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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)
Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter (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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- Chase Broedersz, PhD student
- Martin Depken, postdoc
- Moumita Das, postdoc
- Michael Sheinman, postdoc
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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).
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M Das and FC MacKintosh. Poisson's ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods
Physical Review Letters, 105: 138102 (2010).
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FC MacKintosh and AJ Levine. Non-equilibrium mechanics and dynamics of motor-activated gels. Physical Review Letters, 100:018104 (2008).
- D Mizuno, C Tardin, CF Schmidt, and FC MacKintosh.
Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks. Science 315:370
(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).
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