Active matter at the interface between materials science and cell biology

Transition from turbulent to coherent flows in confined three-dimensional active fluids

(2017) Kun-Ta Wu et al.   SCIENCE

The Dynamics of Microtubule/Motor-Protein Assemblies in Biology and Physics

(2016) Michael J. Shelley   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Determining Physical Properties of the Cell Cortex

(2016) Arnab Saha et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Escherichia coli as a model active colloid: A practical introduction

(2016) Jana Schwarz-Linek et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES

Emergent self-organization in active materials

(2016) Michael F Hagan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in bacterial vortex lattices

(2016) Hugo Wioland et al.   Nature Physics

Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals

(2016) Anand U Oza et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Spatial organization of the Ran pathway by microtubules in mitosis

(2016) Doogie Oh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Control of active liquid crystals with a magnetic field

(2016) Pau Guillamat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microscopic origins of anisotropic active stress in motor-driven nematic liquid crystals

(2016) Robert Blackwell et al.   Soft Matter

Instabilities, defects, and defect ordering in an overdamped active nematic

(2016) Elias Putzig et al.   Soft Matter

Stabilization of active matter by flow-vortex lattices and defect ordering

(2016) Amin Doostmohammadi et al.   Nature Communications

Formation of Chromosomal Domains by Loop Extrusion

(2016) Geoffrey Fudenberg et al.   Cell Reports

Compaction and segregation of sister chromatids via active loop extrusion

(2016) Anton Goloborodko et al.   eLife

Cortical Contractility Triggers a Stochastic Switch to Fast Amoeboid Cell Motility

(2015) Verena Ruprecht et al.   CELL

Active diffusion positions the nucleus in mouse oocytes

(2015) Maria Almonacid et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Force transmission during adhesion-independent migration

(2015) Martin Bergert et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Orientational order of motile defects in active nematics

(2015) Stephen J. DeCamp et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Polar pattern formation in driven filament systems requires non-binary particle collisions

(2015) Ryo Suzuki et al.   Nature Physics

Active gel physics

(2015) J. Prost et al.   Nature Physics

Forcing cells into shape: the mechanics of actomyosin contractility

(2015) Michael Murrell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule–motor-protein assemblies

(2015) Tong Gao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Dynamic Force Balances and Cell Shape Changes during Cytokinesis

(2015) Anirban Sain et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Multiscale Polar Theory of Microtubule and Motor-Protein Assemblies

(2015) Tong Gao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measuring Cohesion between Macromolecular Filaments One Pair at a Time: Depletion-Induced Microtubule Bundling

(2015) Feodor Hilitski et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Turning Bacteria Suspensions into Superfluids

(2015) Héctor Matías López et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Organelle morphogenesis by active membrane remodeling

(2015) N. Ramakrishnan et al.   Soft Matter

Nonthermal fluctuations of the mitotic spindle

(2015) Kevin Smith et al.   Soft Matter

A minimal physical model captures the shapes of crawling cells

(2015) E. Tjhung et al.   Nature Communications

Active contraction of microtubule networks

(2015) Peter J Foster et al.   eLife

Chromatin Hydrodynamics

(2014) Robijn Bruinsma et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Furrow Constriction in Animal Cell Cytokinesis

(2014) Hervé Turlier et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Probing the Stochastic, Motor-Driven Properties of the Cytoplasm Using Force Spectrum Microscopy

(2014) Ming Guo et al.   CELL

Apical constriction drives tissue-scale hydrodynamic flow to mediate cell elongation

(2014) Bing He et al.   NATURE

Remote control of myosin and kinesin motors using light-activated gearshifting

(2014) Muneaki Nakamura et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Tunable dynamics of microtubule-based active isotropic gels

(2014) G. Henkin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Defect dynamics in active nematics

(2014) L. Giomi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Force fluctuations in three-dimensional suspended fibroblasts

(2014) F. Schlosser et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pulsatory Patterns in Active Fluids

(2014) K. Vijay Kumar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Physical basis of spindle self-organization

(2014) Jan Brugués et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Living liquid crystals

(2014) S. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles

(2014) F. C. Keber et al.   SCIENCE

Flocking at a distance in active granular matter

(2014) Nitin Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking

(2014) Sundar Ram Naganathan et al.   eLife

Integrated self-organization of transitional ER and early Golgi compartments

(2013) Benjamin S. Glick   BIOESSAYS

Active suspensions and their nonlinear models

(2013) David Saintillan et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE

Guidance of collective cell migration by substrate geometry

(2013) Kevin Doxzen et al.   Integrative Biology

Understanding the Efficiency of Autonomous Nano- and Microscale Motors

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

(2013) Antoine Bricard et al.   NATURE

Engineering myosins for long-range transport on actin filaments

(2013) Tony D. Schindler et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Molecular motors robustly drive active gels to a critically connected state

