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The MacKintosh Group
Our research interests concern the fundamental physics of soft
matter, of which biological materials are principal examples.
Onderwijs / Teaching:
Thermodynamica en Statistische Fysica (VU 2nd year)
Basic and Applied Statistical Physics (VU/UvA masters)
Openings/positions for postdocs and PhD students:
We have a number of openings for new group members at both postdoc and PhD levels.
Specific current topics include flow and deformation of soft and biological materials, stress/force transmission in intra- and extracellular matrices, as well as the nonequilibirum properties of motor-driven active gels.
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Colleagues & Collaborations:
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- D Mizuno, C Tardin, CF Schmidt, and FC MacKintosh.
Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks. Science 315:370
(2007).
- CP
Brangwynne, FC MacKintosh, and DA Weitz.
Force fluctuations and polymerization dynamics of
intracellular microtubules. PNAS 104:
16128 (2007).
- 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).
- CP
Brangwynne, FC MacKintosh, S Kumar, L Mahadevan, N Geisse, KK Parker, DE Ingber,
and DA Weitz. Compressive buckling of reinforced microtubules and the composite network
behavior of living cells.
J Cell Biology 173:
733 (2006).
- M Atakhorrami, GH Koenderink, CF Schmidt, and FC MacKintosh.
Short-time inertial response of viscoelastic fluids: observation of vortex
propagation.
Phys Rev Lett 95: 208302 (2005); TB Liverpool and FC MacKintosh.
Inertial effects in the response of viscous and viscoelastic fluids.
Phys Rev Lett 95: 208303 (2005).
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