Protecting centrosomes from fracturing enables efficient cell navigation
M.T. Schmitt, J. Kroll, M.J.A. Ruiz-Fernandez, R. Hauschild, S. Ghosh, P. Kameritsch, J. Merrin, J. Schmid, K. Stefanowski, A.W. Thomae, J. Cheng, G.N. Öztan, P. Konopka, G.C. Ortega, T. Penz, L. Bach, D. Baumjohann, C. Bock, T. Straub, F. Meissner, E. Kiermaier, J. Renkawitz, Science Advances 11 (2025).

Adaptive pathfinding by nucleokinesis during amoeboid migration
J. Kroll, R. Hauschild, A. Kuznetcov, K. Stefanowski, M.D. Hermann, J. Merrin, L.B. Shafeek, A. Müller-Taubenberger, J. Renkawitz, EMBO Journal (2023).

Quantifying the probing and selection of microenvironmental pores by motile immune cells
J. Kroll, M.J.A. Ruiz-Fernandez, M.B. Braun, J. Merrin, J. Renkawitz, Current Protocols 2 (2022).

Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells
A. Kopf, J. Renkawitz, R. Hauschild, I. Girkontaite, K. Tedford, J. Merrin, O. Thorn-Seshold, D. Trauner, H. Häcker, K.D. Fischer, E. Kiermaier, M.K. Sixt, The Journal of Cell Biology 219 (2020).

Nuclear positioning facilitates amoeboid migration along the path of least resistance
J. Renkawitz, A. Kopf, J.A. Stopp, I. de Vries, M.K. Driscoll, J. Merrin, R. Hauschild, E.S. Welf, G. Danuser, R. Fiolka, M.K. Sixt, Nature 568 (2019) 546–550.

Nano-scale microfluidics to study 3D chemotaxis at the single cell level
C. Frick, P. Dettinger, J. Renkawitz, A. Jauch, C. Berger, M. Recher, T. Schroeder, M. Mehling, PLoS One 13 (2018).

Fast and efficient genetic engineering of hematopoietic precursor cells for the study of dendritic cell migration
A.F. Leithner, J. Renkawitz, I. de Vries, R. Hauschild, H. Haecker, M.K. Sixt, European Journal of Immunology 48 (2018) 1074–1077.

Micro-engineered cpillar forestsd to study cell migration in complex but controlled 3D environments
J. Renkawitz, A. Reversat, A.F. Leithner, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, in:, Methods in Cell Biology, Academic Press, 2018, pp. 79–91.

Chemokines and integrins independently tune actin flow and substrate friction during intranodal migration of T cells
M. Hons, A. Kopf, R. Hauschild, A.F. Leithner, F.R. Gärtner, J. Abe, J. Renkawitz, J. Stein, M.K. Sixt, Nature Immunology 19 (2018) 606–616.

The INO80 complex removes A.Z to promote presynaptic filament formation during homologous recombination
C. Lademann, J. Renkawitz, B. Pfander, S. Jentsch, Cell Reports 19 (2017) 1294–1303.

Formin’ a nuclear protection
J. Renkawitz, M.K. Sixt, Cell 167 (2016) 1448–1449.

A Radical Break Restraining Neutrophil Migration
J. Renkawitz, M.K. Sixt, Developmental Cell 38 (2016) 448–450.

Mechanisms and principles of homology search during recombination
J. Renkawitz, C. Lademann, S. Jentsch, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 15 (2014) 369–383.

Mechanisms of force generation and force transmission during interstitial leukocyte migration
J. Renkawitz, M.K. Sixt, EMBO Reports 11 (2010) 744–750.

Cd-dependent leading edge coordination is essential for interstitial dendritic cell migration (Plenary Paper)
T. Lämmermann, J. Renkawitz, X. Wu, K. Hirsch, C. Brakebusch, M.K. Sixt, Blood 113 (2009) 5703–5710.

Adaptive force transmission in amoeboid cell migration
J. Renkawitz, K. Schumann, M. Weber, T. Lämmermann, H. Pflicke, M. Piel, J. Polleux, J. Spatz, M.K. Sixt, Nature Cell Biology 11 (2009) 1438–1443.