The Robertson-Anderson Soft Matter & Biophysics Lab

Enzymatic cleaving of entangled DNA rings drives scale-dependent rheological trajectories

Philip Neill, Natalie Crist, R. J. McGorty, R. M. Robertson-Anderson.
Soft Matter (2024) DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01641b

Molecular motors make waves and sculpt patterns

R. M. Robertson-Anderson.
Nature Physics (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02286-y

Kinesin and myosin motors compete to drive rich multiphase dynamics in programmable cytoskeletal composites

R. J. McGorty, C. J. Currie, J. Michel, M. Sasanpour, C. Gunter, K. A. Lindsay, M. J. Rust, P. Katira,
M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson.
PNAS Nexus (2023) DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad245

Cooperative Rheological State-Switching of Enzymatically-Driven Composites of Circular DNA And Dextran

J. Marfai, R. J. McGorty, R. M. Robertson-Anderson.
Advanced Materials (2023) DOI: 10.1002/adma.202305824

Interplay of self-organization of microtubule asters and crosslinking protein condensates

S. Sahu, P. Chauhan, E. Lumen, K. Moody, K. Peddireddy, N. Mani, R. Subramanian,
R. M. Robertson-Anderson, A. J. Wolfe, J. L. Ross
PNAS Nexus (2023) DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad231

Motor antagonism dictates emergent dynamics in active double networks tuned by crosslinkers

R. J. McGorty, C. J. Currie, J. Michel, M. Sasanpour, C. Gutner, K. A. Lindsay, M.J. Rust,
P. Katira, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson
arXiv:2112.11260 (2023). Under review at Soft Matter

Timed material self-assembly controlled by circadian clock proteins

G. Leech, L. Melcher, M. Chiu, M. Nugent, L. Burton, J. Kang, S. J. Kim, S. Roy, L. Farhadi, J. L. Ross, M. Das, M. J. Rust, R. M. Robertson-Anderson
arXiv:2303.00779 (2023).

Polymer threadings and rigidity dictate the viscoelasticity and nonlinear relaxation dynamics of entangled ring-linear blends and their composites with rigid rod microtubules

K. R. Peddireddy, R. Clairmont, R. M. Robertson-Anderson
Journal of Rheology, 67(1),125–138 (2023)
DOI: 10.1122/8.0000529

Motor-driven advection competes with crowding to drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous transport in cytoskeleton composites

J. Y. Sheung, J. Garamella, S. K. Kahl, B. Y. Lee, R. J. McGorty, and Rae Robertson-Anderson
Front. Phys., DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2022.1055441 (2022)

Nonlinear Microscale Mechanics of Actin Networks Governed by Coupling of Filament Crosslinking and Stabilization

M. E. Dwyer, Rae Robertson-Anderson, and B. J. Gurmessa
Polymers (MDPI), DOI: 10.3390/polym14224980 (2022)

Crowding and confinement act in concert to slow DNA diffusion within cell-sized droplets

M. S. Aporvari, S. Dang, J. Marfai, K. Coursey, R. J. McGorty, and Rae Robertson-Anderson
iScience, DOI: 10.1016/ j.isci.2022.105122 (2022)

Optical-Tweezers-integrating-Differential-Dynamic-Microscopy maps the spatiotemporal propagation of nonlinear strains in polymer blends and composites

K. R. Peddireddy, R. Clairmont, P. Neill, R. McGorty, R. M. Robertson-Anderson
Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32876-y