Sarah L. Keller

Representative Publications

T. Portet, S.E. Gordon, and S.L. Keller, Increasing Membrane Tension Decreases Miscibility Temperatures; an Experimental Demonstration via Micropipette Aspiration, Biophys. J., 2012, 103, L35-L37. (featured article; free download)

 

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith and S.L. Keller Experimental Observations of Dynamic Critical Phenomena in a Lipid Membrane, Phys. Rev. Lett, 2012, 108, 265702.

 

M.M. Stevens, A.R. Honerkamp-Smith and S.L. Keller Solubility limits of cholesterol, lanosterol, ergosterol, stigmasterol, and beta-sitosterol in electroformed lipid vesicles, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 5882-5890. (cover article)

 

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith, S.L. Veatch, and S.L. Keller, An Introduction to Critical Points for Biophysicists: Observations of Compositional Heterogeneity in Lipid Membranes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Biomembranes (Invited), 1788, 53-63, 2009. (cover article)

 

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith, P. Cicuta, M.D. Collins, S.L. Veatch, M. den Nijs, M. Schick, and S.L. Keller, Line Tensions, Correlation Lengths, and Critical Exponents in Lipid Membranes near Critical Points, Biophys. J., 95, 236-246, 2008.

 

M.D. Collins and S.L. Keller, Tuning Lipid Mixtures to Induce Domains across Leaflets of Unsupported Asymmetric Bilayers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 124-128, 2008.

 

M. Halter, Y. Liao, R.M. Plocinik, D.C. Coffey, S. Bhattacharjee, U. Mazur, G.J. Simpson, B.H. Robinson, and S.L. Keller Molecular Self-Assembly of Mixed High-beta Zwitterionic and Neutral Ground State NLO Chromophores, Chem. Mater., 20, 1778-1787, 2008.

 

S.L. Veatch, O. Soubias, S.L. Keller, and K. Gawrisch, Critical Fluctuations in Domain-Forming Lipid Mixtures, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 104, 17650-17655, 2007.

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Awards & Activities

  • Fellow of the AAAS 2013
  • UW Postdoctoral Association Mentor Award, 2012
  • Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2012-2013
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2011
  • Elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences, 2011
  • ASBMB Avanti Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research
  • The Biophysical Society's Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award
  • UW Department of Chemistry Outstanding Teaching Award
  • Cottrell Teacher-Scholar Award
  • NSF CAREER Award
  • Research Innovation Award (Research Corporation)
  • National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship (NRSA)
  • University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

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