Mechanics and dynamics of biological adhesion

Jonas Scholz, Till Stephan, Aina Gallemí-Pérez, Agnes Csiszár, Nils Hersch, Lisa S. Fischer, Stefan Brühmann, Sarah Körber, Christof Litschko, Lucija Mijanovic, Thomas Kaufmann, Felix Lange, Ronald Springer, Andreas Pich, Stefan Jakobs, Michelle Peckham, Marco Tarantola, Carsten Grashoff, Rudolf Merkel, and Jan Faix, "Decisive role of mDia-family formins in cell cortex function of highly adherent cells," Science Advances 10 (44), eadp5929 (2024).

Raj Kumar Sadhu, Marine Luciano, Wang Xi, Cristina Martinez-Torres, Marcel Schröder, Christoph Blum, Marco Tarantola, Stefano Villa, Samo Penič, Aleš Iglič, Carsten Beta, Oliver Steinbock, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Benoît Ladoux, Sylvain Gabriele, and Nir S. Gov, "A minimal physical model for curvotaxis driven by curved protein complexes at the cell’s leading edge," PNAS 121 (12), e2306818121 (2024).

Andrea Cordes, Hannes Witt, Aina Gallemí-Pérez, Bastian Brückner, Florian Grimm, Marian Vache, Tabea Oswald, Jonathan Bodenschatz, Daniel Flormann, Franziska Lautenschläger, Marco Tarantola, and Andreas Janshoff, "Prestress and Area Compressibility of Actin Cortices Determine the Viscoelastic Response of Living Cells," Physical Review Letters 125 (6), 068101 (2020).

Richa Karmakar, Christoph Schich, Nadine Kamprad, Vanessa Scheller, Edgar Gutierrez, Alex Groisman, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Marco Tarantola Thierry Soldati (ed), "Novel micropatterning technique reveals dependence of cell-substrate adhesion and migration of social amoebas on parental strain, development, and fluorescent markers," PLOS ONE 15, e0236171 (2020).

Jose Negrete Jr., Alain Pumir, Christian Westendorf, Marco Tarantola, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Carsten Beta, "Receptor-induced transient responses in cells with oscillatory actin dynamics," Physical Review Research 2 (1), 013239 (2020).

Hyejeong Kim, Hannes Witt, Tabea A. Oswald, and Marco Tarantola, "Adhesion of Epithelial Cells to PNIPAm Treated Surfaces for Temperature-Controlled Cell-Sheet Harvesting," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, 33516-33529 (2020).

Hsin-Fang Hsu, Alexei Krekhov, Marco Tarantola, Carsten Beta, and Eberhard Bodenschatz, "Interplay between myosin II and actin dynamics in chemotactic amoeba," New Journal of Physics 21, 113055 (2019).

F. Cavallini and M. Tarantola, "ECIS based wounding and reorganization of cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts in co-cultures," Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 144, 116-127 (2019).

Nadine Kamprad, Hannes Witt, Marcel Schröder, Christian Titus Kreis, Oliver Bäumchen, Andreas Janshoff, and Marco Tarantola, "Adhesion strategies of Dictyostelium discoideum - A force spectroscopy study," Nanoscale 10 (47), 22504-22519 (2018).

Y. A. Miroshnikova, H. Q. Le, D. Schneider, T. Thalheim, M. Rübsam, N. Bremicker, J. Polleux, Nadine Kamprad, Marco Tarantola, I. Wang, M. Balland, C. M. Niessen, J. Galle, and S. A. Wickström, "Adhesion forces and cortical tension couple cell proliferation and differentiation to drive epidermal stratification," Nature Cell Biology 20 (1), 69-80 (2018).