Publications (Last Update: April 29, 2009)

Journal Articles

2009

Gary Hastings, Peter Krug, Ruili Wang, Jing Guo, Hari Lamichhane, Tian Tang, Yu-sheng Hsu, John Ward, David Katz and Julia Hilliard (2009)

Viral Infection of Cells in Culture Detected Using Infrared Microscopy

Analyst, 134, 1462–1471. DOI: 10.1039/b902154j. First published on the web 5th May 2009.

2008

Sreeja Parameswaran, Ruili Wang, and Gary Hastings (2008)
   Calculation of the Vibrational Properties of Chlorophyll-a in solution
J. Phys Chem. B. 112, 14056-14062. (pdf)

Gary Hastings, Ruili Wang, Peter Krug, David Katz and Julia Hilliard (2008)

Infrared Microscopy For The Study of Biological Cell Monolayers. I: Spectral Effects of Acetone and Formalin Fixation.

Biopolymers 89, 11, 921-930. (pdf)

Gary Hastings and Ruili Wang (2008)
Vibrational Mode Frequency Calculations of Chlorophyll-d for Assessing (P740⁺-P740) FTIR Difference Spectra Obtained Using Photosystem I Particles from Acaryochloris marina

Photosynthesis Research. 95, 55-62. (pdf)

G. Hastings, K.M. Priyangika Bandaranayake and Enrique Carrion (2008)

Time-resolved FTIR Difference Spectroscopy in Combination With Specific Isotope Labeling For The Study of A₁, The Secondary Electron Acceptor in Photosystem 1.

Biophys. J. 94, 11, 4383-4392. (pdf)

2007

Ruili Wang, Sreeja Parameswaran and Gary Hastings (2007)
   Density Functional Theory Based Calculations of the Vibrational Properties of Chlorophyll-a
Vibrational Spectroscopy, 44, 357–368 (pdf)

2006

K.M. Priyangika Bandaranayake, Ruili Wang T. Wade Johnson and Gary Hastings (2006)
   Time-resolved FTIR Difference Spectroscopy for the Study of Photosystem I Particles with Plastoquinone-9 Occupying the A₁ Binding Site
Biochemistry 45, 12733-12740 (pdf)

K.M. Priyangika Bandaranayake, Velautham Sivakumar, Ruili Wang and Gary Hastings (2006)
    Modeling The A₁ Binding Site In Photosystem I. Density Functional Theory For The Calculation Of
   “Anion – Neutral” FTIR Difference Spectra of Phylloquinone
Vibrational Spectroscopy 42(1), 78-87. (pdf)

K.M. Priyangika Bandaranayake, Ruili Wang and Gary Hastings (2006)
     Modification of the Phylloquinone in the A₁ Binding Site in Photosystem I Studied Using Time-resolved
     FTIR Difference Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory.
     Biochemistry  45, 4121-4127. (pdf)

G. Ariyawansa, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, G. Hastings, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanan, G. I. Sproule, V. I. Gavrilenko, and V. P. Kuznetsov (2006)

Characteristics of a Si dual-band detector responding in both near- and far-infrared regions

Appl.Phys.Lett., 89, 061112 (pdf)

2005

Velautham Sivakumar, Ruili Wang and Gary Hastings (2005)
    A₁ Reduction in Intact Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Particles Studied Using Time-resolved Step-scan Fourier Transform Infra-red
    Difference Spectroscopy and Isotope Labeling.
Biochemistry 44, 1880-1893 (pdf)

G. Ariyawansa, MBM Rinzan, DG Esaev, G. Hastings, SG Matsik, AGU Perera, HC Lui, BN Zvonkov and VI Gavrilenko. (2005)

Near and Far-Infrared p-GaAs Dual Band Detector

Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 143510, 1-3 (pdf)

2004

Yajing Li, Marie-Gabrielle Lucas, Tatyana Konovalova, Brian Abbott, Fraser MacMillan, Alexander Petrenko,
Velautham Sivakumar, Ruili Wang, Gary Hastings, Feifei Gu, Johan van Tol, Louis-Claude Brunel,
    Russell Timkovich, Fabrice Rappaport and Kevin Redding (2004). Web release date: 09-03-04
    Mutation of the Putative Hydrogen-Bond Donor to P700 of Photosystem I.
    Biochemistry 43, 12634-12647 (pdf)

V.P.S. Perera, P.V.V. Jayaweera, P.K.D.D.P. Pitigala, P.K.M. Bandaranayake, G. Hastings, A.G.U. Perera and K.Tennakone (2004)
    Construction of a photovoltaic device by deposition of thin films of the conducting polymer polythiocyanogen.
    Synthetic Metals. 143, 283-287. (pdf)

Ruili Wang, Velautham Sivakumar, T. Wade Johnson and Gary Hastings (2004).
    FTIR Difference Spectroscopy In Combination With Isotope Labeling for Identification of
    The Carbonyl Modes of P700 and P700⁺ in Photosystem I.
Biophys. J. 86, 1061-1073.  (pdf)

