Friction forces determine cytoplasmic reorganization and shape changes of ascidian oocytes upon fertilization
S. Caballero Mancebo, R. Shinde, M. Bolger-Munro, M. Peruzzo, G. Szep, I. Steccari, D. Labrousse Arias, V. Zheden, J. Merrin, A. Callan-Jones, R. Voituriez, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, Nature Physics (2024).

An/C is an essential player in the centrosome maintenance program regulated by Polo kinase and the PCM
A. Pimenta-Marques, T. Perestrelo, P. Dos Reis Rodrigues, P. Duarte, A. Ferreira-Silva, M. Lince-Faria, M. Bettencourt-Dias, EMBO Reports 25 (2024) 102–127.

En-Face Imaging of T Cell-Dendritic Cell Immunological Synapses
A.F. Leithner, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, in:, C. Baldari, M. Dustin (Eds.), The Immune Synapse, Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 137–147.

CC acts as both a sensor and a sink for CCL19 to coordinate collective leukocyte migration
J.H. Alanko, M.C. Ucar, N. Canigova, J.A. Stopp, J. Schwarz, J. Merrin, E.B. Hannezo, M.K. Sixt, Science Immunology 8 (2023).

Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles
E. Sitarska, S.D. Almeida, M.S. Beckwith, J.A. Stopp, J. Czuchnowski, M. Siggel, R. Roessner, A. Tschanz, C. Ejsing, Y. Schwab, J. Kosinski, M.K. Sixt, A. Kreshuk, A. Erzberger, A. Diz-Muñoz, Nature Communications 14 (2023).

Synchronization in collectively moving inanimate and living active matter
M. Riedl, I.D. Mayer, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, B. Hof, Nature Communications 14 (2023).

Synchronization in collectively moving active matter
M. Riedl, Synchronization in Collectively Moving Active Matter, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.

The excitable nature of polymerizing actin and the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
M. Riedl, M.K. Sixt, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 11 (2023).

Neutrophils on the hunt: Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function
J.A. Stopp, Neutrophils on the Hunt: Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.

Probing Single Chaperone Substrates
F. Wruck, M. Avellaneda Sarrió, M.M. Naqvi, E.J. Koers, K. Till, L. Gross, F. Moayed, A. Roland, L.W.H.J. Heling, A. Mashaghi, S.J. Tans, in:, S. Hiller, M. Liu, L. He (Eds.), Biophysics of Molecular Chaperones, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023, pp. 278–318.

Plan your trip before you leave: The neutrophils’ search-and-run journey
J.A. Stopp, M.K. Sixt, Journal of Cell Biology 221 (2022).

Role of microenvironment heterogeneity in cancer cell invasion
S. Tasciyan, Role of Microenvironment Heterogeneity in Cancer Cell Invasion, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.

Single platelet and megakaryocyte morpho-dynamics uncovered by multicolor reporter mouse strains in vitro and in vivo
L. Nicolai, R. Kaiser, R. Escaig, M.L. Hoffknecht, A. Anjum, A. Leunig, J. Pircher, A. Ehrlich, M. Lorenz, H. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, W.C. Aird, S. Massberg, F.R. Gärtner, Haematologica 107 (2022) 1669–1680.

Type 1 piliated uropathogenic Escherichia coli hijack the host immune response by binding to C
K. Tomasek, A.F. Leithner, I. Glatzová, M.S. Lukesch, C.C. Guet, M.K. Sixt, ELife 11 (2022).

Weak catch bonds make strong networks
Y. Mulla, M. Avellaneda Sarrió, A. Roland, L. Baldauf, W. Jung, T. Kim, S.J. Tans, G.H. Koenderink, Nature Materials 21 (2022) 1019–1023.

Neutrophil cpluckingd on megakaryocytes drives platelet production and boosts cardiovascular disease
T. Petzold, Z. Zhang, I. Ballesteros, I. Saleh, A. Polzin, M. Thienel, L. Liu, Q. Ul Ain, V. Ehreiser, C. Weber, B. Kilani, P. Mertsch, J. Götschke, S. Cremer, W. Fu, M. Lorenz, H. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, E. Raatz, S. El-Nemr, A. Görlach, E. Marhuenda, K. Stark, J. Pircher, D. Stegner, C. Gieger, M. Schmidt-Supprian, F.R. Gärtner, I. Almendros, M. Kelm, C. Schulz, A. Hidalgo, S. Massberg, Immunity 55 (2022) 2285–2299.e7.

Principles of disease defence in organisms, superorganisms and societies
S. Cremer, M.K. Sixt, Nature Reviews Immunology 22 (2022) 713–714.

Multitier mechanics control stromal adaptations in swelling lymph nodes
F.P. Assen, J. Abe, M. Hons, R. Hauschild, S. Shamipour, W. Kaufmann, T. Costanzo, G. Krens, M. Brown, B. Ludewig, S. Hippenmeyer, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, W. Weninger, E.B. Hannezo, S.A. Luther, J.V. Stein, M.K. Sixt, Nature Immunology 23 (2022) 1246–1255.

WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues
F. Gaertner, P. Reis-Rodrigues, I. de Vries, M. Hons, J. Aguilera, M. Riedl, A.F. Leithner, S. Tasciyan, A. Kopf, J. Merrin, V. Zheden, W. Kaufmann, R. Hauschild, M.K. Sixt, Developmental Cell 57 (2022) 47–62.e9.

In vitro reconstitution reveals phosphoinositides as cargo-release factors and activators of the AR GAP ADA
C.F. Düllberg, A. Auer, N. Canigova, K. Loibl, M. Loose, PNAS 118 (2021).