Publications
Recent commentaries on our work:
C. Surridge. Soft cells. Nature Reviews: Molecular Cell Biology, 2, 789, 2001. Read it.
K. Leutwyler. Experiments reveal how cells can act like molten glass. Scientific American. 2001. Read it
Cytoplasm through the looking glass. Trends in Cell Biology. 11(12), 465, 2001.
Seow, C. Fashionable glass, Nature, 305, 1172-1173, 2005. Read it
Stamenovic, D. Two regimes, maybe three? Nature Materials 5: 597-598, 2006. Read it
A stretch in cells. Nature, 447, ix, 31 May, 2007.
More than lip service. Nature, 448, 969-970, 2007 Read it
Ladoux, B. Cells guided on their journey. Nature Physics, 5, 377-378, 2009. Read it.
How do cells move: Cooperative forces boost collective mobility of cells. Science Daily. 2009 Read it
Recent publications:
Trepat,X, MR Wasserman, TE Angelini, E Millet, DA Weitz, JP Butler, JJ Fredberg. Physical forces during collective cell migration. Nature Physics, 5, 426-430, 2009. Read it.
Zhou, EH, X Trepat, CY Park, G Lenormand, MN Oliver, SM Mijailovich, C. Hardin, DA Weitz, JP Butler, JJ Fredberg. Universal Behavior of the Osmotically Compressed Cell and its Analogy to the Colloidal Glass Transition. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2009. Read it.
Krishnan, R, CY Park, YC Lin, J Mead, RT Jaspers, X Trepat, G Lenormand, D Tambe, AV Smolensky, AH Knoll, JP Butler, JJ Fredberg. Reinforcement versus Fluidization in Cytoskeletal Mechanoresponsiveness. PLoS ONE, 4(5):e5486.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005486, 2009. Read it
Trepat X, L Deng, SS An, D Navajas, DJ Tschumperlin, WT Gerthoffer, JP Butler, JJ Fredberg. Universal physical responses to stretch in the living cell. Nature, 447, 592-5, 2007. Read it.
Deng, L, X Trepat, JP. Butler, E Millet, KG Morgan, DA Weitz, JJ Fredberg. Fast and slow dynamics of the cytoskeleton. Nature Materials. 5: 636-640, 2006. Read it
Bursac, P, G Lenormand, B Fabry, M Oliver, DA.Weitz, V Viasnoff, JP Butler, JJ Fredberg. Cytoskeletal remodeling and slow dynamics in the living cell. Nature Materials. 4, 557-561, 2005. Read it.
Tarran, R, B Button, M Picher, AM Paradiso, CM Ribero, ER Lazarowski, L Zhang, PL Collins, RJ Pickles, JJ Fredberg, RC Boucher. Normal and cystic fibrosis airway surface liquid homeostatis: the effects of phasic shear stress and viral infections. J. Biological Chemistry. 28o: 35751-9, 2005.
Fredberg, JJ, RD Kamm. Stress transmission in the lung: pathways from organ to molecule. Annual Review of Physiology. 68: 507-541, 2006. Read it.
Shore, SA, JJ Fredberg. Obesity, smooth muscle, and airway hyperresponsiveness. J Allergy and Clinical Immunology 115:925-7. 2005.
Lenormand, G., E Millet, B Fabry, JP Butler, and JJ Fredberg. Time-scale invariance of the creep compliance in living cells. Journal of The Royal Society (London), Interface, 1, 91-97, 2004.
Fabry B, GN Maksym, JP Butler, M Glogauer, D Navajas, N Taback, E Millet, JJ Fredberg. Time-scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior of the living cell. Physical Review E. 68, 041914 (1-18), 2003.Read it.
Gunst, S, JJ Fredberg. The first three minutes: smooth muscle activation, cytoskeletal events and soft glasses. J. Appl. Physiol. 95: 413-425, 2003. Read it.
Wang, N, K Naruse, D Stamenovic, JJ Fredberg, SM Mijailovich, IM Tolic-Norrelykke, T Polte, R Mannix, DE Ingber Mechanical behavior in living cells consistent with the tensegrity model. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98(14): 7765-70, 2001.
Fredberg, JJ. Frozen objects: small airways, big breaths and asthma. J. of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 106, 615-24, 2000. Read it.