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Contact Information

Primary Address: Room 471C 433 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608/890-1342 Fax: 608/265-0764 E-mail: weibel@biochem.wisc.edu

Secondary Address: Laboratory Room 473 433 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608/263-2636

Program Affiliations

• Biochemistry
• Biomedical Engineering
• Materials Science Program

• Biophysics Program
• Biotechnology Training Program
• Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
• Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
• Molecular Biosciences Training Grant Program

Education

• Ph.D., Cornell University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Fields of Interest

• Soft materials
• Micro- and nanofabrication
• Microbiology
• Chemical biology
• Biotechnology

Selected Publications

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2011

Measuring the stiffness of bacterial cells from growth rates in hydrogels of tunable elasticity
H.H. Tuson, G.K. Auer, L.D. Renner, M. Hasebe, M. Salick, W.C. Crone, A. Gopinathan, KC, Huang, D.B. Weibel
Submitted

Polyacrylamide hydrogels for culturing and studying bacteria
H.H. Tuson, L.D. Renner, D.B. Weibel
Submitted

Studying the polymerization of Caulobacter crescentus FtsZ using dynamic light scattering
S. Hou, S.A. Wieczorek, T.S. Kaminski, N. Ziebacz, M. Tabaka, N.A. Sorto, J.T. Shaw, M. Thanbichler, D.B.Weibel, R. Holyst, P. Garstecki
Submitted

Chemical biological studies of sub-cellular organization in bacteria
M.H. Foss, Y.-J. Eun, D.B. Weibel
Biochemistry, in press.

Cardiolipin microdomains localize to negatively curved regions of Escherichia coli membranes
L.D. Renner, D.B. Weibel
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2011, 108, 6264-6269.

Quorum sensing between Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms accelerates cell growth
S.T. Flickinger, M.F. Copeland, E.M. Downes, A.T. Braasch, H.H. Tuson, Y.-J. Eun, D.B. Weibel
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 5966-5975.

N-benzyl-3-sulfonamidopyrrolidines are a new class of bacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors
M.H. Foss, K.A. Hurley, L.L. Lackner, N. Sorto, K. Thornton, J.T. Shaw, D.B. Weibel
ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2, 289-292.

Physicochemical regulation of biofilm formation
L.D. Renner, D.B. Weibel
MRS Bulletin, 2011, 36, 347-355.

Encapsulating bacteria in agarose microparticles using microfluidics for high-throughput cell analysis and isolation
Y.-J. Eun, A.S. Utada, M.F. Copeland, S. Takeuchi, D.B. Weibel
ACS Chem. Biol. 2011, 6, 260-266.

2010

Oligochlorophens: potent inhibitors of Bacillus anthracis
M.H. Foss, D.B. Weibel
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2010, 54, 3988-3990.

Studying the dynamics of flagella in multicellular communities of Escherichia coli by using biarsenical dyes
M.F. Copeland, S.T. Flickinger, H.H. Tuson, D.B. Weibel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2010, 76, 1241-1250.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• Basil O’Connor Award, March of Dimes Foundation (2011)
• DuPont Young Professor (2010)
• Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2010)
• DARPA Young Faculty Award, U.S. Department of Defense (2009)
• Research-Service Grant Award, UW-Madison (2009)
• Searle Scholar Award (2008)
• ICAAC Young Investigator Award, American Society for Microbiology (2008)
• 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2008)
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow (2006)
• National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005)
• National Institutes of Health Chemistry and Biology Interface Training Grant (1999-2001)
• Fulbright Fellow, Japan (1996-1997)

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