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People - Faculty - Samuel T. Hess

Sam Hess photoSamuel T. Hess
Assistant Professor of Physics
  • B.S., Physics, Yale University, 1995
  • M.S., Physics, Cornell University, 1998
  • Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University, 2002

Office: 313 Bennett Hall

Phone: (207)581-1036

EMail: Sam.T.Hess@umit.maine.edu

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Research Interests:

  • Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics,
  • Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy,
  • Function and Lateral Organization of Biomembranes,
  • Single Molecule Fluorescence Photophysics,
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins.

Recent publications:

Hess, S.T., Heikal, A.A., and Webb, W.W., "Fluorescence Photophysics of Genetically-Encoded Probes of Intracellular pH (pHluorins)," J. Phys. Chem. B 108: 10138-10148, 2004.

Baumgart, T., Hess, S.T., and Webb, W.W., "Coexisting Fluid Domains in Biomembrane Models Coupling Curvature and Line Tension," Nature 425: 821-824, 2003.

Hess, S.T., Sheets, E.D., Wagenknecht-Wiesner, A., and Heikal, A.A., "Quantitative Analysis of the Fluorescence Properties of Intrinsically Fluorescent Proteins in Living Cells," Biophysical Journal 85: 2566-2580, 2003.

Hess, S.T., and Webb, W.W. "Focal Volume Optics and Experimental Artifacts in Confocal Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy," Biophysical Journal 83: 2300-2317, 2002.

Albota, M., Beljonne, D., Brédas, J.-L., Ehrlich, J., Fu, J.-Y., Heikal, A., Hess, S., Kogej, T., Levin, M., Marder, S., McCord-Maughon, D., Perry, J., Röckel, H., Rumi, M., Subramaniam, G., Webb, W., Wu, X.-L., and Xu, C., "Design of Organic Molecules with Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections," Science 281: 1653-1656, 1998.


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