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Actomyosin active torques determine body plan handedness in C. elegans
Arittri Mallick, Julia Pfanzelter, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2026 | Biorxiv
Go to publicationNonequilibrium Transitions in a Template Copying Ensemble
Arthur Genthon, Carl D. Modes, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2025 | Phys Rev Lett
Go to publicationRepeated extrinsic and anisotropic mechanical inputs promote C. elegans polarized adherens junction elongation
Xinyi Yang, Teresa Ferraro, ..., Michel Labouesse
2025 | Dev Cell
Go to publicationPreprint
A protein-DNA surface hydrogel mechanically reinforces the cell nucleus and protects the genome
Ramesh Adakkattil, Pranay Mandal, ..., Alexander von Appen
2025 | bioRxiv
Go to publicationPreprint
An active torque dipole across tissue layers drives avian left-right symmetry breaking
Julia Pfanzelter, Jonas Neipel, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2025 | bioRxiv
Go to publicationEmpirical methods that provide physical descriptions of dynamic cellular processes
Ian Seim, Stephan W. Grill
2025 | Biophysical Journal
Go to publicationA cytokinetic ring-driven cell rotation achieves Hertwig’s rule in early development
Teije C. Middelkoop, Jonas Neipel, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2024 | PNAS
Go to publicationActin polymerization counteracts prewetting of N-WASP on supported lipid bilayers
Tina Wiegand, Jinghui Liu, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2024 | PNAS
Go to publicationGlycolic acid and D-lactate—putative products of DJ-1—restore neurodegeneration in FUS-and SOD1-ALS
Arun Pal, Dajana Grossmann, ..., Andreas Hermann
2024 | Life Science Alliance
Go to publicationAssembly of tight junction belts by ZO1 surface condensation and local actin polymerization
Daxiao Sun, Xueping Zhao, ..., Alf Honigmann
2024 | Dev Cell
Go to publicationTwo-component molecular motor driven by a GTPase cycle
Anupam Singh, Joan Antoni Soler, ..., Shashi Thutupalli
2023 | Nature Physics
Go to publicationAxis convergence in C. elegans embryos
Archit Bhatnagar, Michael Nestler, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2023 | Current Biology
Go to publicationA condensate dynamic instability orchestrates actomyosin cortex activation
Victoria Tianjing Yan, Arjun Narayanan, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2022 | Nature
Go to publicationOrchestrating nonmuscle myosin II filament assembly at the onset of cytokinesis
Fereshteh R. Najafabadi, Mark Leaver, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2022 | Molecular Biology of the Cell
Go to publicationSequence-dependent surface condensation of a pioneer transcription factor on DNA
Jose A. Morin, Sina Wittmann, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2022 | Nature Physics
Go to publicationMass balance imaging: A phase portrait analysis for characterizing growth kinetics of biomolecular condensates
J Geisler, VT Yan, ..., A Narayanan
2022 | PS Biomol Cond...
Go to publicationThermal fluctuations assist mechanical signal propagation in coiled-coil proteins
Judit Clopés, Jaeoh Shin, ..., Vasily Zaburdaev
2021 | Phys Rev E
Go to publicationCYK-1/Formin activation in cortical RhoA signaling centers promotes organismal left–right symmetry breaking
Teije C Middelkoop, Júlia Garcia-Baucells, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2021 | PNAS
Go to publicationNonlinear machine learning pattern recognition and bacteria-metabolite multilayer network analysis of perturbed gastric microbiome
Claudio Durán, Sara Ciucci, ..., Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci
2021 | Nat Commun
Go to publicationHP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains
Madeline M Keenen, David Brown, ..., Sy Redding
2021 | eLife
Go to publicationA hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline
Nicolas T Chartier, Arghyadip Mukherjee, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2021 | Nature Physics
Go to publicationCo-condensation of proteins with single-and double-stranded DNA
Roman Renger, Jose A. Morin, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2021 | PNAS
