Poirier MG, Bussiek M, Langowski J and Widom J (2007) Spontaneous access to DNA target sites in folded chromatin fibers, Submitted to JMB

Poirier, M.G. and Marko, J.F. Micromechanical studies of mitotic chromosomes (Review). (2003) Curr Top Dev Biol. 55:75-141.

Poirier, M.G. and Marko, J.F. Micromechanics of chromatin and chromosomes (Review). (2003) Biochem Cell Biol. Jun;81(3):209-20.

Poirier, M.G. and Marko, J.F. Micromechanical properties of mitotic chromosomes (Review). (2003) J Musc Res Cell Motil. 23, 409-431.

Poirier, M.G. and Marko, J.F. Mitotic chromosomes are chromatin networks without an internal protein scaffold. (2002) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 15393-15397.

Commentary by A.S. Belmont
Mitotic chromosome scaffold structure: New approaches to an old controversy Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 15855-7 (2002)

Sarkar, A., Eroglu, S., Poirier, M.G., Nemani, A., Gupta, P. and Marko, J.F. Dynamics of Chromosome Compaction During Mitosis, Exp Cell Res. (2002) Jul 1;277(1):48-56.

Poirier, M.G. and Marko, J.F. Effect of Internal Friction on Biofilament Dynamics (2002) Phys Rev Lett. 88(22):228103.

Poirier, M.G., Eroglu, S. and Marko, J.F. The bending rigidity of mitotic chromosomes (2002)

Poirier, M.G., Monhait, T. and Marko, J.F. Reversible hypercondensation and decondensation of mitotic chromosomes studied using combined chemical-micromechanical techniques. (2002) J Cell Biochem. 85:422-424.

Poirier, M.G., Nemani, A., Gupta, P., Eroglu, S. and Marko, J.F. Probing chromosome structure with dynamic force relaxation (2001) Phys Rev Lett. 86, 360-363.

Micromechanical-Biochemical Studies of Mitotic Chromosome Structure
My Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago (2001)
(Note that sections of this thesis have been separately published as research papers)