Recent research highlights:

People:

• Active gels, a model for the cellular activity
   
• Unusual negative normal stresses in biopolymer gels
   
• Microtubules reveal non-equilibrium force fluctuations in cells

• Matthew Dennison, postdoc
   
• Albert Licup, PhD student
   
• Abhinav (Abi) Sharma, postdoc
  
  
• Michael (Misha) Sheinman, postdoc

Selected recent publications:

Colleagues & Collaborations:

1. CP Broedersz, M Depken, NY Yao, MR Pollak, DA Weitz, FC MacKintosh. Cross-link governed dynamics of biopolymer networks.
   Physical Review Letters, 105: 238101 (2010).

2. M Das and FC MacKintosh. Poisson's ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods
   Physical Review Letters, 105: 138102 (2010).

3. FC MacKintosh and AJ Levine. Non-equilibrium mechanics and dynamics of motor-activated gels. Physical Review Letters, 100:018104 (2008).

4. D Mizuno, C Tardin, CF Schmidt, and FC MacKintosh. Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks. Science 315:370 (2007).
5. PA Janmey, ME McCormick, S Rammensee, JL Leight, PC Georges, and FC MacKintosh. Negative normal stress in semiflexible biopolymer gels. Nature Materials 6: 48 (2007).

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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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