--- _id: '14774' abstract: - lang: eng text: Morphogen gradients impart positional information to cells in a homogenous tissue field. Fgf8a, a highly conserved growth factor, has been proposed to act as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation. However, technical limitations have so far prevented direct visualization of the endogenous Fgf8a gradient and confirmation of its morphogenic activity. Here, we monitor Fgf8a propagation in the developing neural plate using a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated EGFP knock-in at the endogenous fgf8a locus. By combining sensitive imaging with single-molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, we demonstrate that Fgf8a, which is produced at the embryonic margin, propagates by diffusion through the extracellular space and forms a graded distribution towards the animal pole. Overlaying the Fgf8a gradient curve with expression profiles of its downstream targets determines the precise input-output relationship of Fgf8a-mediated patterning. Manipulation of the extracellular Fgf8a levels alters the signaling outcome, thus establishing Fgf8a as a bona fide morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation. Furthermore, by hindering Fgf8a diffusion, we demonstrate that extracellular diffusion of the protein from the source is crucial for it to achieve its morphogenic potential. acknowledgement: "We thank members of the Brand lab, as well as Justina Stark (Ivo Sbalzarini group, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) for project-related discussions; Darren Gilmour (University of Zurich), Karuna Sampath (University of Warwick) and Gokul Kesavan (Vowels Lifesciences Private Limited, Bangalore) for comments on the manuscript; personnel of the CMCB technology platform, TU Dresden for imaging and image analysis-related support; and Maurizio Abbate (Technical support, Arivis) for help with image analysis. We are also grateful to Stapornwongkul and Briscoe for commenting on a preprint version of our work (Stapornwongkul and Briscoe, 2022).\r\nThis work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (BR 1746/6-2, BR 1746/11-1 and BR 1746/3 to M.B.), by a Cluster of Excellence ‘Physics of Life’ seed grant and by institutional funds from Technische Universitat Dresden (to M.B.). Open Access funding provided by Technische Universitat Dresden. Deposited in PMC for immediate release." article_number: dev201559 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Rohit K full_name: Harish, Rohit K id: 1bae78aa-ee0e-11ec-9b76-bc42990f409d last_name: Harish - first_name: Mansi full_name: Gupta, Mansi last_name: Gupta - first_name: Daniela full_name: Zöller, Daniela last_name: Zöller - first_name: Hella full_name: Hartmann, Hella last_name: Hartmann - first_name: Ali full_name: Gheisari, Ali last_name: Gheisari - first_name: Anja full_name: Machate, Anja last_name: Machate - first_name: Stefan full_name: Hans, Stefan last_name: Hans - first_name: Michael full_name: Brand, Michael last_name: Brand citation: ama: Harish RK, Gupta M, Zöller D, et al. Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation. Development. 2023;150(19). doi:10.1242/dev.201559 apa: Harish, R. K., Gupta, M., Zöller, D., Hartmann, H., Gheisari, A., Machate, A., … Brand, M. (2023). Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation. Development. Company of Biologists. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201559 chicago: Harish, Rohit K, Mansi Gupta, Daniela Zöller, Hella Hartmann, Ali Gheisari, Anja Machate, Stefan Hans, and Michael Brand. “Real-Time Monitoring of an Endogenous Fgf8a Gradient Attests to Its Role as a Morphogen during Zebrafish Gastrulation.” Development. Company of Biologists, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201559. ieee: R. K. Harish et al., “Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation,” Development, vol. 150, no. 19. Company of Biologists, 2023. ista: Harish RK, Gupta M, Zöller D, Hartmann H, Gheisari A, Machate A, Hans S, Brand M. 2023. Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation. Development. 150(19), dev201559. mla: Harish, Rohit K., et al. “Real-Time Monitoring of an Endogenous Fgf8a Gradient Attests to Its Role as a Morphogen during Zebrafish Gastrulation.” Development, vol. 150, no. 19, dev201559, Company of Biologists, 2023, doi:10.1242/dev.201559. short: R.K. Harish, M. Gupta, D. Zöller, H. Hartmann, A. Gheisari, A. Machate, S. Hans, M. Brand, Development 150 (2023). date_created: 2024-01-10T09:18:54Z date_published: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T09:59:59Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: AnKi doi: 10.1242/dev.201559 external_id: isi: - '001097449100002' pmid: - '37665167' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2d6f52dc33260a9b2352b8f28374ba5f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-01-10T12:41:13Z date_updated: 2024-01-10T12:41:13Z file_id: '14790' file_name: 2023_Development_Harish.pdf file_size: 12836306 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-01-10T12:41:13Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 150' isi: 1 issue: '19' keyword: - Developmental Biology - Molecular Biology language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Development publication_identifier: eissn: - 1477-9129 issn: - 0950-1991 publication_status: published publisher: Company of Biologists quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 150 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14657' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Natural selection is usually studied between mutants that differ in reproductive rate, but are subject to the same population structure. Here we explore how natural selection acts on mutants that have the same reproductive rate, but different population structures. In our framework, population structure is given by a graph that specifies where offspring can disperse. The invading mutant disperses offspring on a different graph than the resident wild-type. We find that more densely connected dispersal graphs tend to increase the invader’s fixation probability, but the exact relationship between structure and fixation probability is subtle. We present three main results. First, we prove that if both invader and resident are on complete dispersal graphs, then removing a single edge in the invader’s dispersal graph reduces its fixation probability. Second, we show that for certain island models higher invader’s connectivity increases its fixation probability, but the magnitude of the effect depends on the exact layout of the connections. Third, we show that for lattices the effect of different connectivity is comparable to that of different fitness: for large population size, the invader’s fixation probability is either constant or exponentially small, depending on whether it is more or less connected than the resident.' acknowledgement: K.C. acknowledges support from the ERC CoG 863818(ForM-SMArt). J.T. is supported by Center for Foundations ofModern Computer Science (Charles Univ. project UNCE/SCI/004). article_number: '20230355' article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Kamran full_name: Kaveh, Kamran last_name: Kaveh - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2023;20(208). doi:10.1098/rsif.2023.0355 apa: Tkadlec, J., Kaveh, K., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2023). Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355 chicago: Tkadlec, Josef, Kamran Kaveh, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Evolutionary Dynamics of Mutants That Modify Population Structure.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Royal Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355. ieee: J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure,” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 20, no. 208. Royal Society, 2023. ista: Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2023. Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 20(208), 20230355. mla: Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Evolutionary Dynamics of Mutants That Modify Population Structure.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 20, no. 208, 20230355, Royal Society, 2023, doi:10.1098/rsif.2023.0355. short: J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20 (2023). date_created: 2023-12-10T23:00:58Z date_published: 2023-11-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T14:05:25Z day: '29' ddc: - '000' - '570' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0355 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001124419300002' pmid: - '38016637' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2eefab13127c7786dbd33303c482a004 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-12-11T11:10:32Z date_updated: 2023-12-11T11:10:32Z file_id: '14673' file_name: 2023_RoyalInterface_Tkadlec.pdf file_size: 1720243 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-12-11T11:10:32Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 20' isi: 1 issue: '208' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: Journal of the Royal Society Interface publication_identifier: eissn: - 1742-5662 publication_status: published publisher: Royal Society quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 20 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '14953' abstract: - lang: eng text: "This paper provides statistical sample complexity bounds for score-matching and\r\nits applications in causal discovery. We demonstrate that accurate estimation of the\r\nscore function is achievable by training a standard deep ReLU neural network using\r\nstochastic gradient descent. We establish bounds on the error rate of recovering\r\ncausal relationships using the score-matching-based causal discovery method of\r\nRolland et al. [2022], assuming a sufficiently good estimation of the score function.\r\nFinally, we analyze the upper bound of score-matching estimation within the scorebased generative modeling, which has been applied for causal discovery but is also\r\nof independent interest within the domain of generative models.y" acknowledgement: "We are thankful to the reviewers for providing constructive feedback and Kun Zhang and Dominik\r\nJanzing for helpful discussion on the special case of deterministic children. This work was supported\r\nby Hasler Foundation Program: Hasler Responsible AI (project number 21043). This work was\r\nsupported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) under grant number 200021_205011.\r\nFrancesco Locatello did not contribute to this work at Amazon. " alternative_title: - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Zhenyu full_name: Zhu, Zhenyu last_name: Zhu - first_name: Francesco full_name: Locatello, Francesco id: 26cfd52f-2483-11ee-8040-88983bcc06d4 last_name: Locatello orcid: 0000-0002-4850-0683 - first_name: Volkan full_name: Cevher, Volkan last_name: Cevher citation: ama: 'Zhu Z, Locatello F, Cevher V. Sample complexity bounds for score-matching: Causal discovery and generative modeling. In: 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol 36. Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation; 2023:3325-3337. doi:10.52202/075280-0147' apa: 'Zhu, Z., Locatello, F., & Cevher, V. (2023). Sample complexity bounds for score-matching: Causal discovery and generative modeling. In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Vol. 36, pp. 3325–3337). New Orleans, LO, United States: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation. https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-0147' chicago: 'Zhu, Zhenyu, Francesco Locatello, and Volkan Cevher. “Sample Complexity Bounds for Score-Matching: Causal Discovery and Generative Modeling.” In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 36:3325–37. Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023. https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-0147.' ieee: 'Z. Zhu, F. Locatello, and V. Cevher, “Sample complexity bounds for score-matching: Causal discovery and generative modeling,” in 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, LO, United States, 2023, vol. 36, pp. 3325–3337.' ista: 'Zhu Z, Locatello F, Cevher V. 2023. Sample complexity bounds for score-matching: Causal discovery and generative modeling. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 36, 3325–3337.' mla: 'Zhu, Zhenyu, et al. “Sample Complexity Bounds for Score-Matching: Causal Discovery and Generative Modeling.” 