Interference Length reveals regularity of crossover placement across species
M. Ernst, R. Mercier, and D. Zwicker
Preprint at bioRxiv

Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Sessile Chemically Active Droplets
N. Ziethen and D. Zwicker
Preprint at arXiv/2403.08555

Beyond Pairwise: Higher-order physical interactions affect phase separation in multi-component liquids
C. Luo, Y. Qiang, and D. Zwicker
Preprint at arXiv/2403.06666

Power-law growth models explain incidences and sizes of pancreatic cancer precursor lesions and confirm spatial genomic findings
A. L. Kiemen, P. Wu, A. M. Braxton, T. C. Cornish, R. H. Hruban, L. D. Wood, D. Wirtz, and D. Zwicker
Preprint at bioRxiv

Optimized dimerization of the PAR-2 RING domain drives cooperative and selective membrane recruitment for robust feedback-driven cell polarization
T. Bland, N. Hirani, D. Briggs, R. Rossetto, K. Ng, N. Q. McDonald, D. Zwicker, and N. W. Goehring
Preprint at bioRxiv

Zonal receptor distributions maximize olfactory information
S. Sen and D. Zwicker
Preprint at arXiv/2301.09852

Crossover patterning through kinase-regulated condensation and coarsening of recombination nodules
L. Zhang, W. Stauffer, D. Zwicker, and A. F. Dernburg
Preprint at bioRxiv

2024

Nonlocal elasticity yields equilibrium patterns in phase separating systems
Y. Qiang, C. Luo, and D. Zwicker
Phys. Rev. X 14, 2 [arXiv/2307.06136]

Vesicle condensation induced by synapsin: condensate size, geometry, and vesicle shape deformations
J. Alfken, C. Neuhaus, A. Taskina, A. Major, C. Hoffmann, M. Ganzella, A. Petrovic, D. Zwicker, R. Fernández-Busnadiego, R. Jahn, D. Milovanovic, and T. Salditt
Eur. Phys. J. E 47

2023

Influence of physical interactions on spatiotemporal patterns
C. Luo and D. Zwicker
Phys. Rev. E 108, 034206 [arXiv/2306.04882]

Physical interactions promote Turing patterns
L. Menou*, C. Luo*, and D. Zwicker
J. R. Soc. Interface 20, 20230244 [arXiv/2302.12521]

Nucleation of chemically active droplets
N. Ziethen, J. Kirschbaum, and D. Zwicker
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 248201 [arXiv/2212.12224]

The regulation of meiotic crossover distribution: a coarse solution to a century-old mystery?
C. Girard, D. Zwicker, and R. Mercier
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 51, 3

Droplets Come to Life
D. Zwicker
Physics 16, 45 [Viewpoint on PRL article]

Memory capacity of adaptive flow networks
K. Bhattacharyya, D. Zwicker, and K. Alim
Phys. Rev. E 107, 034407 [arXiv/2208.11192]

Thermodynamically Consistent Phase-Field Theory Including Nearest-Neighbor Pair Correlations Explains Failure of Mean-Field Reasoning
K. Blom, N. Ziethen, D. Zwicker, and A. Godec
Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 013135 [arXiv/2204.02962]

Effective simulations of interacting active droplets
A. Kulkarni, E. Vidal-Henriquez, and D. Zwicker
Sci. Rep. 13, 733, [arXiv/2206.10925]

2022

Joint control of meiotic crossover patterning by the synaptonemal complex and HEI10 dosage
S. Durand, Q. Lian, J. Jing, M. Ernst, M. Grelon, D. Zwicker, and R. Mercier
Nat. Commun. 13, 5999, [preprint at bioRxiv]

The intertwined physics of active chemical reactions and phase separation
D. Zwicker
Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 61, 101606, [arXiv/2202.13646]

Evolved interactions stabilize many coexisting phases in multicomponent liquids
D. Zwicker and L. Laan
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119, 28, [arXiv/2201.10898]

Memory Formation in Adaptive Networks
K. Bhattacharyya, D. Zwicker, and K. Alim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 028101

2021

Self-generated oxygen gradients control collective aggregation of photosynthetic microbes
A. Fragkopoulos, J. Vachier, J. Frey , F. Le Menn, M. Mazza, M. Wilczek, D. Zwicker, and O. Bäumchen
J. R. Soc. Interface 18 [Preprint at researchsquare]

Cavitation controls droplet sizes in elastic media
E. Vidal-Henriquez and D. Zwicker
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118, 40 [arXiv/2102.02506]

Controlling biomolecular condensates via chemical reactions
J. Kirschbaum and D. Zwicker
J. R. Soc. Interface 18, 179 [arXiv/2103.02921]

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Nasal Obstruction and Associations with Patient-Reported Outcomes
E. Barbarite, S. K. Gadkaree, S. Melchionna, D. Zwicker, and R. W. Lindsay
Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 148, 4

2020

Elastic stresses reverse Ostwald ripening
K. A. Rosowski, E. Vidal-Henriquez, D. Zwicker, R. W. Style, and E. R. Dufresne
Soft Matter 16, 5892 [arXiv:2004.05070]

Theory of droplet ripening in stiffness gradients
E. Vidal-Henriquez and D. Zwicker
Soft Matter 16, 5898 [arXiv:2001.11752]

py-pde: A Python package for solving partial differential equations
D. Zwicker
J. Open Source Softw. 5, 2158

Elastic ripening and inhibition of liquid-liquid phase separation
K. A. Rosowski, T. Sai, E. Vidal-Henriquez, D. Zwicker, R. W. Style, and E. R. Dufresne
Nature Physics 16, 422–425, [arXiv:1907.08465]

2019

Mechanisms of active regulation of biomolecular condensates
J. Söding, D. Zwicker, S. Sohrabi-Jahromi, M. Boehning, and J. Kirschbaum
Trends Cell Biol. 30, 4–14, [bioRxiv:694406]

Primacy coding facilitates effective odor discrimination when receptor sensitivities are tuned
D. Zwicker
PLOS Comp. Biol. 15, e1007188, [bioRxiv:370916]

Physics of Active Emulsions
C. A. Weber*, D. Zwicker*, F. Jülicher, and C. F. Lee
Rep. Prog. Phys. 82, 064601, [arXiv:1806.09552]

2018

Positioning of particles in active droplets
D. Zwicker, J. Baumgart, S. Redemann, T. Müller-Reichert, A. A. Hyman, and F. Jülicher
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 158102

Validated reconstructions of geometries of nasal cavities from CT scans
D. Zwicker, K. Yang, S. Melchionna, M. P. Brenner, B. Liu, and R. W. Lindsay
Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 4, 045022

Physical and geometric constraints shape the labyrinth-like nasal cavity
D. Zwicker, R. Ostilla-Mónico, D. E. Lieberman, and M. P. Brenner
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115, 2936

2014

Centrosomes are autocatalytic droplets of pericentriolar material organized by centrioles
D. Zwicker, M. Decker, S. Jaensch, A. A. Hyman, and F. Jülicher
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, E2636–45

2011

Tracking single particles and elongated filaments with nanometer precision
F. Ruhnow, D. Zwicker, and S. Diez
Biophy. J. 100, 2820–28

2010

Robust circadian clocks from coupled protein-modification and transcription-translation cycles
D. Zwicker, D. K. Lubensky, and P. R. ten Wolde
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 22540–45

The Hubbard model extended by nearest-neighbor Coulomb and exchange interaction on a cubic cluster - rigorous and exact results
R. Schumann and D. Zwicker
Ann. Phys. 522, 419–39