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Evan A. Evans

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1981-1997 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada 
 1997- Biomedical Engineering Boston University, Boston, MA, United States 
Area:
Nano-microscale biomechanics; ultrasensitive force probes and extreme resolution optical techniques; material properties of cellular structure; role of structural forces in cell biochemistry
Website:
http://www.bu.edu/bme/people/primary/evans/
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http://www.bu.edu/bme/2010/10/29/biomechanics-symposium-celebrates-evan-evans-70th-birthday/

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Parents

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Yuan-cheng B. Fung grad student 1970 UCSD
 (Quantitative method for accurate determination of red blood cell geometry)

Children

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Hans-Günther Döbereiner grad student 1992-1995 UBC (Physics Tree)
Kenneth P. Ritchie grad student 1998 UBC (Physics Tree)
Kenneth A. Halvorsen grad student 2007 Boston University (Chemistry Tree)
Wesley P. Wong grad student 2007 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Dennis E. Discher post-doc UBC (Chemistry Tree)
Igor R. Kuznetsov post-doc Boston University (Chemistry Tree)
Jack Wei Chen research scientist 2005-2005
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Evans E, Rawicz W. (2019) Entropy-driven tension and bending elasticity in condensed-fluid membranes. Physical Review Letters. 64: 2094-2097
Beranek V, Kuznetsov IR, Evans EA. (2016) Using a Maxwell's demon to orient a microsphere in a laser trap and initiate thermodynamic assays of photonic nanofields Proceedings of Spie. 9922: 992203
Evans E, Rawicz W, Smith BA. (2013) Back to the future: mechanics and thermodynamics of lipid biomembranes. Faraday Discussions. 161: 591-611
Kuznetsov IR, Evans EA. (2013) Brownian nanoimaging of interface dynamics and ligand-receptor binding at cell surfaces in 3-D. Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 60: 214-24
Chen W, Lou J, Evans EA, et al. (2012) Observing force-regulated conformational changes and ligand dissociation from a single integrin on cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 199: 497-512
Kuznetsov IR, Evans E. (2012) Nanoscale 3D Dynamics of Optically Trapped Spheres Interacting with Adherent Cell Lamellae Biophysical Journal. 102: 577
Chen W, Lou J, Evans EA, et al. (2012) Observing Real-Time Force-Dependent Conformational Changes of Single Integrin on Living Cells and Their Regulation of Ligand Dissociation Biophysical Journal. 102: 26a
Evans E. (2012) Using Tension to Map Free-Energy Landscapes that Govern Pore Nucleation in Membranes Biophysical Journal. 102
Evans E, Smith BA. (2011) Kinetics of Hole Nucleation in Biomembrane Rupture. New Journal of Physics. 13
Dufrêne YF, Evans E, Engel A, et al. (2011) Five challenges to bringing single-molecule force spectroscopy into living cells. Nature Methods. 8: 123-7
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