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Publications

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S Fürthauer, B Lemma, PJ Foster, SC Ems-McClung, CH Yu, CE Walczak, Z Dogic, DJ Needleman, MJ Shelley, "Self-straining of actively crosslinked microtubule networks", Nat. Phys. 2019; 15; 1295-1300; doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0642-1

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PJ Foster, M Razo-Mejia, R Phillips, "Measuring the Energetic Costs of Embryonic Development", Dev. Cell 2019; 48; 591-592; doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2019.02.016​ (PDF)

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PJ Foster, S Fürthauer, MJ Shelley, DJ Needleman, "From cytoskeletal assemblies to living materials", Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 2019; 56; 109-114; doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2018.10.010 (PDF)

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B Kaye, O Steihl, PJ Foster, MJ Shelley, DJ Needleman, S Fürthauer, "Measuring and modeling polymer gradients argues that spindle microtubules regulate their own nucleation", New J. Phys. 2018; 20; 055012; doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aac2a5 (PDF)

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DJ Sherman*, R Xie*, RJ Taylor*, AH George*, S Okuda*, PJ Foster*, DJ Needleman, D Kahne, "Lipopolysaccharide is transported to the cell surface by a membrane-to-membrane protein bridge", Science 2018; 359(6377); 798-801; doi:10.1126/science.aar1886 (PDF)
  • Commentary by Katherine H. Wrighton in Nature Reviews Microbiology, "Bacterial physiology: Bridging the gap for lipopolysaccharides" ​                                                                                                                             ​                                                         (* denotes co-first authors)​

5.
R Tan, PJ Foster, DJ Needleman, RJ McKenney, "Cooperative Accumulation of Dynein-Dynactin at Microtubule Minus-Ends Drives Microtubule Network Reorganization", Dev. Cell 2018; 44(2); 233-247; doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2017.12.023 (PDF)

4.
PJ Foster*, W Yan*, S Fürthauer, MJ Shelley, DJ Needleman, "Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction", New J. Phys. 2017; 19; 125011; doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa9320 (PDF)                                             ​(* denotes co-first authors)

3.
B Kaye, TY Yoo, PJ Foster, CH Yu, DJ Needleman, "Bridging length scales to measure polymer assembly", Mol. Biol. Cell 2017; 28(10); 1379-1388; doi:10.1091/mbc.E16-05-0344 (PDF)

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B Kaye*, PJ Foster*, TY Yoo*, DJ Needleman, "Developing and Testing a Bayesian Analysis of Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements", PLoS ONE 2017;12(1);e0169337; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169337 (PDF)                                                       (* denotes co-first authors)

1.
PJ Foster, S Fürthauer, MJ Shelley, DJ Needleman, “Active contraction of microtubule networks”, eLife 2015; 4:e10837; doi:10.7554/eLife.10837 (PDF)
  • Commentary by Julio Belmonte and Francois Nedelec in eLife, "Cytoskeleton: Large-scale microtubule networks contract quite well"

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Physics of Living Systems Group, MIT
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Cambridge, MA 02139
pjfoster@mit.edu

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