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Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation. Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Declan Norton, Rachel O. L. Wong, Pamela A. Raymond, and David K. Lubensky, PLoS Comp. Biol. 16, e1008437 (2020). [doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437]
Apical stress fibers enable a scaling between cell mechanical response and area in epithelial tissue. Jesús M. López-Gay, Hayden Nunley, Meryl Spencer, Florencia di Pietro, Boris Guirao, Floris Bosveld, Olga Markova, Isabelle Gaugue, Stéphane Pelletier, David K. Lubensky, and Yohanns Bellaïche, Science 370, eabb2169 (2020). [doi: 10.1126/science.abb2169]
Physical limits to sensing material properties. Farzan Beroz, Di Zhou, Xiaoming Mao, and David K. Lubensky, Nature Communic. 11, 5170 (2020). [doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18995-4]
The statistics of noisy growth with mechanical feedback in elastic tissues. Ojan Khatib Damavandi and David K. Lubensky, Proc. National Acad. Sci. USA 116, 5350-5355 (2019). [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1816100116]
Robustness of clocks to input noise. Michele Monti, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078101 (2018). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.078101; PDF]
Optimal entrainment of circadian clocks in the presence of noise. Michele Monti, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Phys. Rev. E 97, 032405 (2018). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032405; PDF]
Anisotropic Müller glial scaffolding supports a multiplex lattice mosaic of photoreceptors in zebrafish retina. Mikiko Nagashima, Jeremy Hadidjojo, Linda K. Barthel, David K. Lubensky, and Pamela A. Raymond, Neural Dev. 12, 20 (2017). [doi: 10.1186/s13064-017-0096-z; PMCID: PMC5688757]
Period Robustness and Entrainability of the Kai System to Changing Nucleotide Concentrations. Joris Paijmans, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Biophys J. 113, 157-73 (2017). [doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.05.048; PMCID: PMC5510911]
Robustness of synthetic oscillators in growing and dividing cells. Joris Paijmans, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Phys. Rev. E 95, 052403 (2017). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.052403; PDF]
A thermodynamically consistent model of the post-translational Kai circadian clock. Joris Paijmans, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde, PLoS Comp. Biol. 13, e1005415 (2017). [doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005415; PMCID: PMC5371392]
Vertex stability and topological transitions in vertex models of foams and epithelia. Spencer, M.A., Jabeen, Z. & Lubensky, D.K. Eur. Phys. J. E 40, 2 (2017). [doi:10.1140/epje/i2017-11489-4; PDF]
Epithelial tricellular junctions act as interphase cell shape sensors to orient mitosis. Bosveld, F., Markova, O., Guirao, B., Martin, C., Wang, Z., Pierre, A., Balakireva, M., Gaugue, I., Ainslie, A., Christophorou, N. and Lubensky, D.K., Minc N., Bellaïche Y., Nature 530, 495–498 (25 February 2016)
Discrete gene replication events drive coupling between the cell cycle and circadian clocks. Paijmans, Joris, Mark Bosman, Pieter Rein Ten Wolde, and David K. Lubensky. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.15 (2016): 4063-4068.
Patterning the cone mosaic array in zebrafish retina requires specification of ultraviolet-sensitive cones. Raymond, Pamela A., Steven M. Colvin, Zahera Jabeen, Mikiko Nagashima, Linda K. Barthel, Jeremy Hadidjojo, Lilia Popova, Vivek R. Pejaver, and David K. Lubensky. PloS one 9.1 (2014): e85325.
Exchange of stability as a function of system size in a nonequilibrium system. Tănase-Nicola, Sorin, and David K. Lubensky. Physical Review E 86.4 (2012): 040103.
Coupling mechanical deformations and planar cell polarity to create regular patterns in the zebrafish retina. Salbreux, Guillaume, Linda K. Barthel, Pamela A. Raymond, and David K. Lubensky. PLoS Comput Biol 8.8 (2012): e1002618.
A dynamical model of ommatidial crystal formation. Lubensky, D. K., Pennington, M. W., Shraiman, B. I., & Baker, N. E. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.27 (2011): 11145-11150.
Robust circadian clocks from coupled protein-modification and transcription–translation cycles. Zwicker, David, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.52 (2010): 22540-22545.
Switch and template pattern formation in a discrete reaction-diffusion system inspired by the Drosophila eye. Pennington, Matthew W., and David K. Lubensky. The European Physical Journal E 33.2 (2010): 129-148.
Equilibriumlike behavior in chemical reaction networks far from equilibrium. Lubensky, David K. Physical Review E 81.6 (2010): 060102.
An allosteric model of circadian KaiC phosphorylation. van Zon, J. S., Lubensky, D. K., Altena, P. R., & ten Wolde, P. R. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.18 (2007): 7420-7425.
Dynamics of molecular motors with finite processivity on heterogeneous tracks. Kafri, Yariv, David K. Lubensky, and David R. Nelson. Physical Review E 71.4 (2005): 041906.
Unzipping kinetics of double-stranded DNA in a nanopore. Sauer-Budge, A. F., Nyamwanda, J. A., Lubensky, D. K., & Branton, D. Physical Review Letters 90.23 (2003): 238101.
DNA unzipped under a constant force exhibits multiple metastable intermediates. Danilowicz, C., Coljee, V. W., Bouzigues, C., Lubensky, D. K., Nelson, D. R., & Prentiss, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100.4 (2003): 1694-1699.
Single molecule statistics and the polynucleotide unzipping transition. Lubensky, David K., and David R. Nelson. Physical Review E 65.3 (2002): 031917.
Pulling pinned polymers and unzipping DNA. Lubensky, David K., and David R. Nelson. Physical review letters 85.7 (2000): 1572.
Driven polymer translocation through a narrow pore. Lubensky, David K., and David R. Nelson. Biophysical Journal 77.4 (1999): 1824-1838.
Hydrodynamics of monolayer domains at the air–water interface. Lubensky, David K., and Raymond E. Goldstein. Physics of fluids 8.4 (1996): 843-854.