Our work

Publications

Peer-reviewed research in theoretical and computational biophysics. Bold denotes Sebastian Fürthauer as (co-)corresponding author.

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Preprints
  • Disentangling Entropic, Active, and Frictional Forces in Cytoskeletal Crosslinking
    Cédrik Barutel, Sebastian Fürthauer
    arXiv, 2026
    arXiv
  • Arrested coarsening, oscillations, and memory from a conserved phase separating nucleator in a self-straining cytoskeletal network
    Quentin Bodini-Lefranc, Jakob Schindelwig, Daniel Weidinger, Lucas Engleder, Sebastian Fürthauer
    arXiv, 2025
    arXiv
  • Centrosome Softening As A Mechanical Adaptation For Mitosis
    Júlia Garcia-Baucells, Carlo Bevilacqua, Manuel Rufin, Cornelia Rumpf-Kienzl, Alexandra Zampetaki, Orestis G. Andriotis, Philipp J. Thurner, Robert Prevedel, Sebastian Fürthauer, Alexander Dammermann
    bioRxiv, 2025
    Preprint
2025
  • Three types of actomyosin rings within a common cytoplasm exhibit distinct modes of contractility
    John B. Linehan, Alexandra Zampetaki, Michael E. Werner, Bryan Heck, Paul S. Maddox, Sebastian Fürthauer, Amy S. Maddox
    Molecular Biology of the Cell, 36(11): ar136
    DOI
2023
  • Self-organized flows in phase-synchronizing active fluids
    Brato Chakrabarti, Michael J. Shelley, Sebastian Fürthauer
    Physical Review Letters
    DOI
2022
  • Spontaneous phase coordination and fluid pumping in model ciliary carpets
    Anup Kanale, Feng Ling, Hanliang Guo, Sebastian Fürthauer, Eva Kanso
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    DOI
  • How Cross-Link Numbers Shape the Large-Scale Physics of Cytoskeletal Materials
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley
    Physical Review Letters
    DOI
  • A multiscale biophysical model gives quantized metachronal waves in a lattice of beating cilia
    Brato Chakrabarti, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    DOI
2021
  • Microtubule reorganization during female meiosis in C. elegans
    Ina Lantzsch, Che-Hang Yu, Vitaly Zimyanin, Hossein Yazdkhasti, Carsten Pohl, Sebastian Fürthauer, Stephan Grill, Stefanie Redemann
    eLife
    DOI
  • A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline
    Nicolas T. Chartier, Arjun Mukherjee, Julia Pfanzelter, Stephan Grill, Benjamin M. Friedrich, Sebastian Fürthauer
    Nature Physics
    DOI
  • A design framework for actively crosslinked filament networks
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Daniel J. Needleman, Michael J. Shelley
    New Journal of Physics
    DOI
2020
  • Co-movement of astral microtubules, organelles and F-actin suggests aster positioning by surface forces in frog eggs
    James F. Pelletier, Christine M. Field, Sebastian Fürthauer, Matthew Sonnett, Timothy J. Mitchison
    eLife
    DOI
2019
  • Self-straining of actively crosslinked microtubule networks
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Bezia Lemma, Peter J. Foster, Stephanie C. Ems-McClung, Che-Hang Yu, Claire E. Walczak, Zvonimir Dogic, Daniel J. Needleman, Michael J. Shelley
    Nature Physics
    DOI
  • From cytoskeletal assemblies to living materials
    Peter J. Foster, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    Current Opinion in Cell Biology
    DOI
  • Current approaches for the analysis of spindle organization
    Stefanie Redemann, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael Shelley, Thomas Müller-Reichert
    Current Opinion in Structural Biology
    DOI
2018
  • Morphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Chun Cheng Wong, Jonathan Scholich, Frank Jülicher, Justin W. Bhatt, Bhavna Bhatt, Yohanns Bellaïche, Stephan W. Grill
    eLife
    DOI
  • Measuring and modeling polymer concentration profiles near spindle boundaries argues that spindle microtubules regulate their own nucleation
    Bryan Kaye, Chris Harber, Daniel Cook, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    Soft Matter
    DOI
2017
  • Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction
    Peter J. Foster, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    Biophysical Journal
    DOI
  • C. elegans chromosomes connect to centrosomes by anchoring into the spindle network
    Stefanie Redemann, Sylvia Schloissnig, Sebastian Ernst, Alina Haenni-Holzinger, Rene Hanchett, Sebastian Fürthauer, Thomas Müller-Reichert
    Nature Communications
    DOI
2016
  • Actomyosin-driven left-right asymmetry: from molecular torques to chiral self organization
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Miguel Nishikawa, Frank Jülicher, Stephan W. Grill
    eLife
    DOI
2015
  • Active contraction of microtubule networks
    Peter J. Foster, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    eLife
    DOI
2014
  • Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Miguel Nishikawa, Frank Jülicher, Stephan W. Grill
    eLife
    DOI
2013
  • Phase-synchronized state of oriented active fluids
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Sriram Ramaswamy
    Physical Review Letters
    DOI
2012
  • Active chiral processes in thin films
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Moritz Neef, Stephan W. Grill, Karsten Kruse, Frank Jülicher
    New Journal of Physics
    DOI
  • The Taylor–Couette motor: spontaneous flows of active polar fluids between two coaxial cylinders
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Markus Strempel, Stephan W. Grill, Frank Jülicher
    Physical Review Letters
    DOI
  • Active chiral fluids
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Markus Strempel, Stephan W. Grill, Frank Jülicher
    The European Physical Journal E
    DOI
2006
  • Transient localization in the kicked Rydberg atom
    Emil Persson, Sebastian Fürthauer, S. Wimberger, Joachim Burgdörfer
    Physical Review A
    DOI