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 36, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023, pp. 3325–37, doi:10.52202/075280-0147.' short: Z. Zhu, F. Locatello, V. Cevher, in:, 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023, pp. 3325–3337. conference: end_date: 2023-12-16 location: New Orleans, LO, United States name: 'NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems' start_date: 2023-12-12 corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2024-02-07T15:11:11Z date_published: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:09:06Z day: '27' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: FrLo doi: 10.52202/075280-0147 external_id: arxiv: - '2310.18123' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 6f10adadefceb3bb50ad0b2637493381 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-08-13T07:02:51Z date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:02:51Z file_id: '22700' file_name: 2023_Neurips_Zhu.pdf file_size: 305362 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:02:51Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 36' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 3325-3337 publication: 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems publication_identifier: eissn: - 1049-5258 isbn: - '9781713899921' publication_status: published publisher: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: 'Sample complexity bounds for score-matching: Causal discovery and generative modeling' type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 36 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '14954' abstract: - lang: eng text: "When domain knowledge is limited and experimentation is restricted by ethical,\r\nfinancial, or time constraints, practitioners turn to observational causal discovery\r\nmethods to recover the causal structure, exploiting the statistical properties of their\r\ndata. Because causal discovery without further assumptions is an ill-posed problem,\r\neach algorithm comes with its own set of usually untestable assumptions, some\r\nof which are hard to meet in real datasets. Motivated by these considerations, this\r\npaper extensively benchmarks the empirical performance of recent causal discovery\r\nmethods on observational iid data generated under different background conditions,\r\nallowing for violations of the critical assumptions required by each selected approach. Our experimental findings show that score matching-based methods demonstrate surprising performance in the false positive and false negative rate of the\r\ninferred graph in these challenging scenarios, and we provide theoretical insights\r\ninto their performance. This work is also the first effort to benchmark the stability of\r\ncausal discovery algorithms with respect to the values of their hyperparameters. Finally, we hope this paper will set a new standard for the evaluation of causal discovery methods and can serve as an accessible entry point for practitioners interested\r\nin the field, highlighting the empirical implications of different algorithm choices." acknowledgement: "We thank Kun Zhang and Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel for the insightful discussions. This work\r\nhas been supported by AFOSR, grant n. FA8655-20-1-7035. FM is supported by Programma\r\nOperativo Nazionale ricerca e innovazione 2014-2020. FM partially contributed to this work during an internship at Amazon Web Services with FL. FL partially contributed while at AWS." alternative_title: - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Francesco full_name: Montagna, Francesco last_name: Montagna - first_name: Atalanti A. full_name: Mastakouri, Atalanti A. last_name: Mastakouri - first_name: Elias full_name: Eulig, Elias last_name: Eulig - first_name: Nicoletta full_name: Noceti, Nicoletta last_name: Noceti - first_name: Lorenzo full_name: Rosasco, Lorenzo last_name: Rosasco - first_name: Dominik full_name: Janzing, Dominik last_name: Janzing - first_name: Bryon full_name: Aragam, Bryon last_name: Aragam - first_name: Francesco full_name: Locatello, Francesco id: 26cfd52f-2483-11ee-8040-88983bcc06d4 last_name: Locatello orcid: 0000-0002-4850-0683 citation: ama: 'Montagna F, Mastakouri AA, Eulig E, et al. Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching. In: 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol 36. Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation; 2023. doi:10.52202/075280-2050' apa: 'Montagna, F., Mastakouri, A. A., Eulig, E., Noceti, N., Rosasco, L., Janzing, D., … Locatello, F. (2023). Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching. In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Vol. 36). New Orleans, LO, United States: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation. https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-2050' chicago: Montagna, Francesco, Atalanti A. Mastakouri, Elias Eulig, Nicoletta Noceti, Lorenzo Rosasco, Dominik Janzing, Bryon Aragam, and Francesco Locatello. “Assumption Violations in Causal Discovery and the Robustness of Score Matching.” In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 36. Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023. https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-2050. ieee: F. Montagna et al., “Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching,” in 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, LO, United States, 2023, vol. 36. ista: 'Montagna F, Mastakouri AA, Eulig E, Noceti N, Rosasco L, Janzing D, Aragam B, Locatello F. 2023. Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 36.' mla: Montagna, Francesco, et al. “Assumption Violations in Causal Discovery and the Robustness of Score Matching.” 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 36, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023, doi:10.52202/075280-2050. short: F. Montagna, A.A. Mastakouri, E. Eulig, N. Noceti, L. Rosasco, D. Janzing, B. Aragam, F. Locatello, in:, 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2023. conference: end_date: 2023-12-16 location: New Orleans, LO, United States name: 'NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems' start_date: 2023-12-12 das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2024-02-07T15:11:56Z date_published: 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:51:13Z day: '20' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: FrLo doi: 10.52202/075280-2050 external_id: arxiv: - '2310.13387' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 71d38402b4edef4c084b39f3e2f04526 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-08-13T07:49:38Z date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:49:38Z file_id: '22701' file_name: 2023_Neurips_Montagna.pdf file_size: 7640984 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-08-13T07:49:38Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 36' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems publication_identifier: eissn: - 1049-5258 publication_status: published publisher: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 36 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14036' abstract: - lang: eng text: Magic-angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is establishing itself as a powerful method for the characterization of protein dynamics at the atomic scale. We discuss here how R1ρ MAS relaxation dispersion NMR can explore microsecond-to-millisecond motions. Progress in instrumentation, isotope labeling, and pulse sequence design has paved the way for quantitative analyses of even rare structural fluctuations. In addition to isotropic chemical-shift fluctuations exploited in solution-state NMR relaxation dispersion experiments, MAS NMR has a wider arsenal of observables, allowing to see motions even if the exchanging states do not differ in their chemical shifts. We demonstrate the potential of the technique for probing motions in challenging large enzymes, membrane proteins, and protein assemblies. acknowledgement: We thank Petra Rovó for critical reading of this manuscript. We acknowledge the Austrian Science Foundation FWF (project AlloSpace, number I5812–B) and funding by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. article_number: '102660' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Federico full_name: Napoli, Federico id: d42e08e7-f4fc-11eb-af0a-d71e26138f1b last_name: Napoli orcid: 0000-0002-9043-136X - first_name: Lea Marie full_name: Becker, Lea Marie id: 36336939-eb97-11eb-a6c2-c83f1214ca79 last_name: Becker orcid: 0000-0002-6401-5151 - first_name: Paul full_name: Schanda, Paul id: 7B541462-FAF6-11E9-A490-E8DFE5697425 last_name: Schanda orcid: 0000-0002-9350-7606 citation: ama: Napoli F, Becker LM, Schanda P. Protein dynamics detected by magic-angle spinning relaxation dispersion NMR. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 2023;82(10). doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102660 apa: Napoli, F., Becker, L. M., & Schanda, P. (2023). Protein dynamics detected by magic-angle spinning relaxation dispersion NMR. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102660 chicago: Napoli, Federico, Lea Marie Becker, and Paul Schanda. “Protein Dynamics Detected by Magic-Angle Spinning Relaxation Dispersion NMR.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology. Elsevier, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102660. ieee: F. Napoli, L. M. Becker, and P. Schanda, “Protein dynamics detected by magic-angle spinning relaxation dispersion NMR,” Current Opinion in Structural Biology, vol. 82, no. 10. Elsevier, 2023. ista: Napoli F, Becker LM, Schanda P. 2023. Protein dynamics detected by magic-angle spinning relaxation dispersion NMR. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 82(10), 102660. mla: Napoli, Federico, et al. “Protein Dynamics Detected by Magic-Angle Spinning Relaxation Dispersion NMR.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology, vol. 82, no. 10, 102660, Elsevier, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102660. short: F. Napoli, L.M. Becker, P. Schanda, Current Opinion in Structural Biology 82 (2023). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-08-13T22:01:11Z date_published: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-04-14T09:10:17Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: PaSc doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102660 external_id: isi: - '001053616200001' pmid: - '37536064' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c850f7ac8a4234319755b672c1df69ae content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-01-30T12:36:39Z date_updated: 2024-01-30T12:36:39Z file_id: '14907' file_name: 2023_CurrentOpinionStrucBio_Napoli.pdf file_size: 1231998 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-01-30T12:36:39Z intvolume: ' 82' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: eb9c82eb-77a9-11ec-83b8-aadd536561cf grant_number: I05812 name: AlloSpace. The emergence and mechanisms of allostery publication: Current Opinion in Structural Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - 1879-033X issn: - 0959-440X publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Protein dynamics detected by magic-angle spinning relaxation dispersion NMR tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 82 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14691' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Continuous Group-Key Agreement (CGKA) allows a group of users to maintain a shared key. It is the fundamental cryptographic primitive underlying group messaging schemes and related protocols, most notably TreeKEM, the underlying key agreement protocol of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a standard for group messaging by the IETF. CKGA works in an asynchronous setting where parties only occasionally must come online, and their messages are relayed by an untrusted server. The most expensive operation provided by CKGA is that which allows for a user to refresh their key material in order to achieve forward secrecy (old messages are secure when a user is compromised) and post-compromise security (users can heal from compromise). One caveat of early CGKA protocols is that these update operations had to be performed sequentially, with any user wanting to update their key material having had to receive and process all previous updates. Late versions of TreeKEM do allow for concurrent updates at the cost of a communication overhead per update message that is linear in the number of updating parties. This was shown to be indeed necessary when achieving PCS in just two rounds of communication by [Bienstock et al. TCC’20].\r\nThe recently proposed protocol CoCoA [Alwen et al. Eurocrypt’22], however, shows that this overhead can be reduced if PCS requirements are relaxed, and only a logarithmic number of rounds is required. The natural question, thus, is whether CoCoA is optimal in this setting.\r\nIn this work we answer this question, providing a lower bound on the cost (concretely, the amount of data to be uploaded to the server) for CGKA protocols that heal in an arbitrary k number of rounds, that shows that CoCoA is very close to optimal. Additionally, we extend CoCoA to heal in an arbitrary number of rounds, and propose a modification of it, with a reduced communication cost for certain k.\r\nWe prove our bound in a combinatorial setting where the state of the protocol progresses in rounds, and the state of the protocol in each round is captured by a set system, each set specifying a set of users who share a secret key. We show this combinatorial model is equivalent to a symbolic model capturing building blocks including PRFs and public-key encryption, related to the one used by Bienstock et al.\r\nOur lower bound is of order k•n1+1/(k-1)/log(k), where 2≤k≤log(n) is the number of updates per user the protocol requires to heal. This generalizes the n2 bound for k=2 from Bienstock et al.. This bound almost matches the k⋅n1+2/(k-1) or k2⋅n1+1/(k-1) efficiency we get for the variants of the CoCoA protocol also introduced in this paper." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Benedikt full_name: Auerbach, Benedikt id: D33D2B18-E445-11E9-ABB7-15F4E5697425 last_name: Auerbach orcid: 0000-0002-7553-6606 - first_name: Miguel full_name: Cueto Noval, Miguel id: ffc563a3-f6e0-11ea-865d-e3cce03d17cc last_name: Cueto Noval orcid: 0000-0002-2505-4246 - first_name: Guillermo full_name: Pascual Perez, Guillermo id: 2D7ABD02-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pascual Perez orcid: 0000-0001-8630-415X - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 citation: ama: 'Auerbach B, Cueto Noval M, Pascual Perez G, Pietrzak KZ. On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. In: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. Vol 14371. Springer Nature; 2023:271-300. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10' apa: 'Auerbach, B., Cueto Noval, M., Pascual Perez, G., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2023). On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography (Vol. 14371, pp. 271–300). Taipei, Taiwan: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10' chicago: Auerbach, Benedikt, Miguel Cueto Noval, Guillermo Pascual Perez, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “On the Cost of Post-Compromise Security in Concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement.” In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, 14371:271–300. