Publications
- ACS
- active filaments
- Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
- Advances in Insect Physiology
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- applied physics
- APS
- arXiv
- bioengineering
- biomechanics
- biomedical engineering
- biophysics
- bioRxiv
- BiteOscope
- blood smear
- capillary ratchet
- capillary waves
- capillary-gravity wave drag
- Cell
- cell biology
- CellScope
- chaos
- cilia
- citizen science
- Communications Physics
- computational biophysics
- contact angle hysteresis
- coupled active systems
- COVID19
- Current Biology
- developmental biology
- dimensionless group
- dinoflagellate
- droplets
- dynamical systems
- ecological epidemiology
- ecology
- elastic band
- electronic properties and materials
- eLife
- ELISA
- emergent cellular dynamics
- emergent mechanics
- ESPressoscope
- Europhysics Letters
- evaporation
- Experiments in Fluids
- fablabs
- feeding currents
- ferrofluids
- fibers
- filtration
- flow field
- Flowtrace
- fluid dynamics
- fluidics
- foam
- force spectroscopy on a fluid interface
- free surface
- Frontiers in Marine Science
- frugal microscopy
- frugal science
- genetics
- geometric frustration
- global health
- high-throughput screening
- information theory and computation
- instrumentation
- interfacial flight
- International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- kinetochore fiber
- lab-on-a-chip
- lake snow
- Lancet
- leaf spring
- load-bearing model
- Macrostomum lignano
- malaria
- mammaliab
- manufacturing
- marine biology
- marine snow
- masks
- materials science
- mechanical circuit
- mechanics
- medRxiv
- metastability
- microfluidics
- microplankton
- microscopy
- microtubule
- migration
- mitosis
- Molecular Biology of the Cell
- mosquitoes
- motility
- multiplex
- Musca domestica
- nanowires
- natural counterpart
- Nature
- Nature Biomedical Engineering
- Nature Communications
- Nature Materials
- Nature Medicine
- Nature Methods
- Nature Physics
- Nature Review Physics
- Neuron
- ocean
- open source modularity
- open-source
- patent
- pattern formation
- Physical Review E
- physical review fluids
- Physics of Fluids
- plankton
- PLoS ONE
- PNAS
- Project: Abuzz
- Project: Foldscope
- Project: Gravity Machine
- Project: Handyfuge
- Project: Inkwell
- Project: Lacrymaria olor
- Project: Octopi
- Project: Paperfuge
- Project: Patiria miniata
- Project: Planktoscope
- Project: Plant Pad
- Project: Pneumask
- Project: Spirostomum ambiguum
- Project: Squid
- Project: Trichoplax adhaerens
- Project: Vent4US
- propulsion
- propulsion on interfaces
- Pyrocystis noctiluca
- quantitative imaging
- regeneration
- rheology
- SARS-CoV-2
- Schistosoma haematobium
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Science
- self-assembly
- self-learning
- self-propulsion
- serology
- Serosurveillance
- single cell behavior
- sinking aggregates
- soft condensed matter
- soft matter
- Soft Matter
- spindle
- streamlines
- supply chain
- surface patterning
- Tara
- Telektronikk
- thermotaxis
- tracking microscopy
- unidirectional superhydrophobic surfaces
- ventilator
- viscoelasticity
- Vorticella
- water strider
- wetting
Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limit for motility in a eukaryotic cell
Zhang, Q., Leng, H. T., Li, H., Arrigo, K. R., & Prakash, M. (2024). Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limit for motility in a eukaryotic cell. bioRxiv, 2024-11.
Single Cells Signal Non-self from Self via ‘XOR’ and ‘NOT EQUALS’ Logic in a Dimer of Dimers
An, R., & Prakash, M. (2024). Single Cells Signal Non-self from Self via'XOR'and'NOT EQUALS'Logic in a Dimer of Dimers. bioRxiv, 2024-10.
Creased ciliary flocks shape unfolding dynamics via information bottlenecks in an aneural animal
Brannon, C. M., & Prakash, M. (2024). Creased ciliary flocks shape unfolding dynamics via information bottlenecks in an aneural animal. bioRxiv, 2024-09.
Morphology-based classification of sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia using a low-cost automated microscope and machine learning
Shrestha, P., Lohse, H., Bhatla, C., McCartney, H., Alzaki, A., Sandhu, N., ... & Stoeber, B. (2024). Morphology-based classification of sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia using a low-cost automated microscope and machine learning. medRxiv, 2024-09.
Biophysical limits of ultrafast cellular motility
Chang, R., & Prakash, M. (2024). Biophysical limits of ultrafast cellular motility. bioRxiv, 2024-08.
