Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2002
- Major : Physical Chemistry
- Advisor : Prof. Paul F. Barbara
- Thesis Title : Single molecule spectroscopy of conjugated polymers
B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996
- Major : Chemistry
- Minor : Computer Science
Experiences
2006-present: Assistant Professor
- University of Connecticut Health Center
- Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling & Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology
2002-2005: Postdoc Researcher
- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
- Supervisor : Prof. Sunney X. Xie
Awards
- Merck Genome-related Research Award (2004)
Publications
Reviews and book chapters
| X. Sunney Xie, Ji Yu and Wei Yuan Yang
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| Living Cells as Test Tubes
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| Science, 312, 228-230 (2006)
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| Ji Yu, Dehong Hu and P.F. Barbara
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| Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers
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| Nobel Conference Lectures, R. Rigler, M. Orrit, and T. Basche (eds.), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 144-160
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Original journal papers
| J. Yu*, J. Xiao*, X. Ren K.Q. Lao and X. Sunney Xie
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| Probing gene expression in live single Escherichia coli cells - one molecule at a time
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| Science 311, 1600-1603 (2006)
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| W. Min, L. Jiang, J. Yu, S.C. Kou, H. Qian and X. Sunney Xie
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| Nonequilibrium Steady State of a Nanometric Biochemical System: Determining the Thermodynamic Driving Force from Single Enzyme Turnover Time Traces
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| Nanoletters 5, 2373-2378 (2005)
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| J. Yu, R. Lammi, A.J. Gesquiere, P.F. Barbara
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| Singlet-Triplet and Triplet-Triplet Interactions in Conjugated Polymer Single Molecules
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| J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 10025-10034 (2005)
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| A.J. Gesquiere, Y.J. Lee, J. Yu, P.F. Barbara
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| Single Molecule Modulation Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers
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| J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 12366-12371 (2005)
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| J. Yu, N.W. Song, J.D. McNeill and P.F. Barbara
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| Efficient Exciton Quenching by Hole Polarons in the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV
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| Israel Journal of Chemistry 44, 127-132 (2004)
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| S. Park, A. Gresquiere, J. Yu and P.F. Barbara
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| Charge injection and photo-oxidation of single conjugated polymers molecule
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| J. Am. Chem. Soc 126, 4111-7 (2004)
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| D. Hu, J. Yu, G. Padmanaban, S. Ramakrishanan and P.F. Barbara
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| Spatial Confinement of Exciton Transfer and the Role of Conformational Order in Organic Nanoparticles
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| Nanoletters 2, 1121-1124 (2002)
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| J. Yu, D. Hu and P. F. Barbara
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| Unmasking Electronic Energy Transfer of Conjugated Polymers by Suppression of O2 Quenching
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| Science 289, 1327 (2000)
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| D. Hu, J. Yu, K. Wong, B. Bagchi, P. J. Rossky and P. F. Barbara
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| Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations
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| Nature 405, 1030-1033 (2000)
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| D. Hu, J. Yu and P. F. Barbara
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| Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV
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| J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 6936-6937 (2000)
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| W. T. Yip, D. Hu, J. Yu, D. A. Vanden Bout and P. F. Barbara
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| Classifying the photophysical dynamics of single- and multiple-chromophoric molecules by single molecule spectroscopy
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| J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 7564-7575 (1998)
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