Starting from June 1st, 2023, I work at Brandeis University as a postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Seth Fraden on cytoskeletal active nematic.
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New publication on PRX about assembly of vimentin intermediate filament limited by fragmentation and entanglement
We show by experiment and Monte-Carlo simulation that vimentin intermediate filaments can fragment without additional co-factors or post-translational modifications. The filament fragmentation and entanglement saturate the filament length.
More details: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011014
Our eLife paper about swimming of Phytophthora zoospores has been highlighted on Science Magazine!
Thanks to @ScienceMagazine for highlighting our recent paper on @eLife about swimming of Phytophthora (Greek for “plant destroyer) zoospores resulting from coordinated actions of two opposite flagella.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq3740
New publication on eLife about individual swimming of Phytophthora zoospores
Coordinated actions of two opposite flagella control speed and change direction of plant pathogen Phytophthora zoospores, in which the anterior flagellum is the main motor to generate thrust and spontaneously switch from reciprocal beating to breaststrokes to reorient its body.
The work has been published on eLife (https://elifesciences.org/articles/71227) and featured on eLife Digest.
New publication on Science Advances about molecular organization and mechanics of single vimentin intermediate filaments
In this article, we revealed the molecular organization of single vimentin filaments by super-resolution microscopy and investigated how this structural organization changed when being stretched.
The article is online on Science Advances.
New publication on Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Our review paper titled “Phytophthora zoospores: From perception of environmental signals to inoculum formation on the host-root surface” has been published on Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 18 (2020). Link to the article (Open access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037020304670?via%3Dihub
Check out the paper to know more about zoospores and their interactions with environmental signals and host-root surface.
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