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).

Self-organized pattern formation in the developing mouse neural tube by a temporal relay of BMP signaling
S. Rus, D. Brückner, T. Minchington, M. Greunz, J. Merrin, E.B. Hannezo, A. Kicheva, Developmental Cell 60 (2025) 567–580.

Migrating immune cells globally coordinate protrusive forces
P. Dos Reis Rodrigues, M. Avellaneda Sarrió, N. Canigova, F.R. Gärtner, K. Vaahtomeri, M. Riedl, I. de Vries, J. Merrin, R. Hauschild, Y. Fukui, A. Juanes Garcia, M.K. Sixt, Nature Immunology 26 (2025) 1258–1266.

Friction forces determine cytoplasmic reorganization and shape changes of ascidian oocytes upon fertilization
S. Caballero Mancebo, R. Shinde, M. Bolger-Munro, M. Peruzzo, G. Szep, I. Steccari, D. Labrousse Arias, V. Zheden, J. Merrin, A. Callan-Jones, R. Voituriez, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, Nature Physics 20 (2024) 310–321.

Compressively strained epitaxial Ge layers for quantum computing applications
Y. Shimura, C. Godfrin, A. Hikavyy, R. Li, J.L. Aguilera Servin, G. Katsaros, P. Favia, H. Han, D. Wan, K. de Greve, R. Loo, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 174 (2024).

Beyond the blur: Using experimentally determined point spread functions to improve scanning Kelvin probe imaging
I.C. Lenton, F. Pertl, L.B. Shafeek, S.R. Waitukaitis, Journal of Applied Physics 136 (2024).

Adhesion-induced cortical flows pattern E-cadherin-mediated cell contacts
F.N. Arslan, E.B. Hannezo, J. Merrin, M. Loose, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, Current Biology 34 (2024) 171–182.e8.

Unveiling the mechanism of phonon-polariton damping in ;1MoO3
J. Taboada-Gutiérrez, Y. Zhou, A.I.F. Tresguerres-Mata, C. Lanza, A. Martínez-Suárez, G. Álvarez-Pérez, J. Duan, J.I. Martín, M. Vélez, I. Prieto Gonzalez, A. Bercher, J. Teyssier, I. Errea, A.Y. Nikitin, J. Martín-Sánchez, A.B. Kuzmenko, P. Alonso-González, ACS Photonics 11 (2024) 3570–3577.

Protocol for fabricating elastomeric stencils for patterned stem cell differentiation
S. Rus, J. Merrin, M.A. Kulig, T. Minchington, A. Kicheva, STAR Protocols 5 (2024).

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).

En-Face Imaging of T Cell-Dendritic Cell Immunological Synapses
A.F. Leithner, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, in:, C. Baldari, M. Dustin (Eds.), The Immune Synapse, Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 137–147.

Synchronization in collectively moving inanimate and living active matter
M. Riedl, I.D. Mayer, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, B. Hof, Nature Communications 14 (2023).

CC acts as both a sensor and a sink for CCL19 to coordinate collective leukocyte migration
J.H. Alanko, M.C. Ucar, N. Canigova, J.A. Stopp, J. Schwarz, J. Merrin, E.B. Hannezo, M.K. Sixt, Science Immunology 8 (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).

Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach
F. Pertl, J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, L.B. Shafeek, T. Cramer, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Materials 6 (2022).

Crises and chaotic scattering in hydrodynamic pilot-wave experiments
G.H. Choueiri, B. Suri, J. Merrin, M. Serbyn, B. Hof, N.B. Budanur, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 32 (2022).

WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues
F. Gaertner, P. Reis-Rodrigues, I. de Vries, M. Hons, J. Aguilera, M. Riedl, A.F. Leithner, S. Tasciyan, A. Kopf, J. Merrin, V. Zheden, W. Kaufmann, R. Hauschild, M.K. Sixt, Developmental Cell 57 (2022) 47–62.e9.

Focusing of in-plane hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals with tailored infrared nanoantennas
J. Martín-Sánchez, J. Duan, J. Taboada-Gutiérrez, G. Álvarez-Pérez, K.V. Voronin, I. Prieto Gonzalez, W. Ma, Q. Bao, V.S. Volkov, R. Hillenbrand, A.Y. Nikitin, P. Alonso-González, Science Advances 7 (2021).

Extracting the infrared permittivity of SiO2 substrates locally by near-field imaging of phonon polaritons in a van der Waals crystal
P. Aguilar-Merino, G. Álvarez-Pérez, J. Taboada-Gutiérrez, J. Duan, I. Prieto Gonzalez, L.M. Álvarez-Prado, A.Y. Nikitin, J. Martín-Sánchez, P. Alonso-González, Nanomaterials 11 (2021).

Enabling propagation of anisotropic polaritons along forbidden directions via a topological transition
J. Duan, G. Álvarez-Pérez, K.V. Voronin, I. Prieto Gonzalez, J. Taboada-Gutiérrez, V.S. Volkov, J. Martín-Sánchez, A.Y. Nikitin, P. Alonso-González, Science Advances 7 (2021).