Elting Lab

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

Mechanical Coupling With the Nuclear Envelope Shapes the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mitotic Spindle. Begley, Mahoney, Medina, Zareiesfandabadi, Rapp, Tirfe, LeBlanc, Betterton, and Elting, Cytoskeleton 2025.

Posted 10 May 2025

Three-dimensional cellularization in chytrid fungi uses distinct mechanisms from those driving one- and two-dimensional cytokinesis in animals and yeast. Medina, Elting, and Fritz-Laylin, biorXiv 2025.

Posted 29 Mar 2025

Fishnet mesh of centrin-Sfi1 drives ultrafast calcium-activated contraction of the giant cell Spirostomum ambiguum. Lannan, Floyd, Xu, Yan, Marshall, Vaikuntanathan, Dinner, Honts, Bhamla, and Elting, bioRxiv 2024.

Posted 7 Nov 2024

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

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