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10. ieee: B. Auerbach, M. Cueto Noval, G. Pascual Perez, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement,” in 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, vol. 14371, pp. 271–300. ista: 'Auerbach B, Cueto Noval M, Pascual Perez G, Pietrzak KZ. 2023. On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. TCC: Theory of Cryptography, LNCS, vol. 14371, 271–300.' mla: Auerbach, Benedikt, et al. “On the Cost of Post-Compromise Security in Concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement.” 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, vol. 14371, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 271–300, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10. short: B. Auerbach, M. Cueto Noval, G. Pascual Perez, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 271–300. conference: end_date: 2023-12-02 location: Taipei, Taiwan name: 'TCC: Theory of Cryptography' start_date: 2023-11-29 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-17T23:00:53Z date_published: 2023-11-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T10:26:07Z day: '27' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10 external_id: isi: - '001160724400010' intvolume: ' 14371' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1123 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 271-300 publication: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031486203' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '22664' relation: dissertation_contains status: for_moderation scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14371 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12491' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a hydrated and complex three-dimensional network consisting of proteins, polysaccharides, and water. It provides structural scaffolding for the cells embedded within it and is essential in regulating numerous physiological processes, including cell migration and proliferation, wound healing, and stem cell fate. \r\nDespite extensive study, detailed structural knowledge of ECM components in physiologically relevant conditions is still rudimentary. This is due to methodological limitations in specimen preparation protocols which are incompatible with keeping large samples, such as the ECM, in their native state for subsequent imaging. Conventional electron microscopy (EM) techniques rely on fixation, dehydration, contrasting, and sectioning. This results in the alteration of a highly hydrated environment and the potential introduction of artifacts. Other structural biology techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, allow high-resolution analysis of protein structures but only work on homogenous and purified samples, hence lacking contextual information. Currently, no approach exists for the ultrastructural and structural study of extracellular components under native conditions in a physiological, 3D environment. \r\nIn this thesis, I have developed a workflow that allows for the ultrastructural analysis of the ECM in near-native conditions at molecular resolution. The developments I introduced include implementing a novel specimen preparation workflow for cell-derived matrices (CDMs) to render them compatible with ion-beam milling and subsequent high-resolution cryo-electron tomography (ET). \r\nTo this end, I have established protocols to generate CDMs grown over several weeks on EM grids that are compatible with downstream cryo-EM sample preparation and imaging techniques. Characterization of these ECMs confirmed that they contain essential ECM components such as collagen I, collagen VI, and fibronectin I in high abundance and hence represent a bona fide biologically-relevant sample. I successfully optimized vitrification of these specimens by testing various vitrification techniques and cryoprotectants. \r\nIn order to obtain high-resolution molecular insights into the ultrastructure and organization of CDMs, I established cryo-focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIBSEM) on these challenging and complex specimens. I explored different approaches for the creation of thin cryo-lamellae by FIB milling and succeeded in optimizing the cryo-lift-out technique, resulting in high-quality lamellae of approximately 200 nm thickness. \r\nHigh-resolution Cryo-ET of these lamellae revealed for the first time the architecture of native CDM in the context of matrix-secreting cells. This allowed for the in situ visualization of fibrillar matrix proteins such as collagen, laying the foundation for future structural and ultrastructural characterization of these proteins in their near-native environment. \r\nIn summary, in this thesis, I present a novel workflow that combines state-of-the-art cryo-EM specimen preparation and imaging technologies to permit characterization of the ECM, an important tissue component in higher organisms. This innovative and highly versatile workflow will enable addressing far-reaching questions on ECM architecture, composition, and reciprocal ECM-cell interactions." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac - _id: LifeSc - _id: Bio alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Bettina full_name: Zens, Bettina id: 45FD126C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zens orcid: 0000-0002-9561-1239 citation: ama: Zens B. Ultrastructural characterization of natively preserved extracellular matrix by cryo-electron tomography. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12491 apa: Zens, B. (2023). Ultrastructural characterization of natively preserved extracellular matrix by cryo-electron tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12491 chicago: Zens, Bettina. “Ultrastructural Characterization of Natively Preserved Extracellular Matrix by Cryo-Electron Tomography.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12491. ieee: B. Zens, “Ultrastructural characterization of natively preserved extracellular matrix by cryo-electron tomography,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Zens B. 2023. Ultrastructural characterization of natively preserved extracellular matrix by cryo-electron tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Zens, Bettina. Ultrastructural Characterization of Natively Preserved Extracellular Matrix by Cryo-Electron Tomography. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12491. short: B. Zens, Ultrastructural Characterization of Natively Preserved Extracellular Matrix by Cryo-Electron Tomography, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-02-02T14:50:20Z date_published: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:49:23Z day: '02' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: FlSc doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12491 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 069d87f025e0799bf9e3c375664264f2 content_type: application/pdf creator: bzens date_created: 2023-02-07T13:07:38Z date_updated: 2024-02-08T23:30:04Z embargo: 2024-02-07 file_id: '12527' file_name: PhDThesis_BettinaZens_2023_final.pdf file_size: 23082464 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 8c66ed203495d6e078ed1002a866520c content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: bzens date_created: 2023-02-07T13:09:05Z date_updated: 2024-02-08T23:30:04Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12528' file_name: PhDThesis_BettinaZens_2023_final.docx file_size: 106169509 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-02-08T23:30:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - cryo-EM - cryo-ET - FIB milling - method development - FIBSEM - extracellular matrix - ECM - cell-derived matrices - CDMs - cell culture - high pressure freezing - HPF - structural biology - tomography - collagen language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '187' project: - _id: eba3b5f6-77a9-11ec-83b8-cf0905748aa3 name: Integrated visual proteomics of reciprocal cell-extracellular matrix interactions - _id: 059B463C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E name: "NÃ\x96-Fonds Preis für die Jungforscherin des Jahres am IST Austria" publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-027-5 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '8586' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Florian KM full_name: Schur, Florian KM id: 48AD8942-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schur orcid: 0000-0003-4790-8078 title: Ultrastructural characterization of natively preserved extracellular matrix by cryo-electron tomography type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '13984' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Social insects fight disease using their individual immune systems and the cooperative\r\nsanitary behaviors of colony members. These social defenses are well explored against\r\nexternally-infecting pathogens, but little is known about defense strategies against\r\ninternally-infecting pathogens, such as viruses. Viruses are ubiquitous and in the last decades\r\nit has become evident that also many ant species harbor viruses. We present one of the first\r\nstudies addressing transmission dynamics and collective disease defenses against viruses in\r\nants on a mechanistic level. I successfully established an experimental ant host – viral\r\npathogen system as a model for the defense strategies used by social insects against internal\r\npathogen infections, as outlined in the third chapter. In particular, we studied how garden ants\r\n(Lasius neglectus) defend themselves and their colonies against the generalist insect virus\r\nCrPV (cricket paralysis virus). We chose microinjections of virus directly into the ants’\r\nhemolymph because it allowed us to use a defined exposure dose. Here we show that this is a\r\ngood model system, as the virus is replicating and thus infecting the host. The ants mount a\r\nclear individual immune response against the viral infection, which is characterized by a\r\nspecific siRNA pattern, namely siRNAs mapping against the viral genome with a peak of 21\r\nand 22 bp long fragments. The onset of this immune response is consistent with the timeline\r\nof viral replication that starts already within two days post injection. The disease manifests in\r\ndecreased survival over a course of two to three weeks.\r\nRegarding group living, we find that infected ants show a strong individual immune response,\r\nbut that their course of disease is little affected by nestmate presence, as described in chapter\r\nfour. Hence, we do not find social immunity in the context of viral infections in ants.\r\nNestmates, however, can contract the virus. Using Drosophila S2R+ cells in culture, we\r\nshowed that 94 % of the nestmates contract active virus within four days of social contact to\r\nan infected individual. Virus is transmitted in low doses, thus not causing disease\r\ntransmission within the colony. While virus can be transmitted during short direct contacts,\r\nwe also assume transmission from deceased ants and show that the nestmates’ immune\r\nsystem gets activated after contracting a low viral dose. We find considerable potential for\r\nindirect transmission via the nest space. Virus is shed to the nest, where it stays viable for one\r\nweek and is also picked up by other ants. Apart from that, we want to underline the potential\r\nof ant poison as antiviral agent. We determined that ant poison successfully inactivates CrPV\r\nin vitro. However, we found no evidence for effective poison use to sanitize the nest space.\r\nOn the other hand, local application of ant poison by oral poison uptake, which is part of the\r\nants prophylactic behavioral repertoire, probably contributes to keeping the gut of each\r\nindividual sanitized. We hypothesize that oral poison uptake might be the reason why we did\r\nnot find viable virus in the trophallactic fluid.\r\nThe fifth chapter encompasses preliminary data on potential social immunization. However,\r\nour experiments do not confirm an actual survival benefit for the nestmates upon pathogen\r\nchallenge under the given experimental settings. Nevertheless, we do not want to rule out the\r\npossibility for nestmate immunization, but rather emphasize that considering different\r\nexperimental timelines and viral doses would provide a multitude of options for follow-up\r\nexperiments.\r\nIn conclusion, we find that prophylactic individual behaviors, such as oral poison uptake,\r\nmight play a role in preventing viral disease transmission. Compared to colony defense\r\nagainst external pathogens, internal pathogen infections require a stronger component of\r\nindividual physiological immunity than behavioral social immunity, yet could still lead to\r\ncollective protection." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: LifeSc alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Anna full_name: Franschitz, Anna id: 480826C8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Franschitz citation: ama: Franschitz A. Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:13984 apa: Franschitz, A. (2023). Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:13984 chicago: Franschitz, Anna. “Individual and Social Immunity against Viral Infections in Ants.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:13984. ieee: A. Franschitz, “Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Franschitz A. 2023. Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Franschitz, Anna. Individual and Social Immunity against Viral Infections in Ants. