IFIB – Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie

Dr. John Danial

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas

Single Molecule Biophysics (SmFRET), Super resolution Microscopy.

Fields of Interest

Protein-Protein and Protein lipid interaction using high resolution microscopy.

Fellowships and awards

Max Planck Society postdoctoral fellowship, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2016 – 2017)

Max-Weidenfeld travel award, Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust (2014)

Plumer travel award, University of Oxford (2014)

Doctoral scholarship, Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme (2012 – 2015)

Excellence scholarship, Fondation de l'X at the Ecole Polytechnique (2011 – 2012)

Dean's list award, American University in Cairo (2007 – 2010)

Publication List

1. J. S. H. Danial and A. J. G. Saez. Improving certainty in single molecule imaging. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. In press.

2. J .S. H. Danial, B. Cronin, C. Mallick and M. I. Wallace. On demand control of lipid composition in individual bilayers. Soft matter. 2017.

3. J. S. H. Danial, Y. Aguib and M. H. Yacoub. Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques for the Life Sciences. Global Cardiology Science and Practice. 2016.

4. G. de Wit*, J. S. H. Danial*, P. Kukura and M. I. Wallace. Dynamic label-free imaging of lipid nanodomains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.

5. E. Weatherill, J. S. H. Danial and M. I. Wallace. Single Molecule Analysis for Channels, Pumps and Transporters. Wiley. 2015.

6. N. Rojko, B. Cronin, J. S. H. Danial, M. A. B. Baker, G. Anderluh, M. I. Wallace. Lipid Phase Dependence of Equinatoxin II Membrane Binding and Pore Formation. Biophysical Journal. 2014.

7. C. Faivre-Moskalenko, J. Bernaud, A. Thomas, K. Tartour, Y. Beck, M. Iazykov, J. S. H. Danial, M. Lourdin, D. Muriaux, M. Castelnovo. RNA Control of HIV-1 Particle Size Polydispersity. PloS One. 2014.