Modeling crawling cell movement on soft engineered substrates

Oscillatory motions of an active deformable particle

(2013) Mitsusuke Tarama et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Spontaneous motion of an elliptic camphor particle

(2013) Hiroyuki Kitahata et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Asymmetry between pushing and pulling for crawling cells

(2013) Pierre Recho et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Spontaneous Motility of Actin Lamellar Fragments

(2013) C. Blanch-Mercader et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-Propelled Janus Particles in a Ratchet: Numerical Simulations

(2013) Pulak K. Ghosh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Active colloids

(2013) Igor S Aranson   PHYSICS-USPEKHI

Effects of Adhesion Dynamics and Substrate Compliance on the Shape and Motility of Crawling Cells

(2013) Falko Ziebert et al.   PLoS One

Phase geometries of two-dimensional excitable waves govern self-organized morphodynamics of amoeboid cells

(2013) D. Taniguchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

United we stand – integrating the actin cytoskeleton and cell–matrix adhesions in cellular mechanotransduction

(2012) Ulrich S. Schwarz et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Stick-slip motion and elastic coupling in crawling cells

(2012) Alex J. Loosley et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in active droplets provides a generic route to motility

(2012) E. Tjhung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility model

(2012) D. Shao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffness

(2012) L. Trichet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Physically based principles of cell adhesion mechanosensitivity in tissues

(2012) Benoit Ladoux et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Using self-driven microswimmers for particle separation

(2012) W. Yang et al.   Soft Matter

Highly Efficient Catalytic Microengines: Template Electrosynthesis of Polyaniline/Platinum Microtubes

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Model for self-polarization and motility of keratocyte fragments

(2011) F. Ziebert et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Learning From Nature: Synthesis and Characterization of Longitudinal Polymer Gradient Materials Inspired by Mussel Byssus Threads

(2011) Kai U. Claussen et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Mechanisms of cell propulsion by active stresses

(2011) A E Carlsson   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Cell Motility Resulting from Spontaneous Polymerization Waves

(2011) K. Doubrovinski et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Three-Dimensional Traction Force Microscopy: A New Tool for Quantifying Cell-Matrix Interactions

(2011) Christian Franck et al.   PLoS One

Microswimmers in patterned environments

(2011) Giovanni Volpe et al.   Soft Matter

Designing mechano-responsive microcapsules that undergo self-propelled motion

(2011) German V. Kolmakov et al.   Soft Matter

An Adhesion-Dependent Switch between Mechanisms That Determine Motile Cell Shape

(2011) Erin L. Barnhart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Using Nanoparticle-Filled Microcapsules for Site-Specific Healing of Damaged Substrates: Creating a “Repair-and-Go” System

(2010) German V. Kolmakov et al.   ACS Nano

Bipedal Locomotion in Crawling Cells

(2010) Erin L. Barnhart et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Force transmission in migrating cells

(2010) Maxime F. Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Microbots Swimming in the Flowing Streams of Microfluidic Channels

(2010) Samuel Sanchez et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Computational Model for Cell Morphodynamics

(2010) Danying Shao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Composite polymer systems with control of local substrate elasticity and their effect on cytoskeletal and morphological characteristics of adherent cells

(2009) Szu-Yuan Chou et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Actin-Myosin Viscoelastic Flow in the Keratocyte Lamellipod

(2009) Boris Rubinstein et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Mechanical Rigidity of the Extracellular Matrix Regulates the Structure, Motility, and Proliferation of Glioma Cells

(2009) T. A. Ulrich et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

The Shape of Motile Cells

(2009) Alex Mogilner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Myosin II Is Essential for the Spatiotemporal Organization of Traction Forces during Cell Motility

(2009) Ruedi Meili et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Deformable Self-Propelled Particles

(2009) Takao Ohta et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

(2009) Eric Lauga et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Traction stress in focal adhesions correlates biphasically with actin retrograde flow speed

(2008) Margaret L. Gardel et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Traction force microscopy on-chip: shear deformation of fibroblast cells

(2008) Tamal Das et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells

(2008) Kinneret Keren et al.   NATURE

Nonlinear Study of Symmetry Breaking in Actin Gels: Implications for Cellular Motility

(2008) Karin John et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Traction Dynamics of Filopodia on Compliant Substrates

(2008) C. E. Chan et al.   SCIENCE