Publications and Patents

Shirley S. Daube, Dan Bracha, Amnon Buxboim and Roy H. Bar-Ziv
"Compartmentalization by Directional Gene Expression"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 7 (2010) p2836-2841
 
Maya Bar and Roy H. Bar-Ziv
"Spatially Resolved DNA Brushes on a Chip: Gene Activation by Enzymatic Cascade"
Nano Lett., 2009, 9 (12), pp 4462–4466
 
Tsevi Beatus, Tsvi Tlusty and Roy Bar-Ziv
"Burgers Shock Waves and Sound in a 2D Microfluidic Droplets Ensemble"
Physical Review Letters, 103, 114502 (2009).
 
Amnon Buxboim, Erez Geron, Ronen Alon and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"A Biochip Model of Lymphocyte Locomotion on Confined Chemokine Tracks"
Small, 5, 15, 1723-1726 (2009)
Small, 5, 15 (2009) - Frontpiece
 
Amnon Buxboim, Shirley S. Daube and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"Ultradense Synthetic Gene Brushes on a Chip"
Nano Lett., 2009, 9 (2), pp 909–913.
 
Tsevi Beatus, Roy Bar-Ziv and  Tsvi Tlusty,
"One-Dimensional Microfluidic Crystal Far from Equilibrium"
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Supplement No. 175 (2008) pp. 123-130.
 
  Amnon Buxboim, Shirley S Daube and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"Synthetic Gene Brushes: a Structure–Function Relationship"
Molecular Systems Biology 4, Article 181 (2008).
 
  Roy Bar-Ziv,
"DNA Circuits Get Up to Speed."
Science, 318, no. 5853 pp. 1078-1079 (2007).
This is a perspective on the work of Zhang, Turberfield, Yurke and Winfree, published here.
 
  Tsevi Beatus, Roy Bar-Ziv and  Tsvi Tlusty,
"Anomalous Microfluidic Phonons Induced by the Interplay of Hydrodynamic Screening and Incompressibility."
Physical Review Letters, 99, 124502 (2007).
 
  Lior Nissim, Tsevi Beatus and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"An autonomous system for identifying and governing a cell's state in yeast."
Physical Biology, 4, 154-163 (2007).
This paper is free online at the IOP Select website.
 
  Shirley S. Daube, Talmon Arad and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"Cell-free co-synthesis of protein nanoassemblies: Tubes, rings, and doughnuts."
Nano Letters, 7 (3), 638-641 (2007).
 
  Amnon Buxboim, Maya Bar-Dagan, Veronica Frydman, David Zbaida, Margherita Morpurgo and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"A single-step photolithographic interface for cell-free gene expression and active biochips."
Small, 3 (3), 500-510 (2007)
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  Tsevi Beatus, Tsvi Tlusty and Roy Bar-Ziv,
"Phonons in a one-dimensional microfuildic crystal."
Nature Physics, 2, 743-748 (2006).
You can also find this paper at the UPenn soft matter journal club.
 
  Maya Bar, Roy Bar-Ziv, Tali Scherf and Deborah Fass,
"EYcient production of a folded and functional, highly disulfide-bonded β-helix antifreeze protein in bacteria."
Science Direct, Protein Expression and Purification, 48, 2, 243-252, (2006).
 
  V. Noireaux, R. Bar-Ziv, J. Godefroy, H. Salman and A. Libchaber,
"Toward an artificial cell based on gene expression in vesicles."
Physical Biology, 2, P1-P8 (2005).
 
  T. Tlusty, R. Bar-Ziv and A. Libchaber,
"High-fidelity DNA sensing by protein binding fluctuations."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 258103 (2004).
 
  V. Noireaux, R. Bar-Ziv and A. Libchaber,
"Principles of cell-free genetic circuit assembly."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 12672-12677, (2003).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, T. Tlusty, and A. Libchaber,
"Protein-DNA computation by stochastic assembly cascade."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 11589-11592, (2002).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv and A. Libchaber,
"Effects of DNA sequence and structure on binding of RecA to single-stranded DNA."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 9068, (2001).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, T. Tlusty, E. Moses, S. A. Safran, A. Bershadsky,
"Pearling in cells: A clue to understanding cell shape."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 10140 (1999).
 
  T. Tlusty, A. Meller and R. Bar-Ziv,
"Optical forces of highly focused fields."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 81, 1738 (1998).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, E. Moses and P. Nelson,
"Dynamic excitations of membrane induced by optical tweezers."
Biophys. J, 75, 294 (1998).
 
  A. Meller, R. Bar-Ziv, T. Tlusty, E. Moses, J. Stavans and S.A. Safran,
"Localized dynamic light scattering: A new approach to dynamic measurements in optical microscopy."
Biophys. J, 74, 1541 (1998).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, T. Tlusty and E. Moses,
"Critical dynamics in the pearling instability of membranes."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 79, 1158 (1997).
 
 

R. Bar-Ziv, A. Meller, T. Tlusty, E. Moses, J. Stavans and S.A. Safran,
"Localized dynamic light scattering: Probing single particle dynamics at the nanoscale."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 154 (1997).
 

  J.D. Moroz, P. Nelson, R. Bar-Ziv and E. Moses,
"Spontaneous expulsion of giant vesicles induced by optical tweezers."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 386 (1997).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, T. Frisch and E. Moses,
"Entropic expulsion in vesicles."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 75, 3481 (1995).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv, R. Menes, E. Moses and S. A. Safran,
"Local unbinding of pinched membranes."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 75, 3356 (1995).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv and E. Moses,
"Instability and 'pearling' states produced in tubular membranes by competition of curvature and tension."
Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, 1392 (1994)
 
  R. Bar-Ziv and S. A. Safran,
"Supercooling of surface modified phases."
Phys. Rev. E, 49, 4306 (1994)
 
  R. Bar-Ziv and S. A. Safran,
"Surface melting of ice induced by hydrocarbon films."
Langmuir, 9, 2786 (1993).
 
  R. Bar-Ziv and S. A. Safran,
"Surface modification and instabilities of supercooled phases."
Europhys. Lett., 22 (4), 251 (1993).
 
  E. Bar-Ziv, G. de Botton, R. Bar-Ziv, Y. Martsiano and G. Ben-Dor,
"The motion of a charged particle in an electrodynamic chamber."
Aerosol Sci. Tech., 14, 127 (1991).

 

Patents

Single-Step Platform for On-Chip Integration of Bio-Molecules
(WO/2006/064505)