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. M Sheinman, CP Broedersz and FC MacKintosh. Actively stressed marginal networks.
   Physical Review Letters, 109: 238101 (2012).

2. CP Broedersz, X Mao, TC Lubensky, FC MacKintosh
   Criticality and isostaticity in fiber networks
   Nature Physics, 7: 983 (2011).

3. M Soares e Silva, M Depken, B Stuhrmann, M Korsten, FC MacKintosh, and GH Koenderink. Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors. PNAS, 108: 9408 (2011).

4. 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).

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

6. N Fakhri, FC MacKintosh, B Lounis, L Cognet, Matteo Pasquali. Brownian motion of stiff filaments in a crowded environment. Science, 330: 1804 (2010).

7. LC Kapitein, MA Schlager, M Kuijpers, PS Wulf, M van Spronsen, FC MacKintosh, CC Hogenraad. Mixed microtubules steer dynein-driven cargo transport into dendrites. Current Biology, 20: 290 (2010).

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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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