Go to publicationCell lineage-dependent chiral actomyosin flows drive cellular rearrangements in early Caenorhabditis elegans development
Lokesh G Pimpale, Teije C Middelkoop, ..., Stephan W. Grill
2020 | eLife
Go to publicationRegionalized tissue fluidization is required for epithelial gap closure during insect gastrulation
Akanksha Jain, Vladimir Ulman, ..., Anastasios Pavlopoulos
2020 | Nat Commun
Go to publicationGuiding self-organized pattern formation in cell polarity establishment
Peter Gross, K Vijay Kumar, ..., Stephan W Grill
2019 | Nature Physics
Go to publicationAurora A depletion reveals centrosome-independent polarization mechanism in Caenorhabditis elegans
Kerstin Klinkert, Nicolas Levernier, ..., Pierre Gönczy
2019 | eLife
Go to publicationAttachment of the blastoderm to the vitelline envelope affects gastrulation of insects
Stefan Münster, Akanksha Jain, ..., Pavel Tomancak
2019 | Nature
Go to publicationProtein dynamics in complex DNA lesions
Radoslav Aleksandrov, Anton Dotchev, ..., Stoyno S Stoynov
2018 | Mol Cell
Go to publicationPhase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness
Titus M Franzmann, Marcus Jahnel, ..., Simon Alberti
2018 | Science
Go to publicationNon-invasive perturbations of intracellular flow reveal physical principles of cell organization
Matthäus Mittasch, Peter Gross, ..., Moritz Kreysing
2018 | Nat Cell Biol
Go to publicationMultiplex decomposition of non-Markovian dynamics and the hidden layer reconstruction problem
Lucas Lacasa, Inés P Mariño, ..., Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
2018 | Phys Rev X
Go to publicationMorphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex
Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, ..., Stephan W Grill
2018 | eLife
Go to publicationImpaired DNA damage response signaling by FUS-NLS mutations leads to neurodegeneration and FUS aggregate formation
Marcel Naumann, Arun Pal, ..., Andreas Hermann
2018 | Nat Commun
Go to publicationHydrodynamic theory of active matter
Frank Jülicher, Stephan W Grill, ..., Guillaume Salbreux
2018 | Rep on Prog in Phys
Go to publicationHighly-efficient guiding of motile microtubules on non-topographical motor patterns
Cordula Reuther, Matthäus Mittasch, ..., Stefan Diez
2018 | Nano Lett
Go to publicationMammalian diaphanous 1 mediates a pathway for E-cadherin to stabilize epithelial barriers through junctional contractility
Bipul R Acharya, Selwin K Wu, ..., Guillermo A Gomez
2017 | Cell Rep
Go to publicationHow active mechanics and regulatory biochemistry combine to form patterns in development
Peter Gross, K Vijay Kumar, ..., Stephan W Grill
2017 | Annu Rev of Biophys
Go to publicationOptical tweezers studies of transcription by eukaryotic RNA polymerases
Ana Lisica, Stephan W Grill
2017 | Biomol Conc
Go to publicationControlling contractile instabilities in the actomyosin cortex
Masatoshi Nishikawa, Sundar Ram Naganathan, ..., Stephan W Grill
2017 | eLife
Go to publicationActomyosin-driven left-right asymmetry: from molecular torques to chiral self organization
Sundar Ram Naganathan, Teije C Middelkoop, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | Curr Opinion in Cell Biology
Go to publicationStochastic resetting in backtrack recovery by RNA polymerases
Édgar Roldán, Ana Lisica, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | Phys Rev E
Go to publicationAn endosomal tether undergoes an entropic collapse to bring vesicles together
David H Murray, Marcus Jahnel, ..., Marino Zerial
2016 | Nature
Go to publicationNucleosomal arrangement affects single-molecule transcription dynamics
Veronika Fitz, Jaeoh Shin, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | PNAS
Go to publicationCortical flow aligns actin filaments to form a furrow
Anne-Cecile Reymann, Fabio Staniscia, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | eLife
Go to publicationMechanisms of backtrack recovery by RNA polymerases I and II
Ana Lisica, Christoph Engel, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | PNAS
Go to publicationDetermining Physical Properties of the Cell Cortex
