User:Yuval Ebenstein

Contact Info



 * Yuval Ebenstein
 * UCLA
 * 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Rm. 2002
 * Los Angeles, CA 90095
 * uv(at)chem.ucla.edu

I will be setting up my own lab in Tel-Aviv university in 2011 Yaay!

Education

 * 2007, PhD, Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
 * 2001, MS, Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
 * 2000, BS, Physics & Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Research interests
I'm interested in epigenetic modifications and their effect on transcription regulation and the structural dynamics of the genome. I try to apply advanced optical microscopy techniques to the study of DNA and assosiated proteins in-vitro and in-vivo

Publications
[:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-4420-2009 ]

Selected publications (in chronological order): 1.    Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari, and U. Banin, “Fluorescence Quantum Yield of CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals investigated by correlated atomic force and single particle fluorescence microscopy”, App. Phys. Lett. 80 (21): 4033-4035 (2002) 2.     M. Kazes, D. Y. Lewis, Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari, U. Banin, “Lasing from semiconductor Quantum Rods in a cylindrical microcavity”, Adv. Mater. 14, 317 (2002). 3.     Y. Ebenstein, E. Nahum, and U. Banin, “Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy for Nanoparticle Sizing: Tip-Sample Interaction Effects”, Nano Lett. 2 (9) 945 - 950 (2002) 4.      E. Nahum, Y. Ebenstein, A. Aharoni, T. Mokari, U. Banin, N. Shimoni, and O. Millo, “Transport and Charging in Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals Studied by Conductance Atomic Force Microscopy”, Nano Lett. 4 (1): 103 -108 (2004) 5.       Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari,  and U. Banin, “Quantum-Dot-Functionalized Scanning Probes for Fluorescence-Energy-Transfer-Based Microscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108 (1),93 -99 (2004) 6.        E. Rothenberg, Y. Ebenstein, M. Kazes, U. Banin, "Two photon fluorescence microscopy of single semiconductor quantum rods; direct verification of two photon absorption dipole orientation", J. Phys. Chem. B, 108,2797 - 2800 (2004) 7.        E. Rothenberg, Y. Ebenstein, M. Kazes, U. Banin, " Direct observation of highly polarized non-linear absorption dipole of single semiconductor quantum rods ", MRS conference proceedings series, 818,M6.5.1 (2004) 8.        T. Mokari, H. Sertchook, A. Aharoni, Y. Ebenstein, D. Avnir and U. Banin, "Nano@micro: General Method for Entrapment of Nanocrystals in Sol-Gel-Derived Composite Hydrophobic Silica Spheres", Chem. Mater. 17, 258-263 (2005) 9.	Y. Ebenstein, E. Yoskovitz, A. Aharoni, U. Banin, " Interaction of scanning probes with semiconductor nanocrystals; Physical mechanism and basis for near field optical imaging", J. Phys. Chem. A, 10, 8605-8612 (2006) 10.      Schipper, M.L., Iyer, G., Koh, A.L., Cheng, Z., Ebenstein, Y., Aharoni, A., Keren, S., Bentolila, L.A., Li, J., Rao, J., Chen, X., Banin, U., Wu, A.M., Sinclair, R., Weiss, S., Gambhir, S.S.,  “Particle Size, Surface Coating, and Pegylation Influence the Biodistribution of Quantum Dots in Living Mice”; Small, 5 (1), 126-34 (2009) 11.        Y. Ebenstein, N. Gassman, S. Kim, J. Antelman,Y. Kim, S. Ho, R. Samuel, X. Michalet and S. Weiss. “Lighting up individual transcription factors with quantum dots”; Nano Letters 9, 1598-1603 (2009) 12.        Y. Ebenstein, N. Gassman. S. Kim and S. Weiss. “Combining Atomic Force and Fluorescence microscopy For Analysis of Quantum-dot labeled Protein–DNA Complexes”; Journal of Molecular Recognition (2009), accepted 13.        L. A. Bentolila, Y. Ebenstein and S. Weiss. “Quantum Dots for in vivo Small Animal Imaging”; Journal of Nuclear Medicine 50, 493-496 (2009) 14.      J. Antelman, Y. Ebenstein (equal contribution), Thomas Dertinger, X. Michalet and S. Weiss. “Suppression of quantum dot blinking in DTT-doped polymer films”; Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2009) 15.        Y. Ebenstein, L. A. Bentolila; "Single-molecule detection: Focusing on the objective”; Nature Nanotechnology (News and Views), 5 (2), 99-100 (2010) Back to Weiss Lab!

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