Our paper "Theory of cytoskeletal reorganization during crosslinker-mediated mitotic spindle assembly" was accepted for publication at Biophysical Journal.
Shane Fiorenza and Adam Lamson gave talks at APS March Meeting 2019 in Boston, MA. Shane presented his work on sliding and stalling in microtubule bundles, while Adam presented his work on a theory of cytoskeletal rearrangement and force generation.
Adam Lamson attended the Cell Modeling Hackathon at Half Moon Bay, CA. This event was hosted by The Quantitative Cell Biology Network and funded by the National Science Foundation.
Adam Lamson and Chris Edelmaier presented their work on modeling mitotic spindle self-assembly at the Rocky Mountain Yeast Meeting held at Colorado State University.
Our paper "Theory of cytoskeletal reorganization during crosslinker-mediated mitotic spindle assembly" was posted on the biorxiv preprint server today.
Adam Lamson received a DBIO travel grant from the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society to present at the APS March Meeting. Congratulations!
Our collaborative paper with Phong Tran's lab, "Kinesin-5-independent mitotic spindle assembly requires the antiparallel microtubule crosslinker Ase1 in fission yeast," was published by Nature Communications .
Pushing forces generated by microtubule polymerization are sufficient to promote spindle pole separation and the assembly of bipolar spindle in the absence of molecular motors.
Robert Blackwell's paper "Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast" was published by Science Advances .
