Recent Publications



    Selected Publications (out of 34 refereed papers and 7 invited papers/chapters)

  • Catron*, D.M., S. Rajpal* and A. Walter. The use of laurdan to follow lipid movement during divalent cation-induced fusioin of phosphatidylserine vesicles. (submitted to Biochimica Biophysica Acta).

  • Walter, A., G. Kuehl*, K. Barnes* and G. VanderWaerdt*. 2000. The vesicle to micelle transition of phosphatidylcholine vesicles induced by nonionic detergents: Effects of sodium chloride, sucrose and urea. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1508:20-33.


    Manuscripts in Progress

  • Craighead, J.L., A. Walter and M. Walczak. Solution phase spectroscopic studies of acid/base dyes as indicators of carboxylic acid dissociation. (being prepared for Langmuir)

  • Walter, A. The role of ionic charge on lipids and/or detergents and the vesicle-to-micelle transition. (being prepared for Biochimica Biophysica Acta)

  • Walter, A. and M.M. Walczak. The Surfaces Group – one example of interdisciplinary research (being prepared for the Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly)

  • Gilmer, D., E. Stojkovic, L. Tabesh, K. Terebova, M.M. Walczak and A. Walter. A fluorescent method for measuring PLA2 activity. (being prepared for Analytical Biochemistry)

  • Walter, A. and K. Pandey. Using Tetrahymena and fluorescence microscopy to explore the physiology of living cells. (being prepared for The American Biology Teacher)


    Recent Presentations (student authors are indicated by *)

  • Brahs*, M., M.Walczak and A. Walter. 2001. Lipid microdomains in brain sphingomyelin phosphatidylcholine mixtures. Biophys. J. 80:531a.

  • Gilmer*, D., E. Stojkovic*, M.M. Walczak and A. Walter. 2000. A fluorescent assay permits continuous monitoring of PLA2 activity. Biophys. J. 78:162A.

  • Wheeler*, J., N. London*, M.M. Walczak and A. Walter. 2000. Annexin binding measured by fluorescence anisotropy. Biophys. J. 78:320A.

  • Walter, A. and M. Walczak. 1999. The Surfaces Group: One model for interdisciplinary undergraduate research. Sigma Xi Forum.

  • Kuehl*, G. and A. Walter. 1999. Sodium chloride, sucrose and urea alter the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of detergents and the phsophadiylcholine vesicle-to-micelle transition. Biophys J. 76: A433.

  • Rajpal*, S., G. Fridlund* and A. Walter. 1998. Determining the behavior of mixtures of brain phosphatidylcholine (PC) and brain sphingomyelin (Sph) using fluoresecent probes. Biophys J. 74:A312.