Zachary Gao Sun

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1. Zachary Gao Sun, Beatrice Nettuno, Davide Toffenetti, Priyanka Dutta, Bruce Goode, Erwin Frey, and Michael Murrell†. (2026). Synergistic feedback and regulation by cofilin-srv2/cap-profilin cycle creates in vitro actin waves and active nematic solid. In Preparation.

2. Zachary Gao Sun, Juanjuan Zheng, A. Pasha Tabatabai, Joost J. Vlassak, and Michael Murrell†. (2026). Mechanical organization yields degenerate dissipation beyond linear response. In Review at Nature Communications.

3. Zachary Gao Sun, Mehrzad Sasanpour, Megan T. Valentine, Jennifer L. Ross, Michael Murrell, Ryan McGorty, and Rae M. Robertson-Anderson†. (2026). active motion of microtubules in interpenetrating cytoskeleton composites is driven by extensile shearing and suppressed by contractile dynamics. In Preparation.

4. Sheng Chen†, Matthew Ricci, A. Pasha Tabatabai, Zachary Gao Sun, Suraj Shankar, Mor Nitzan, and Michael P Murrell†. (2026). Topological control of spontaneous failure in active nematic solids. Nature Materials.

5. Zachary Gao Sun, Nathan Zimmerberg, Patrick Kelly, Carlos Floyd, Garegin Papoian, and Michael Murrell†. (2025). Feedback between F-actin organization and active stress govern criticality and energy localization in the cell cytoskeleton. Nature Physics, 21, 1290–1302.

6. Zachary Gao Sun and Michael Murrell†. (2024). Cofilin-mediated filament softening and crosslinking counterbalance to enhance actin network flexibility. Physical Review Letters, 133, 218402.

7. Srishti Dar, Rubén Tesoro Moreno, Ivan Palaia, Anusha B. Gopalan, Zachary Gao Sun, Léanne Strauss, Richard R. Sprenger, Julio M. Belmonte, Sarah K. Foster, Michael Murrell, Christer S. Ejsing, Anđela Šarić, Maria Leptin, and Alba Diz-Muñoz†. (2024). Caging of membrane-to-cortex attachment proteins can trigger cellular symmetry breaking. In Review at Cell. BioArxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.14.618153.

8. MS Yousafzai, S Amiri, Zachary Gao Sun, AA Pahlavan†, and M Murrell†. (2024). Confinement induces internal flows in adherent cell aggregates. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21, 20240105.

9. Zachary Gao Sun, Vikrant Yadav, Sorosh Amiri, Wenxiang Cao, Enrique M. De La Cruz, and Michael Murrell†. (2024). Cofilin-mediated actin filament network flexibility facilitates 2D to 3D actomyosin shape change. European Journal of Cell Biology, 103, 151379.

10. Camelia G. Muresan∗, Zachary Gao Sun∗, Vikrant Yadav, A. Pasha Tabatabai, Laura Lanier, June Hyung Kim, Taeyoon Kim, and Michael P. Murrell†. (2022). F-actin architecture determines constraints on myosin thick filament motion. Nature Communications, 13, 7008.

11. Sheng Chen, Zachary Gao Sun, and Michael P Murrell. (2022). In vitro reconstitution of the actin cytoskeleton inside giant unilamellar vesicles. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), 186, e64026.

∗: Equal contribution
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