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Loosely defined research area: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics | Panarthropod locomotion and behavior | Movement through complex environments | Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems | Mathematical and computational biology

Level of biological organization considered: Molecular 🧬 | Tissue 🦴 | Single-celled organism 🦠 | Multi-cellular organism 🐜


Evolutionarily diverse fungal zoospores show contrasting swimming patterns specific to ultrastructure
Luis Javier Galindo, Thomas A. Richards, Jasmine A Nirody†
Current Biology, forthcoming
[ bioRxiv ] [ Motility Data + Code ] [ Raw Images + Videos ] [Phylogenetic Datasets ]
Relevant research areas: Movement through complex environments | Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Single-celled organism 🦠

Kinematics and coordination of moth flies walking on smooth and rough surfaces
Erin E. Brandt†, Maria R. Manyama, Jasmine A Nirody†.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024
[ Journal ] [ Tracking Data + Code ]
Relevant research areas: Panarthropod locomotion and behavior | Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜

Cell arrangement impacts metabolic activity and antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Hannah Dayton, Julie Kiss, Mian Wei, Shradha Chauhan, Emily LaMarre, William Cole Cornell, Anuradha Janakiraman, Wei Min, Raju Tomer, Alexa Price-Whelan, Jasmine A Nirody, Lars EP Dietrich
PloS Biology, 2024
[ Journal ] [ bioRxiv ] [ Analysis Code ] || [Columbia | AAAS | Science Daily | Other Press ]
Relevant research areas: Bacterial motility and mechanics
Level of organization: Single-celled organism 🦠

Flexible locomotion in complex environments: the influence of species, speed and sensory feedback on panarthropod inter-leg coordination
Jasmine A Nirody†.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023. (special issue: 'A Century of Comparative Biomechanics: Emerging and Historical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Field')
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Panarthropod locomotion and behavior | Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜

Quantifying vascularity in the frontoparietal dome of Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from high resolution CT scans
Jasmine A Nirody, Mark B. Goodwin, John R. Horner, Tony L. Huynh, Matthew W. Colbert, David K. Smith, David C. Evans
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022
[ Journal ] [GSA Abstract ] [ Data + Code ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Tardigrades exhibit robust inter-limb coordination across walking speeds
Jasmine A Nirody†, Lisset A. Duran Rosario, Deborah Johnston, Daniel J. Cohen.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
[ Journal ] [ bioRxiv ] [ SICB Abstract ] [ Data + Code ] || [Princeton | Oxford | Rockefeller | Smithsonian | Gizmodo | Other Press ]
Relevant research areas: Panarthropod locomotion and behavior | Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜

Universal features in panarthropod inter-leg coordination during forward walking
Jasmine A Nirody†
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021 (special issue: 'Physical mechanisms of behavior')
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ]
Relevant research areas: Panarthropod locomotion and behavior | Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜

ATP synthase: evolution, energetics, and membrane interactions
Jasmine A Nirody†, Itay Budin, Padmini Rangamani
Journal of General Physiology, 2020
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Load-dependent adaptation near zero load in the bacterial flagellar motor
Jasmine A Nirody†, Ashley L. Nord, Richard M. Berry
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2019
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ] [ Code ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Biophysics at the coffee shop: lessons learned working with George Oster
Oleg Igoshin, Jing Chen, Jianhua Xing, Jian Liu, Timothy C. Elston*, Michael Grabe*, Kenneth S. Kim*, Jasmine Nirody*, Padmini Rangamani*, Sean Sun*, Hongyun Wang*, Charles Wolgemuth*
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2019
[Journal ] [ arXiv ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Geckos race across the water's surface using multiple mechanisms
Jasmine A. Nirody*†, Judy Jinn*, Thomas Libby, Timothy J. Lee, Ardian Jusufi, David L. Hu, Robert J. Full
Current Biology, 2018
[ Journal ] [ SICB Abstract ] || [Berkeley | Oxford | Rockefeller | Nature Highlight | New Scientist | Other Press ]
Relevant research areas: Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜

Stability analysis in spatial modeling of cell signaling
Michael C. Getz, Jasmine A. Nirody, Padmini Rangamani
WIRES Systems Biology, 2018
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Mathematical and computational biology
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

