Betterton

Congratulations to Jeff Moore for successfully defending his PhD thesis today.

We present Brownian dynamics simulation results of driven semiflexible filaments with intrinsic curvature and investigate how the interplay between filament rigidity and radius of curvature can tune the self-organization behavior in homochiral systems and heterochiral mixtures.

Our paper " Mechanisms of chromosome biorientation and bipolar spindle assembly analyzed by computational modeling " was published in the Feb 13, 2020 edition of eLife today.

Our paper " Bound-state diffusion due to binding to flexible polymers in a selective biofilter " was accepted for publication at Biophysical Journal.

Our paper " Design principles of selective transport through biopolymer barriers " was published in the 30 October 2019 edition of PRE today.

We would like to welcome Mckenna to the Betterton lab!

We use simulations of driven filaments with tunable soft repulsion and rigidity in order to better understand how the interplay between filament flexibility and steric effects can lead to different active steady states.

Our paper "Collective motion of driven semiflexible filaments tuned by soft repulsion and stiffness" was posted on the arXiv server today.

Design principles of selective transport through biopolymer barriers paper has been accepted to Physics Review E .

Our paper "Bound-state diffusion due to binding to flexible polymers in a selective biofilter" was posted on the bioRxiv server.