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:13984. short: A. Franschitz, Individual and Social Immunity against Viral Infections in Ants, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-08-08T15:33:29Z date_published: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:51:29Z day: '08' ddc: - '570' - '577' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: SyCr doi: 10.15479/at:ista:13984 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 55c876b73d49db15228a7f571592ec77 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2024-03-01T08:56:06Z date_updated: 2024-10-29T23:31:04Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '15044' file_name: Print_Version_Franschitz_Anna_Thesis.pdf file_size: 10416761 relation: main_file title: Combined Version of original Thesis and Addendum - access_level: open_access checksum: 27220243d5d51c3b0d7d61c0879d7a0c content_type: application/pdf creator: afransch date_created: 2023-08-08T18:01:28Z date_updated: 2024-08-09T22:30:03Z embargo: 2024-08-08 file_id: '13986' file_name: Thesis_AnnaFranschitz_202308.pdf file_size: 10797612 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 40abf7ccca14a3893f72dc7fb88585d6 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: afransch date_created: 2023-08-08T18:02:25Z date_updated: 2024-08-09T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '13987' file_name: Thesis_AnnaFranschitz_202308.docx file_size: 2619085 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 8b991ecc2d59d045cc3cf0d676785ec7 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2024-03-01T08:37:15Z date_updated: 2024-10-29T23:31:04Z description: Minor modifications and clarifications - Feb 2024 embargo: 2024-08-08 file_id: '15042' file_name: Addendum_AnnaFranschitz202402.pdf file_size: 85956 relation: main_file title: Addendum - access_level: closed checksum: 66745aa01f960f17472c024875c049ed content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: cchlebak date_created: 2024-03-01T08:39:20Z date_updated: 2024-08-09T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '15043' file_name: Addendum_AnnaFranschitz202402.docx file_size: 11818 relation: source_file title: Addendum - source file file_date_updated: 2024-10-29T23:31:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '89' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-034-3 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Sylvia full_name: Cremer, Sylvia id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cremer orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868 title: Individual and social immunity against viral infections in ants type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12964' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Pattern formation is of great importance for its contribution across different biological behaviours. During developmental processes for example, patterns of chemical gradients are\r\nestablished to determine cell fate and complex tissue patterns emerge to define structures such\r\nas limbs and vascular networks. Patterns are also seen in collectively migrating groups, for\r\ninstance traveling waves of density emerging in moving animal flocks as well as collectively migrating cells and tissues. To what extent these biological patterns arise spontaneously through\r\nthe local interaction of individual constituents or are dictated by higher level instructions is\r\nstill an open question however there is evidence for the involvement of both types of process.\r\nWhere patterns arise spontaneously there is a long standing interest in how far the interplay\r\nof mechanics, e.g. force generation and deformation, and chemistry, e.g. gene regulation\r\nand signaling, contributes to the behaviour. This is because many systems are able to both\r\nchemically regulate mechanical force production and chemically sense mechanical deformation,\r\nforming mechano-chemical feedback loops which can potentially become unstable towards\r\nspatio and/or temporal patterning.\r\nWe work with experimental collaborators to investigate the possibility that this type of\r\ninteraction drives pattern formation in biological systems at different scales. We focus first on\r\ntissue-level ERK-density waves observed during the wound healing response across different\r\nsystems where many previous studies have proposed that patterns depend on polarized cell\r\nmigration and arise from a mechanical flocking-like mechanism. By combining theory with\r\nmechanical and optogenetic perturbation experiments on in vitro monolayers we instead find\r\nevidence for mechanochemical pattern formation involving only scalar bilateral feedbacks\r\nbetween ERK signaling and cell contraction. We perform further modeling and experiment\r\nto study how this instability couples with polar cell migration in order to produce a robust\r\nand efficient wound healing response. In a following chapter we implement ERK-density\r\ncoupling and cell migration in a 2D active vertex model to investigate the interaction of\r\nERK-density patterning with different tissue rheologies and find that the spatio-temporal\r\ndynamics are able to both locally and globally fluidize a tissue across the solid-fluid glass\r\ntransition. In a last chapter we move towards lower spatial scales in the context of subcellular\r\npatterning of the cell cytoskeleton where we investigate the transition between phases of\r\nspatially homogeneous temporal oscillations and chaotic spatio-temporal patterning in the\r\ndynamics of myosin and ROCK activities (a motor component of the actomyosin cytoskeleton\r\nand its activator). Experimental evidence supports an intrinsic chemical oscillator which we\r\nencode in a reaction model and couple to a contractile active gel description of the cell cortex.\r\nThe model exhibits phases of chemical oscillations and contractile spatial patterning which\r\nreproduce many features of the dynamics seen in Drosophila oocyte epithelia in vivo. However,\r\nadditional pharmacological perturbations to inhibit myosin contractility leaves the role of\r\ncontractile instability unclear. We discuss alternative hypotheses and investigate the possibility\r\nof reaction-diffusion instability." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Daniel R full_name: Boocock, Daniel R id: 453AF628-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Boocock orcid: 0000-0002-1585-2631 citation: ama: Boocock DR. Mechanochemical pattern formation across biological scales. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12964 apa: Boocock, D. R. (2023). Mechanochemical pattern formation across biological scales. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12964 chicago: Boocock, Daniel R. “Mechanochemical Pattern Formation across Biological Scales.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12964. ieee: D. R. Boocock, “Mechanochemical pattern formation across biological scales,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Boocock DR. 2023. Mechanochemical pattern formation across biological scales. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Boocock, Daniel R. Mechanochemical Pattern Formation across Biological Scales. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12964. short: D.R. Boocock, Mechanochemical Pattern Formation across Biological Scales, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-05-15T14:52:36Z date_published: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:52:57Z day: '17' ddc: - '530' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: EdHa doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12964 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d51240675fc6dc0e3f5dc0c902695d3a content_type: application/pdf creator: dboocock date_created: 2023-05-17T13:39:54Z date_updated: 2024-05-18T22:30:03Z embargo: 2024-05-17 file_id: '12988' file_name: thesis_boocock.pdf file_size: 40414730 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 581a2313ffeb40fe77e8a122a25a7795 content_type: application/zip creator: dboocock date_created: 2023-05-17T13:39:53Z date_updated: 2024-05-18T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12989' file_name: thesis_boocock.zip file_size: 34338567 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-05-18T22:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '146' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-032-9 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '8602' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Edouard B full_name: Hannezo, Edouard B id: 3A9DB764-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hannezo orcid: 0000-0001-6005-1561 title: Mechanochemical pattern formation across biological scales tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12897' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Inverse design problems in fabrication-aware shape optimization are typically solved on discrete representations such as polygonal meshes. This thesis argues that there are benefits to treating these problems in the same domain as human designers, namely, the parametric one. One reason is that discretizing a parametric model usually removes the capability of making further manual changes to the design, because the human intent is captured by the shape parameters. Beyond this, knowledge about a design problem can sometimes reveal a structure that is present in a smooth representation, but is fundamentally altered by discretizing. In this case, working in the parametric domain may even simplify the optimization task. We present two lines of research that explore both of these aspects of fabrication-aware shape optimization on parametric representations.\r\n\r\nThe first project studies the design of plane elastic curves and Kirchhoff rods, which are common mathematical models for describing the deformation of thin elastic rods such as beams, ribbons, cables, and hair. Our main contribution is a characterization of all curved shapes that can be attained by bending and twisting elastic rods having a stiffness that is allowed to vary across the length. Elements like these can be manufactured using digital fabrication devices such as 3d printers and digital cutters, and have applications in free-form architecture and soft robotics.\r\n\r\nWe show that the family of curved shapes that can be produced this way admits geometric description that is concise and computationally convenient. In the case of plane curves, the geometric description is intuitive enough to allow a designer to determine whether a curved shape is physically achievable by visual inspection alone. We also present shape optimization algorithms that convert a user-defined curve in the plane or in three dimensions into the geometry of an elastic rod that will naturally deform to follow this curve when its endpoints are attached to a support structure. Implemented in an interactive software design tool, the rod geometry is generated in real time as the user edits a curve and enables fast prototyping. \r\n\r\nThe second project tackles the problem of general-purpose shape optimization on CAD models using a novel variant of the extended finite element method (XFEM). Our goal is the decoupling between the simulation mesh and the CAD model, so no geometry-dependent meshing or remeshing needs to be performed when the CAD parameters change during optimization. This is achieved by discretizing the embedding space of the CAD model, and using a new high-accuracy numerical integration method to enable XFEM on free-form elements bounded by the parametric surface patches of the model. Our simulation is differentiable from the CAD parameters to the simulation output, which enables us to use off-the-shelf gradient-based optimization procedures. The result is a method that fits seamlessly into the CAD workflow because it works on the same representation as the designer, enabling the alternation of manual editing and fabrication-aware optimization at will." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hafner, Christian id: 400429CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hafner citation: ama: 'Hafner C. Inverse shape design with parametric representations: Kirchhoff Rods and parametric surface models. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12897' apa: 'Hafner, C. (2023). Inverse shape design with parametric representations: Kirchhoff Rods and parametric surface models. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12897' chicago: 'Hafner, Christian. “Inverse Shape Design with Parametric Representations: Kirchhoff Rods and Parametric Surface Models.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12897.' ieee: 'C. Hafner, “Inverse shape design with parametric representations: Kirchhoff Rods and parametric surface models,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Hafner C. 2023. Inverse shape design with parametric representations: Kirchhoff Rods and parametric surface models. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Hafner, Christian. Inverse Shape Design with Parametric Representations: Kirchhoff Rods and Parametric Surface Models. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12897.' short: 'C. Hafner, Inverse Shape Design with Parametric Representations: Kirchhoff Rods and Parametric Surface Models, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-05-05T10:40:14Z date_published: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-04-15T07:16:15Z day: '05' ddc: - '516' - '004' - '518' - '531' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: BeBi doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12897 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: cc2094e92fa27000b70eb4bfb76d6b5a content_type: application/pdf creator: chafner date_created: 2023-05-11T10:43:20Z date_updated: 2023-12-08T23:30:04Z embargo: 2023-12-07 file_id: '12942' file_name: thesis-hafner-2023may11-a2b.pdf file_size: 50714445 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: a6b51334be2b81672357b1549afab40c content_type: application/pdf creator: chafner date_created: 2023-05-11T10:43:44Z date_updated: 2023-12-08T23:30:04Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12943' file_name: thesis-release-form.pdf file_size: 265319 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2023-12-08T23:30:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '180' project: - _id: 24F9549A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '715767' name: 'MATERIALIZABLE: Intelligent fabrication-oriented Computational Design and Modeling' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-031-2 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '9817' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '13188' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '7117' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Bernd full_name: Bickel, Bernd id: 49876194-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bickel orcid: 0000-0001-6511-9385 title: 'Inverse shape design with parametric representations: Kirchhoff Rods and parametric surface models' type: dissertation user_id: 400429CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12809' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Understanding the mechanisms of learning and memory formation has always been one of\r\nthe main goals in neuroscience. Already Pavlov (1927) in his early days has used his classic\r\nconditioning experiments to study the neural mechanisms governing behavioral adaptation.