For a brief description of research interests, see the Official Departmental Page for the Keller Group.
Reverse Chronological Order
- 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, Chemistry of Materials, in press, 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.
- P. Cicuta, S.L. Keller, and S.L. Veatch Diffusion of Liquid Domains in Lipid Bilayer Membranes, J. Phys. Chem. B., 111, 3328-3331, 2007.
- S.L. Veatch, K. Gawrisch, and S.L. Keller Closed-loop Miscibility Gap and Quantitative Tie-lines in Ternary Membranes Containing DiphytanoylPC, Biophys. J., 90, 4428-4436 2006.
- B.L. Stottrup and S.L. Keller Phase Behavior of Lipid Monolayers Containing DPPC and Cholesterol Analogs, Biophys. J., 90, 3176-3183, 2006.
- S.L. Keller and A.L. Smith Advice for New Faculty Teaching Undergraduate Science J. Chem. Educ., 83, 401-406, 2006.
- S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller, Seeing Spots: Complex Phase Behavior in Simple Membranes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Molecular Cell Research (Invited), 1746, 172-185, 2005.
- M.E. Beattie, S.L. Veatch, B.L. Stottrup, and S.L. Keller, Sterol Structure Determines Miscibility vs. Melting Transitions in Lipid Vesicles, Biophys. J., 89, 1760-1768, 2005.
- S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller, Miscibility Phase Diagrams of Giant Vesicles Containing Sphingomyelin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 148101, 2005.
- B.L. Stottrup, D.S. Stevens, and S.L. Keller, Miscibility of Ternary Mixtures of Phospholipids and Cholesterol in Monolayers, and Application to Bilayer Systems, Biophys. J., 88, 269-276, 2005.
- S.L. Veatch, I.V. Polozov, K. Gawrisch, and S.L. Keller Liquid Domains in Vesicles Investigated by NMR and Fluorescence Microscopy Biophys. J. 2004 86 2910-2922.
- B.L. Stottrup, S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Nonequilibrium Behavior in Supported Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol Biophys. J. 2004 86 2942-2950.
- S.L. Keller Sequential Folding of a Rigid Wire into Three-Dimensional Structures Am. J. Phys. 2004 72 599-604.
- S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Separation of Liquid Phases in Giant Vesicles of Ternary Mixtures of Phospholipids and Cholesterol Biophys. J. 2003 85 3074-3083.
- S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller A Closer Look at the Canonical Raft Mixture in Model Membrane Studies Biophys. J. 2003 84, 725-726.
- S.L. Keller Miscibility Transitions and Lateral Compressibility in Liquid Phases of Lipid Monolayers Langmuir 2003 19, 1451-1456.
- S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Organization in Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol Phys. Rev. Lett 2002 89 268101.
- S. Bezzine, J.G. Bollinger, S.L. Veatch, S.L. Keller and M.H. Gelb, On the Binding Preference of Secreted Phospholipases A2 for Membranes with Anionic Phospholipids J. Biol. Chem. 2002 277, 48523-48534.
- S.L. Keller Coexisting Liquid Phases in Lipid Monolayers and Bilayers J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. (Special Issue Article), 2002, 14, 4763-4766.
- W.H. Pitcher III, S.L. Keller, and W.H. Huestis Interaction of Nominally Soluble Proteins with Phospholipid Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Biomembranes) 2002 1564, 107-113.
- S.L. Keller, T.G. Anderson, and H.M. McConnell, Miscibility
Critical Pressures in Monolayers of Ternary Lipid Mixtures Biophys. J.,
2000, 79, 2033-2042.
- S.L. Keller, A. Radhakrishnan, and H.M. McConnell,
Saturated Phospholipids with High Melting Temperature Form Complexes
with Cholesterol in Monolayers J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104,
7522-7527.
- S.L. Keller and H.M. McConnell,
Stripe Phases in Lipid Monolayers near a Miscibility Critical
Point, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1999, 82, 1602.
- S.L. Keller, W.H. Pitcher III, W.H. Huestis and H.M. McConnell,
Red Blood Cell Lipids Form Immiscible Liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1998, 81, 5019.
- S.L. Keller, P. Boltenhagen, D. Pine and J.A. Zasadzinski,
Direct Observation of Shear-Induced Structures in Worm-Like Micelles: a Freeze-Fracture Electron Microscopy Study,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 1998, 80, 2725-2728.
- M. Adams, Z. Dogic, S.L. Keller and S. Fraden,
Entropically Driven Microphase Transitions in Mixtures of Colloidal
Rods and Spheres,
Nature, 1998, 393, 349.
- H.E. Warriner, S.L. Keller, S.H.J. Idziak, N.L. Slack, P. Davidson, J.A.
Zasadzinski and C.R. Safinya,
The Influence of Polymer Molecular Weight in Lamellar Gels Based on
PEG-Lipids, Biophys. J., 1998, 75, 272-293.
- S.L. Keller, H.E. Warriner, C.R. Safinya and J.A. Zasadzinski, Direct
Observation of the Defect Structure in a Lamellar Biogel of Membranes and
Polymer-Lipids. Phys. Rev. Letters, 1997, 78, 4781-4785.
- S.L. Keller, S.M. Gruner and K. Gawrisch,
SmallConcentrations of Alamethicin Induce a Cubic Phase in Bulk
Phosphatidylethanolamine Mixtures, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1996,
1278, 241-246.
- Y-S. Lee, J-Z. Yang, T.M. Sisson, D.A. Frankel, J.T. Gleeson, E. Aksay,
S.L. Keller, S.M. Gruner and D.F. O'Brien, Polymerization of Nonlamellar
Lipid Assemblies,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, no. 20, 5573-5578.
- S.L. Keller, S.M. Bezrukov, S.M. Gruner, M.W. Tate, I. Vodyanoy and
V.A. Parsegian,
Probability of Alamethicin Conductance States Varies with Nonlamellar
Tendency of Bilayer Phospholipids, Biophys. J., 1993,
65, 23-27.
- Peter Olmsted, "Worm-Like Micelles Stir Up a Storm" Physics World, June 1998.
- "Entropy Drives Phase Behavior in Colloids" Chemical and Engineering News, June 1, 1998, p43.
- "Order Out of Disorder" 2000 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopedia Brittanica, p 247.
Dr. Sarah L. Keller
Dept. of Chemistry, Box 351700, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA,
98195-1700
e-mail: slkeller(at)chem.washington.edu
last edited Jan 2008