Arnab Saha, Masatoshi Nishikawa, ..., Stephan W Grill
2016 | Biophys J
Go to publicationTemperature dependence of cell division timing accounts for a shift in the thermal limits of C. elegans and C. briggsae
Maria L Begasse, Mark Leaver, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2015 | Cell Rep
Go to publicationA liquid-to-solid phase transition of the ALS protein FUS accelerated by disease mutation
Avinash Patel, Hyun O Lee, ..., Simon Alberti
2015 | Cell
Go to publicationActive torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking
Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, ..., Stephan W Grill
2014 | eLife
Go to publicationTension and force-resistant attachment are essential for myofibrillogenesis in Drosophila flight muscle
Manuela Weitkunat, Aynur Kaya-Çopur, ..., Frank Schnorrer
2014 | Curr Biol
Go to publicationPulsatory patterns in active fluids
K Vijay Kumar, Justin S Bois, ..., Stephan W Grill
2014 | Phys Rev Lett
Go to publicationParameter-space topology of models for cell polarity
Philipp Khuc Trong, Ernesto M Nicola, ..., Stephan W Grill
2014 | New J Phys
Go to publicationLattice light-sheet microscopy: imaging molecules to embryos at high spatiotemporal resolution
Bi-Chang Chen, Wesley R Legant, ..., Eric Betzig
2014 | Science
Go to publicationForces Generated by Cell Intercalation Tow Epidermal Sheets in Mammalian Tissue Morphogenesis
Evan Heller, K Vijay Kumar, ..., Elaine Fuchs
2014 | Dev Cell
Go to publicationActive chiral processes in thin films
Sebastian Fürthauer, M Strempel, ..., Frank Jülicher
2013 | Phys Rev Lett
Go to publicationIntermittent transcription dynamics for the rapid production of long transcripts of high fidelity
Martin Depken, Juan MR Parrondo, ..., Stephan W Grill
2013 | Cell Rep
Go to publicationSystematic genetic interaction screens uncover cell polarity regulators and functional redundancy
Bruno Thomas Fievet, Josana Rodriguez, ..., Julie Ahringer
2013 | Nat Cell Biol
Go to publicationCell polarity: mechanochemical patterning
Nathan W Goehring, Stephan W Grill
2013 | Trends in Cell Biol
Go to publicationForces driving epithelial spreading in zebrafish gastrulation
Martin Behrndt, Guillaume Salbreux, ..., Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
2012 | Science
Go to publicationActive chiral fluids
Sebastian Fürthauer, M Strempel, ..., Frank Jülicher
2012 | Eur. Phys. J. E
Go to publicationThe Taylor–Couette motor: spontaneous flows of active polar fluids between two coaxial cylinders
Sebastian Fürthauer, Marc Neef, ..., Frank Jülicher
2012 | New J Phys
Go to publicationRNA polymerase pushing
Eric A Galburt, Juan MR Parrondo, ..., Stephan W Grill
2011 | Biophys Chem
Go to publicationGrowing up is stressful: biophysical laws of morphogenesis
Stephan W Grill
2011 | Curr Opin Genet Dev
Go to publicationPolarization of PAR proteins by advective triggering of a pattern-forming system
Nathan W Goehring, Philipp Khuc Trong, ..., Stephan W Grill
2011 | Science
Go to publicationaPKC phosphorylates NuMA-related LIN-5 to position the mitotic spindle during asymmetric division
Matilde Galli, Javier Muñoz, ..., Sander Van Den Heuvel
2011 | Nat Cell Biol
Go to publicationPattern formation in active fluids
Justin S Bois, Frank Jülicher, ..., Stephan W Grill
2011 | Phys Rev Lett
Go to publicationTuring’s next steps: the mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis
Jonathon Howard, Stephan W Grill, ..., Justin S Bois
2011 | Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol
Go to publicationPAR-4/LKB1 mobilizes nonmuscle myosin through anillin to regulate C. elegans embryonic polarization and cytokinesis
Nicolas T Chartier, Diana P Salazar Ospina, ..., Jean-Claude Labbé
2011 | Curr Biol
Go to publicationPAR proteins diffuse freely across the anterior–posterior boundary in polarized C. elegans embryos
Nathan W Goehring, Carsten Hoege, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2011 | J Cell Biol
Go to publicationApical migration of nuclei during G2 is a prerequisite for all nuclear motion in zebrafish neuroepithelia
Louis Leung, Abigail V Klopper, ..., Caren Norden
2011 | Development
