Recent research highlights:

People:

• Broken Detailed Balance in Living Systems
  
  

• Albert Licup, PhD student
  
  
• Robbie Rens, PhD student
   
• Abhinav (Abi) Sharma, postdoc
  
  
• Mahsa Vahabi, postdoc

Selected recent publications:

Colleagues & Collaborations:

1. C Battle, CP Broedersz, N Fakhri, VF Geyer, J Howard, CF Schmidt, FC MacKintosh, Broken detailed balance at mesoscopic scales in active biological systems. Science, 352: 604 (2016).
2. A Sharma, AJ Licup, KA Jansen, R Rens, M Sheinman, GH Koenderink, FC MacKintosh, Strain-controlled criticality governs the nonlinear mechanics of fiber networks. Nature Physics, DOI: 10.1038/nphys3628 (2016)

3. AJ Licup, S Muenster, A Sharma, M Sheinman, LM Jawerth, B Fabry, DA Weitz and FC MacKintosh, Stress controls the mechanics of collagen networks. PNAS, 112: 9573 (2015).

4. M Sheinman, A Sharma, J Alvarado, GH Koenderink, FC MacKintosh, Anomalous discontinuity at the percolation critical point of active gels. Phys Rev Lett, 114: 098104 (2015).

5. CP Broedersz and FC MacKintosh, Modeling semiflexible polymer networks. Rev Mod Phys, 86: 995 (2014).

6. M Guo, AJ Ehrlicher, MH Jensen, M Renz, JR Moore, RD Goldman, J Lippincott-Schwartz, FC MacKintosh, DA Weitz, Force Spectrum Microscopy: a new probe of stochastic properties of molecular motors in cells. Cell, 158: 822 (2014).
7. N Fakhri, AD Wessel, C Willms, M Pasquali, DR Klopfenstein, FC MacKintosh, CF Schmidt, High resolution mapping of intracellular fluctuations using carbon nanotubes. Science, 344: 1031 (2014).
   

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• Chase Broedersz, Princeton
  
  
• Paul Janmey, U Penn
   
• Gijsje Koenderink, AMOLF
   
• Alex Levine, UCLA
   
• Matteo Pasquali, Rice Univ.

• Christoph Schmidt, Goettingen
   
• Dave Weitz, Harvard
  
  

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