Selected Publications

• "High-throughput hyperdimensional vertebrate phenotyping", Pardo-Martin, C., Allalou, A., Medina, J., Eimon, P. M., Wahlby, C., Yanik, M. F., Nature Communications, 4:1467 (2013).

• "Synchronous Symmetry Breaking in Neurons with Different Neurite Counts", Wisnerr-Gross, Z., Scott, M., Yanik, M. F., PloS One, 8, e54905 (2013).

• "Ultra-rapid laser protein micropatterning: screening for directed polarization of single neurons", Scott, M. A., Wissner-Gross, Z. D., Yanik, M. F., Lab on Chip, 12, 2265-2276 (2012).

• "High-Throughput Single-Cell Manipulation in Brain Tissue", Steinmeyer, J. D., Yanik, M. F., PLoS ONE, 7, e35603 (2012).

• "Fully automated cellular-resolution vertebrate screening platform with parallel animal processing", Chang, T.-Y., Pardo-Martin, C., Yanik, M. F., Lab on Chip, 12, 711 (2012). Selected as Journal's Cover.

 

• "Synapse microarray identification of small molecules that enhance synaptogenesis" Shi, P., Scott, M. A., Ghosh, B., Wan, D., Wissner-Gross, Z., Mazitschek, R., Haggarty, S. J., Yanik, M. F., Nature Communications, 2:510 (2011).

• "Technologies for Micromanipulating, Imaging, and Phenotyping Small Invertebrates and Vertebrates", Yanik, M. F., Rohde, C. B., Pardo-Martin, C., Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering, 13, 185-217 (2011).

• "Subcellular in vivo time-lapse imaging and optical manipulation of C. elegans in standard multiwell plates", Rohde, C. B., Yanik, M. F., Nature Communications, 2, 275 (2011).

• "Microfluidic immobilization of physiolologically active C. elegans", Gilleland, C., Rohde, C. B., Zeng, F., Yanik, M. F., Nature Protocols, 5, 1888 (2010).

• "Large-scale in vivo femtosecond laser neurosurgery screen reveals small-molecule enhancers of regeneration", Samara, C., Rohde, C. B., Gilleland, C., Norton, S., Haggarty, S., Yanik, M. F., PNAS, Oct. 2010.

  See also "Worm surgery on a chip", Nature, Oct 2010.

• "High-throughput in vivo vertebrate screening", Pardo-Martin, C., Chang, T.-Y., Koo, B., Gilleland, C., Wasserman, S., Yanik, M. F., Nature Methods 7, 634 (July 19th 2010). 

  See also "Fishing at cellular level", Nature Methods, Aug 2010.

• "Innate Immune Suppression Enables Frequent Transfection with RNA Encoding Reprogramming Proteins", Angel, M., Yanik, M. F., PLoS ONE, 5, e11756 (2010).

  See also "Synthetic mRNAs: Powerful Tools for Reprogramming and Differentiation of Human Cells", Cell Stem Cell 7, November 5 (2010).

  Our pending PATENT on mRNA reprogramming is now licensed by STEMGENT INC.

• "Construction of a femtosecond laser microsurgery system", Steinmeyer, J., Gilleland, C., Pardo, C., Angel, M., and M. F. Yanik, Nature Protocols 5, 395 (2010).

• "Large-scale analysis of neurite growth dynamics on micropatterned substrates", Wissner-Gross, Z. D., Scott, M. A., Ku, D., Ramaswamy, P., Yanik, M. F., Integrative Biology, Oct 2010.

• "Noninvasive electron microscopy with interaction-free quantum measurements", B. Putnam, M. F. Yanik, Phys. Rev. - Rapid Communications, 2009.

• "Sub-cellular precision on-chip small-animal immobilization, multi-photon imaging and femtosecond laser manipulation", F. Zeng, C.B. Rohde, M.F. Yanik, Lab on Chip (April 3rd, 2008). Supplementary Movie and Supplementary Data. Selected as HOT ARTICLE.

• “Towards Gecko-feet Inspired Bandages” Yanik, M.F., Trends in Biotechnology 27, 1 (2008).

• "Microfluidic system for on-chip high-throughput whole-animal sorting and screening at sub-cellular resolution", C.B. Rohde, F. Zeng, R. Gonzalez-Rubio, M. Angel, M.F. Yanik, PNAS 104, 13891 (2007) Supplementary MOVIE

• "C. elegans neuronal regeneration is influenced by life stage, ephrin signaling, and synaptic branching", Z. Wu, A. Ghosh-Roy, M. F. Yanik, J. Z. Zhang, Y. Jin, A. D. Chisholm, PNAS 104, 15132 (2007).

• "Dynamic Photon Storage" Mehmet F. Yanik, S. Fan, Nature Physics 3, 372 (2007).

• "Nerve Regeneration in C. elegans after femtosecond laser axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Invited Paper on Nanophotonics by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 12, 1283 (2006).

• "Neurosurgery: Functional Regeneration after Laser Axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. Ben-Yakar, Nature 432, 822 (2004). Supplementary Movie.

• "Stopping light all-optically", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters 92, 083901 (2004). See also Nature Highlights, March 11th 2004.

• "Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency", Mehmet F. Yanik, W. Suh, Z. Wang, S. Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 233903 (2004).

• "Time Reversal of Light with Linear Optics and Modulators", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 173903 (2004).

• "All-Optical Transistor Action With Bistable Switching in a Photonic Crystal Cross-Waveguide Geometry", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Marin Soljacic, and J.D.Joannopoulos. Optics Letters, 28, 2506 (2003). Also reviewed in Nature Materials, 3, 211, (2004).

• "Stopping and Storing Light Coherently", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review A 71, 013803 (2005).

• "Sub-micron all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, 2316 (2004).

• "High-Contrast All-Optical Bistable Switching in Photonic Crystal Microcavities", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, and Marin Soljacic. Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 2739 (2003).

• "Dynamic Photonic Structures: Stopping, Storage and Time-reversal of light", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Article by 'Studies in Applied Mathematics' (Dec. 2004).