Publications

2025

Kinesin-Driven De-Mixing of Cytoskeleton Composites Drives Emergent Mechanical Properties

Janet Sheung, Christopher Gunter, Katarina Matic, Mehrzad Sasanpur, Jennifer L. Ross, Parag Katira, Megan Valentine and Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

Macromolecular Rapid Communications: 2401128.

Active and passive crosslinking of cytoskeleton scaffolds tune the effects of cell inclusions on composite structure

Katarina Matic, Nimisha Krishnan, Eric Frank, Aditya Sriram, Moumita Das, Megan T. Valentine, Michael Rust, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson, and Jennifer Ross

Soft Matter 21, 4792-4806

Chosen for cover image of the issue

Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding

Megan T. Valentine and Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

Soft Matter, doi:10.1039/d5sm00401b

2024

Data-Driven Framework for the Prediction of PEGDA Hydrogel Mechanics

Yongkui Tang, Michal Levin, Olivia G. Long, Claus D. Eisenbach, Noy Cohen, Megan T. Valentine

ACS Biomaterials, dio:10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c01762

Convolutional neural networks applied to differential dynamic microscopy reduces noise when quantifying heterogenous dynamics

Authors: Gildardo Martinez, Justin Siu, Steven Dang, Dylan Gage, Emma Kao, Juan Carlos Avila, Ruilin You, Ryan McGorty

Soft Matter, doi:10.1039/D4SM00881B

Ab initio uncertainty quantification in scattering analysis of microscopy

Mengyang Gu, Yue He, Xubo Liu , Yimin Luo

Physical Review E, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.110.034601

Morphological control of bundled actin networks subject to fixed-mass depletion

James Clarke, Lauren Melcher, Anne D Crowell, Francis Cavanna, Justin R Houser, Kristin Graham, Allison M Green, Jeanne C Stachowiak, Thomas M Truskett, Delia J Milliron, Adrianne M Rosales, Moumita Das, José Alvarado

Journal of Chemical Physics, doi:10.1063/5.0197269

Optical tweezers microrheology maps micro-mechanics of complex systems

Rae M Robertson-Anderson

Trends in Biomolecular Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2024.04.009

Ionic strength alters crosslinker-driven self-organization of microtubules

Prashali Chauhan, Hong Beom Lee, Niaz Goodbee, Sophia Martin, Ruell Branch, Sumon Sahu, Jennifer M Schwarz, Jennifer L Ross

Cytoskeleton, doi:10.1002/cm.21839

Molecular motors make waves and sculpt patterns

Rae M Robertson-Anderson

Nature Physics, doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02286-y

BOOK : Biopolymer Networks: Design, dynamics and discovery

Rae M Robertson-Anderson

IOP Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-7503-5037-2

2023

Effects of cytoskeletal network mesh size on cargo transport

Authors: Nimisha Krishnan, Niranjan Sarpangala, Maria Gamez, Ajay Gopinathan, Jennifer L Ross

Year: 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00358-8

Kinesin and myosin motors compete to drive rich multiphase dynamics in programmable cytoskeletal composites

Authors: Ryan J McGorty, Christopher J Currie, Jonathan Michel, Mehrzad Sasanpour, Christopher Gunter, K Alice Lindsay, Michael J Rust, Parag Katira, Moumita Das, Jennifer L Ross, Rae M Robertson-Anderson

Year: 2023

DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad245

Interplay of self-organization of microtubule asters and crosslinking protein condensates

Authors: Sumon Sahu, Prashali Chauhan, Ellie Lumen, Kelsey Moody, Karthik Peddireddy, Nandini Mani, Radhika Subramanian, Rae Robertson-Anderson, Aaron J Wolfe, Jennifer L Ross

Year: 2023

DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad231

2022

Reentrant rigidity percolation in structurally correlated filamentous networks

Authors: Jonathan Michel, Gabriel von Kessel, Thomas Wyse Jackson, Lawrence J. Bonassar, Itai Cohen, Moumita Das

Year: 2022

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043152

Quantifying Cytoskeleton Dynamics Using Differential Dynamic Microscopy

Authors: Hannah N. Verwei, Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Irene Istúriz Petitjean, Gijsje H. Koenderink, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson, Ryan James McGorty

Year: 2022

DOI: 10.3791/63931

Nonlinear Microscale Mechanics of Actin Networks Governed by Coupling of Filament Crosslinking and Stabilization

Authors: Mike E. Dwyer, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson, Bekele J. Gurmessa

Year: 2022

DOI: 10.3390/polym14224980

Reconstituting and Characterizing Actin-Microtubule Composites with Tunable Motor-Driven Dynamics and Mechanics

Authors: Mehrzad Sasanpour, Daisy H. Achiriloaie, Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Christopher Currie, K. Alice Lindsay, Jennifer L. Ross, Ryan J. McGorty, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

Year: 2022

DOI: 10.3791/64228

Self-Assembly of Microtubule Tactoids

Authors: Prashali Chauhan, Sumon Sahu, Niaz Goodbee, Sophia Martin, Hong Beom Lee, Ruell Branch, Jennifer M Schwarz, Jennifer L Ross

Year: 2022

DOI: 10.3791/63952