Go to publicationMeasuring the complete force field of an optical trap
Marcus Jahnel, Martin Behrndt, ..., Stephan W Grill
2011 | Opt Lett
Go to publicationFRAP analysis of membrane-associated proteins: lateral diffusion and membrane-cytoplasmic exchange
Nathan W Goehring, Debanjan Chowdhury, ..., Stephan W Grill
2010 | Biophys J
Go to publicationAnisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows
Mirjam Mayer, Martin Depken, ..., Stephan W Grill
2010 | Nature
Go to publicationInfluence of secondary structure on recovery from pauses during early stages of RNA transcription
AV Klopper, JS Bois, ..., Stephan W Grill
2010 | Phys Rev E
Go to publicationFinite-size corrections to scaling behavior in sorted cell aggregates
AV Klopper, Gabriel Krens, ..., C-P Heisenberg
2010 | Eur Phys J E Soft Matter
Go to publicationSingle molecule transcription elongation
Eric A Galburt, Stephan W Grill, ..., Carlos Bustamante
2009 | Methods
Go to publicationThe origin of short transcriptional pauses
Martin Depken, Eric A Galburt, ..., Stephan W Grill
2009 | Biophys J
Go to publicationThe first-passage problem for diffusion through a cylindrical pore with sticky walls
Nicholas A Licata, Stephan W Grill
2009 | Eur Phys J E Soft Matter
Go to publicationBacktracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner
Eric A Galburt, Stephan W Grill, ..., Carlos Bustamante
2007 | Nature
Go to publicationSpindle oscillations during asymmetric cell division require a threshold number of active cortical force generators
Jacques Pecreaux, Jens-Christian Röper, ..., Jonathon Howard
2006 | Curr Biol
Go to publicationDNA translocation and loop formation mechanism of chromatin remodeling by SWI/SNF and RSC
Yongli Zhang, Corey L Smith, ..., Carlos Bustamante
2006 | Mol Cell
Go to publicationSpindle positioning by cortical pulling forces
Stephan W Grill, Anthony A Hyman
2005 | Dev Cell
Go to publicationTheory of mitotic spindle oscillations
Stephan W Grill, Karsten Kruse, ..., Frank Jülicher
2005 | Phys Rev Lett
Go to publicationRGS-7 completes a receptor-independent heterotrimeric G protein cycle to asymmetrically regulate mitotic spindle positioning in C. elegans
Heather A Hess, Jens-Christian Röper, ..., Michael R Koelle
2004 | Cell
Go to publicationUltraviolet diffraction limited nanosurgery of live biological tissues
Julien Colombelli, Stephan W Grill, ..., Ernst HK Stelzer
2004 | Rev Sci Instrum
Go to publicationThe distribution of active force generators controls mitotic spindle position
Stephan W Grill, Jonathon Howard, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2003 | Science
Go to publicationTranslation of Polarity Cues into Asymmetric Spindle Positioning in Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos
Kelly Colombo, Stephan W Grill, ..., Pierre Gönczy
2003 | Science
Go to publicationSAS-4 is a C. elegans centriolar protein that controls centrosome size
Matthew Kirkham, Thomas Müller-Reichert, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2003 | Cell
Go to publicationQuantitative ER-Golgi transport kinetics and protein separation upon Golgi exit revealed by vesicular integral membrane protein 36 dynamics in live cells
Thorsten Dahm, Jamie White, ..., Ernst HK Stelzer
2001 | Mol Biol Cell
Go to publicationSpindle Positioning during the Asymmetric First Cell Division of Caenorhabditis elegans Embroyos
Pierre Gönczy, Stephan W Grill, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2001 | Novartis Found Symp
Go to publicationPolarity controls forces governing asymmetric spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Stephan W Grill, Pierre GoÈnczy, ..., Anthony A Hyman
2001 | Nature
Go to publicationThe uncertainty principle applied to estimate focal spot dimensions
Ernst HK Stelzer, Stephan W Grill
2000 | Opt Commun
Go to publicationRab6 coordinates a novel Golgi to ER retrograde transport pathway in live cells
Jamie White, Ludger Johannes, ..., Ernst HK Stelzer
1999 | J Cell Biol
Go to publicationMethod to calculate lateral and axial gain factors of optical setups with a large solid angle
Stephan W Grill, Ernst HK Stelzer
1999 | J Opt Soc Am A
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