Zachary Gergely's paper "Kinesin-8 effects on mitotic microtubule dynamics contribute to spindle function in fission yeast" was accepted by Molecular Biology of the Cell .
Meredith Betterton received an Associate Professor Growth Grant through the University of Colorado's LEAP program to partially fund a stage-top rapid temperature controller for microscopy.
Inspired by experiments on the motion of kinesin-4 motors on antiparallel microtubule overlaps, we analyze a model incorporating the TASEP on two antiparallel lanes with binding kinetics and lane switching.
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Phase-plane analysis of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with binding kinetics and switching between antiparallel lanes" was posted on the arXiv preprint server today.
Robert Blackwell's paper "Microscopic origins of anisotropic active stress in motor-driven nematic liquid crystals" was published in the latest issue of Soft Matter , and was selected for an inside cover image .
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods" was published in the latest issue of Physical Review E .
Robert Blackwell's paper (with Tony Gao) "Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule/motor protein assemblies" was published in Physical Review E .
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods" was accepted for publication in Physical Review E .
We study a physical model of filaments, crosslinking motors, and static crosslinkers to dissect the microscopic mechanisms of active stress generation in a two-dimensional system of orientationally aligned rods.
