Publications

  • AD Stephens, PZ Liu, EJ Banigan, LM Almassalha, V Backman, SA Adam, RD Goldman, and JF Marko (2017) Chromatin histone modifications and rigidity affect nuclear morphology independent of lamins. bioRxiv (doi: 10.1101/206367, under review).
  • EJ Banigan, AD Stephens, and JF Marko (2017) Mechanics and buckling of biopolymeric shells and cell nuclei. Biophys. J. 113: 1654.
  • RI Kamar, EJ Banigan, A Erbas, RD Giuntoli, M Olvera de la Cruz, RC Johnson, and JF Marko (2017) Facilitated dissociation of transcription factors from single DNA binding sites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114: E3251.
  • AD Stephens, EJ Banigan, SA Adam, RD Goldman, and JF Marko (2017) Chromatin and lamin A determine two different mechanical response regimes of the cell nucleus. Mol. Biol. Cell 28: 1984.
  • EJ Banigan and JF Marko (2016) Self-propulsion and interactions of catalytic particles in a chemically active medium. Phys. Rev. E 93: 012611.
  • EJ Banigan, KK Chiou, ER Ballister, AM Mayo, MA Lampson, and AJ Liu (2015) A minimal model for collective kinetochore-microtubule dynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112: 12699-12704.
  • RD Giuntoli, NB Linzer, EJ Banigan, CE Sing, M Olvera de la Cruz, JS Graham, RC Johnson, and JF Marko (2015) DNA-segment-facilitated dissociation of Fis and NHP6A from DNA detected via single-molecule mechanical response. J. Mol. Biol., 427: 3123-3136.
  • EJ Banigan, TH Harris, DA Christian, CA Hunter, and AJ Liu (2015) Heterogeneous CD8+ T cell migration in the lymph node in the absence of inflammation revealed by quantitative migration analysis. PLoS Comput. Biol. 11: e1004058.
  • EJ Banigan and JF Marko (2014) Torque correlation length and stochastic twist dynamics of DNA. Phys. Rev. E 89: 062706.
  • EJ Banigan, KC Lee, and AJ Liu (2013) Control of actin-based motility through localized actin binding. Phys. Biol. 10: 066004.
  • EJ Banigan, MK Illich, DJ Stace-Naughton, and DA Egolf (2013) The chaotic dynamics of jamming. Nat. Phys. 9: 288-292.
    May 2013 cover article.
    Also see a News and Views article by T. Shinbrot about this paper.
  • TH Harris*, EJ Banigan*, DA Christian, C Konradt, ED Tait Wonjo, K Norose, EH Wilson, B John, W Weninger, AD Luster, AJ Liu, and CA Hunter (2012) Generalized Lévy walks and the role of chemokines in migration of effector CD8+ T cells. Nature 486: 545-548.
  • EJ Banigan, MA Gelbart, Z Gitai, NS Wingreen, and AJ Liu (2011) Filament depolymerization can explain chromosome pulling during bacterial mitosis. PLoS Comput. Biol. 7: e1002145.
  • R Caracas and EJ Banigan (2009) Elasticity and Raman and infrared spectra of MgAl2O4 spinel from density functional perturbation theory. Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 174: 113-121.