Benjamin Geiger

Research interests

Publications

• Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection

  Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar3318

• A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Activity and Selectivity Profile of Ligands for RGD-binding Integrins

  Scientific Reports · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39805

• The integrin adhesome: from genes and proteins to human disease

  Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm3769

• Environmental sensing through focal adhesions

  Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm2593

• Functional atlas of the integrin adhesome

  Nature Cell Biology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0807-858

• Cell Spreading and Focal Adhesion Dynamics Are Regulated by Spacing of Integrin Ligands

  Biophysical Journal · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.106.089730

• Cell mechanosensitivity controls the anisotropy of focal adhesions

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403539101

• Hierarchical assembly of cell–matrix adhesion complexes

  Biochemical Society Transactions · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1042/bst0320416

• Early molecular events in the assembly of matrix adhesions at the leading edge of migrating cells

  Journal of Cell Science · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.00792

• Adhesion-Dependent Cell Mechanosensitivity

  Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.cellbio.19.111301.153011

• Initial Stages of Cell-Matrix Adhesion Can Be Mediated and Modulated by Cell-Surface Hyaluronan

  Biophysical Journal · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75535-5

• Calculation of Forces at Focal Adhesions from Elastic Substrate Data: The Effect of Localized Force and the Need for Regularization

  Biophysical Journal · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3495(02)73909-x

• Transmembrane crosstalk between the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton

  Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35099066

• Focal Contacts as Mechanosensors

  The Journal of Cell Biology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.153.6.1175

• Force and focal adhesion assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micropatterned substrates

  Nature Cell Biology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35074532

• Molecular complexity and dynamics of cell-matrix adhesions

  Journal of Cell Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.114.20.3583

• c-Cbl/Sli-1 regulates endocytic sorting and ubiquitination of the epidermal growth factor receptor

  Genes & Development · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.12.23.3663

• The molecular organization of endothelial cell to cell junctions: differential association of plakoglobin, beta-catenin, and alpha-catenin with vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherin).

  The Journal of Cell Biology · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.129.1.203

• The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells

  Cell · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(82)90400-7

• A 130K protein from chicken gizzard: Its localization at the termini of microfilament bundles in cultured chicken cells

  Cell · 1979 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(79)90368-4

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