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Active nematic order and dynamic lane formation of microtubules driven by membrane-bound diffusing motors

Memarian, Fereshteh L, Joseph D Lopes, Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani, Niranjan Sarpangala, Ajay Gopinathan, Daniel A Beller, Kinjal Dasbiswas, and Linda S Hirst. 2021. “Active Nematic Order and Dynamic Lane Formation of Microtubules Driven by Membrane-Bound Diffusing Motors”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (52): e2117107118.

Congratulations Dr. Noerr

Patrick Noerr successfully defends his dissertation entitled "Mechanical interactions in biological active filaments and networks". Congratulations Dr. Noerr! Wish you all the best in your postdoc career at University of California San Diego, and beyond!

Outreach

Seminar on my research to beginning graduate students in physics: Slides Computational workshop for high school students These are links to some jupyter notebooks hosted via google collaboratory that you can view and use. These were part of a series called "Cell Division on a Computer" and show...

dividing biological droplets is published in PNAS

Our work with a UChicago team on dividing biological droplets is published in PNAS in May 2019 and has also made it to UChicago news with a catchy headline: For the first time, scientists recreate cell division—outside a cell!

Gargee Khaparde presents her work

Summer undergraduate researcher, Gargee Khaparde, from Creighton University, presents her work on image-based tracking of myosin motor movements at the UC Merced UROC symposium! Gargee presents her research at UC Merced’s UROC symposium (with some help from her adviser)!

Welcome, Andrei!

Postdoctoral researcher Andrei Zakharov joins the group. Welcome, Andrei! He will work with both Daniel Beller and me.