Sohail Lab @ Swarthmore College

Understanding Peptide Self-Assembly Using Fluorescence Imaging

Publications

At Swarthmore:

  • SH Sohail, J Yoo, HS Chung, Single-fibril FRET imaging and deep learning reveal concentration dependence of Aβ42 aggregation pathways, PNAS Nexus, 2025;, pgaf342, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf342
  • Sohail, SH; Sohoni, S.; Ting, P.-C.; Fantz, L. R.; Abdulhadi, S. M.; MacGregor-Chatwin, C.; Hitchcock, A.; Hunter, C. N.; Engel, G. S.; Massey, S. C. Functional Connectivity of Red Chlorophylls in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Revealed by Fluence-Dependent Transient Absorption. J. Phys. Chem. B 129 (12), 3191–3197 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c00198.

Prior to Swarthmore:

  • JS Higgins, MA Allodi, LT Lloyd, JP Otto, SH Sohail, RG Saer, RE Wood, SC Massey, PC Ting, RE Blankenship, GS Engel. Redox conditions correlated with vibronic coupling modulate quantum beats in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118(49) (2021), e2112817118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112817118
  • JS Higgins, LT Lloyd, SH Sohail, MA Allodi, JP Otto, RG Saer, RE Wood, SC Massey, PC Ting, RE Blankenship, GS Engel. Photosynthesis tunes quantum mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118(11) (2021), e2018240118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018240118
  • SH Sohail, JP Otto, PD Cunningham, RE Wood, JS Higgins, MA Allodi, JS Melinger, GS Engel. DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer. Chem. Sci. 11 (32), 8546-8557 (2020). DOI: 10.1039/D0SC01127D
  • SC Massey, S-H Yeh, PC Ting, PD Dahlberg, SH Sohail, MA Allodi, EC Martin, S Kais, CN Hunter, GS Engel. Orientational Dynamics of Transition Dipoles and Exciton Relaxation in LH2 from Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Anisotropy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett 10, 270-277 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03223
  • MA Allodi, JP Otto, SH Sohail, RG Saer, RE Wood, BS Rolczynski, SC Massey, PC Ting, RE Blankenship, GS Engel. Redox Conditions Affect Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Photosynthetic Pigment–Protein Complexes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 (1), 89-95 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02883
  • SH Sohail, PD Dahlberg, MA Allodi, SC Massey, PC Ting, EC Martin, CN Hunter, GS Engel. Communication: Broad manifold of excitonic states in light-harvesting complex 1 promotes efficient unidirectional energy transfer in vivo. J. Chem. Phys. 147 (13), 131101 (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4999057
  • J Ziang, SK Hess, F Heinrich, JC Lee. Molecular details of α-synuclein membrane association revealed by neutrons and photons. J. Phys. Chem. B 119 (14), 4812-4823 (2015). DOI: 10.1021/jp512499r