Roxana Golan

Born in Argentina Roxana studied Chemistry in Tel-Aviv University (1985-1988), where she specialized in biochemistry and organic Chemistry. After graduation she worked as pharmaceutical representative for Hackmey and teva-Abic (1988-1996). Following that, Roxana worked as a research associate with Dr. H. Hansma, at the Physics Department and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (1996-1999) where she focused on AFM for biological and medical imaging applications. She joined the staff of the Minerva center in 1999 where she is heading the AFM Minerva laboratory.
Some of her publications are listed below.
Contact details: Tel: + 972-8-6477798 Fax: + 972-8-6472944
e-mail: rogolan@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Selected publications

1. H. G. Hansma, L. I. Pietrasanta, R. Golan, J. C. Sitko, M. Viani, G. Paloczi, B. L. Smith, D. Thrower, and P. K. Hansma, “Recent highlights from atomic force microscopy of DNA” J. of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics S2 (2000) 271.

2. H.G. Hansma, L. Pietrasanta, I.D. Auerbach, C. Sorenson, R. Golan and P.A. Holden, “Probing biopolymers with the atomic force microscope: a review” J. of Biomaterials Science - Polymer Edition 11 (2000) 675.

3. F. Gaboriaud, A. Berman, R. Golan and R. Jelinek, "Organization and microstructural study of mixed Langmuir monolayers composed of polydiacetylene lipids and phospholipids" Langmuir 17 (2001) 3651.

4. E. Gartstein, D. Mogilyanski, R. Golan and D. Fekete, “On the island nucleation process in LPOMVPE In0.2Ga0.8As/GaAs multilayers grown on GaAs and AlAs buffers” Thin Solid Films 424 (2003) 15-22.

5. S. (Malis) Arad, L. Rapoport, A. Moshkovich, D. van Moppes, M. Karpasas, R. Golan and Y. Golan, "A superior biolubricant extracted from a species of red microalga" Langmuir (2005) submitted.