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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For ground breaking applications of photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy to molecules and radicals and for incisive spectroscopic and dynamics studies of complex chemical reactions

Overview

James C. Weisshaar is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily involves fields related to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work spans a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Ecology, Organic Chemistry, and Genetics. The main topics covered in their research include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis.

Recent published papers by James C. Weisshaar include:

  • Biophysical Properties of Escherichia coli Cytoplasm in Stationary Phase by Superresolution Fluorescence Microscopy (2020, mBio)
  • Long-term effects of the proline-rich antimicrobial peptide Oncocin112 on the Escherichia coli translation machinery (2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Diverse Impacts on Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Membrane Activities from Hydrophobic Subunit Variation Among Nylon-3 Copolymers (2020, ACS Chemical Biology)
  • Local rigidification and possible coacervation of the Escherichia coli DNA by cationic nylon-3 polymers (2021, Biophysical Journal)
  • Real-Time Fluorescence Microscopy on Living E. coli Sheds New Light on the Antibacterial Effects of the King Penguin β-Defensin AvBD103b (2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yan-Yu Zhu, Mainak Mustafi, Lei Liu, Leslie A. Rank, and Samuel H. Gellman.

Their publications appear repeatedly in venues such as Biophysical Journal, mBio, Journal of Biological Chemistry, ACS Chemical Biology, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

James C. Weisshaar has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009. They were also made a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2000, with a citation highlighting their work on photoionization and photoelectron spectroscopy related to molecules and radicals as well as their studies of complex chemical reactions.

Best Publications

  • Superresolution imaging of ribosomes and RNA polymerase in live Escherichia coli cells

    Somenath Bakshi;Albert Siryaporn;Mark Goulian;James C. Weisshaar

  • Bare transition metal atoms in the gas phase: reactions of M, M+, and M2+ with hydrocarbons

    James C. Weisshaar

  • Real-time attack on single Escherichia coli cells by the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37

    Kem A. Sochacki;Kenneth J. Barns;Robert Bucki;James C. Weisshaar

  • Crowding and Confinement Effects on Protein Diffusion In Vivo

    Michael C. Konopka;Irina A. Shkel;Scott Cayley;M. Thomas Record

  • Gas Phase Reactions of Second-Row Transition Metal Atoms with Small Hydrocarbons: Experiment and Theory

    John J. Carroll;Kerstin L. Haug;James C. Weisshaar;Margareta R. A. Blomberg

  • SNARE-driven, 25-millisecond vesicle fusion in vitro.

    Tingting Liu;Ward C. Tucker;Akhil Bhalla;Edwin R. Chapman

  • Do Bridging Water Molecules Dictate the Structure of a Model Dipeptide in Aqueous Solution

    Chi-Duen Poon;Edward T. Samulski;Christoph F. Weise;James C. Weisshaar

  • Multicollision chemistry of gas-phase transition-metal ions with small alkanes: rate constants and product branching at 0.75 torr of helium

    Russ Tonkyn;Martha Ronan;James C. Weisshaar

  • Toluene cation: nearly free rotation of the methyl group

    Kueih Tzu Lu;Gregory C. Eiden;James C. Weisshaar

  • Understanding barriers to internal rotation in substituted toluenes and their cations

    Kueih‐Tzu Lu;Frank Weinhold;James C. Weisshaar

  • Single-cell, real-time detection of oxidative stress induced in Escherichia coli by the antimicrobial peptide CM15

    Heejun Choi;Zhilin Yang;James C. Weisshaar

  • Why Are Lipid Rafts Not Observed In Vivo

    Arun Yethiraj;James C. Weisshaar

  • Conformational Analysis of Alanine Dipeptide from Dipolar Couplings in a Water-Based Liquid Crystal

    Christoph F. Weise and;James C. Weisshaar

  • Kinetics of neutral transition-metal atoms in the gas phase: oxidation of scandium(a2D), titanium(a3F), and vanadium(a4F) by nitric oxide, oxygen, and nitrous oxide

    David. Ritter;James C. Weisshaar

  • Entropy-based mechanism of ribosome-nucleoid segregation in E. coli cells.

    Jagannath Mondal;Benjamin P. Bratton;D Yijie Li;Arun Yethiraj

  • Cytoplasmic Protein Mobility in Osmotically Stressed Escherichia coli

    Michael C. Konopka;Kem A. Sochacki;Benjamin P. Bratton;Irina A. Shkel

  • Protein Diffusion in the Periplasm of E. coli under Osmotic Stress

    Kem A. Sochacki;Irina A. Shkel;M. Thomas Record;James C. Weisshaar

  • Reactions of gas phase dipositive titanium ions with alkanes

    Russ. Tonkyn;James C. Weisshaar

  • Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reactions of Ground-State Y (4d15s2, 2D) with Ethylene and Propylene: Experiment and Theory

    Meredith Porembski and;James C. Weisshaar

  • An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Gas Phase Reactions between Small Linear Alkanes and the Platinum and Iridium Atoms

    John J. Carroll;James C. Weisshaar;Per E. M. Siegbahn;Christina A. M. Wittborn

  • Singlet and Triplet Reaction Paths for Gas-Phase Zr + C2H4 by Density Functional Theory

    Meredith Porembski and;James C. Weisshaar

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Weinhold
Frank Weinhold University of Wisconsin–Madison
C. Bradley Moore
C. Bradley Moore University of California, Berkeley
Margareta R. A. Blomberg
Margareta R. A. Blomberg Stockholm University
Per E. M. Siegbahn
Per E. M. Siegbahn Stockholm University
M. Thomas Record
M. Thomas Record University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arun Yethiraj
Arun Yethiraj University of Wisconsin–Madison
Edwin R. Chapman
Edwin R. Chapman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen R. Leone
Stephen R. Leone University of California, Berkeley
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton University of Florida

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