Selected Publications

2005-Present

Centrosome Size Sets Mitotic Spindle Length in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos [PDF]
Current Biology, 2010
Greenan G, Brangwynne CP, Jaensch S, Gharakhani J, Jülicher F, Hyman AA

Germline P Granules Are Liquid Droplets That Localize by Controlled Dissolution/Condensation [PDF][Perspective]
Science 2009
Brangwynne CP, Eckmann CR, Courson DS, Rybarska A, Hoege C, Gharakhani J, Jülicher F, Hyman AA.

Intracellular Transport by Active Diffusion [PDF]
Trends in Cell Biology, 2009
Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA

Mechanical Response of Cytoskeletal Networks [PDF]
Methods in Cell Biology, Vol. 89 Ch. 19, 2008
Gardel ML, Kasza KE, Brangwynne CP, Liu J, Weitz DA.

Cytoplasmic diffusion: molecular motors mix it up [PDF]
Journal of Cell Biology, 2008
Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA

A novel small-molecule inhibitor reveals a possible role of kinesin-5 in anastral spindle-pole assembly [PDF]
Journal of Cell Science, 2008
Groen AC, Needleman D, Brangwynne C, Gradinaru C, Fowler B, Mazitschek R, Mitchison TJ

Nonequilibrium Microtubule Fluctuations in a Model Cytoskeleton [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2008
Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA

Force fluctuations and polymerization dynamics of intracellular microtubules [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2007
Brangwynne CP, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA

The cell as a material [PDF]
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2007
Kasza KE, Rowat AC, Angelini TE, Liu J, Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, Weitz DA

Bending dynamics of fluctuating biopolymers probed by automated high-resolution filament tracking [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2007
Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, Barry E, Dogic Z, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA.

A new microrheometric approach reveals individual and cooperative roles for TGF-beta1 and IL-1beta in fibroblast-mediated stiffening of collagen gels
[PDF]
FASEB Journal, 2007
Leung LY, Tian D, Brangwynne CP, Weitz DA, Tschumperlin DJ

Microtubules can bear enhanced compressive loads in living cells because of lateral reinforcement [PDF] [Current Biology Dispatch]
Journal of Cell Biology, 2006
Brangwynne CP, MacKintosh FC, Kumar S, Geisse NA, Talbot J, Mahadevan L, Parker KK, Ingber DE, Weitz DA.

2000-2005

Glioma Expansion in Collagen I Matrices: Analyzing Collagen Concentration-Dependent Growth and Motility Patterns [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2005
Kaufman LJ, Brangwynne CP, Kasza KE, Filippidi E, Gordon VD, Deisboeck TS, Weitz DA

Symmetry-Breaking in Mammalian Cell Cohort Migration During Tissue Pattern Formation: Role of Random-Walk Persistence [PDF]
Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, 2005
Huang S*, Brangwynne CP*, Parker KK, Ingber DE

 

Directional control of lamellipodia extension by constraining cell shape and orienting cell tractional forces [PDF]
FASEB Journal, 2002
Parker KK, Brock AL, Brangwynne C, Mannix RJ, Wang N, Ostuni E, Geisse N, Whitesides GM, Ingber DE

Symmetry breaking in cultured mammalian cells [PDF]
In Vitro Cell & Developmental Biology, 2000
Brangwynne C, Huang S, Parker KK, Ingber DE

Last Millenium

Pictures in cell biology: squaring up to the cell shape debate [PDF]
Trends in Cell Biology, 1999
Chen CS, Brangwynne C, Ingber DE