Friday Lecture Series
(open to Tri-I community)
Friday, January 20, 2023
Margaret Gardel, Ph.D.
Horace B. Horton Professor
Department of Physics,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
James Franck Institute & Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Director,
James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mechanical Information Processing by Epithelial Tissue
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Lynch, A. M., Zhu, Y., Lucas, B. G., Winkelman, J. D., Bai, K., Martin, S. C. T., Block, S., Slabodnick, M. M., Audhya, A., Goldstein, B., Pettitt, J., Gardel, M. L., & Hardin, J. (2022). TES-1/Tes and ZYX-1/Zyxin protect junctional actin networks under tension during epidermal morphogenesis in the C. elegans embryo. Current biology, 32(23), 5189–5199.e6.
Cavanaugh, K. E., Staddon, M. F., Chmiel, T. A., Harmon, R., Budnar, S., Yap, A. S., Banerjee, S., & Gardel, M. L. (2022). Force-dependent intercellular adhesion strengthening underlies asymmetric adherens junction contraction. Current biology, 32(21), 4779.
Kumar, N., Zhang, R., Redford, S. A., de Pablo, J. J., & Gardel, M. L. (2022). Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics. Soft matter, 18(28), 5271–5281.
Chmiel, T. A., & Gardel, M. L. (2022). Confluence and tight junction dependence of volume regulation in epithelial tissue. Molecular biology of the cell, 33(11), ar98.
Cavanaugh, K. E., Staddon, M. F., Chmiel, T. A., Harmon, R., Budnar, S., Yap, A. S., Banerjee, S., & Gardel, M. L. (2022). Force-dependent intercellular adhesion strengthening underlies asymmetric adherens junction contraction. Current biology, 32(9), 1986–2000.e5.
Book chapter
Seetharaman, S., Sala, S., Gardel, M. L., & Oakes, P. W. (2023). Quantifying Strain-Sensing Protein Recruitment During Stress Fiber Repair. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2600, 169–182.
