Publications and Preprints

Kristiana Mihali*, Dennis Wörthmüller*, Pierre Sens (2026). Curvature instability of an active gel growing on a wavy membrane. Physical Review Letters.

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Kristiana Mihali, Dennis Wörthmüller, Pierre Sens (2026). Mechanical stress induced by the polymerisation of an active gel near a surface. arXiv.

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Artur Ruppel, Dennis Wörthmüller, Martial Balland, Francois Fagotto (2026). napariTFM- An Open-Source Tool for Traction Force Microscopy and Monolayer Stress Microscopy. PLOS Computational Biology.

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Arthur Alexandre, Nicola Dietler, Simone Cicolini, Andrew Callan-Jones, Dennis Wörthmüller, Serge Dmitrieff (2026). Microscopic origin of macroscopic contractility in actin-myosin active gel models. arXiv.

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Dennis Wörthmüller, Falko Ziebert, Ulrich S. Schwarz (2025). Modelling mechanochemical coupling in optogenetically activated cell layers. Biophysical Journal.

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Dennis Wörthmüller, Gaetano Ferraro, Pierre Sens, Michele Castellana (2025). IRENE A fluId layeR finitE-elemeNt softwarE. arXiv.

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Artur Ruppel*, Dennis Wörthmüller*, Vladimir Misiak, Manasi Kelkar, Irène Wang, Philippe Moreau, Adrien Méry, Jean Révilloud, Guillaume Charras, Giovanni Cappello, Thomas Boudou, Ulrich S Schwarz, Martial Balland (2023). Force propagation between epithelial cells depends on active coupling and mechano-structural polarization. eLife.

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Santiago Gomez Melo*, Dennis Wörthmüller*, Pierre Gönczy, Niccolo Banterle, Ulrich S. Schwarz (2023). Grand canonical Brownian dynamics simulations of adsorption and self-assembly of SAS-6 rings on a surface. The Journal of Chemical Physics.

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T. Andersen*, D. Wörthmüller*, D. Probst, I. Wang, P. Moreau, V. Fitzpatrick, T. Boudou, U.S. Schwarz, M. Balland (2023). Cell size and actin architecture determine force generation in optogenetically activated cells. Biophysical Journal.

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