Our paper "Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture" was published in final form today by the Biophysical Journal and highlighted on the Biophysical Journal website.
Robert Blackwell's paper "Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast" was published by Science Advances .
Zachary Gergely's paper "Kinesin-8 effects on mitotic microtubule dynamics contribute to spindle function in fission yeast" was published in final form by Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Congratulations to Loren Hough, who received an NIH MIRA grant for new investigators. This 5-year, $1.8 million award will support his lab's research on tubulin tails. News coverage of this award has been posted at the physics department website.
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Phase-plane analysis of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with binding kinetics and switching between antiparallel lanes" was published by Physical Review E .
The paper "Molecular determinants of tubulin’s C-terminal tail conformational ensemble" by Kathryn Wall, Maria Pagratis, Geoffrey Armstrong, Jeremy Balsbaugh, Eric Verbeke, Chad Pearson, and Loren Hough was accepted to ACS Chemical Biology .
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Phase-plane analysis of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with binding kinetics and switching between antiparallel lanes" was accepted for publication at Physical Review E .
Our paper "Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture" was posted on the arXiv preprint server today.