Faculty Member

Dr. Dan James

Education

PhD, Arizona State University, 2015

Major: Physics

BS, Utah Valley University, 2008

Major: Physics

Teaching

PHYS 2020

College Physics II, Fall 2025

PHYS 2020

College Physics II, Fall 2025

PHYS 3230

Principles of Electronics for the Physical Sciences, Fall 2025

PHYS 2010

College Physics I PP, Spring 2025

PHYS 2020

College Physics II PP, Spring 2025

PHYS 2800

Introduction to Materials Physics, Spring 2025

Presentations

Fernandez, David (Co-Presenter), Martinson, Marty (Co-Presenter), Porter, Garrett (Co-Author), Eads, W C (Co-Author), Jaafar, Israd (Co-Author), Amin, Masood (Co-Author), Seibi, Abdennour (Co-Author), James, Dan (Co-Author), SPE ANTEC, "Mechanical Properties of 3D-Printed Polymers_ A Comparative Study of Carbon Fiber Reinforcement​ ​", Society of Petroleum Engineers, Philadelphia, PA. (March 3, 2025)
Miller, Tessa (Co-Author), Stong, Connor (Co-Author), Miera, Benjamin (Co-Author), James, Dan (Co-Author), Matheson, Phil (Co-Author), Utah Space Grant Consortium, "Building a Langmuir Probe", Utah State University, Salt Lake Community College. (May 6, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Bosman, Robert , Ortolani, Giorgia , Ghosh, Swagatha , James, Dan , Norder, Per , Hammarin, Greger , Úlfarsdóttir, Tinna Björg, Ostojić, Lucija , Weinert, Tobias , Dworkowski, Florian , Tomizaki, Takashi , Standfuss, Jörg , Brändén, Gisela , Neutze, Richard , (2025) "Structural basis for the prolonged photocycle of sensory rhodopsin II revealed by serial synchrotron crystallography" (Issue: 1, vol. 16). Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58263-x
Gotthard, Guillaume , Mous, Sandra , Weinert, Tobias , Maia, Raiza Nara, James, Dan , Dworkowski, Florian , Gashi, Dardan , Furrer, Antonia , Ozerov, Dmitry , Panepucci, Ezequiel , Wang, Meitian , Schertler, Gebhard F., Heberle, Joachim , Standfuss, Joerg , Nogly, Przemyslaw , (2024) "Capturing the blue-light activated state of the Phot-LOV1 domain from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography" (Issue: 5, vol. 11). IUCrJ. https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052252524005608
Gruhl, Thomas , Weinert, Tobias , Rodrigues, Matthew J., Milne, Christopher J., Ortolani, Giorgia , Nass, Karol , Nango, Eriko , Sen, Saumik , Johnson, Philip J. M., Array , Cirelli, Claudio , Furrer, Antonia , Mous, Sandra , Skopintsev, Petr , James, Dan , Dworkowski, Florian , Bath, Petra , Kekilli, Demet , Ozerov, Dmitry , Tanaka, Rie , Glover, Hannah , Bacellar, Camila , Brunle, Steffen , Casadei, Cecilia M., Diethelm, Azeglio D., Gashi, Dardan , Gotthard, Guillaume , Guixa-Gonzalez, Ramon , Joti, Yasumasa , Kabanova, Victoria , Knopp, Gregor , Lesca, Elena , Ma, Pikyee , Martiel, Isabelle , Muhle, Jonas , Owada, Shigeki , Pamula, Filip , Sarabi, Daniel , Tejero, Oliver , Tsai, Ching-Ju , Varma, Niranjan , Wach, Anna , Boutet, Sebastien , Tono, Kensuke , Nogly, Przemyslaw , Deupi, Xavier , Iwata, So , Neutze, Richard , Standfuss, Jorg , Schertler, Gebhard , Panneels, Valerie , (2023) "Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision" . NATURE.
Wranik, Maximilian , Weinert, Tobias , Slavov, Chavdar , Masini, Tiziana , Furrer, Antonia , Gaillard, Natacha , Gioia, Dario , Ferrarotti, Marco , James, Dan , Glover, Hannah , Carrillo, Melissa , Kekilli, Demet , Stipp, Robin , Skopintsev, Petr , Brunle, Steffen , Muhlethaler, Tobias , Beale, John , Gashi, Dardan , Nass, Karol , Ozerov, Dmitry , Johnson, Philip J. M., Array , Cirelli, Claudio , Bacellar, Camila , Braun, Markus , Wang, Meitian , Dworkowski, Florian , Milne, Chris , Cavalli, Andrea , Wachtveitl, Josef , Steinmetz, Michel O. O., Array , Standfuss, Jorg , (2023) "Watching the release of a photopharmacological drug from tubulin using time-resolved serial crystallography" (Issue: 1, vol. 14). NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
Wranik, Maximilian , Kepa, Michal , Beale, Emma , James, Daniel , Bertrand, Quentin , Weinert, Tobias , Furrer, Antonia , Glover, Hannah , Gashi, Dardan , Carrillo, Melissa , Kondo, Yasushi , Stipp, Robin , Khusainov, Georgii , Nass, Karol , Ozerov, Dmitry , Cirelli, Claudio , Johnson, Philip , Dworkowski, Florian , Beale, John , Stubbs, Scott , Zamofing, Thierry , Schneider, Marco , Krauskopf, Kristina , Gao, Li , Thorn-Seshold, Oliver , Bostedt, Christoph , Bacellar, Camila , Steinmetz, Michel , Milne, Christopher , Standfuss, Jörg , "A multi-reservoir extruder for time-resolved serial protein crystallography and compound screening at X-ray free-electron lasers" . Nature Portfolio. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43523-5
Båth, Petra , Banacore, Analia , Börjesson, Per , Bosman, Robert , Wickstrand, Cecilia , Safari, Cecilia , Dods, Robert , Ghosh, Swagatha , Dahl, Peter , Ortolani, Giorgia , Björg Ulfarsdottir, Tinna , Hammarin, Greger , García Bonete, María-José , Vallejos, Adams , Ostojić, Lucija , Edlund, Petra , Linse, Johanna-Barbara , Andersson, Rebecka , Nango, Eriko , Owada, Shigeki , Tanaka, Rie , Tono, Kensuke , Joti, Yasumasa , Nureki, Osamu , Luo, Fangjia , James, Dan , Nass, Karol , Johnson, Philip J., Knopp, Gregor , Ozerov, Dmitry , Cirelli, Claudio , Milne, Christopher , Iwata, So , Brändén, Gisela , Neutze, Richard , (2022) "Lipidic cubic phase serial femtosecond crystallography structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" (Issue: 6, vol. 78). Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. https://doi.org/10.1107/s2059798322004144