Sean Sun
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American biomedical engineer
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Sean Sun's Degrees
- Bachelors Biomedical Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Biomedical Engineering Stanford University
Why Is Sean Sun Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sean X. Sun is an American biophysicist. Sun completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1994, and obtained a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University, where he operates the Cell Mechanics Group laboratory. Sun was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016. The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering granted Sun an equivalent honor the following year.
Sean Sun's Published Works
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Published Works
- Water Permeation Drives Tumor Cell Migration in Confined Microenvironments (2014) (370)
- Three-dimensional cell migration does not follow a random walk (2014) (262)
- A mechanical model of actin stress fiber formation and substrate elasticity sensing in adherent cells (2010) (216)
- MinC Spatially Controls Bacterial Cytokinesis by Antagonizing the Scaffolding Function of FtsZ (2008) (216)
- Actin cap associated focal adhesions and their distinct role in cellular mechanosensing (2012) (183)
- Mechanics and dynamics of actin-driven thin membrane protrusions. (2006) (175)
- Cellular pressure and volume regulation and implications for cell mechanics. (2013) (160)
- Mapping local matrix remodeling induced by a migrating tumor cell using three-dimensional multiple-particle tracking. (2008) (144)
- Condensation of FtsZ filaments can drive bacterial cell division (2009) (139)
- The distinct roles of the nucleus and nucleus-cytoskeleton connections in three-dimensional cell migration (2012) (139)
- Z-ring force and cell shape during division in rod-like bacteria (2007) (118)
- Volume regulation and shape bifurcation in the cell nucleus (2015) (107)
- Morphology of the lamellipodium and organization of actin filaments at the leading edge of crawling cells. (2005) (95)
- Coherent motions in confluent cell monolayer sheets. (2014) (93)
- Adhesion dynamics and durotaxis in migrating cells (2011) (93)
- Magnetic tweezers measurement of single molecule torque. (2009) (91)
- Cytoskeletal Cross-linking and Bundling in Motor-Independent Contraction (2010) (90)
- Equilibrium free energies from path sampling of nonequilibrium trajectories (2003) (85)
- Mechanics of enveloped virus entry into host cells. (2006) (80)
- α-Catenin mediates initial E-cadherin-dependent cell–cell recognition and subsequent bond strengthening (2008) (68)
- Mechanical control of bacterial cell shape. (2011) (64)
- Collective cancer cell invasion induced by coordinated contractile stresses (2015) (62)
- Dynamics of myosin-V processivity. (2005) (62)
- Polymerization and bundling kinetics of FtsZ filaments. (2008) (58)
- Resolving the Role of Actoymyosin Contractility in Cell Microrheology (2009) (58)
- The elasticity of α-helices (2005) (56)
- Protein geometry and placement in the cardiac dyad influence macroscopic properties of calcium-induced calcium release. (2007) (56)
- Bacterial growth and form under mechanical compression (2015) (54)
- Asymmetry in the F1-ATPase and its implications for the rotational cycle. (2004) (54)
- Elasticity of alpha-helical coiled coils. (2006) (52)
- Morphology, growth, and size limit of bacterial cells. (2010) (52)
- Dynamics of myosin-driven skeletal muscle contraction: I. Steady-state force generation. (2005) (51)
- Asymmetric enrichment of PIE-1 in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote mediated by binary counterdiffusion (2009) (51)
- Cell tension and mechanical regulation of cell volume (2018) (49)
- Active Biochemical Regulation of Cell Volume and a Simple Model of Cell Tension Response. (2015) (49)
- Monitoring Early Fusion Dynamics of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 at Single-Molecule Resolution (2008) (47)
- The conformational states of Mg·ATP in water (2003) (47)
- Age-dependent stochastic models for understanding population fluctuations in continuously cultured cells (2013) (47)
