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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1991 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For experimental and theoretical contributions to fluorescence spectroscopy and the elucidation of biomolecular dynamics

Overview

Enrico Gratton is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 162 publications. Key subfields include Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Immunology.

Their work engages with multiple specialized topics, notably:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Gratton's frequent publication venues highlight a focus on biophysical and imaging methodologies. They have contributed extensively to:

  • Biophysical Journal (35 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (10 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (5 publications)
  • Nature Methods (3 publications)
  • Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (3 publications)

Recent research papers include:

  • Defining Epidermal Basal Cell States during Skin Homeostasis and Wound Healing Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics (2020, Cell Reports)
  • UTX condensation underlies its tumour-suppressive activity (2021, Nature)
  • Biophysical properties of AKAP95 protein condensates regulate splicing and tumorigenesis (2020, Nature Cell Biology)
  • The Phasor Plot: A Universal Circle to Advance Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis and Interpretation (2021, Annual Review of Biophysics)
  • Phasor S-FLIM: a new paradigm for fast and robust spectral fluorescence lifetime imaging (2021, Nature Methods)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Lorenzo Scipioni (34 joint publications)
  • Michelle A. Digman (24 joint publications)
  • Alexander Vallmitjana (20 joint publications)
  • Belén Torrado (17 joint publications)
  • Alexander Dvornikov (13 joint publications)

Enrico Gratton has received recognition within the scientific community, being awarded Fellow status by the American Physical Society in 1991, cited for contributions to fluorescence spectroscopy and biomolecular dynamics. A further fellowship was awarded by the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Lipid rafts reconstituted in model membranes.

    C. Dietrich;L. A. Bagatolli;Z. N. Volovyk;Nancy L Thompson

  • The Phasor Approach to Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Analysis

    Michelle A. Digman;Valeria R. Caiolfa;Moreno Zamai;Enrico Gratton

  • Quantitation of lipid phases in phospholipid vesicles by the generalized polarization of Laurdan fluorescence

    T. Parasassi;G. De Stasio;G. Ravagnan;R.M. Rusch

  • Phase fluctuation in phospholipid membranes revealed by Laurdan fluorescence

    T. Parasassi;G. De Stasio;A. d'Ubaldo;E. Gratton

  • The photon counting histogram in fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy.

    Yan Chen;Joachim D. Müller;Peter T.C. So;Enrico Gratton

  • Laurdan and Prodan as Polarity-Sensitive Fluorescent Membrane Probes

    Tiziana Parasassi;Ewa K. Krasnowska;Luis Bagatolli;Enrico Gratton

  • Two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: Method and application to the intracellular environment

    Keith M. Berland;Peter T. C. So;Enrico Gratton

  • Visualizing lipid structure and raft domains in living cells with two-photon microscopy

    Katharina Gaus;Enrico Gratton;Eleanor P. W. Kable;Allan S. Jones

  • A continuously variable frequency cross-correlation phase fluorometer with picosecond resolution

    E. Gratton;M. Limkeman

  • Multiphoton excitation fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy of in vivo human skin

    Barry R. Masters;Peter T. C. So;Enrico Gratton

  • Fluid Shear Stress on Endothelial Cells Modulates Mechanical Tension across VE-Cadherin and PECAM-1

    Daniel E. Conway;Mark T. Breckenridge;Elizabeth Hinde;Enrico Gratton

  • Water and globular proteins

    John A. Rupley;Enrico Gratton;Giorgio Careri

  • Measuring fast dynamics in solutions and cells with a laser scanning microscope.

    Michelle A. Digman;Claire M. Brown;Parijat Sengupta;Paul W. Wiseman

  • Mapping the number of molecules and brightness in the laser scanning microscope.

    Michelle A. Digman;Rooshin Dalal;Alan F. Horwitz;Enrico Gratton

  • Fluorescence lifetime standards for time and frequency domain fluorescence spectroscopy

    Noël Boens;Wenwu Qin;Nikola Basarić;Johan Hofkens

  • The Measurement and Analysis of Heterogeneous Emissions by Multifrequency Phase and Modulation Fluorometry

    David M. Jameson;Enrico Gratton;Robert D. Hall

  • Possible correlation between blood glucose concentration and the reduced scattering coefficient of tissues in the near infrared

    John S. Maier;Scott A. Walker;Sergio Fantini;Maria Angela Franceschini

  • Phasor approach to fluorescence lifetime microscopy distinguishes different metabolic states of germ cells in a live tissue

    Chiara Stringari;Amanda Cinquin;Olivier Cinquin;Michelle A. Digman

  • ANALYSIS OF FLUORESCENCE DECAY KINETICS FROM VARIABLE-FREQUENCY PHASE-SHIFT AND MODULATION DATA

    J.R. Lakowicz;G. Laczko;H. Cherek;E. Gratton

  • Precision and accuracy of single-molecule FRET measurements—a multi-laboratory benchmark study

    Björn Hellenkamp;Björn Hellenkamp;Sonja Schmid;Sonja Schmid;Olga Doroshenko;Oleg Opanasyuk

  • Two Photon Fluorescence Microscopy of Coexisting Lipid Domains in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles of Binary Phospholipid Mixtures

    L.A. Bagatolli;E. Gratton

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle A. Digman
Michelle A. Digman University of California, Irvine
Luis A. Bagatolli
Luis A. Bagatolli National University of Córdoba
Moshe Levi
Moshe Levi Georgetown University
Alberto Diaspro
Alberto Diaspro Italian Institute of Technology
Don C. Lamb
Don C. Lamb Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Robert V. Stahelin
Robert V. Stahelin Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert M. Clegg
Robert M. Clegg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert M. Hoffman
Robert M. Hoffman AntiCancer (United States)
Daniela Pozzi
Daniela Pozzi Sapienza University of Rome
Philip Tinnefeld
Philip Tinnefeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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