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Shimon Weiss is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the interdisciplinary fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology, biophysics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and instrumentation.

The scientist's main topics of research include advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, advanced optical sensing technologies, lipid membrane structure and behavior, neuroscience and neural engineering, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, analytical chemistry and sensors, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Shimon Weiss has contributed to several recent publications across respected scientific journals. These include:

  • FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices (2021, eLife)
  • Reliability and accuracy of single-molecule FRET studies for characterization of structural dynamics and distances in proteins (2023, Nature Methods)
  • Wide-field time-gated SPAD imager for phasor-based FLIM applications (2020, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence)
  • In vitro and in vivo NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera (2022, Optica)
  • PD-L1 recruits phospholipase C and enhances tumorigenicity of lung tumors harboring mutant forms of EGFR (2021, Cell Reports)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Shimon Weiss encompass:

  • Eitan Lerner
  • Shimon Yudovich
  • Thorben Cordes
  • Xavier Michalet
  • Asaf Grupi

Principal publication venues where Weiss has disseminated research findings include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biophysical Reports
  • Nature Communications

Weiss's work has contributed to the understanding of complex biological systems through the development and application of fluorescence-based microscopy approaches and optical sensing technologies. Their research intersects closely with neural engineering and biophysical studies of lipid membranes, facilitating insights across molecular and cellular scales.

Best Publications

  • Semiconductor Nanocrystals as Fluorescent Biological Labels

    Marcel Bruchez;Mario Moronne;Peter Gin;Shimon Weiss

  • Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics

    X. Michalet;F. F. Pinaud;L. A. Bentolila;J. M. Tsay

  • Fluorescence spectroscopy of single biomolecules.

    Shimon Weiss

  • Synthesis and Properties of Biocompatible Water-Soluble Silica-Coated CdSe/ZnS Semiconductor Quantum Dots†

    Daniele Gerion;Fabien Pinaud;Shara C. Williams;Wolfgang J. Parak

  • Probing the interaction between two single molecules: fluorescence resonance energy transfer between a single donor and a single acceptor

    T. Ha;Th Enderle;D. F. Ogletree;D. S. Chemla;D. S. Chemla

  • Fast, background-free, 3D super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI)

    T. Dertinger;R. Colyer;G. Iyer;S. Weiss

  • Organo luminescent semiconductor nanocrystal probes for biological applications and process for making and using such probes

    Shimon Weiss;Marcel Bruchez;Paul Alivisatos

  • Measuring conformational dynamics of biomolecules by single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

    Shimon Weiss

  • Fluorescence-aided molecule sorting: Analysis of structure and interactions by alternating-laser excitation of single molecules

    Achillefs N. Kapanidis;Nam Ki Lee;Ted A. Laurence;Sören Doose

  • Bioactivation and Cell Targeting of Semiconductor CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals with Phytochelatin-Related Peptides

    Fabien Pinaud;David King;Hsiao-Ping Moore;Shimon Weiss

  • Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of enzyme conformational dynamics and cleavage mechanism

    Taekjip Ha;Alice Y. Ting;Joy Liang;W. Brett Caldwell

  • Single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer on freely diffusing molecules: Observation of Förster distance dependence and subpopulations

    Ashok A. Deniz;Maxime Dahan;Jocelyn R. Grunwell;Taekjip Ha;Taekjip Ha

  • Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies of Protein Folding and Conformational Dynamics

    Xavier Michalet;Shimon Weiss;Marcus Jäger

  • Advances in fluorescence imaging with quantum dot bio-probes

    Fabien Pinaud;Xavier Michalet;Laurent A. Bentolila;James M. Tsay

  • Accurate FRET Measurements within Single Diffusing Biomolecules Using Alternating-Laser Excitation

    Nam Ki Lee;Achillefs N. Kapanidis;You Wang;Xavier Michalet

  • Single-molecule protein folding: diffusion fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies of the denaturation of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2.

    Ashok A. Deniz;Ted A. Laurence;Gangamani S. Beligere;Maxime Dahan

  • Initial Transcription by RNA Polymerase Proceeds Through a DNA-Scrunching Mechanism

    Achillefs N. Kapanidis;Emmanuel Margeat;Sam On Ho;Ekaterine Kortkhonjia;Ekaterine Kortkhonjia

  • Properties of Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanocrystals and their Application to Biological Labeling

    Xavier Michalet;Fabien Pinaud;Thilo D. Lacoste;Maxime Dahan

  • Particle Size, Surface Coating, and PEGylation Influence the Biodistribution of Quantum Dots in Living Mice

    Meike L. Schipper;Gopal Iyer;Ai Leen Koh;Zhen Cheng

  • Time-gated biological imaging by use of colloidal quantum dots.

    M. Dahan;T. Laurence;F. Pinaud;D. S. Chemla

  • Probing the interaction between single molecules: fluorescence resonance energy transfer between a single donor and a single acceptor

    S. Weiss;T. Ha;T. Enderle;D.F. Ogletree

Frequent Co-Authors

Baruch Fischer
Baruch Fischer Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Taekjip Ha
Taekjip Ha Johns Hopkins University
Ivan Rech
Ivan Rech Polytechnic University of Milan
Massimo Ghioni
Massimo Ghioni Polytechnic University of Milan
Marcel P. Bruchez
Marcel P. Bruchez Carnegie Mellon University
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
David Bensimon
David Bensimon University of California, Los Angeles
Mordechai Segev
Mordechai Segev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Sergio Cova
Sergio Cova Polytechnic University of Milan
Edoardo Charbon
Edoardo Charbon École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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