Publications

[15] AD Stephens, EJ Banigan, and JF Marko (2017) Separate roles for chromatin and lamins in nuclear mechanics.  Nucleus, In press.
Invited commentary on Stephens et al. MBoC 2017.

[14] AD Stephens, PZ Liu, EJ Banigan, LM Almassalha, V Backman, SA Adam, RD Goldman, and JF Marko (2018) Chromatin histone modifications and rigidity affect nuclear morphology independent of lamins. Mol. Biol. Cell, In press.

[13] EJ Banigan, AD Stephens, and JF Marko (2017) Mechanics and buckling of biopolymeric shells and cell nuclei. Biophys. J. 113: 1654.

[12] 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.

[11] 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.

[10]  EJ Banigan and JF Marko (2016) Self-propulsion and interactions of catalytic particles in a chemically active mediumPhys. Rev. E 93: 012611.

[9]  EJ Banigan, KK Chiou, ER Ballister, AM Mayo, MA Lampson, and AJ Liu (2015) A minimal model for collective kinetochore-microtubule dynamicsProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112: 12699-12704.

[8]  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 responseJ. Mol. Biol., 427: 3123-3136.

[7]  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 analysisPLoS Comput. Biol. 11: e1004058.

[6]  EJ Banigan and JF Marko (2014) Torque correlation length and stochastic twist dynamics of DNAPhys. Rev. E 89: 062706.

[5]  EJ Banigan, KC Lee, and AJ Liu (2013) Control of actin-based motility through localized actin bindingPhys. Biol. 10: 066004.

[4]  EJ Banigan, MK Illich, DJ Stace-Naughton, and DA Egolf (2013) The chaotic dynamics of jammingNat. Phys. 9: 288-292.
May 2013 cover article.
Also see a News and Views article by T. Shinbrot about this paper.

[3]  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.

[2]  EJ Banigan, MA Gelbart, Z Gitai, NS Wingreen, and AJ Liu (2011) Filament depolymerization can explain chromosome pulling during bacterial mitosisPLoS Comput. Biol. 7: e1002145.

[1]  R Caracas and EJ Banigan (2009) Elasticity and Raman and infrared spectra of MgAl2O4 spinel from density functional perturbation theoryPhys. Earth Planet. Int. 174: 113-121.