Our work

Publications

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

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Preprints
  • 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
  • Active mechanics of sea star oocytes
    Peter J. Foster, Alexandra Zampetaki, Jinghui Liu, Sebastian Fürthauer, Nikta Fakhri
    bioRxiv, 2026
    Preprint
2026
  • Clustering of the T-cell receptor complex may facilitate T-cell activation by stretching of CD3ζ cytoplasmic tails
    Steven Siegl, Sebastian Fürthauer†, Gerhard J. Schütz†
    European Biophysics Journal
    †Equal corresponding authors
    DOI
  • Entropic, active, and frictional forces in cytoskeletal crosslinking
    Cédrik Barutel, Sebastian Fürthauer
    Physical Review Research, 8, 033122
    DOI
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
  • Collective motion and pattern formation in phase-synchronizing active fluids
    Brato Chakrabarti, Michael J. Shelley, Sebastian Fürthauer
    Physical Review Letters, 130, 128202
    DOI
2022
  • Spontaneous phase coordination and fluid pumping in model ciliary carpets
    Anup V. Kanale, Feng Ling, Hanliang Guo, Sebastian Fürthauer, Eva Kanso
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(45): e2214413119
    DOI
  • How cross-link numbers shape the large-scale physics of cytoskeletal materials
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley
    Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 13: 365–384
    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, 119(4): e2113539119
    DOI
2021
  • Microtubule reorganization during female meiosis in C. elegans
    Ina Lantzsch, Che-Hang Yu, Yu-Zen Chen, Vitaly Zimyanin, Hossein Yazdkhasti, Norbert Lindow, Erik Szentgyörgyi, Ariel M. Pani, Steffen Prohaska, Martin Srayko, Sebastian Fürthauer, Stefanie Redemann
    eLife, 10: e58903
    DOI
  • A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline
    Nicolas T. Chartier, Arghyadip Mukherjee, Julia Pfanzelter, Sebastian Fürthauer, Ben T. Larson, Anatol W. Fritsch, Rana Amini, Moritz Kreysing, Frank Jülicher, Stephan W. Grill
    Nature Physics, 17: 920–925
    DOI
  • A design framework for actively crosslinked filament networks
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Daniel J. Needleman, Michael J. Shelley
    New Journal of Physics, 23: 013012
    DOI
2020
  • Co-movement of astral microtubules, organelles and F-actin by dynein and actomyosin forces in frog egg cytoplasm
    James F. Pelletier, Christine M. Field, Sebastian Fürthauer, Matthew Sonnett, Timothy J. Mitchison
    eLife, 9: e60047
    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, 15: 1295–1300
    DOI
  • Current approaches for the analysis of spindle organization
    Stefanie Redemann, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael Shelley, Thomas Müller-Reichert
    Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 58: 269–277
    DOI
  • From cytoskeletal assemblies to living materials
    Peter J. Foster, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 56: 109–114
    DOI
2018
  • Morphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Josana Rodriguez, Bruno Thomas Fievet, Frank Jülicher, Julie Ahringer, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Stephan W. Grill
    eLife, 7: e37677
    DOI
  • Measuring and modeling polymer concentration profiles near spindle boundaries argues that spindle microtubules regulate their own nucleation
    Bryan Kaye, Olivia Stiehl, Peter J. Foster, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman, Sebastian Fürthauer
    New Journal of Physics, 20: 055012
    DOI
2017
  • Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction
    Peter J. Foster, Wen Yan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    New Journal of Physics, 19: 125011
    DOI
  • C. elegans chromosomes connect to centrosomes by anchoring into the spindle network
    Stefanie Redemann, Johannes Baumgart, Norbert Lindow, Michael Shelley, Ehssan Nazockdast, Andrea Kratz, Steffen Prohaska, Jan Brugués, Sebastian Fürthauer, Thomas Müller-Reichert
    Nature Communications, 8: 15288
    DOI
2016
  • Actomyosin-driven left-right asymmetry: from molecular torques to chiral self organization
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Teije C. Middelkoop, Sebastian Fürthauer, Stephan W. Grill
    Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 38: 24–30
    DOI
2015
  • Active contraction of microtubule networks
    Peter J. Foster, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley, Daniel J. Needleman
    eLife, 4: e10837
    DOI
2014
  • Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking
    Sundar Ram Naganathan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Masatoshi Nishikawa, Frank Jülicher, Stephan W. Grill
    eLife, 3: e04165
    DOI
2013
  • Phase-synchronized state of oriented active fluids
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Sriram Ramaswamy
    Physical Review Letters, 111, 238102
    DOI
  • Active chiral processes in thin films
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Maria Strempel, Stephan W. Grill, Frank Jülicher
    Physical Review Letters, 110, 048103
    DOI
2012
  • Active chiral fluids
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Maria Strempel, Stephan W. Grill, Frank Jülicher
    The European Physical Journal E, 35: 89
    DOI
  • The Taylor–Couette motor: spontaneous flows of active polar fluids between two coaxial cylinders
    Sebastian Fürthauer, Marc Neef, Stephan W. Grill, Karsten Kruse, Frank Jülicher
    New Journal of Physics, 14: 023001
    DOI
2006
  • Transient localization in the kicked Rydberg atom
    Emil Persson, Sebastian Fürthauer, Sandro Wimberger, Joachim Burgdörfer
    Physical Review A, 74, 053417
    DOI