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  • 2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robert M. Dickson is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering. Key subfields of study include Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Photoacoustics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Cytometry Part A, and IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert M. Dickson cover diverse subjects related to their areas of research:

  • Optically Modulated and Optically Activated Delayed Fluorescent Proteins through Dark State Engineering, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Synchronously Amplified Photoacoustic Image Recovery (SAPhIRe), 2020, Photoacoustics
  • Triplet Shelving in Fluorescein and Its Derivatives Provides Delayed, Background-Free Fluorescence Detection, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Rapid, label-free antibiotic susceptibility determined directly from positive blood culture, 2022, Cytometry Part A
  • Sequential Two-Photon Delayed Fluorescence Anisotropy for Macromolecular Size Determination, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Robert M. Dickson often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Md Shariful Islam, Donald VanderLaan, Stanislav Emelianov, Aida A. Demissie, and Alexandra B. Filbrun.

With a research focus integrating both biochemical and engineering approaches, their work includes investigations into advanced imaging and fluorescence techniques as well as applied studies related to bacterial identification and antibiotic resistance. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the variety of topics and publication outlets.

Robert M. Dickson received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2001.

Best Publications

  • On/off blinking and switching behaviour of single molecules of green fluorescent protein

    Robert M. Dickson;Andrew B. Cubitt;Roger Y. Tsien;W. E. Moerner

  • Highly fluorescent noble-metal quantum dots.

    Jie Zheng;Philip R. Nicovich;Robert M. Dickson

  • Highly fluorescent, water-soluble, size-tunable gold quantum dots.

    Jie Zheng;Caiwei Zhang;Robert M. Dickson

  • DNA-templated Ag nanocluster formation.

    Jeffrey T. Petty;Jie Zheng;Nicholas V. Hud;Robert M. Dickson

  • Oligonucleotide-stabilized Ag nanocluster fluorophores.

    Chris I. Richards;Sungmoon Choi;Jung-Cheng Hsiang;Yasuko Antoku

  • Photoactivated fluorescence from individual silver nanoclusters.

    Lynn A. Peyser;Amy E. Vinson;Andrew P. Bartko;Robert M. Dickson

  • High quantum yield blue emission from water-soluble Au8 nanodots

    Jie Zheng;Jeffrey T. Petty;Robert M. Dickson

  • Individual Water-Soluble Dendrimer-Encapsulated Silver Nanodot Fluorescence

    Jie Zheng;Robert M. Dickson

  • Developing luminescent silver nanodots for biological applications

    Sungmoon Choi;Robert M. Dickson;Junhua Yu

  • Strongly emissive individual DNA-encapsulated Ag nanoclusters as single-molecule fluorophores

    Tom Vosch;Yasuko Antoku;Jung-Cheng Hsiang;Chris I. Richards

  • Three-dimensional imaging of single molecules solvated in pores of poly(acrylamide) gels.

    Robert M. Dickson;David J. Norris;Yih-Lin Tzeng;W.E. Moerner

  • Ag Nanocluster Formation Using a Cytosine Oligonucleotide Template.

    Caroline M. Ritchie;Kenneth R. Johnsen;John R. Kiser;Yasuko Antoku

  • In Vitro and Intracellular Production of Peptide‐Encapsulated Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters

    Junhua Yu;Sandeep A. Patel;Robert M. Dickson

  • Shuttle-based fluorogenic silver-cluster biolabels.

    Junhua Yu;Sungmoon Choi;Robert M. Dickson

  • Imaging Three-Dimensional Single Molecule Orientations

    Andrew P. Bartko and;Robert M. Dickson

  • Single-Molecule Optoelectronics

    Tae Hee Lee;Jose I. Gonzalez;Jie Zheng;Robert M. Dickson

  • Live cell surface labeling with fluorescent Ag nanocluster conjugates.

    Junhua Yu;Sungmoon Choi;Chris I. Richards;Yasuko Antoku

  • SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING OF INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES ALIGNED BOTH PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE OPTIC AXIS

    Robert M. Dickson;David J. Norris;W.E. Moerner

  • Initiating oncogenic event determines gene-expression patterns of human breast cancer models.

    Kartiki V. Desai;Nianqing Xiao;Weili Wang;Lisa Gangi

  • DNA-Templated Molecular Silver Fluorophores

    Jeffrey T. Petty;Sandra P. Story;Jung-Cheng Hsiang;Robert M. Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

W. E. Moerner
W. E. Moerner Stanford University
Tom Vosch
Tom Vosch University of Copenhagen
Gang-yu Liu
Gang-yu Liu University of California, Davis
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles
Stephan Link
Stephan Link Rice University
Catherine J. Murphy
Catherine J. Murphy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Maria Forsyth
Maria Forsyth Deakin University
John T. Fourkas
John T. Fourkas University of Maryland, College Park

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