophysics with optical tweezers (1) and Introduction to optical tweezers (2) (New 9/09/05) | |
| Shaevitz Lab | A Practical Guide to Optical Trapping | |
| Holographic Optics Tweezers(pdf) | Holographic Optical Trapping," G. C. Spalding, J. Courtial, R. Di Leonardo , in Structured Light and its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces , edited by D. L. Andrews, Elsevier Press (2008) In Press. | |
