Selected Publications

Kristina Herbert, Arthur La Porta, Becky J. Wong, Rachel A. Mooney, Keir C. Neuman, Robert Landick, Steven M. Block, Sequence-Resolved Detection of Pausing by Single RNA Polymerase Molecules Cell 125 1083-1094, (2006).

Arthur La Porta and Michelle D. Wang, Optical Torque Wrench: Angular Trapping, Rotation and Torque Detection of Quartz Microspheres, Physical Review Letters 92 190801 (2004).

Arthur La Porta and David Kleinfeld, Interferometric Detection of Action Potentials in vivo in Imaging in Neuroscience and Development, A Laboratory Manual, (R. Yuste and A. Konnerth, editors), 2003, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY.

Karen Adelman, Julia Yuzenkova, Arthur La Porta, Nikolay Zenkin, Jookyung Lee, John T. Lis, Sergei Borukhov, Michelle D. Wang and Konstantin Severinov, Molecular Mechanism of Transcription Inhibition by Peptied Antibiotic Microcin J25 Molecular Cell 14 p. 753 (2004).

Karen Adelman, Arthur La Porta, Thomas J. Santangelo, John T. Lis, Jeffery and Michelle D. Wang, Single Molecule Analysis of RNA Polymerase Elongation Reveals Uniform Kinetic Behavior, PNAS 99, p. 13538-13543 (2002)

Arthur La Porta, Greg A. Voth, Alice M. Crawford, Jim Alexander and Eberhard Bodenschatz, Fluid Particle Accelerations in Fully Developed Turbulence Nature 409 p. 1017-1019 (2001).

Arthur La Porta, Greg A. Voth, F. Moisy and Eberhard Bodenschatz, Using Cavitation to Measure Statistics of Low-Pressure Events in Large-Reynolds-Number Turbulence, Physics of Fluids 12 p. 1485-1496 (2000).

Arthur La Porta and C. M. Surko, Convective Instability in a Fluid Mixture Heated from Above, Physical Review Letters 80 p. 3957 (1998).

Arthur La Porta, and C. M. Surko, Phase Defects as a Measure of Disorder in Traveling-Wave Convection, Physical Review Letters 77, p. 2678 (1996).

Arthur La Porta and R. E. Slusher, Squeezing Limits at High Parametric Gain, Physical Review A44 p. 2013 (1991).

R. A. Stepnoski, Arthur La Porta, F. Raccuia-Behling, G. E. Blonder, R. E. Slusher and D. Kleinfeld, Noninvasive Detection of Changes in Membrane Potential in Cultured Neurons by Light Scattering PNAS 88 p. 9382 (1991).

Arthur La Porta, R. E. Slusher and B. Yurke, Back-Action Evading Measurements of an Optical Field Using Parametric Downconversion Physical Review Letters 62 p. 28 (1989).