2003

Ruili Wang, Velautham Sivakumar, Yajing Li, Kevin Redding and Gary Hastings (2003).
    Mutation Induced Modulation of Hydrogen Bonding To P700 Studied Using FTIR Difference Spectroscopy.
Biochem. 42, 9889-9897. (pdf)

Sivakumar, V., Wang, R. and Hastings, G. (2003).
    Photo-Oxidation of P740, the Primary Electron Donor in Photosystem I From Acaryochloris marina.
Biophys. J. 85, 5, 3162-3172 (pdf)

2002

Yang, J., Yang, H., Ye, Y., Hopkins, H. and Hastings, G. (2002)
    Temperature Induced Formation of a Non-native Intermediate State of the All b sheet Protein CD2. 
    Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics 36, 1-18. (pdf)

Anderson, N. A., Hao, E. C., Ai, X., Hastings, G. and Lian, T. Q. (2002)
Subpicosecond photoinduced electron transfer from a conjugated polymer to SnO2 semiconductor nanocrystals. 
Physica E, 14, 215-218. (pdf)

2001

Hastings, G. and Sivakumar, V. (2001)
    A Fourier Transform Infra-red Absorption Difference Spectrum Associated With The Reduction of A1
    in Photosystem I: Are Both Phylloquinones Involved In Electron Transfer? 
Biochem. 40, 3681-3689. (pdf)

Hastings, G. (2001)

    Time-Resolved, Step-Scan, Fourier Transform Infra-red and Visible Absorption Difference Spectroscopy
    for the Study of Photosystem I of Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolving Organisms. 
Applied Spectrosc. 55, 7, 894-900 (pdf)

Anderson, N., Hao, E., Xin, A., Hastings, G. and Lian, T. (2001)
    Ultrafast and long-lived photoinduced charge separation in MEH-PPV/nanoporous semiconductor thin film composites.
Chem.Phys. Letts. 347, 304-310. (pdf)

Hastings, G., Ramesh, V. M., Wang, R., Sivakumar, V. and Webber, A.  (2001)
    Primary Donor Photo-Oxidation in Photosystem I: A Re-Evaluation of (P700⁺-P700) Fourier Transform Infrared Difference Spectra.
Biochem. 40, 12943-12949. (pdf)

Prior to 2001

Hastings, G. (1999).  in Ace Your Midterm and Finals: Introduction To Physics.
   Chapter 23, 232-248.  Editor: Alan Axelrod. (McGraw Hill)

Baba, K., Itoh, S., Hastings, G. & Hoshina, S., (1996)
Photoinhibition of photosystem I electron transfer activity in isolated photosystem I preparations with
   different chlorophyll content.
Photosynthesis Research 47, 121-130.

Hastings, G., Hoshina, S., Webber, A., Lin, S. & Blankenship, R. E. (1995)
   Universality of  electron and energy transfer processes in photosystem one.
Biochemistry 34, 15512-15522.

Hastings, G., Reid, L. J., Lin, S. & Blankenship, R. E. (1995)
   Excited state dynamics in photosystem I. Effects of detergent and excitation wavelength.
Biophysical Journal 69, 5, 2044-2055.

Kleinherenbrink, F. A. M., Hastings, G., Wittmershaus, B. & Blankenship, R. E. (1994).
   Delayed fluorescence from Fe-S type Photosynthetic Reaction Centers at Low Redox Potential.
Biochemistry 33, 3096-3105

Hastings, G., Kleinherenbrink, F. A. M., Lin, S. & Blankenship, R. E. (1994).
   Time resolved fluorescence and absorption studies of photosystem 1.
Biochemistry 33, 3185-3192

Hastings, G., Kleinherenbrink, F. A. M., Lin, S. McHugh, T., J. & Blankenship, R. E. (1994).
   Observation of the reduction and reoxidation of the primary electron acceptor in photosystem 1.
Biochemistry 33, 3193-3200.

Durrant, J. R., Hastings, G., Joseph, M., Barber, J., Porter G. & Klug, D. R., (1993).
   Oxidation of P680 with an effective rate of (21ps)^-1 in isolated photosystem two reaction centers.
Biochemistry  32, 8259-8267.

Hastings, G., Durrant, J. R., Barber, J., Porter G. & Klug, D. R., (1992).
   Observation of pheophytin reduction in photosystem two reaction centers.
Biochemistry 31, 7638-7647.

Durrant, J. R., Hastings, G., Hong, Q., Barber, J., Porter G. & Klug, D. R., (1992).
    Determination of P680 singlet state lifetimes in photosystem two reaction centers.
Chem. Phys. Letts, 188, 1-2, 54-59.

Durrant, J. R., Hastings, G., Joseph, M., Barber, J., Porter G. & Klug, D. R., (1992).
Sub-picosecond equilibration of excitation energy in isolated photosystem two reaction centers.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 11632-11636.