Whiting School of Engineering




The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Denis Wirtz

Professor


Office: (410) 516-7006
Email: wirtz@jhu.edu
Cirriculum Vitae

Education

  • Postdoctoral, Physics, Biophysics. ESPCI, Paris. 1993 - 1994
  • Ph.D., Cemical Engineering. Stanford University. 1993
  • M.S., Chemical Engineering. Stanford University. 1989
  • B.S., Physics Engineering. Free University of Brussels. 1983-1988

Publications

  • T.M. Dobrowsky, Y. Zhou, S.X. Sun, R.F. Siliciano, and D. Wirtz, “Monitoring early fusion dynamics of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 at single-molecule resolution”, Journal of Virology 82: 7022–7033 (2008).
  • C.M. Hale, et al., “Dysfunctional connections between the nucleus and the actin and microtubule networks in laminopathic models”, Biophysical Journal 95: 5462–5475 (2008).
  • S. Bajpai, et al., "a-Catenin mediates initial E-cadherin-dependent cell-cell recognition and subsequent bond strengthening", PNAS, 105: 18331–18336 (2008).
  • B.R. Daniels, E.M. Perkins, T.M. Dobrowsky, S.X. Sun, and D. Wirtz, "Asymmetric enrichment of PIE-1 in the C. elegans zygote is mediated by binary counter-diffusion", Journal of Cell Biology 184: 473-479 (2009).
  • B. Wildt, D. Wirtz, and P.C. Searson, “Programmed sub-cellular release for studying the dynamics of cell detachment”, Nature Methods6: 211-213 (2009).
  • D. Wirtz, “Particle tracking microrheology of living cells: principles and applications”, Annual Review of Biophysics 38: 301-326 (2009).