Flight-Scope: microscopy with microfluidics in microgravity
Wareing, T., Stokes, A., Crompton, K., Murphy, K., Dawson, J., Urgurluoglu, Y. F., Richardson, C., Li, H., Prakash, M., & Wollman, A. J. (2024). Flight-Scope: microscopy with microfluidics in microgravity. bioRxiv, 2024-06.
Algorithmic construction of topologically complex biomineral lattices via cellular syncytia
Vyas, P., Brannon, C. M., Formery, L., Lowe, C., & Prakash, M. (2024). Algorithmic construction of topologically complex biomineral lattices via cellular syncytia. bioRxiv, 2024-02.
Energetics of the Microsporidian Polar Tube Invasion Machinery
Chang, R., Davydov, A., Jaroenlak, P., Budaitis, B., Ekiert, D. C., Bhabha, G., & Prakash, M. (2024). Energetics of the microsporidian polar tube invasion machinery. Elife, 12, RP86638.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.17.524456
Active sinking particles: sessile suspension feeders significantly alter the flow and transport to sinking aggregates
Krishnamurthy, D., Pepper, R., & Prakash, M. (2023). Active sinking particles: sessile suspension feeders significantly alter the flow and transport to sinking aggregates. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20(199), 20220537.
Engineering reconfigurable flow patterns via surface-driven light-controlled active matter
Xingting Gong, Arnold Mathijssen, Zev Bryant, Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.123104
Multi-scale spatial heterogeneity enhances particle clearance in airway ciliary arrays
Guillermina R. Ramirez-San Juan, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Mu He, Lily Jan, Wallace Marshall & Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0923-8
Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves
Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Joshua Culver, M. Saad Bhamla & Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1387-9
Rapid behavioral transitions produce chaotic mixing by a planktonic microswimmer
William Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1804.08773
Reply to: Boundary effects on currents around ciliated larvae
William Gilpin, Vivek Prakash, Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4166
Paperfuge: An ultra-low cost, hand-powered centrifuge inspired by the mechanics of a whirligig toy
M. Saad Bhamla, Brandon Benson, Chew Chai, Georgios Katsikis, Aanchal Johri & Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-016-0009
Schistosoma mansoni cercariae exploit an elastohydrodynamic coupling to swim efficiently
Deepak Krishnamurthy, Georgios Katsikis, Arjun Bhargava & Manu Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3924
A Swimming Rheometer: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses
Kroo, L. A., Binagia, J. P., Eckman, N., Prakash, M., & Shaqfeh, E. S. (2021). A swimming rheometer: self-propulsion of a freely-suspended swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses. arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10515.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.10515
Modeling epithelial tissues as active-elastic sheets reproduce contraction pulses and predict rip resistance
Armon, S., Bull, M. S., Moriel, A., Aharoni, H., & Prakash, M. (2021). Modeling epithelial tissues as active-elastic sheets reproduce contraction pulses and predict rip resistance. Communications physics, 4(1), 216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00712-2
Excitable mechanics embodied in a walking cilium
Bull, M. S., Kroo, L. A., & Prakash, M. (2021). Excitable mechanics embodied in a walking cilium. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02930.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.02930
Ciliary flocking and emergent instabilities enable collective agility in a non-neuromuscular animal
Bull, M. S., Prakash, V. N., & Prakash, M. (2021). Ciliary flocking and emergent instabilities enable collective agility in a non-neuromuscular animal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02934.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.02934
Mobile defects born from an energy cascade shape the locomotive behavior of a headless animal
Bull, M. S., & Prakash, M. (2021). Mobile defects born from an energy cascade shape the locomotive behavior of a headless animal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02940.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.02940
Motility induced fracture reveals a ductile to brittle crossover in the epithelial tissues of a simple animal
Prakash, V. N., Bull, M. S., & Prakash, M. (2021). Motility-induced fracture reveals a ductile-to-brittle crossover in a simple animal’s epithelia. Nature Physics, 17(4), 504-511.
The multiscale physics of cilia and flagella
Gilpin, W., Bull, M. S., & Prakash, M. (2020). The multiscale physics of cilia and flagella. Nature Reviews Physics, 2(2), 74-88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0129-0
Ultra-fast cellular contractions in the epithelium of T. adhaerens and the "active cohesion" hypothesis
Armon, S., Bull, M. S., Aranda-Diaz, A., & Prakash, M. (2018). Ultrafast epithelial contractions provide insights into contraction speed limits and tissue integrity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(44), E10333-E10341.