\r\nWhat was not known back then was that the part of the brain that is largely responsible for\r\nthis type of associative learning is the cerebellum.\r\nSince then, plenty of theories on cerebellar learning have emerged. Despite their differences,\r\none thing they all have in common is that learning relies on synaptic and intrinsic plasticity.\r\nThe goal of my PhD project was to unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic\r\nplasticity in two synapses that have been shown to be implicated in motor learning, in an\r\neffort to understand how learning and memory formation are processed in the cerebellum.\r\nOne of the earliest and most well-known cerebellar theories postulates that motor learning\r\nlargely depends on long-term depression at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell (PC-PC) synapse.\r\nHowever, the discovery of other types of plasticity in the cerebellar circuitry, like long-term\r\npotentiation (LTP) at the PC-PC synapse, potentiation of molecular layer interneurons (MLIs),\r\nand plasticity transfer from the cortex to the cerebellar/ vestibular nuclei has increased the\r\npopularity of the idea that multiple sites of plasticity might be involved in learning.\r\nStill a lot remains unknown about the molecular mechanisms responsible for these types of\r\nplasticity and whether they occur during physiological learning.\r\nIn the first part of this thesis we have analyzed the variation and nanodistribution of voltagegated calcium channels (VGCCs) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid\r\ntype glutamate receptors (AMPARs) on the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse after vestibuloocular reflex phase reversal adaptation, a behavior that has been suggested to rely on PF-PC\r\nLTP. We have found that on the last day of adaptation there is no learning trace in form of\r\nVGCCs nor AMPARs variation at the PF-PC synapse, but instead a decrease in the number of\r\nPF-PC synapses. These data seem to support the view that learning is only stored in the\r\ncerebellar cortex in an initial learning phase, being transferred later to the vestibular nuclei.\r\nNext, we have studied the role of MLIs in motor learning using a relatively simple and well characterized behavioral paradigm – horizontal optokinetic reflex (HOKR) adaptation. We\r\nhave found behavior-induced MLI potentiation in form of release probability increase that\r\ncould be explained by the increase of VGCCs at the presynaptic side. Our results strengthen\r\nthe idea of distributed cerebellar plasticity contributing to learning and provide a novel\r\nmechanism for release probability increase. " acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac - _id: Bio - _id: PreCl alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Catarina full_name: Alcarva, Catarina id: 3A96634C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Alcarva citation: ama: 'Alcarva C. Plasticity in the cerebellum: What molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12809' apa: 'Alcarva, C. (2023). Plasticity in the cerebellum: What molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12809' chicago: 'Alcarva, Catarina. “Plasticity in the Cerebellum: What Molecular Mechanisms Are behind Physiological Learning.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12809.' ieee: 'C. Alcarva, “Plasticity in the cerebellum: What molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Alcarva C. 2023. Plasticity in the cerebellum: What molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Alcarva, Catarina. Plasticity in the Cerebellum: What Molecular Mechanisms Are behind Physiological Learning. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12809.' short: 'C. Alcarva, Plasticity in the Cerebellum: What Molecular Mechanisms Are behind Physiological Learning, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-04-06T07:54:09Z date_published: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T13:53:28Z day: '06' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: RySh doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12809 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 35b5997d2b0acb461f9d33d073da0df5 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-04-07T06:16:06Z date_updated: 2024-04-08T22:30:03Z embargo: 2024-04-07 file_id: '12814' file_name: Thesis_CatarinaAlcarva_final pdfA.pdf file_size: 9881969 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 81198f63c294890f6d58e8b29782efdc content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-04-07T06:17:11Z date_updated: 2024-04-08T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12815' file_name: Thesis_CatarinaAlcarva_final_for printing.pdf file_size: 44201583 relation: source_file - access_level: closed checksum: 0317bf7f457bb585f99d453ffa69eb53 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-04-07T06:18:05Z date_updated: 2024-04-08T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12816' file_name: Thesis_CatarinaAlcarva_final.docx file_size: 84731244 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-04-08T22:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '115' project: - _id: 267DFB90-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: 'Plasticity in the cerebellum: Which molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning?' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Ryuichi full_name: Shigemoto, Ryuichi id: 499F3ABC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Shigemoto orcid: 0000-0001-8761-9444 title: 'Plasticity in the cerebellum: What molecular mechanisms are behind physiological learning' type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13188' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The Kirchhoff rod model describes the bending and twisting of slender elastic rods in three dimensions, and has been widely studied to enable the prediction of how a rod will deform, given its geometry and boundary conditions. In this work, we study a number of inverse problems with the goal of computing the geometry of a straight rod that will automatically deform to match a curved target shape after attaching its endpoints to a support structure. Our solution lets us finely control the static equilibrium state of a rod by varying the cross-sectional profiles along its length.\r\nWe also show that the set of physically realizable equilibrium states admits a concise geometric description in terms of linear line complexes, which leads to very efficient computational design algorithms. Implemented in an interactive software tool, they allow us to convert three-dimensional hand-drawn spline curves to elastic rods, and give feedback about the feasibility and practicality of a design in real time. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method by designing and manufacturing several physical prototypes with applications to interior design and soft robotics." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: M-Shop acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their generous feedback, and Julian Fischer for his help in proving Proposition 1. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 715767). article_number: '171' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hafner, Christian id: 400429CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hafner - first_name: Bernd full_name: Bickel, Bernd id: 49876194-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bickel orcid: 0000-0001-6511-9385 citation: ama: Hafner C, Bickel B. The design space of Kirchhoff rods. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2023;42(5). doi:10.1145/3606033 apa: Hafner, C., & Bickel, B. (2023). The design space of Kirchhoff rods. ACM Transactions on Graphics. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606033 chicago: Hafner, Christian, and Bernd Bickel. “The Design Space of Kirchhoff Rods.” ACM Transactions on Graphics. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606033. ieee: C. Hafner and B. Bickel, “The design space of Kirchhoff rods,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 42, no. 5. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. ista: Hafner C, Bickel B. 2023. The design space of Kirchhoff rods. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(5), 171. mla: Hafner, Christian, and Bernd Bickel. “The Design Space of Kirchhoff Rods.” ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 42, no. 5, 171, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, doi:10.1145/3606033. short: C. Hafner, B. Bickel, ACM Transactions on Graphics 42 (2023). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-04T07:41:30Z date_published: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T22:30:05Z day: '20' ddc: - '516' department: - _id: BeBi doi: 10.1145/3606033 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001086833300010' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4954c1cfa487725bc156dcfec872478a content_type: application/pdf creator: chafner date_created: 2023-07-04T08:11:28Z date_updated: 2023-07-04T08:11:28Z file_id: '13194' file_name: kirchhoff-rods.pdf file_size: 19635168 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: 79c9975fbc82ff71f1767331d2204cca content_type: application/pdf creator: chafner date_created: 2023-07-04T07:46:28Z date_updated: 2023-07-04T07:46:28Z file_id: '13190' file_name: supp-main.pdf file_size: 420909 relation: supplementary_material title: Supplemental Material with Proofs - access_level: open_access checksum: 4ab647e4f03c711e1e6a5fc1eb8684db content_type: application/pdf creator: chafner date_created: 2023-07-04T07:46:30Z date_updated: 2023-07-04T07:46:30Z file_id: '13191' file_name: supp-cheat.pdf file_size: 430086 relation: supplementary_material title: Cheat Sheet for Notation - access_level: open_access checksum: c0fd9a57d012046de90c185ffa904b76 content_type: video/mp4 creator: chafner date_created: 2023-07-04T07:46:39Z date_updated: 2023-07-04T07:46:39Z file_id: '13192' file_name: kirchhoff-video-final.mp4 file_size: 268088064 relation: supplementary_material title: Supplemental Video - access_level: open_access checksum: 71b00712b489ada2cd9815910ee180a9 content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: chafner date_created: 2023-07-04T07:47:10Z date_updated: 2023-07-04T07:47:10Z file_id: '13193' file_name: matlab-submission.zip file_size: 25790 relation: supplementary_material title: Matlab Source Code with Example file_date_updated: 2023-07-04T08:11:28Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 42' isi: 1 issue: '5' keyword: - Computer Graphics - Computational Design - Computational Geometry - Shape Modeling language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version project: - _id: 24F9549A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '715767' name: 'MATERIALIZABLE: Intelligent fabrication-oriented Computational Design and Modeling' publication: ACM Transactions on Graphics publication_identifier: eissn: - 1557-7368 issn: - 0730-0301 publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '12897' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The design space of Kirchhoff rods type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 42 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14280' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Cell division in Escherichia coli is performed by the divisome, a multi-protein complex composed of more than 30 proteins. The divisome spans from the cytoplasm through the inner membrane to the cell wall and the outer membrane. Divisome assembly is initiated by a cytoskeletal structure, the so-called Z-ring, which localizes at the center of the E. coli cell and determines the position of the future cell septum. The Z-ring is composed of the highly conserved bacterial tubulin homologue FtsZ, which forms treadmilling filaments. These filaments are recruited to the inner membrane by FtsA, a highly conserved bacterial actin homologue. FtsA interacts with other proteins in the periplasm and thus connects the cytoplasmic and periplasmic components of the divisome. \r\nA previous model postulated that FtsA regulates maturation of the divisome by switching from an oligomeric, inactive state to a monomeric and active state. This model was based mostly on in vivo studies, as a biochemical characterization of FtsA has been hampered by difficulties in purifying the protein. Here, we studied FtsA using an in vitro reconstitution approach and aimed to answer two questions: (i) How are dynamics from cytoplasmic, treadmilling FtsZ filaments coupled to proteins acting in the periplasmic space and (ii) How does FtsA regulate the maturation of the divisome?