Gil Toombes

·        Graduate Student

·        Address : Department of Physics, 192 Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853

·        Phone : (607) 255 8678

·        Email : get1 _ at _ cornell.edu

·        Home Address : Apt 3, 307 South Titus Avenue, Ithaca, NY, 14850

·        Home Phone : (607) 277 7882

·      Research Interests

·      CV

·      Software/Lab Resources

·      Science Education

·      Publications

·       Recreation

 

 

 

Research Interests : Soft Condensed Matter and Molecular Biophysics

 

·                   Membrane Proteins (esp. Ion Channels and Transporters).

·                   Lipid-Protein Interactions.

·                   Lipid and Polymer Structures.

·                   Templated Structural Synthesis.

·                   Minimal Surfaces and Topological Transitions

·                   Applying X-ray scattering to study molecular structures.

·                   Effects of Osmotic and Hydrostatic Pressure on matter.

·                   Control and Measurement in Quantum Mechanics

 

 

Software and Lab Resources:

 

·         Minimal Surfaces

·         X-ray Image Analysis

·         TV6 Cheat Sheet (copyright Detlef Smilgies)

·         Converting Protein Structures in PDB Files to predicted SAXS patterns

·         Converting SAXS patterns to Pair Correlation Functions

·         Analysing concerted motion in PDB structures.

·         TVX Cheat Sheet

·         Thin Layer Chromatography for PhosphoLipids Protocol

·         Temperature Control of Sample Stages

·         Small Angle X-ray Scattering Calibrants (copyright Adam Finnefrock)

·         Mirror Design for Small Angle X-ray Beamline (copyright Damien Hajduk).

·         File Sharing in TV6 (copyright Lisa Kwok)

·         A-to-D in TV6 (copyright Adam Finnefrock)

·         Reading ADSC (eg. Quantum Detector “.img”) Files

·         Quantum One, Spec and Matlab

 

Comments, questions or suggestions are always welcome.

 

 

Science Education :

 

·        Science Careers – Web Pages and Resources by Pat Viele

·         Science Lessons for Grade 4

·         Gels and Polymer Experiments

·         Liesegang Rings

·         Diffraction Lesson

·         X-ray Imaging Lesson (Absorption and Fluorescence Imaging)

·         PhotoElectric Effect via LEDS

·         Light Meter – Directions to Build One and Experiments that Use it.

·         Crystal Radios - Resources for Carl Franck’s Lesson

·         Rocket Lesson

·         Assorted Demonstrations and Experiments

 

Comments, questions or suggestions are always welcome.

 

 

 

Publications :

 

Articles :

 

P. Busch, S. Krishanan, M. Paik, G.E.S. Toombes, D.M. Smilgies, S.M. Gruner, and C.K. Ober.

Macromolecules, Volume 40, p81-89 (2007).

 

·        Gating of an organic transistor through a bilayer lipid membrane with ion channels

Daniel A. Bernards, George G. Malliaras, Gilman E. S. Toombes, Sol M. Gruner

Applied Physics Letters, Volume 89, 053505 (2006)

 

·         Capsaicin Regulates Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channels by Altering Lipid Bilayer Elasticity.     

J.A. Lundbaek, P. Birn, S.E. Tape, G.E.S. Toombes, R. Sogaard, R.E. Koeppe II, S.M. Gruner, A.J. Hansen, O.S. Andersen.

Molecular Pharmacology, Volume 68, p680-688, (2005).

 

·         Direct Access to Bicontinuous Skeletal Inorganic Plumber’s Nightmare Networks from Block Copolymers

Anurag Jain, GEST, Lisa M. Hall, Surbhi Mahajan, Carlos B.W. Garcia, Wolfgang Probst, Sol Gruner, Ulrich Wiesner.

Angewandte Chemie, Volume 117, p1252-1255  (2005).

 

·         Diastereoselective Alkylation of beta-Amino Esters: Structural and Rate Studies Reveal Alkylations of Hexameric Lithium Enolates

      Anne J. McNeil, Gilman E.S. Toombes, Sol M. Gruner, Emil Lobkovsky, David B. Collum, Sithamalli V. Chandramouli, Benoit J. Vanasse, Timothy A. Ayers.

Journal of American Chemical Society, Volume 126, p16559-16568, (2004).

(Supporting Information)

 

·         Characterization of Beta-Amino Ester Enolates as Hexamers via 6Li NMR Spectroscopy.                       

Anne J. McNeil, Gilman E.S. Toombes, Sithamalli V. Chandramouli, Benoit J. Vanasse, Timothy A. Ayers, Michael K. O’Brien, Emil Lobkovsky, Sol M. Gruner, John Marohn and David Collum.

Journal of American Chemical Society, Volume 126, p5938-5939 (2004).

                  (Supporting Information)

 

·         The Plumber’s Nightmare : A New Morphology in Block Copolymer-Ceramic Nanocomposites and Mesoporous Aluminosilicates

Adam C. Finnefrock, Ralph Ulrich, Gilman E.S. Toombes, Sol M. Gruner, Ulrich Wiesner.

Journal of American Chemical Society, Volume 125, p13084-13093 (2003).

(Supporting Information)

 

·         Determination of Lalpha-Hii Phase Transition Temperature for DOPE

Gilman E.S. Toombes, Adam C. Finnefrock, Mark W. Tate, Sol Gruner.

Biophysical Journal, Volume 82, p2504-2510 (2002).

 

·         Quantum jumps in a two-level atom : Simple theories versus quantum trajectories.

Wiseman, H.M. and Toombes, G.E.S.

Physical Review A, Volume 60, Number 3, p2474 (1999).

 

Abstracts and Posters : 

·         Gramicidin Channels in Anionic:Cationic Lipid Mixtures – Effects on Channel Conductance and Lifetime

                        Gilman E.S. Toombes, Olaf S. Andersen, Sol M. Gruner.

                        Biophysical Society Meeting, (2002).

 

Recreation :

            Reading – A list of book reviews.  Suggestions welcome.

            Cooking – A list of recipes.  Suggestions welcome.

            Photography – Narrow selection of pictures from around Ithaca.