Matching material and cellular timescales maximizes cell spreading on viscoelastic substrates

Ze Gong, Spencer E. Szczesny, Steven R. Caliari, +8

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Dynamic fibroblast contractions attract remote macrophages in fibrillar collagen matrix

Pardis Pakshir, Moien Alizadehgiashi, Boaz Wong, +6

Nature Communications

Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration

Kolade Adebowale, Ze Gong, Jay Hou, +8

Nature Materials

Filopodia-mediated Cell MigrationCell MigrationCell MotilityCell BiomechanicsCytoskeleton +4

Gigahertz topological valley Hall effect in nanoelectromechanical phononic crystals

Qicheng Zhang, Daehun Lee, Lu Zheng, +8

Nature Electronics

Nanoelectromechanical Phononic CrystalsEngineeringPhysicsNanoelectronicsApplied Physics +4

Opposite responses of normal hepatocytes and hepatocellular carcinoma cells to substrate viscoelasticity

Kalpana Mandal, Ze Gong, Alexis Rylander, +2

Biomaterials Science

Translating Natural Language to Planning Goals with Large-Language Models

Yaqi Xie, Yu Chen, Tongyao Zhu, +3

arXiv (Cornell University)

Artificial IntelligenceEngineeringTask PlanningPlanning GoalsLanguage Processing +16

Stimulation of tubulin gene transcription by deciliation of sea urchin embryos.

Ze Gong, Bruce P. Brandhorst

Molecular and Cellular Biology

GeneticsCell CultureCytoskeletonTubulin RnaReproductive Biology +16

Recursive feedback between matrix dissipation and chemo-mechanical signaling drives oscillatory growth of cancer cell invadopodia

Ze Gong, Katrina M. Wisdom, Eóin McEvoy, +5

Cell Reports

Mechanisms of Local Stress Amplification in Axons near the Gray-White Matter Interface

Farid Alisafaei, Ze Gong, Victoria E. Johnson, +3

Biophysical Journal

Neural ScienceLocal Stress AmplificationNeurophysiologyCellular NeuroscienceNeuroanatomy +9

Disordered Topography Mediates Filopodial Extension and Morphology of Cells on Stiff Materials

Lei Yang, Ze Gong, Yuan Lin, +4

Advanced Functional Materials

EngineeringBiomimetic MaterialsStiff MaterialsLarge Diamond GrainsCell Biophysics +22