\r\nWe found that the cytoplasmic peptides of the transmembrane proteins FtsN and FtsQ interact directly with FtsA and can follow the spatiotemporal signal of FtsA/Z filaments. When we investigated the underlying mechanism by imaging single molecules of FtsNcyto, we found the peptide to interact transiently with FtsA. An in depth analysis of the single molecule trajectories helped to postulate a model where PG synthases follow the dynamics of FtsZ by a diffusion and capture mechanism. \r\nFollowing up on these findings we were interested in how the self-interaction of FtsA changes when it encounters FtsNcyto and if we can confirm the proposed oligomer-monomer switch. For this, we compared the behavior of the previously identified, hyperactive mutant FtsA R286W with wildtype FtsA. The mutant outperforms WT in mirroring and transmitting the spatiotemporal signal of treadmilling FtsZ filaments. Surprisingly however, we found that this was not due to a difference in the self-interaction strength of the two variants, but a difference in their membrane residence time. Furthermore, in contrast to our expectations, upon binding of FtsNcyto the measured self-interaction of FtsA actually increased. \r\nWe propose that FtsNcyto induces a rearrangement of the oligomeric architecture of FtsA. In further consequence this change leads to more persistent FtsZ filaments which results in a defined signalling zone, allowing formation of the mature divisome. The observed difference between FtsA WT and R286W is due to the vastly different membrane turnover of the proteins. R286W cycles 5-10x faster compared to WT which allows to sample FtsZ filaments at faster frequencies. These findings can explain the observed differences in toxicity for overexpression of FtsA WT and R286W and help to understand how FtsA regulates divisome maturation." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Philipp full_name: Radler, Philipp id: 40136C2A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Radler orcid: '0000-0001-9198-2182 ' citation: ama: Radler P. Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14280 apa: Radler, P. (2023). Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14280 chicago: Radler, Philipp. “Spatiotemporal Signaling during Assembly of the Bacterial Divisome.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14280. ieee: P. Radler, “Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Radler P. 2023. Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Radler, Philipp. Spatiotemporal Signaling during Assembly of the Bacterial Divisome. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14280. short: P. Radler, Spatiotemporal Signaling during Assembly of the Bacterial Divisome, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-09-06T10:58:25Z date_published: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T14:06:05Z day: '25' ddc: - '572' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MaLo doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14280 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 87eef11fbc5c7df0826f12a3a629b444 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: pradler date_created: 2023-10-04T10:11:53Z date_updated: 2024-10-05T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '14390' file_name: PhD Thesis_Philipp Radler_20231004.docx file_size: 114932847 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 3253e099b7126469d941fd9419d68b4f content_type: application/pdf creator: pradler date_created: 2023-10-04T10:11:21Z date_updated: 2024-10-05T22:30:03Z embargo: 2024-10-04 file_id: '14391' file_name: PhD Thesis_Philipp Radler_20231004.pdf file_size: 37838778 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2024-10-05T22:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - Cell Division - Reconstitution - FtsZ - FtsA - Divisome - E.coli language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '156' project: - _id: 2595697A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '679239' name: Self-Organization of the Bacterial Cell - _id: fc38323b-9c52-11eb-aca3-ff8afb4a011d grant_number: P34607 name: In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division - _id: 2596EAB6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ALTF 2015-1163 name: Synthesis of bacterial cell wall - _id: 259B655A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: LT000824/2016 name: Reconstitution of bacterial cell wall synthesis publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-033-6 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '10934' relation: research_data status: public - id: '11373' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '7387' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Martin full_name: Loose, Martin id: 462D4284-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Loose orcid: 0000-0001-7309-9724 title: Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12781' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Most energy in humans is produced in form of ATP by the mitochondrial respiratory chain consisting of several protein assemblies embedded into lipid membrane (complexes I-V). Complex I is the first and the largest enzyme of the respiratory chain which is essential for energy production. It couples the transfer of two electrons from NADH to ubiquinone with proton translocation across bacterial or inner mitochondrial membrane. The coupling mechanism between electron transfer and proton translocation is one of the biggest enigma in bioenergetics and structural biology. Even though the enzyme has been studied for decades, only recent technological advances in cryo-EM allowed its extensive structural investigation. \r\n\r\nComplex I from E.coli appears to be of special importance because it is a perfect model system with a rich mutant library, however the structure of the entire complex was unknown. In this thesis I have resolved structures of the minimal complex I version from E. coli in different states including reduced, inhibited, under reaction turnover and several others. Extensive structural analyses of these structures and comparison to structures from other species allowed to derive general features of conformational dynamics and propose a universal coupling mechanism. The mechanism is straightforward, robust and consistent with decades of experimental data available for complex I from different species. \r\n\r\nCyanobacterial NDH (cyanobacterial complex I) is a part of broad complex I superfamily and was studied as well in this thesis. It plays an important role in cyclic electron transfer (CET), during which electrons are cycled within PSI through ferredoxin and plastoquinone to generate proton gradient without NADPH production. Here, I solved structure of NDH and revealed additional state, which was not observed before. The novel “resting” state allowed to propose the mechanism of CET regulation. Moreover, conformational dynamics of NDH resembles one in complex I which suggest more broad universality of the proposed coupling mechanism.\r\n\r\nIn summary, results presented here helped to interpret decades of experimental data for complex I and contributed to fundamental mechanistic understanding of protein function.\r\n" acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladyslav full_name: Kravchuk, Vladyslav id: 4D62F2A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kravchuk orcid: 0000-0001-9523-9089 citation: ama: Kravchuk V. Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12781 apa: Kravchuk, V. (2023). Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12781 chicago: Kravchuk, Vladyslav. “Structural and Mechanistic Study of Bacterial Complex I and Its Cyanobacterial Ortholog.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12781. ieee: V. Kravchuk, “Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Kravchuk V. 2023. Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Kravchuk, Vladyslav. Structural and Mechanistic Study of Bacterial Complex I and Its Cyanobacterial Ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12781. short: V. Kravchuk, Structural and Mechanistic Study of Bacterial Complex I and Its Cyanobacterial Ortholog, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-03-31T12:24:42Z date_published: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T14:10:40Z day: '23' ddc: - '570' - '572' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: LeSa doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12781 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5ebb6345cb4119f93460c81310265a6d content_type: application/pdf creator: vkravchu date_created: 2023-04-19T14:33:41Z date_updated: 2024-04-22T22:30:06Z embargo: 2024-04-20 file_id: '12852' file_name: VladyslavKravchuk_PhD_Thesis_PostSub_Final_1.pdf file_size: 6071553 relation: main_file - access_level: open_access checksum: c12055c48411d030d2afa51de2166221 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: vkravchu date_created: 2023-04-19T14:33:52Z date_updated: 2024-04-22T22:30:06Z embargo: 2024-04-20 file_id: '12853' file_name: VladyslavKravchuk_PhD_Thesis_PostSub_Final.docx file_size: 19468766 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-04-22T22:30:06Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '127' project: - _id: 238A0A5A-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E grant_number: '25541' name: 'Structural characterization of E. coli complex I: an important mechanistic model' - _id: 627abdeb-2b32-11ec-9570-ec31a97243d3 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020697' name: Structure and mechanism of respiratory chain molecular machines publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-029-9 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '12138' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Leonid A full_name: Sazanov, Leonid A id: 338D39FE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sazanov orcid: 0000-0002-0977-7989 title: Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12891' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The tight spatiotemporal coordination of signaling activity determining embryo\r\npatterning and the physical processes driving embryo morphogenesis renders\r\nembryonic development robust, such that key developmental processes can unfold\r\nrelatively normally even outside of the full embryonic context. For instance, embryonic\r\nstem cell cultures can recapitulate the hallmarks of gastrulation, i.e. break symmetry\r\nleading to germ layer formation and morphogenesis, in a very reduced environment.\r\nThis leads to questions on specific contributions of embryo-specific features, such as\r\nthe presence of extraembryonic tissues, which are inherently involved in gastrulation\r\nin the full embryonic context. To address this, we established zebrafish embryonic\r\nexplants without the extraembryonic yolk cell, an important player as a signaling\r\nsource and for morphogenesis during gastrulation, as a model of ex vivo development.\r\nWe found that dorsal-marginal determinants are required and sufficient in these\r\nexplants to form and pattern all three germ layers. However, formation of tissues,\r\nwhich require the highest Nodal-signaling levels, is variable, demonstrating a\r\ncontribution of extraembryonic tissues for reaching peak Nodal signaling levels.\r\nBlastoderm explants also undergo gastrulation-like axis elongation. We found that this\r\nelongation movement shows hallmarks of oriented mesendoderm cell intercalations\r\ntypically associated with dorsal tissues in the intact embryo. These are disrupted by\r\nuniform upregulation of BMP signaling activity and concomitant explant ventralization,\r\nsuggesting that tight spatial control of BMP signaling is a prerequisite for explant\r\nmorphogenesis. This control is achieved by Nodal signaling, which is critical for\r\neffectively downregulating BMP signaling in the mesendoderm, highlighting that Nodal\r\nsignaling is not only directly required for mesendoderm cell fate specification and\r\nmorphogenesis, but also by maintaining low levels of BMP signaling at the dorsal side.\r\nCollectively, we provide insights into the capacity and organization of signaling and\r\nmorphogenetic domains to recapitulate features of zebrafish gastrulation outside of\r\nthe full embryonic context." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Alexandra full_name: Schauer, Alexandra id: 30A536BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schauer orcid: 0000-0001-7659-9142 citation: ama: 'Schauer A. Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12891' apa: 'Schauer, A. (2023). Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12891' chicago: 'Schauer, Alexandra. “Mesendoderm Formation in Zebrafish Gastrulation: The Role of Extraembryonic Tissues.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12891.' ieee: 'A. Schauer, “Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Schauer A. 2023. Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Schauer, Alexandra. Mesendoderm Formation in Zebrafish Gastrulation: The Role of Extraembryonic Tissues. