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16510
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

David Bensimon is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their main areas of study include Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The research frequently addresses topics such as advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, zebrafish biomedical research applications, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and RNA modifications related to cancer.

Recent publications by David Bensimon include:

  • Fgf8 dynamics and critical slowing down may account for the temperature independence of somitogenesis, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Displacement and dissociation of oligonucleotides during DNA hairpin closure under strain, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Vertebrate Cell Differentiation, Evolution, and Diseases: The Vertebrate-Specific Developmental Potential Guardians VENTX/NANOG and POU5/OCT4 Enter the Stage, 2022, Cells
  • The Development and Application of Opto-Chemical Tools in the Zebrafish, 2022, Molecules
  • Detection of genetic variation and base modifications at base-pair resolution on both DNA and RNA, 2021, Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Pierluigi Scerbo
  • Bertrand Ducos
  • Jean-François Allemand
  • Vincent Croquette
  • Marine Delagrange

The primary venues for publication consist of Communications Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Nucleic Acids Research, and Cells.

David Bensimon has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The Elasticity of a Single Supercoiled DNA Molecule

    T. R. Strick;J.-F. Allemand;D. Bensimon;A. Bensimon

  • Alignment and sensitive detection of DNA by a moving interface

    A Bensimon;A Simon;A Chiffaudel;V Croquette

  • Behavior of Supercoiled DNA

    T.R. Strick;J.-F. Allemand;D. Bensimon;V. Croquette

  • Stretching DNA with a receding meniscus: Experiments and models.

    D. Bensimon;A. J. Simon;V. Croquette;A. Bensimon

  • Stretched and overwound DNA forms a Pauling-like structure with exposed bases

    J. F. Allemand;D. Bensimon;R. Lavery;V. Croquette

  • Twisting and stretching single DNA molecules.

    Terence Strick;Jean-François Allemand;Vincent Croquette;David Bensimon

  • Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase.

    Terence R. Strick;Vincent Croquette;David Bensimon

  • pH-dependent specific binding and combing of DNA

    J.F. Allemand;D. Bensimon;L. Jullien;A. Bensimon

  • Replication by a single DNA polymerase of a stretched single-stranded DNA.

    Berenike Maier;David Bensimon;Vincent Croquette

  • Stretching of macromolecules and proteins

    T. R. Strick;M. N. Dessinges;G. Charvin;N. H. Dekker

  • How to control proteins with light in living systems

    Arnaud Gautier;Carole Gauron;Michel Volovitch;David Bensimon

  • Stretching single stranded DNA, a model polyelectrolyte.

    M.-N. Dessinges;B. Maier;B. Maier;Y. Zhang;M. Peliti

  • Measurement of the torque on a single stretched and twisted DNA using magnetic tweezers.

    Francesco Mosconi;Jean François Allemand;David Bensimon;Vincent Croquette

  • Preferential relaxation of positively supercoiled DNA by E. coli topoisomerase IV in single-molecule and ensemble measurements

    Nancy J. Crisona;Terence R. Strick;David Bensimon;Vincent Croquette

  • Homologous pairing in stretched supercoiled DNA

    T. R. Strick;V. Croquette;D. Bensimon

  • Single-molecule assay reveals strand switching and enhanced processivity of UvrD

    Marie-Noëlle Dessinges;Timothée Lionnet;Xu Guang Xi;David Bensimon

  • Wringing Out DNA

    Timothée Lionnet;Sylvain Joubaud;Richard Lavery;David Bensimon

  • Direct Observation of DNA Distortion by the RSC Complex

    Giuseppe Lia;Elise Praly;Helder Ferreira;Chris Stockdale

  • Single-molecule study of DNA unlinking by eukaryotic and prokaryotic type-II topoisomerases.

    G. Charvin;D. Bensimon;V. Croquette

  • The mechanism of type IA topoisomerases

    N. H. Dekker;V. V. Rybenkov;M. Duguet;N. J. Crisona

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Croquette
Vincent Croquette École Normale Supérieure
Ludovic Jullien
Ludovic Jullien École Normale Supérieure
Richard Lavery
Richard Lavery Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stephen J. Benkovic
Stephen J. Benkovic Pennsylvania State University
Shimon Weiss
Shimon Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
Christophe Beloin
Christophe Beloin Institut Pasteur
Laure Bally-Cuif
Laure Bally-Cuif Institut Pasteur
Sankar Adhya
Sankar Adhya National Institutes of Health
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marc Ghigo
Jean-Marc Ghigo Institut Pasteur

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