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S Fürthauer, B Lemma, PJ Foster, SC Ems-McClung, CE Walczak, Z Dogic, DJ Needleman, MJ Shelley, "Actively crosslinked microtubule networks: mechanics, dynamics and filament sliding", arXiv, 2018; arXiv:1812.01079 [cond-mat.soft] submitted

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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

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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

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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 

• Commentary by Katherine H. Wrighton in Nature Reviews Microbiology, "Bacterial physiology: Bridging the gap for lipopolysaccharides" ​                                                                                                                             ​                                                         (* denotes co-first authors)​

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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 

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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                                                        ​(* denotes co-first authors)

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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

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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                                                                 (* denotes co-first authors)

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PJ Foster, S Fürthauer, MJ Shelley, DJ Needleman, “Active contraction of microtubule networks”, eLife 2015; 4:e10837; doi:10.7554/eLife.10837

• Commentary by Julio Belmonte and Francois Nedelec in eLife, "Cytoskeleton: Large-scale microtubule networks contract quite well"