Publications

Niv Ierushalmi, Maya Malik-Garbi, Angelika Manhart, Enas Abu-Shah, Bruce L. Goode, Alex Mogilner and Kinneret Keren, Centering and symmetry breaking in confined contracting actomyosin networks, eLife 9:e55368 (2020).

Maya Malik-Garbi, Niv Ierushalmi, Silvia Jansen, Enas Abu-Shah, Bruce L. Goode, Alex Mogilner and Kinneret Keren, Scaling behavior in steady-state contracting actomyosin network flow, Nature Physics 15, 509–516 (2019).

Tzer Han Tan*, Maya Malik-Garbi*, Enas Abu-Shah*, Junang Li, Abhinav Sharma, Fred C. MacKintosh, Kinneret Keren, Christoph F. Schmidt, Nikta Fakhri, Self-organization of stress patterns drives dynamic phase transitions in actin cortices, Science Advances (2018).

Enas Abu Shah, Maya Malik-Garbi and Kinneret Keren, Reconstitution of cortical actin networks within water-in-oil emulsions, an invited chapter in Methods in Cell Biology: Building a cell from its component parts. Editors: Jennifer Ross & Wallace Marshall, Elsevier (2015).

Enas Abu Shah and Kinneret Keren, Symmetry breaking in reconstituted actin cortices, eLife 3:e01433 (2014).

Alex Mogilner, Erin L. Barnhart, Kinneret Keren, Experiment, theory, and the keratocyte: an ode to a simple model for cell motility, Invited review in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 100, 143-151(2020).

Kinneret Keren, Tom Shemesh, Buckle up: Membrane tension drives lamellipodial network compression and adhesion deposition, Spotlight paper in Journal of Cell Biology, jcb.201706111; DOI: The Journal of Cell Biology, 216 (9) 2619-2621 (2017). DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201706111

Dikla Raz-Ben Aroush*, Noa Ofer*, Enas Abu-Shah, Jun Allard, Oleg Krichevsky, Alex Mogilner, Kinneret Keren, Actin turnover in lamellipodial fragments, Current Biology 27, 2963–2973 (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.066

Jan Mueller, Gregory Szep, Maria Nemethova, Ingrid de Vries, Arnon D. Lieber, Christoph Winkler, Karsten Kruse, J. Victor Small, Christian Schmeiser, Kinneret Keren, Robert Hauschild, and Michael Sixt, Load Adaptation of Lamellipodial Actin Networks, Cell171(1), 188-200.e16 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.051

Arnon D Lieber, Yonatan Schweitzer, Michael M Kozlovand Kinneret Keren, Front-to-rear membrane tension gradient in rapidly moving cells, Biophysical Journal108(7) 1599-603 (2015). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2015.02.007

Dikla Raz-Ben Aroush, Shlomit Yehudai-Resheff and Kinneret Keren, Electrofusion of giant unilamellar vesicles to cells, an invited chapter in Methods in Cell Biology: Biophysical Methods in Cell Biology. Editor: Ewa Paluch, Elsevier (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2014.11.005

Noa Ofer, Enas Abu Shah and Kinneret Keren, Differential mapping of the free barbed and pointed ends of actin filaments in cells, Cytoskeleton 71 (6), 341–350 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21176

Yonatan Schweitzer, Arnon D Lieber, Kinneret Keren, Michael M Kozlov, Theoretical analysis of membrane tension in moving cells, Biophysical Journal  106(1) 84-92 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.009

Arnon D. Lieber, Shlomit Yehudai-Resheff, Erin L. Barnhart, Julie A. Theriot and Kinneret Keren, Membrane tension in rapidly moving cells is determined by cytoskeletal forces, Current Biology 23(15) 1409-1417 (2013). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.063

Inbar Seroussi, Danny Veikherman, Noa Ofer, Shlomit Yehudai-Resheff and Kinneret Keren, Segmentation and tracking of live cells in phase-contrast images using directional gradient vector flow for snakes, Journal of Microscopy247 (2), 137-146 (2012). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.2012.03624.x

Erin L. Barnhart, Kun-Chun Lee, Kinneret Keren, Alex Mogilner, and Julie A. Theriot, An adhesion-dependent switch between mechanisms that determine motile cell shape, PLOS Biology 9(5), e1001059 (2011). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001059

Kinneret Keren, Cell motility: The integrating role of the plasma membrane. Invited review in European Biophysical Journal 40(9), 1013-1027 (2011). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-011-0741-0

Noa Ofer, Alex Mogilner and Kinneret Keren, Actin ‘disassembly clock’ determines shape and speed of lamellipodial fragments, PNAS 108 (51), 20394-99  (2011). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105333108

Cyrus A. Wilson, Mark A. Tsuchida, Greg M. Allen, Erin L. Barnhart, Kathryn T. Applegate, Patricia T. Yam, Lin Ji, Kinneret Keren, Gaudenz Danuser and Julie A. Theriot, Myosin II contributes to cell-scale actin network treadmilling via network disassembly, Nature 465 (7296):373-7 (2010). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08994

Alex Mogilner and Kinneret Keren, The shape of motile cells. Invited review in Current Biology 19, R762–R771(2009). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.053

Kinneret Keren, Patricia T. Yam, Anika Kinkahabwala, Alex Mogilner and Julie A. Theriot, Intracellular fluid flow in rapidly moving cells, Nature Cell Biology, 11, 1219-1224 (2009). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb1965

Kinneret Keren*, Zach Pincus*, Greg M. Allen, Erin L. Barnhart, Gerard Marriott, Alex Mogilner and Julie A. Theriot, Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells, Nature 453 (7194):475-80 (2008). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06952

Yonit Maroudas-Sacks and Kinneret Keren, Section in Roadmap for the Multiscale Coupling of Biochemical and Mechanical Signals During Development, Physical biology (2021).

Yonit Maroudas-Sacks and Kinneret Keren, Mechanical Patterning in Animal Morphogenesis, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 37 (2021).

Niv Ierushalmi and Kinneret Keren, Cytoskeletal symmetry breaking in animal cells, Current Opinion in Cell Biology 72, 91-99 (2021).

Niv Ierushalmi and Kinneret Keren, Cellular Organization: Bulk Actin Network Flows Drive Ooplasm Segregation, Current Biology (2019).