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12891.' short: 'A. Schauer, Mesendoderm Formation in Zebrafish Gastrulation: The Role of Extraembryonic Tissues, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-05-05T08:48:20Z date_published: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-06-12T06:56:58Z day: '05' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: CaHe doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12891 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 59b0303dc483f40a96a610a90aab7ee9 content_type: application/pdf creator: aschauer date_created: 2023-05-05T13:01:14Z date_updated: 2024-05-06T22:30:03Z embargo: 2024-05-05 file_id: '12907' file_name: Thesis_Schauer_final.pdf file_size: 31434230 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 25f54e12479b6adaabd129a20568e6c1 content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: aschauer date_created: 2023-05-05T13:04:15Z date_updated: 2024-05-06T22:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12908' file_name: Thesis_Schauer_final.docx file_size: 43809109 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-05-06T22:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '190' project: - _id: 260F1432-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '742573' name: Interaction and feedback between cell mechanics and fate specification in vertebrate gastrulation - _id: 26B1E39C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: '25239' name: 'Mesendoderm specification in zebrafish: The role of extraembryonic tissues' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '7888' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '8966' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Carl-Philipp J full_name: Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J id: 39427864-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Heisenberg orcid: 0000-0002-0912-4566 title: 'Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues' type: dissertation user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13201' abstract: - lang: eng text: As a crucial nitrogen source, nitrate (NO3−) is a key nutrient for plants. Accordingly, root systems adapt to maximize NO3− availability, a developmental regulation also involving the phytohormone auxin. Nonetheless, the molecular mechanisms underlying this regulation remain poorly understood. Here, we identify low-nitrate-resistant mutant (lonr) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), whose root growth fails to adapt to low-NO3− conditions. lonr2 is defective in the high-affinity NO3− transporter NRT2.1. lonr2 (nrt2.1) mutants exhibit defects in polar auxin transport, and their low-NO3−-induced root phenotype depends on the PIN7 auxin exporter activity. NRT2.1 directly associates with PIN7 and antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin efflux depending on NO3− levels. These results reveal a mechanism by which NRT2.1 in response to NO3− limitation directly regulates auxin transport activity and, thus, root growth. This adaptive mechanism contributes to the root developmental plasticity to help plants cope with changes in NO3− availability. acknowledgement: We are grateful to Caifu Jiang for providing ethyl metha-nesulfonate- mutagenized population, Yi Wang for providing Xenopus oocytes, Jun Fan and Zhaosheng Kong for providing tobacco BY- 2 cells, and Claus Schwechheimer, Alain Gojon, and Shutang Tan for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFF1000500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32170265 and 32022007), Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (323CXTD379), Chinese Universities Scientific Fund (2023TC019), Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (5192011), Beijing Outstanding University Discipline Program, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (BH2020259460). article_number: e2221313120 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Yalu full_name: Wang, Yalu last_name: Wang - first_name: Zhi full_name: Yuan, Zhi last_name: Yuan - first_name: Jinyi full_name: Wang, Jinyi last_name: Wang - first_name: Huixin full_name: Xiao, Huixin last_name: Xiao - first_name: Lu full_name: Wan, Lu last_name: Wan - first_name: Lanxin full_name: Li, Lanxin id: 367EF8FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Li orcid: 0000-0002-5607-272X - first_name: Yan full_name: Guo, Yan last_name: Guo - first_name: Zhizhong full_name: Gong, Zhizhong last_name: Gong - first_name: Jiří full_name: Friml, Jiří id: 4159519E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Friml orcid: 0000-0002-8302-7596 - first_name: Jing full_name: Zhang, Jing last_name: Zhang citation: ama: Wang Y, Yuan Z, Wang J, et al. The nitrate transporter NRT2.1 directly antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin transport for root growth adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2023;120(25). doi:10.1073/pnas.2221313120 apa: Wang, Y., Yuan, Z., Wang, J., Xiao, H., Wan, L., Li, L., … Zhang, J. (2023). The nitrate transporter NRT2.1 directly antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin transport for root growth adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221313120 chicago: Wang, Yalu, Zhi Yuan, Jinyi Wang, Huixin Xiao, Lu Wan, Lanxin Li, Yan Guo, Zhizhong Gong, Jiří Friml, and Jing Zhang. “The Nitrate Transporter NRT2.1 Directly Antagonizes PIN7-Mediated Auxin Transport for Root Growth Adaptation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. National Academy of Sciences, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221313120. ieee: Y. Wang et al., “The nitrate transporter NRT2.1 directly antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin transport for root growth adaptation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, no. 25. National Academy of Sciences, 2023. ista: Wang Y, Yuan Z, Wang J, Xiao H, Wan L, Li L, Guo Y, Gong Z, Friml J, Zhang J. 2023. The nitrate transporter NRT2.1 directly antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin transport for root growth adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120(25), e2221313120. mla: Wang, Yalu, et al. “The Nitrate Transporter NRT2.1 Directly Antagonizes PIN7-Mediated Auxin Transport for Root Growth Adaptation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, no. 25, e2221313120, National Academy of Sciences, 2023, doi:10.1073/pnas.2221313120. short: Y. Wang, Z. Yuan, J. Wang, H. Xiao, L. Wan, L. Li, Y. Guo, Z. Gong, J. Friml, J. Zhang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (2023). date_created: 2023-07-09T22:01:12Z date_published: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-12-13T23:30:04Z day: '12' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: JiFr doi: 10.1073/pnas.2221313120 external_id: isi: - '001030689600003' pmid: - '37307446' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d800e06252eaefba28531fa9440f23f0 content_type: application/pdf creator: alisjak date_created: 2023-07-10T08:48:40Z date_updated: 2023-12-13T23:30:03Z embargo: 2023-12-12 file_id: '13204' file_name: 2023_PNAS_Wang.pdf file_size: 5244581 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2023-12-13T23:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 120' isi: 1 issue: '25' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America publication_identifier: eissn: - 1091-6490 issn: - 0027-8424 publication_status: published publisher: National Academy of Sciences quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The nitrate transporter NRT2.1 directly antagonizes PIN7-mediated auxin transport for root growth adaptation tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 120 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '12531' abstract: - lang: eng text: "All visual experiences of the vertebrates begin with light being converted into electrical signals\r\nby the eye retina. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the neurons of the innermost layer of the\r\nmammal retina, and they transmit visual information to the rest of the brain.\r\nIt has been shown that RGCs vary in their morphology and genetic profiles, moreover they can\r\nbe unambiguously grouped into subtypes that share the same morphological and/or molecular\r\nproperties. However, in terms of RGCs function, it remains unclear how many distinct types\r\nthere are and what response properties their typology relies on. Even given the recent studies\r\nthat successfully classified RGCs in a patch of the retina [1] and in scotopic conditions [2], the\r\nquestion remains whether the found subtypes persist across the entire retina.\r\nIn this work, using a novel imaging method, we show that, when sampled from a large portion\r\nof the retina, RGCs can not be clearly divided into functional subtypes. We found that in\r\nphotopic conditions, which implies more prominent natural scene statistic differences across\r\nthe visual field, response properties can be exhibited by cells differently depending on their\r\nlocation in the retina, which leads to formation of a gradient of features rather than distinct\r\nclasses.\r\nThis finding suggests that RGCs follow a global organization across the visual field of the\r\nanimal, adapting each RGC subtype to the requirements imposed by the natural scene statistics." alternative_title: - ISTA Master's Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Kseniia full_name: Kirillova, Kseniia id: 8e3f931e-dc85-11ea-9058-e7b957bf23f0 last_name: Kirillova citation: ama: Kirillova K. Panoramic functional gradients across the mouse retina. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12531 apa: Kirillova, K. (2023). Panoramic functional gradients across the mouse retina. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12531 chicago: Kirillova, Kseniia. “Panoramic Functional Gradients across the Mouse Retina.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12531. ieee: K. Kirillova, “Panoramic functional gradients across the mouse retina,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. ista: Kirillova K. 2023. Panoramic functional gradients across the mouse retina. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Kirillova, Kseniia. Panoramic Functional Gradients across the Mouse Retina. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12531. short: K. Kirillova, Panoramic Functional Gradients across the Mouse Retina, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-02-09T07:45:05Z date_published: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-07T14:06:26Z day: '08' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: MS department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MaJö doi: 10.15479/at:ista:12531 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 57d8da3a6c749eb1556b7435fe266a5f content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-02-09T08:03:32Z date_updated: 2024-02-09T23:30:03Z embargo: 2024-02-08 file_id: '12532' file_name: Thesis_Kseniia___ISTA__istaustriathesis_PDF-A.pdf file_size: 8369317 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 87fb44318e4f9eb9da2ad9ad6ca8e76f content_type: application/x-zip-compressed creator: cchlebak date_created: 2023-02-10T09:32:06Z date_updated: 2024-02-09T23:30:03Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '12535' file_name: Thesis Kseniia - ISTA [istaustriathesis]-FINAL.zip file_size: 11204408 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-02-09T23:30:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '46' publication_identifier: issn: - 2791-4585 publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Maximilian A full_name: Jösch, Maximilian A id: 2BD278E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jösch orcid: 0000-0002-3937-1330 title: Panoramic functional gradients across the mouse retina tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_sa.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-SA (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '14697' abstract: - lang: eng text: "During my Ph.D. research, I managed a series of projects, each focused on the\r\nmechanisms underlying cell migration. My work involved an in-depth examination of\r\nthe complex strategies employed by neutrophils, with a specific focus on their ability to\r\nsynchronize spatial-temporal cues and optimize their gradient perception. However, it\r\nis essential to acknowledge that not all projects yielded successful results, as some\r\nideas were discontinued and are archived for future reference within this thesis.\r\nMy main project investigated how neutrophils decode spatial cues for precise navigation. Human neutrophils showcased distinct movement patterns based on source\r\ntype – linear or point-like. By combining single-cell tracking in 3D environments with\r\nproxy dyes, this project linked cell behaviors to gradient changes, revealing a stronger\r\nresponse to semi-exponential gradients from point sources. In addition, neutrophils\r\nexhibited oscillating migration speeds, using speed minima to adjust trajectories toward sources. Experiencing continuous concentration changes, they accelerated over\r\ntime and employed a \"Run and Fumble\" strategy, alternating between consistent runs\r\nand strategic \"tumbles\" for efficient navigation.\r\nThe project extended to the possibility of cells amplifying perceived gradients by\r\nenclosing their immediate surroundings, pushing attractants forward for enrichment\r\nwhile depleting it at the cell rear. Microfluidic devices were employed, and various experimental parameters configurations were optimized. Although significant differences\r\nin migratory efficacy were detected across pore sizes and device heights, quantifying\r\ngradient manipulation effects proved challenging.\r\nThe \"Laser-Assisted Protein Adsorption by Photobleaching\" (LAPAP) project was\r\npromising, as it allowed the printing of gradients. Initially successful with dendritic cells,\r\nwe aimed to adapt it for neutrophils. Through extensive experimentation with multiple\r\nparameters, we attempted to trigger responses from neutrophils. Despite these efforts\r\nand collaboration, the project failed due to practical challenges and limitations.\r\nFacing a lack of neutrophil-like cells at IST, we initially established the SCF-HoxB8\r\nprimary murine cell line. Despite their existence, their migratory behavior was largely\r\nunexplored due to potential limitations. Through differentiation protocol refinements we\r\nenhanced their migratory capabilities, though their capacity still lagged behind human\r\nneutrophils. Despite this, the improved migration potential of these cells pointed toward\r\ntheir utility for in vitro murine neutrophil migration studies." acknowledged_ssus: - _id: LifeSc - _id: Bio alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Julian A full_name: Stopp, Julian A id: 489E3F00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Stopp citation: ama: 'Stopp JA. Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14697' apa: 'Stopp, J. A. (2023). Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14697' chicago: 'Stopp, Julian A. “Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14697.' ieee: 'J. A. Stopp, “Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' ista: 'Stopp JA. 2023. Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.' mla: 'Stopp, Julian A. Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14697.' short: 'J.A. Stopp, Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-18T19:14:28Z date_published: 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-06-18T17:34:48Z day: '20' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: MiSi doi: 10.15479/at:ista:14697 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 457927165d5d556305d3086f6b83e5c7 content_type: application/pdf creator: jstopp date_created: 2023-12-20T09:35:34Z date_updated: 2024-12-20T23:30:04Z embargo: 2024-12-20 file_id: '14699' file_name: Thesis.pdf file_size: 51585778 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: e8d26449ac461f5e8478a62c9507506f content_type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document creator: jstopp date_created: 2023-12-20T09:35:35Z date_updated: 2024-12-20T23:30:04Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '14700' file_name: Thesis.docx file_size: 69625950 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2024-12-20T23:30:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '226' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-038-1 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '14360' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '12272' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6328' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '7885' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '14274' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Michael K full_name: Sixt, Michael K id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sixt orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179 title: 'Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function' type: dissertation user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12837' abstract: - lang: eng text: As developing tissues grow in size and undergo morphogenetic changes, their material properties may be altered. Such changes result from tension dynamics at cell contacts or cellular jamming. Yet, in many cases, the cellular mechanisms controlling the physical state of growing tissues are unclear. We found that at early developmental stages, the epithelium in the developing mouse spinal cord maintains both high junctional tension and high fluidity. This is achieved via a mechanism in which interkinetic nuclear movements generate cell area dynamics that drive extensive cell rearrangements. Over time, the cell proliferation rate declines, effectively solidifying the tissue. Thus, unlike well-studied jamming transitions, the solidification uncovered here resembles a glass transition that depends on the dynamical stresses generated by proliferation and differentiation. Our finding that the fluidity of developing epithelia is linked to interkinetic nuclear movements and the dynamics of growth is likely to be relevant to multiple developing tissues. acknowledgement: 'We thank S. Hippenmeyer for the reagents and C. P. Heisenberg, J. Briscoe and K. Page for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by IST Austria; the European Research Council under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant no. 680037 and Horizon Europe grant 101044579 (A.K.); Austrian Science Fund (FWF): F78 (Stem Cell Modulation) (A.K.); ISTFELLOW postdoctoral program (A.S.); Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland SONATA, 2017/26/D/NZ2/00454 (M.Z.); and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (M.Z.).' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Bocanegra, Laura id: 4896F754-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bocanegra - first_name: Amrita full_name: Singh, Amrita id: 76250f9f-3a21-11eb-9a80-a6180a0d7958 last_name: Singh - first_name: Edouard B full_name: Hannezo, Edouard B id: 3A9DB764-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hannezo orcid: 0000-0001-6005-1561 - first_name: Marcin P full_name: Zagórski, Marcin P id: 343DA0DC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zagórski orcid: 0000-0001-7896-7762 - first_name: Anna full_name: Kicheva, Anna id: 3959A2A0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kicheva orcid: 0000-0003-4509-4998 citation: ama: Bocanegra L, Singh A, Hannezo EB, Zagórski MP, Kicheva A. Cell cycle dynamics control fluidity of the developing mouse neuroepithelium. Nature Physics. 2023;19:1050-1058. doi:10.1038/s41567-023-01977-w apa: Bocanegra, L., Singh, A., Hannezo, E. B., Zagórski, M. P., & Kicheva, A. (2023). Cell cycle dynamics control fluidity of the developing mouse neuroepithelium. Nature Physics. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01977-w chicago: Bocanegra, Laura, Amrita Singh, Edouard B Hannezo, Marcin P Zagórski, and Anna Kicheva. “Cell Cycle Dynamics Control Fluidity of the Developing Mouse Neuroepithelium.” Nature Physics. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01977-w. ieee: L. Bocanegra, A. Singh, E. B. Hannezo, M. P. Zagórski, and A. Kicheva, “Cell cycle dynamics control fluidity of the developing mouse neuroepithelium,” Nature Physics, vol. 19. Springer Nature, pp. 1050–1058, 2023. ista: Bocanegra L, Singh A, Hannezo EB, Zagórski MP, Kicheva A. 2023. Cell cycle dynamics control fluidity of the developing mouse neuroepithelium. Nature Physics. 19, 1050–1058. mla: Bocanegra, Laura, et al. “Cell Cycle Dynamics Control Fluidity of the Developing Mouse Neuroepithelium.” Nature Physics, vol. 19, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 1050–58, doi:10.1038/s41567-023-01977-w. short: L. Bocanegra, A. Singh, E.B. Hannezo, M.P. Zagórski, A. Kicheva, Nature Physics 19 (2023) 1050–1058. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-04-16T22:01:09Z date_published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T22:30:15Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: EdHa - _id: AnKi doi: 10.1038/s41567-023-01977-w ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000964029300003' pmid: - '37456593' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 858225a4205b74406e5045006cdd853f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-10-04T11:13:28Z date_updated: 2023-10-04T11:13:28Z file_id: '14392' file_name: 2023_NaturePhysics_Boncanegra.pdf file_size: 5532285 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-10-04T11:13:28Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 19' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1050-1058 pmid: 1 project: - _id: B6FC0238-B512-11E9-945C-1524E6697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '680037' name: Coordination of Patterning And Growth In the Spinal Cord - _id: bd7e737f-d553-11ed-ba76-d69ffb5ee3aa grant_number: '101044579' name: Mechanisms of tissue size regulation in spinal cord development - _id: 059DF620-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E grant_number: F7802 name: Stem Cell Modulation in Neural Development and Regeneration/ P02-Morphogen control of growth and pattern in the spinal cord - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature Physics publication_identifier: eissn: - 1745-2481 issn: - 1745-2473 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '13081' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Cell cycle dynamics control fluidity of the developing mouse neuroepithelium tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 19 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14360' abstract: - lang: eng text: To navigate through diverse tissues, migrating cells must balance persistent self-propelled motion with adaptive behaviors to circumvent obstacles. We identify a curvature-sensing mechanism underlying obstacle evasion in immune-like cells. Specifically, we propose that actin polymerization at the advancing edge of migrating cells is inhibited by the curvature-sensitive BAR domain protein Snx33 in regions with inward plasma membrane curvature. The genetic perturbation of this machinery reduces the cells’ capacity to evade obstructions combined with faster and more persistent cell migration in obstacle-free environments. Our results show how cells can read out their surface topography and utilize actin and plasma membrane biophysics to interpret their environment, allowing them to adaptively decide if they should move ahead or turn away. On the basis of our findings, we propose that the natural diversity of BAR domain proteins may allow cells to tune their curvature sensing machinery to match the shape characteristics in their environment. acknowledgement: "We thank Jan Ellenberg, Leanne Strauss, Anusha Gopalan, and Jia Hui Li for critical feedback on the manuscript and the Life Science Editors for editing assistance. The plasmid with hSnx33 was a kind gift from Duanqing Pei. Cell line with GFP-tagged IRSp53 was a kind gift from Orion Weiner. We thank Brian Graziano for providing protocols, reagents, and key advice to generate CRISPR knockout HL-60 cells. We thank the EMBL flow cytometry core facility, the EMBL advanced light microscopy facility, the EMBL proteomics facility, and the EMBL genomics core facility for support and advice. We thank Anusha Gopalan and Martin Bergert for their support during mechanical measurements by AFM. We thank Estela Sosa Osorio for technical assistance for the co-immunoprecipitation. We thank the EMBL genome biology computational support (and specially Charles Girardot and Jelle Scholtalbers) for critical assistance during RNAseq analysis. We thank Hans Kristian Hannibal‐Bach for his technical assistance during the lipidomic analysis of plasma membrane isolates. We thank Steffen Burgold for their support with LLS7 microscope in the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe. We acknowledge the financial support of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) to A.D.-M., Y.S., A.K., and A.E., the EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD) program under Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND actions MSCA-COFUND-FP to M.S.B. and M. S. (grant agreement number: 847543), the BEST program funding by FCT (SFRH/BEST/150300/2019) to S.D.A. and the Joachim Herz Stiftung Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Science to E.S.\r\nOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL." article_number: '5644' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Ewa full_name: Sitarska, Ewa last_name: Sitarska - first_name: Silvia Dias full_name: Almeida, Silvia Dias last_name: Almeida - first_name: Marianne Sandvold full_name: Beckwith, Marianne Sandvold last_name: Beckwith - first_name: Julian A full_name: Stopp, Julian A id: 489E3F00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Stopp - first_name: Jakub full_name: Czuchnowski, Jakub last_name: Czuchnowski - first_name: Marc full_name: Siggel, Marc last_name: Siggel - first_name: Rita full_name: Roessner, Rita last_name: Roessner - first_name: Aline full_name: Tschanz, Aline last_name: Tschanz - first_name: Christer full_name: Ejsing, Christer last_name: Ejsing - first_name: Yannick full_name: Schwab, Yannick last_name: Schwab - first_name: Jan full_name: Kosinski, Jan last_name: Kosinski - first_name: Michael K full_name: Sixt, Michael K id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sixt orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179 - first_name: Anna full_name: Kreshuk, Anna last_name: Kreshuk - first_name: Anna full_name: Erzberger, Anna last_name: Erzberger - first_name: Alba full_name: Diz-Muñoz, Alba last_name: Diz-Muñoz citation: ama: Sitarska E, Almeida SD, Beckwith MS, et al. Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles. Nature Communications. 2023;14. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41173-1 apa: Sitarska, E., Almeida, S. D., Beckwith, M. S., Stopp, J. A., Czuchnowski, J., Siggel, M., … Diz-Muñoz, A. (2023). Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41173-1 chicago: Sitarska, Ewa, Silvia Dias Almeida, Marianne Sandvold Beckwith, Julian A Stopp, Jakub Czuchnowski, Marc Siggel, Rita Roessner, et al. “Sensing Their Plasma Membrane Curvature Allows Migrating Cells to Circumvent Obstacles.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41173-1. ieee: E. Sitarska et al., “Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles,” Nature Communications, vol. 14. Springer Nature, 2023. ista: Sitarska E, Almeida SD, Beckwith MS, Stopp JA, Czuchnowski J, Siggel M, Roessner R, Tschanz A, Ejsing C, Schwab Y, Kosinski J, Sixt MK, Kreshuk A, Erzberger A, Diz-Muñoz A. 2023. Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles. Nature Communications. 14, 5644. mla: Sitarska, Ewa, et al. “Sensing Their Plasma Membrane Curvature Allows Migrating Cells to Circumvent Obstacles.” Nature Communications, vol. 14, 5644, Springer Nature, 2023, doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41173-1. short: E. Sitarska, S.D. Almeida, M.S. Beckwith, J.A. Stopp, J. Czuchnowski, M. Siggel, R. Roessner, A. Tschanz, C. Ejsing, Y. Schwab, J. Kosinski, M.K. Sixt, A. Kreshuk, A. Erzberger, A. Diz-Muñoz, Nature Communications 14 (2023). date_created: 2023-09-24T22:01:10Z date_published: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-14T22:30:14Z day: '13' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: MiSi doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41173-1 external_id: isi: - '001087583700008' pmid: - '37704612' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ad670e3b3c64fc585675948370f6b149 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-09-25T08:22:58Z date_updated: 2023-09-25T08:22:58Z file_id: '14365' file_name: 2023_NatureComm_Sitarska.pdf file_size: 2725421 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-09-25T08:22:58Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 14' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Nature Communications publication_identifier: eissn: - 2041-1723 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14697' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Sensing their plasma membrane curvature allows migrating cells to circumvent obstacles tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 14 year: '2023' ...