A catch-bond drives stator mechanosensitivity in the bacterial flagellar motor
Ashley L. Nord, Emilie Gachon, Ruben Perez-Carrasco, Jasmine A. Nirody, Alessandro Barducci, Richard M. Berry, Francesco Pedaci
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
[ Journal ] [ bioRxiv ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

The biophysicist's guide to the bacterial flagellar motor
Jasmine A. Nirody, Yi-Ren Sun, Chien-Jung Lo
Advances in Physics X, 2017
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

The limiting speed of the bacterial flagellar motor
Jasmine A. Nirody†, Richard M. Berry, George Oster
Biophysical Journal, 2016
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics | Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Cortical bone laminar analysis reveals increased midcortical and periosteal porosity in type 2 postmenopausal women with history of fragility fractures compared to fracture-free diabetes
Ursula Heilmeier, Karen Cheng, Robin Parrish, Courtney Pasco, Jasmine Nirody, Janina Patsch, Chiyuan A. Zhang, Gabby B. Joseph, Andrew J. Burghardt, Ann V. Schwartz, Thomas M. Link, Galateia J. Kazakia.
Osteoporosis International, 2016.
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Mechanics of torque generation in the bacterial flagellar motor.
Kranthi K. Mandadapu*, Jasmine A. Nirody*, Richard M. Berry, George Oster.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015.
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ] || [ SIAM Connect ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Bacterial motility and mechanics | Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Spatial distribution of intracortical porosity varies with age and sex.
Jasmine A. Nirody, Karen P. Cheng, Robin M. Parrish, Andrew J. Burghardt, Thomas Link, Sharmila Majumdar, Galateia J. Kazakia.
Bone, 2015.
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Exploiting pallidal plasticity for stimulation in Parkinson's disease.
Marcel A.J. Lourens, Bettina C. Schwab, Jasmine A. Nirody, Hil G.E. Meijer, Stephan A. van Gils.
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2015.
[ Journal ] [ CNS 2011 Abstract ] [ CNS 2013 Abstract ]
Relevant research areas: Mathematical and computational biology
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

diCal-IBD: demography aware detection of identity-by-descent in unrelated individuals.
Paula Tataru*, Jasmine A. Nirody*, Yun S. Song
Bioinformatics, 2014
[ Journal ] [ bioRxiv ] [ Software: diCal-IBD ]
Relevant research areas: Mathematical and computational biology
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

The influence of disuse on bone microstructure and mechanics assessed by HR-pQCT
Galateia J. Kazakia, Willy Tjong, Jasmine A. Nirody, Andrew J. Burghardt, Julio Carballido-Gamio, Janina M. Patsch, Thomas Link, Brian T. Feeley, C. Benjamin Ma
Bone, 2014
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Development of spatial coarse-to-fine processing in the visual pathway.
Jasmine A. Nirody†
Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2014
[ Journal ] [ arXiv ] [ CNS 2013 Abstract ] [ MATLAB Code ]
Relevant research areas: Mathematical and computational biology
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Structural analysis of cortical porosity applied to HR-pQCT data
Willy Tjong, Jasmine Nirody , Andrew J. Burghardt, Julio Carballido-Gamio, Galateia J. Kazakia
Medical Physics, 2014
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Analysis of unstable behavior in a mathematical model for erythropoiesis
Susana Serna, Jasmine A. Nirody, Miklós Z. Rácz
Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2013
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Mathematical and computational biology
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

Age- and gender-related differences in cortical geometry and microstructure in the distal radius and tibia: improved sensitivity by regional analysis
Galateia J. Kazakia, Jasmine A. Nirody, Gregory Bernstein, Miki Sode, Andrew J. Burghardt, Sharmila Majumdar
Bone, 2013
[ Journal ]
Relevant research areas: Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Tissue 🦴

Structural implications of conserved aspartate residues located in tropomyosin's coiled-coil core
Jeffrey R. Moore, Xiaochuan Li, Jasmine Nirody, William Lehman
BioArchitecture, 2011
[ Journal ] [ Biophysics 2010 Abstract ]
Relevant research areas: Molecular motors | Structure-function relationships in biomechanical systems
Level of organization: Molecular 🧬

The mechanics of slithering locomotion
David L. Hu, Jasmine Nirody, Terri Scott, Michael J. Shelley.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
[ Journal ] || [ NSF ScienceNation | Other Press ]
Relevant research areas: Movement through complex environments
Level of organization: Multi-cellular organism 🐜