(2013) José Alvarado et al.   Nature Physics

Velocity Correlations in an Active Nematic

(2013) Sumesh P. Thampi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Defect Annihilation and Proliferation in Active Nematics

(2013) Luca Giomi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Confinement Stabilizes a Bacterial Suspension into a Spiral Vortex

(2013) Hugo Wioland et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fluid Dynamics of Bacterial Turbulence

(2013) Jörn Dunkel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions of Self-Propelled Colloidal Particles

(2013) Ivo Buttinoni et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantitative analysis of intra-Golgi transport shows intercisternal exchange for all cargo

(2013) S. Dmitrieff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Micron-scale coherence in interphase chromatin dynamics

(2013) A. Zidovska et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Theory of epithelial sheet morphology in three dimensions

(2013) E. Hannezo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

Organization of the Mitotic Chromosome

(2013) N. Naumova et al.   SCIENCE

Modeling crawling cell movement on soft engineered substrates

(2013) Jakob Löber et al.   Soft Matter

Perfect nematic order in confined monolayers of spindle-shaped cells

(2013) G. Duclos et al.   Soft Matter

Active Remodeling of Cortical Actin Regulates Spatiotemporal Organization of Cell Surface Molecules

(2012) Kripa Gowrishankar et al.   CELL

A General Theoretical Framework to Infer Endosomal Network Dynamics from Quantitative Image Analysis

(2012) Lionel Foret et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Building Complexity: Insights into Self-Organized Assembly of Microtubule-Based Architectures

(2012) Radhika Subramanian et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter

(2012) Tim Sanchez et al.   NATURE

Large-scale vortex lattice emerging from collectively moving microtubules

(2012) Yutaka Sumino et al.   NATURE

Engineering controllable bidirectional molecular motors based on myosin

(2012) Lu Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Self-organization of domain structures by DNA-loop-extruding enzymes

(2012) E. Alipour et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Dynamic Clustering in Active Colloidal Suspensions with Chemical Signaling

(2012) I. Theurkauff et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling

(2012) Martin Lenz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Active, motor-driven mechanics in a DNA gel

(2012) O. J. N. Bertrand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids

(2012) H. H. Wensink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

F-actin buckling coordinates contractility and severing in a biomimetic actomyosin cortex

(2012) M. P. Murrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Directed cytoskeleton self-organization

(2012) Timothée Vignaud et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Reconstitution of Contractile Actomyosin Bundles

(2011) Todd Thoresen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Polar actomyosin contractility destabilizes the position of the cytokinetic furrow

(2011) Jakub Sedzinski et al.   NATURE

Structure formation in active networks

(2011) Simone Köhler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Turing's next steps: the mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis

(2011) Jonathon Howard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Pattern Formation in Active Fluids

(2011) Justin S. Bois et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Coordinated Movements Prevent Jamming in an Emperor Penguin Huddle

(2011) Daniel P. Zitterbart et al.   PLoS One

Frozen steady states in active systems

(2011) V. Schaller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors

(2011) M. Soares e Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Flow Reorients the Axis of Planar Polarity in the Wing Epithelium of Drosophila

(2010) Benoît Aigouy et al.   CELL

Polar patterns of driven filaments

(2010) Volker Schaller et al.   NATURE

Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling

(2010) Matteo Rauzi et al.   NATURE

Anisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows

(2010) Mirjam Mayer et al.   NATURE

Tissue elongation requires oscillating contractions of a basal actomyosin network

(2010) Li He et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Collective Motion of Vibrated Polar Disks

(2010) Julien Deseigne et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Bacterial Chromosomal Loci Move Subdiffusively through a Viscoelastic Cytoplasm

(2010) Stephanie C. Weber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

In Vivo Determination of Fluctuating Forces during Endosome Trafficking Using a Combination of Active and Passive Microrheology

(2010) Damien Robert et al.   PLoS One

The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

(2010) Sriram Ramaswamy   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Spindle Fusion Requires Dynein-Mediated Sliding of Oppositely Oriented Microtubules

(2009) Jesse C. Gatlin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mechanical response of active gels

(2009) T. B. Liverpool et al.   EPL

High-Resolution Probing of Cellular Force Transmission

(2009) Daisuke Mizuno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Membrane Tension Lowering Induced by Protein Activity

(2009) M. D. El Alaoui Faris et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Role of cortical tension in bleb growth

(2009) J.-Y. Tinevez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Active Biological Materials

(2008) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks

(2008) Poul M. Bendix et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Processive kinesins require loose mechanical coupling for efficient collective motility

(2008) Peter Bieling et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction

(2008) Adam C. Martin et al.   NATURE

Nonequilibrium Mechanics and Dynamics of Motor-Activated Gels

(2008) F. C. MacKintosh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Out-of-Equilibrium Microrheology inside Living Cells

(2008) Claire Wilhelm   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS