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Rice University: Houston, TX, US

2020 to present | Assistant Professor (Bioengineering)
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George J. Lu

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2014 to 2019
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George J. Lu

Education and qualifications (2)

University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, US

2009 to 2014 | Ph.D.
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George J. Lu

University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2004 to 2007 | BSc
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Funding (1)

Sonomagnetic Imaging and Sonomechanical Control of Biological Processes in Deep Tissues

2018-08-01 to 2020-04-30 | Grant
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7726806
GRANT_NUMBER: K99EB024600
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Works (35)

Elucidating the assembly of gas vesicles by systematic protein-protein interaction analysis

The EMBO Journal
2024-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s44318-024-00178-2
Contributors: Manuel Iburg; Andrew P Anderson; Vivian T Wong; Erica D Anton; Art He; George J Lu
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50‐nm Gas‐Filled Protein Nanostructures to Enable the Access of Lymphatic Cells by Ultrasound Technologies

Advanced Materials
2024-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307123
Contributors: Qionghua Shen; Zongru Li; Yixian Wang; Matthew D. Meyer; Marc T. De Guzman; Janie C. Lim; Han Xiao; Richard R. Bouchard; George J. Lu
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Elucidating the Assembly of Gas Vesicles by Systematic Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis

2023-07-23 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.23.550228
Contributors: Manuel Iburg; Andrew P. Anderson; Vivian T. Wong; Erica D. Anton; Art He; George J. Lu
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50-nm gas-filled protein nanostructures to enable the access of lymphatic cells by ultrasound technologies

2023-06-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.27.546433
Contributors: Qionghua Shen; Zongru Li; Matthew D. Meyer; Marc T. De Guzman; Janie C. Lim; Richard R. Bouchard; George J. Lu
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Spatial Organization of Gas Vesicles is Governed by Phase-separable GvpU

2023-06-01 | Preprint | Author
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.01.543273
Contributors: Zongru Li; Qionghua Shen; Yifan Dai; Andrew P. Anderson; Manuel Iburg; Richard Lin; Brandon Zimmer; Matthew D. Meyer; Lingchong You; Ashutosh Chilkoti et al.
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George J. Lu

Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET

Structure
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2023.03.011
Part of ISSN: 0969-2126
Contributors: Przemysław Dutka; Lauren Ann Metskas; Robert C. Hurt; Hossein Salahshoor; Ting-Yu Wang; Dina Malounda; George J. Lu; Tsui-Fen Chou; Mikhail G. Shapiro; Grant J. Jensen
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George J. Lu

Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET

2022-06-21 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.21.496981
Contributors: Przemysław Dutka; Lauren Ann Metskas; Robert C. Hurt; Hossein Salahshoor; Ting-Yu Wang; Dina Malounda; George Lu; Tsui-Fen Chou; Mikhail G. Shapiro; Grant J. Jensen
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Measuring gas vesicle dimensions by electron microscopy

Protein Science
2021-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/pro.4056
Part of ISSN: 0961-8368
Part of ISSN: 1469-896X
Contributors: Przemysław Dutka; Dina Malounda; Lauren Ann Metskas; Songye Chen; Robert C. Hurt; Grant Jensen; Grant J. Jensen; Mikhail Shapiro
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George J. Lu

Measuring gas vesicle dimensions by electron microscopy

2021-01-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.22.427725
Contributors: Przemysław Dutka; Dina Malounda; Lauren Ann Metskas; Songye Chen; Robert C. Hurt; George J. Lu; Grant J. Jensen; Mikhail G. Shapiro
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Genetically Encodable Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography

ACS Nano
2020-07-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08432
Contributors: George J. Lu; Li-dek Chou; Dina Malounda; Amit K. Patel; Derek S. Welsbie; Daniel L. Chao; Tirunelveli Ramalingam; Mikhail G. Shapiro
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Biomolecular Ultrasound and Sonogenetics

Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060817-084034
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George J. Lu

Protein Nanostructures Produce Self-Adjusting Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast through Physical Gas Partitioning

ACS nano
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b04222
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George J. Lu

Proteins, air and water: reporter genes for ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.02.011
Contributors: George J Lu; Arash Farhadi; Arnab Mukherjee; Mikhail G Shapiro
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Recombinantly expressed gas vesicles as nanoscale contrast agents for ultrasound and hyperpolarized MRI

AIChE Journal
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/aic.16138
Contributors: Arash Farhadi; Gabrielle Ho; Martin Kunth; Bill Ling; Anupama Lakshmanan; George J Lu; Raymond W. Bourdeau; Leif Schröder; Mikhail G. Shapiro
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Acoustically modulated magnetic resonance imaging of gas-filled protein nanostructures

Nature Materials
2018-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0023-7
Contributors: George J. Lu; Arash Farhadi; Jerzy O. Szablowski; Audrey Lee-Gosselin; Samuel R. Barnes; Anupama Lakshmanan; Raymond W. Bourdeau; Mikhail G. Shapiro
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Biomolecular MRI reporters: Evolution of new mechanisms

Progress in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2017.05.002
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George J. Lu

Characterizing Single Polymeric and Protein Nanoparticles with Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Measurements

ACS nano
2017 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

NMR Hyperpolarization Techniques of Gases

Chemistry
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201603884
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George J. Lu

Preparation of biogenic gas vesicle nanostructures for use as contrast agents for ultrasound and MRI

Nature Protocols
2017 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Development of Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy for Membrane Proteins: Application to the Mercury Transporter MerF

2014 | Dissertation or Thesis
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George J. Lu

Mechanism of dilute-spin-exchange in solid-state NMR

The Journal of chemical physics
2014 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

NMR structures of membrane proteins in phospholipid bilayers

Quarterly reviews of biophysics
2014 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Resonance assignments of a membrane protein in phospholipid bilayers by combining multiple strategies of oriented sample solid-state NMR

Journal of biomolecular NMR
2014 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Structure of the membrane protein MerF, a bacterial mercury transporter, improved by the inclusion of chemical shift anisotropy constraints.

Journal of biomolecular NMR
2014 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Motion-adapted pulse sequences for oriented sample (OS) solid-state NMR of biopolymers

The Journal of chemical physics
2013 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

The structure of the mercury transporter MerF in phospholipid bilayers: a large conformational rearrangement results from N-terminal truncation

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2013 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Improved 1 H amide resonance line narrowing in oriented sample solid-state NMR of membrane proteins in phospholipid bilayers

Journal of Magnetic Resonance
2012 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Structure determination of a membrane protein in proteoliposomes

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2012 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

‘q-Titration’of long-chain and short-chain lipids differentiates between structured and mobile residues of membrane proteins studied in bicelles by solution NMR spectroscopy

Journal of magnetic resonance
2012 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

A general assignment method for oriented sample (OS) solid-state NMR of proteins based on the correlation of resonances through heteronuclear dipolar couplings in samples aligned parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field

Journal of Magnetic Resonance
2011 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Structure determination of membrane proteins in five easy pieces

Methods
2011 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

A resonance assignment method for oriented-sample solid-state NMR of proteins

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2010 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Crystal structure of the arginine repressor protein in complex with the DNA operator from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of molecular biology
2008 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Structure of the C-terminal domain of the arginine repressor protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography
2008 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray analysis of the C-terminal domain of an arginine repressor protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
2007 | Journal article
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George J. Lu

Peer review (15 reviews for 11 publications/grants)

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Review activity for Cell reports medicine. (2)
Review activity for Cellular and molecular bioengineering. (1)
Review activity for Molecular imaging and biology (1)
Review activity for Nature chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for Nature methods. (1)
Review activity for Protein expression and purification. (1)
Review activity for Small. (1)
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