Elting Lab
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The Elting Lab combines approaches from physics, biology, and engineering to ask how biological molecules self-assemble into cellular-scale machinery that transduces force and performs mechanical functions.
Publications
A unified model for the dynamics of ATP-independent ultrafast contraction. Floyd, Molines, Lei, Honts, Chang, Elting†, Vaikuntanathan†, Dinner†, and Bhamla†, PNAS 2023.
Posted 12 Jun 2023
Mitotic spindle: augmin-based bridges keep kinetochores in line. Begley and Elting, Current Biology 2023.
Posted 6 Feb 2023
Pushing the envelope: force balance in fission yeast closed mitosis. Begley, Medina, Zareiesfandabadi, Rapp, and Elting, BioRxiv 2022.
Posted 28 Dec 2022
A unified model for the dynamics of ATP-independent ultrafast contraction. Floyd, Molines, Lei, Honts, Chang, Elting, Vaikuntanathan, Dinner, and Bhamla, BioRxiv 2022.
Posted 14 Oct 2022
Laser ablation reveals the impact of Cdc15p on the stiffness of the contractile ring. Moshtohry *, Bellingham-Johnstun *, Elting †, and Laplante †, MBoC 2022.
Posted 11 Mar 2022
Force by minus-end motors Dhc1 and Klp2 collapses the S. pombe spindle after laser ablation. Zareiesfandabadi and Elting, Biophys J 2022.
Posted 21 Dec 2021
News
Spiro team paper published on the cover of PNAS
Posted 12 Jun 2023
New NSF grant to study Spirostomum contraction
Posted 18 May 2023
Mary was promoted with tenure!
Posted 21 Apr 2023
Marc graduated!
Posted 17 Dec 2022
Open positions!
Posted 6 Apr 2022
Mohamed and Kim's paper is published!
Posted 5 Apr 2022
Marc, Parsa, and Ana Sofia's papers are published!
Posted 6 Jan 2022
Parsa's S. pombe spindle ablation preprint selected for a preLight
Posted 30 Jun 2021