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Citations
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1430

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1981 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1974 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Daniel Branton is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the life sciences and engineering, with a focus on areas related to molecular biology and biomedical engineering.

The primary fields of study in which Daniel Branton has contributed include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering

Within these fields, the subfields of study include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering

The main research topics addressed by Daniel Branton encompass:

  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Daniel Branton has authored the following papers:

  • The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing (2020), published in UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel Branton include:

  • David W. Deamer
  • Andre Marziali
  • Hagan Bayley
  • Steven A. Benner
  • Thomas Butler

The primary venue for publication includes UNC Libraries.

Daniel Branton has been recognized with several honors, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1981)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1980)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)

Best Publications

  • Characterization of individual polynucleotide molecules using a membrane channel

    John J. Kasianowicz;Eric Brandin;Daniel Branton;David W. Deamer

  • The Potential and Challenges of Nanopore Sequencing

    Daniel Branton;David W Deamer;Andre Marziali;Hagan Bayley

  • Rapid nanopore discrimination between single polynucleotide molecules.

    A. Meller;L Nivon;Eric Richard Brandin;Jene Andrew Golovchenko

  • Microsecond time-scale discrimination among polycytidylic acid, polyadenylic acid, and polyuridylic acid as homopolymers or as segments within single RNA molecules.

    Mark Akeson;Daniel Branton;John J. Kasianowicz;Eric Brandin

  • Freeze-etching nomenclature.

    Daniel Branton;Stanley Bullivant;Norton B. Gilula;Morris J. Karnovsky

  • Voltage-driven DNA translocations through a nanopore.

    Amit Meller;Amit Meller;Lucas Nivon;Lucas Nivon;Daniel Branton

  • Fracture faces of frozen membranes.

    Daniel Branton

  • Three decades of nanopore sequencing

    David Deamer;Mark Akeson;Daniel Branton

  • Interaction of cytoskeletal proteins on the human erythrocyte membrane

    Daniel Branton;Carl M. Cohen;Carl M. Cohen;Jonathan Tyler

  • MEMBRANE SPLITTING IN FREEZE-ETCHING : Covalently Bound Ferritin as a Membrane Marker

    Pedro Pinto da Silva;Daniel Branton

  • Characterization of nucleic acids by nanopore analysis.

    David W. Deamer;Daniel Branton

  • The molecular structure of human erythrocyte spectrin. Biophysical and electron microscopic studies.

    David M. Shotton;David M. Shotton;Brian E. Burke;Daniel Branton

  • Assembly units of clathrin coats

    Ernst Ungewickell;Daniel Branton

  • Visualization of the protein associations in the erythrocyte membrane skeleton.

    Timothy J. Byers;Daniel Branton

  • Single molecule measurements of DNA transport through a nanopore

    Amit Meller;Daniel Branton

  • Probing Single DNA Molecule Transport Using Fabricated Nanopores

    Peng Chen;Jiajun Gu;Eric Brandin;Young-Rok Kim

  • Copper staining: a five-minute protein stain for sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels.

    Chris Lee;Andrew Levin;Daniel Branton

  • Cloning and characterization of hdlg: the human homologue of the Drosophila discs large tumor suppressor binds to protein 4.1

    Robert A. Lue;Shirin M. Marfatia;Daniel Branton;Athar H. Chishti

  • Rotary shadowing of extended molecules dried from glycerol.

    Jonathan M. Tyler;Daniel Branton

  • Crystal structure of the repetitive segments of spectrin

    Y Yan;E Winograd;A Viel;T Cronin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jene Andrew Golovchenko
Jene Andrew Golovchenko Harvard University
Amit Meller
Amit Meller Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Timothy J. Denison
Timothy J. Denison University of Oxford
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein University of California, San Diego
Michael J. Aziz
Michael J. Aziz Harvard University
Elizabeth J. Luna
Elizabeth J. Luna University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
Damon B. Farmer
Damon B. Farmer IBM (United States)
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Steven M. Block
Steven M. Block Stanford University

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