- Stereocilia membrane deformation: implications for the gating spring and mechanotransduction channel. (2012) (47)
- Elastic energy storage in β-sheets with application to F1-ATPase (2003) (45)
- Hypo-Osmotic-Like Stress Underlies General Cellular Defects of Aneuploidy (2019) (45)
- Shape transitions in lipid membranes and protein mediated vesicle fusion and fission. (2007) (44)
- Confinement hinders motility by inducing RhoA-mediated nuclear influx, volume expansion, and blebbing (2019) (43)
- Cell sensing and decision-making in confinement: The role of TRPM7 in a tug of war between hydraulic pressure and cross-sectional area (2019) (42)
- MEX-5 enrichment in the C. elegans early embryo mediated by differential diffusion (2010) (40)
- Mechanochemical regulation of oscillatory follicle cell dynamics in the developing Drosophila egg chamber (2014) (40)
- A mechanochemical model of actin filaments. (2012) (39)
- Physics of Bacterial Morphogenesis (2011) (39)
- Bioengineering paradigms for cell migration in confined microenvironments. (2014) (39)
- Nucleation and decay initiation are the stiffness-sensitive phases of focal adhesion maturation. (2011) (39)
- Torsional mechanics of DNA are regulated by small-molecule intercalation. (2010) (39)
- Organization of FtsZ filaments in the bacterial division ring measured from polarized fluorescence microscopy. (2013) (35)
- Cell mechanics: a dialogue (2017) (33)
- Dynamic organelle distribution initiates actin-based spindle migration in mouse oocytes (2020) (32)
- Hysteresis in cross-bridge models of muscle. (2009) (31)
- Role of membrane-tension gated Ca2+ flux in cell mechanosensation (2018) (30)
- Cell Type Classification and Unsupervised Morphological Phenotyping From Low-Resolution Images Using Deep Learning (2019) (30)
- YAP and TAZ regulate cell volume (2019) (29)
- Simultaneously defining cell phenotypes, cell cycle, and chromatin modifications at single‐cell resolution (2013) (29)
- Cell density and actomyosin contractility control the organization of migrating collectives within an epithelium (2016) (29)
- The importance of water and hydraulic pressure in cell dynamics (2020) (28)
- Flexible light-chain and helical structure of F-actin explain the movement and step size of myosin-VI. (2006) (27)
- Functional interplay between the cell cycle and cell phenotypes. (2013) (26)
- On the energy efficiency of cell migration in diverse physical environments (2019) (26)
- Stochasticity and Spatial Interaction Govern Stem Cell Differentiation Dynamics (2015) (26)
- Magnetic Tweezers Measurement of Single Molecule Torque (2009) (25)
- Cytoskeletal tension regulates mesodermal spatial organization and subsequent vascular fate (2018) (25)
- Mechanical response and conformational amplification in α-helical coiled coils. (2010) (24)
- Continuum modeling of forces in growing viscoelastic cytoskeletal networks. (2009) (23)
- The elasticity of alpha-helices. (2005) (23)
- Correction to "Volume regulation and shape bifurcation in the cell nucleus" [J. Cell Sci. 128, (2015) 3375-3385.] (2016) (22)
- Equilibrium free energy estimates based on nonequilibrium work relations and extended dynamics. (2004) (22)
- The local forces acting on the mechanotransduction channel in hair cell stereocilia. (2014) (22)
- Electromechanics and Volume Dynamics in Non-excitable Tissue Cells (2018) (20)
- Path summation formulation of the master equation. (2006) (20)
- Epithelial vertex models with active biochemical regulation of contractility can explain organized collective cell motility (2018) (20)
- Organization of Cellular Receptors into a Nanoscale Junction during HIV-1 Adhesion (2010) (19)
- Path ensembles and path sampling in nonequilibrium stochastic systems. (2007) (19)
- Dynamics of the Bacterial Intermediate Filament Crescentin In Vitro and In Vivo (2010) (19)
- Flow-Driven Cell Migration under External Electric Fields. (2015) (18)
- Symmetry breaking in hydrodynamic forces drives meiotic spindle rotation in mammalian oocytes (2020) (18)
- Voltage-induced bending and electromechanical coupling in lipid bilayers. (2010) (18)
- Elastic energy storage in beta-sheets with application to F1-ATPase. (2003) (17)
- Active force generation in cross-linked filament bundles without motor proteins. (2010) (17)
