Benjamin Smith
BSc - Physics - McGill University - 1999
PhD - Physics - McGill University - 2004 (Cell Mechanics, Grütter lab)
Postdoc - Physics & Pathology - University of British Columbia - 2005 to 2008 (Membrane Mechanics, Evans Lab)
Joined Gelles Lab 09/2008


Publication List
Smith BA, Rawicz W, Evans E. Mechanical strengths and lifetimes of PC vesicles in dilute solutions of the antimicrobial peptide melittin. (2008) Biophys. J.
... in preparation.

Smith BA, McIntosh TJ, Evans E. Using hyper-stretch of vesicle bilayers to characterize the energetics of lipid-cholesterol interactions. (2008) Biophys. J.
... in preparation.

Rawicz W*, Smith BA*, McIntosh TJ, Simon SA, Evans E. Elasticity, strength, and water permeability of bilayers that contain raft microdomain-forming lipids. (2008) Biophys. J. 94(12):4725-4736. (* First and second authors contributed equally)

Smith BA, Roy H, DeKoninck P, Grütter P, DeKoninck Y. Dendritic spine viscoelasticity and soft-glassy nature: balancing dynamic remodeling with structural stability. (2007) Biophys. J. 92(4):1419-1430.

Smith BA, Tolloczko B, Martin JG, Grütter P. Probing the viscoelastic behavior of cultured airway smooth muscle cells with atomic force microscopy: stiffening induced by contractile agonist. (2005) Biophys. J. 88(4):2994-3007.

Anselmetti DA, Fritz J, Smith BA, Fernandez-Busquets X. Single molecule DNA biophysics with atomic force microscopy. (2000) Single Molecules. 1(1):53-58.