Joachim Mueller
Associate Professor
322 Tate, 625-4369, email mueller @ physics.umn.eduSession Chair, 5th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine (2002); Member of “Single cell / Single molecule” focus group as part of CBISC (Steering Committee of the Chemical Biology Initiative (2004); Panel Member, MPS-MCB Review, NSF (2004); Session Chair, 6th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine (2005); Panel Member, Biological Physics Review, NSF (2006); Member of the Graduate Research Advisory Committee (GRAC), Graduate School, University of Minnesota, (Spring 2006 – current); Organizer of Annual Hands-On Fluorescence Workshop for Students of Biological Sciences (2006 – current);
Research Areas
Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopyGraduate Students and Postdoctorates
Serkan Berk
Yan Chen
Yun Chen
Jolene Johnson
Elizabeth Smith
Xiao Wang
Selected Publications
J. P. Skinner, Y. Chen, and J. D. Mueller, Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy in the Presence of Immobile Fluorophores,", Biophys J (2008)
B. Wu, Y. Chen, and J. D. Mueller, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy of Finite-Size Particles,”, Biophys J (2008)
B. P. Duckworth, Y. Chen, Y. Sham, J. D. Mueller, T. A. Taton, and M. D. Distefano, A Universal Method for the Preparation of Covalent Protein-DNA Conjugates for Use in Creating Protein Nanostructures,", Chem., Int. Ed.(2007)
Y. Chen and J. D. Müller, Determining the Stoichiometry of Protein Hetero-complexes in Living Cells with Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy,", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2007)
L. N. Hillesheim, Y. Chen, and J. D. Mueller, Dual-Color Photon Counting Histogram Analysis of mRFP1 and EGFP in Living Cells,", Biophys J (2006)
Y. Chen, M. Tekmen, L. N. Hillesheim, J. Skinner, B. Wu, and J. D. Müller, Dual-Color Photon Counting Histogram, Biophys. J. (accepted) 2005
M. Tekmen and J. D. Müller, High-Pressure Cell for Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy, Rev. Sci. Instr., 75, 5143-5148 (2004).
J. D. Müller, M. Tekmen, L. N. Hillesheim, W. Yang, and Y. Chen, Dual-Color Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy in vitro and in vivo, SPIE Proc. 5323, 136-145 (2004).
J. D. Müller, Cumulant analysis in fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy, Biophys. J. 86(6), 3981-3992 (2004).
Y. Chen, L. N. Wei, and J. D. Müller , Probing protein oligomerization in living cells with fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100(26), 15492-15497 (2003).
Education