Zhang, Y.; Dood, J.; Beckstead A. A.; Li, X.-B., Nguyen, K. V.; Burrows, C. J.; Improta, R.; Kohler, B. “Photoinduced Electron Transfer in DNA: Charge Shift Dynamics Between 8-Oxo-Guanine Anion and Adenine,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2015.Kohler, B. “Excited States of Single-Stranded DNA Revealed by Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy,” in Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics at the Nanoscale, Eds. S. Haacke and I. Burghardt, Pan Stanford Publishing, Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2015, in press.Henrich, J. D.; Suchyta, S., Kohler, B. “Ultrafast Hydrolysis of a Lewis Photoacid,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 2737-2748.Chen, J.; Zhang, Y.; Kohler, B. “Excited States in DNA Strands Investigated by Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy,” Top. Curr. Chem. 2015, 356, 39 – 88; (invited book chapter for Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids II, Eds. M. Barbatti, A. C. Borin, and S. Ullrich)Liu, R.; Dandu, N.; Chen, J.; Li, Y.; Li, Z.; Liu, S.; Wang, C.; Kilina, S.; Kohler, B.; Sun, W. “Influence of different diimine (N^N) ligands on the photophysics and reverse saturable absorption of heteroleptic cationic iridium(III) complexes bearing cyclometalating 2-{3-[7-(benzothiazol-2-yl)fluoren-2-yl]phenyl}pyridine (C^N) ligands,” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 23233–23246.Zhang, Y.; Dood, J.; Beckstead, A.; Li, X.-B.; Nguyen, K. V.; Burrows, C. J.; Improta, R. “Efficient UV-induced charge separation and recombination in an 8-oxoguanine-containing dinucleotide,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2014, 111, 11612-11617.Chen, J.; Kohler, B. “Base Stacking in Adenosine Dimers Revealed by Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6362-6372. Selected for a JACS spotlight.Zhang, Y.; Improta, R.; Kohler, B. “Mode-specific vibrational relaxation of photoexcited guanosine 5’-monophosphate and its acid form: A femtosecond broadband mid-IR transient absorption and theoretical study,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 1487-1499.Zhang, Y.; Dood, J.; Beckstead, A.; Chen, J.; Li, X.-B.; Burrows, C. J.; Lu, Z.; Matsika, S.; Kohler, B. “Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics and Vibrational Cooling of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2’-deoxyguanosine in D2O,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 12851-12857.Zhang, Y.; Chen, J.; Kohler, B. “Hydrogen Bond Donors Accelerate Vibrational Cooling of Hot Purine Derivatives in Heavy Water,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 6771-6780.Chen, J.; Thazhathveetil, A. K.; Lewis, F. D.; Kohler, B. “Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in hexaethyleneglycol-linked DNA homoduplexes made of AT base pairs,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10290-10293. Selected for a JACS spotlight.Law, Y. K.; Forties, R. A.; Liu, X.; Poirier, M. G.; Kohler, B. “Sequence-dependent thymine dimer formation and reversal rates in double-stranded DNA,” Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2013, 12, 1431-1439.Su, C.; Middleton, C. T.; Kohler, B. “Base-Stacking Disorder and Excited-State Dynamics in Single-Stranded Adenine Homo-oligonucleotides,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, 116, 10266-10274.Chen, J; Kohler, B. “Ultrafast nonradiative decay by hypoxanthine and several methylxanthines in aqueous and acetonitrile solution,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2012, 14, 10677-10682.Pan, Z.; Chen, J.; Schreier, W. J.; Kohler, B.; Lewis, F. D. “Thymine Dimer Photoreversal in Purine-containing Trinucleotides,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, 116, 698-704.de La Harpe, K.; Kohler, B. “Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics in Genomic DNA,” Proceedings of the Ultrafast Phenomena Conference XVII; Eds. Chergui, M., Jonas, D. M., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. W., Taylor, A. J.; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, 550-552.Su, C.; Kohler, B. “Transient Absorption Signals from Single-Stranded DNA A Tracts Reveal Base Stacking Disorder and not Exciton Delocalization,” Proceedings of the Ultrafast Phenomena Conference XVII; Eds. Chergui, M., Jonas, D. M., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. W., Taylor, A. J.; Oxford University Press, 2011, 520-522.de La Harpe, K.; Kohler, B. “Observation of long-lived excited states in DNA oligonucleotides with significant base sequence disorder,” J. Phys. Chem. Letters 2011, 2, 133-138.Henrich, J. D.; Zhang, H.; Dutta, P. K.; Kohler, B. “Ultrafast Electron Transfer Dynamics in Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes with a π-conjugated Ligand,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 14679-14688.Kohler, B. “Nonradiative Decay Mechanisms in DNA Model Systems”, invited Perspective article, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 2047-2053.Holm, A.; Nielsen, L. M.; Kohler, B.; Hoffmann, S. V.; Nielsen S. B. “Electronic coupling between cytosine bases in DNA single strands and i-motifs revealed from synchrotron radiation circular dichroism experiments,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 3426-3430.