S. A. Safran

Research interests

Publications

• Long-range self-organization of cytoskeletal myosin II filament stacks

  Nature Cell Biology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3466

• Physics of adherent cells

  Reviews of Modern Physics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.85.1327

• Optimal matrix rigidity for stress-fibre polarization in stem cells

  Nature Physics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1613

• Metabolic remodeling of the human red blood cell membrane

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910785107

• Dynamics of cell orientation

  Nature Physics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys680

• Red Blood Cell Membrane Fluctuations and Shape Controlled by ATP-Induced Cytoskeletal Defects

  Biophysical Journal · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.104.045328

• Cell mechanosensitivity controls the anisotropy of focal adhesions

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

• 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

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

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

• Defect-Induced Phase Separation in Dipolar Fluids

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.290.5495.1328

• Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Membranes

  Physics Today · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2807622

• Membrane-induced interactions between inclusions

  Langmuir · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1021/la00035a005

• Theory of Spontaneous Vesicle Formation in Surfactant Mixtures

  Science · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.248.4953.354

• Molecular theory of curvature elasticity in surfactant films

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.458267

• Fingering Instabilities of Driven Spreading Films

  Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/10/1/005

• Physics of complex and supermolecular fluids

  John Wiley and Sons Inc.,New York, NY eBooks · 1987

• Dynamical fluctuations of droplet microemulsions and vesicles

  Physical Review A · 1987 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.36.4371

• Capillary instabilities in thin films. I. Energetics

  Journal of Applied Physics · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.337689

• Capillary instabilities in thin films. II. Kinetics

  Journal of Applied Physics · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.337691

• Do Interactions Raise or Lower a Percolation Threshold?

  Physical Review Letters · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.1896

• Percolation in interacting colloids

  Physical Review A · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.32.506

• Kinetics of ordering in two dimensions. II. Quenched systems

  Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1983 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.28.2705

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