Winners of the CeNS Publication Award 2008

Each year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. This year, the candidates submitted numerous articles which appeared in high-impact journals between October 2007 and October 2008. With this award, remarkably successful cooperation projects within CeNS as well as outstanding research of an individual research group of CeNS are distinguished.

The winning publications (random order):

E. Pamir, M. George, N. Fertig, and M. Benoit
Planar Patch-Clamp Force Microscopy on Living Cells           
Ultramicroscopy 108, 6, 552-557 (2008)

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A. Zürner, J. Kirstein, M. Döblinger, C. Bräuchle, and T. Bein     
Visualizing Single-Molecule Diffusion in Mesoporous Materials           
Nature 450, 705-708 (2007)

 
C. D. Kuhn , S. R. Geiger, S. Baumli, M. Gartmann, J. Gerber, S. Jennebach, T. Mielke, H. Tschochner, R. Beckmann, and P. Cramer
Functional Architecture of RNA Polymerase I  
Cell 131, 1260-1272 (2007)

 
F. M. Weinert, J. A. Kraus, T. Franosch, and D. Braun       
Microscale Fluid Flow Induced by Thermoviscous Expansion Along a Traveling Wave      
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164501 (2008)

 
D. R. Koenig, E. M. Weig and J. P. Kotthaus
Ultrasonically Driven Nanomechanical Single-Electron Shuttle           
Nature Nanotechnologgy 3, 482-485 (2008)

 
L. Schermelleh, P. M. Carlton, S. Haase, L. Shao, L. Winoto, P. Kner, B. Burke, M. C. Cardoso, D. A. Agard, M. G. L. Gustafsson, H. Leonhardt, and J. W. Sedat         
Subdiffraction Multicolor Imaging of the Nuclear Periphery with 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy      
Science, 320, 1332-1336 (2008)

 
C. Metzger, M. Ludwig, C. Neuenhahn, A. Ortlieb, I. Favero, K. Karrai, and F. Marquardt
Self-Induced Oscillations in an Optomechanical System Driven by Bolometric Backaction
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 133903 (2008)

 
J. Andrecka, R. Lewis, F. Brückner, E. Lehmann, P. Cramer, and J. Michaelis  
Single-Molecule Tracking of mRNA Exiting from RNA Polymerase II 
PNAS 105, 135-140 (2008)

 
M. Ringler, A. Schwemer, M. Wunderlich, A. Nichtl, K. Kürzinger, T. A. Klar, and J. Feldmann        
Shaping Emission Spectra of Fluorescent Molecules with Single Plasmonic Nanoresonators
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203002 (2008)

 
J. Stehr, C. Hrelescu, R. A. Sperling, G. Raschke, M. Wunderlich, A. Nichtl, D. Heindl, K. Kürzinger, W. J. Parak, T. A. Klar, and J. Feldmann    
Gold NanoStoves for Microsecond DNA Melting Analysis      
Nano Letterrs, 8, 619-623 (2008)

 
S. K. Kufer, E. M. Puchner, H. Gumpp, T. Liedl, and H. E. Gaub  
Single-Molecule Cut-and-Paste Surface Assembly      
Science 319, 594-596 (2008)

 
F. Höfling, E. Frey, und T.  Franosch 
Enhanced Diffusion of a Needle in a Planar Array of Point Obstacles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 120605 (2008)

 
A. Schlossbauer, D. Schaffert, J. Kecht, E. Wagner, and T. Bein 
Click Chemistry for High-Density Biofunctionalization of Mesoporous Silica  
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 12558. (2008)

 
J. Morfill, J. Neumann, K. Blank, U. Steinbach, E. M. Puchner, K.-E. Gottschalk and H. E. Gaub      
Force-Based Analysis of Multidimensional Energy Landscapes: Application of Dynamic Force Spectroscopy and Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations to an Antibody Fragment Peptide Complex   
J. Mol. Biol. 381, 1253-1266 (2008)

A. Cattani-Scholz, D. Pedone, M. Dubey, S. Neppl, B. Nickel, P. Feulner, J. Schwartz, G. Abstreiter, and M. Tornow
Organophosphonate Based PNA-Functionalization of Silicon Nanowires for Label-Free DNA Detection    
ACS Nano 2, 16531660 (2008)

 
J. A. Megerle, G. Fritz, U. Gerland, K. Jung,  and J. O. Rädler      
Timing and Dynamics of Single Cell Gene Expression in the Arabinose Utilization System  
Biophysical Journal 95, 21032115 (2008)

 
T. Frommelt, M. Kostur, M. Wenzel-Schäfer, P. Talkner, P. Hänggi, and A. Wixforth
Microfluidic Mixing via Acoustically Driven Chaotic Advection
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 034502 (2008)

 
D. Horinek, A. Serr, M. Geisler, T. Pirzer, U. Slotta, S. Q. Lud, J. A. Garrido, T. Scheibel, T. Hugel, and R. R. Netz    
Peptide Adsorption on a Hydrophobic Surface Results from an Interplay of Solvation, Surface, and Intrapeptide Forces     
PNAS 105, 2842-2847 (2008)

 
M. Mickler, R. I. Dima, H. Dietz, C. Hyeon, D. Thirumalai, and M. Rief
Revealing the Bifurcation in the Unfolding Pathways of GFP by Using Single-Molecule Experiments and Simulations          
PNAS 104, 20268-20273 (2007)