- Volume regulation and shape bifurcation in the cell nucleus (2016) (16)
- Morphology of Caulobacter crescentus and the Mechanical Role of Crescentin. (2009) (15)
- Voltage and frequency dependence of prestin-associated charge transfer. (2009) (15)
- Growth of curved and helical bacterial cells. (2012) (12)
- Chapter 23: Stochastic modeling methods in cell biology. (2008) (12)
- The correlation between cell and nucleus size is explained by an eukaryotic cell growth model (2021) (12)
- Extracellular fluid viscosity enhances cell migration and cancer dissemination (2022) (12)
- Going with the Flow: Water Flux and Cell Shape during Cytokinesis. (2017) (12)
- To grow is not enough: impact of noise on cell environmental response and fitness. (2016) (12)
- Kidney epithelial cells are active mechano-biological fluid pumps (2022) (11)
- Statistical sampling of semiclassical distributions: Calculating quantum mechanical effects using Metropolis Monte Carlo (2002) (11)
- The potential and electric field in the cochlear outer hair cell membrane (2015) (11)
- Mechanochemical models of processive molecular motors (2012) (9)
- Hydrogen, Bicarbonate, and Their Associated Exchangers in Cell Volume Regulation (2021) (9)
- Response of collagen matrices under pressure and hydraulic resistance in hydrogels. (2019) (9)
- Hydraulic resistance induces cell phenotypic transition in confinement (2021) (9)
- Bending Elasticity of Anti-Parallel β-Sheets (2007) (8)
- Effect of membrane mechanics on charge transfer by the membrane protein prestin (2012) (8)
- Ergodicity, hidden bias and the growth rate gain (2017) (8)
- CTRL – a label-free artificial intelligence method for dynamic measurement of single-cell volume (2020) (7)
- Microscale pressure measurements based on an immiscible fluid/fluid interface (2019) (6)
- Building the space elevator: lessons from biological design (2018) (6)
- Semiclassical approximations to real-time quantum-mechanical effects in correlation functions of complex molecular systems (2000) (5)
- The twisted tauopathies: surface interactions of helically patterned filaments seen in alzheimer's disease and elsewhere. (2016) (5)
- Role of Membrane-tension Gated Ca Flux in Cell Mechanosensation (2017) (5)
- Trans-epithelial Fluid Pumping Performance of Renal Epithelial Cells and Mechanics of Cystic Expansion (2019) (4)
- Biophysics at the coffee shop: lessons learned working with George Oster (2019) (4)
- Bending elasticity of anti-parallel beta-sheets. (2007) (4)
- Directing Multicellular Organization by Varying the Aspect Ratio of Soft Hydrogel Microwells (2021) (3)
- Stiffening Matrix Induces Age‐Mediated Microvascular Phenotype Through Increased Cell Contractility and Destabilization of Adherens Junctions (2022) (3)
- Extracellular Hydraulic Resistance Enhances Cell Migration (2020) (3)
- Polarized NHE1 and SWELL1 regulate migration direction, efficiency and metastasis (2022) (2)
- How accurately can a single receptor measure ligand concentrations? (2014) (2)
- Trans-epithelial fluid flow and mechanics of epithelial morphogenesis. (2022) (2)
- Growth and site-specific organization of micron-scale biomolecular devices on living mammalian cells (2021) (2)
- Actin Crosslinkers: Repairing the Sense of Touch (2010) (2)
- YAP/TAZ as a Novel Regulator of cell volume (2019) (2)
- Cells in the Polyaneuploid Cancer Cell (PACC) state have increased metastatic potential (2022) (2)
- Stochastic Models for Population Dynamics (2015) (2)
- Coherent Cell Rotation in Confluent Monolayer Sheets (2014) (1)
- Mechanical compression creates a quiescent muscle stem cell niche (2021) (1)
- Active random forces can drive differential cellular positioning and enhance motor-driven transport (2020) (1)
- Electromechanical Model for Eukaryotic Cells (2014) (1)
- Dynamics of Focal Adhesions (2013) (1)
- Bacterial Growth and Shape Regulation by External Compression (2015) (1)
- Bioengineering paradigms for cell migration in confined (2014) (1)
- Physics of Bacterial Morphogenesis (2012) (1)
- Simple Stochastic Models for Cell Division (2013) (1)
- Cooperative role of dual surfactants in synthesis of single crystal BaMoO4 microcrystals (2009) (1)
- Epitaxial growth of β-SiC on Si (100) by low energy ion beam deposition (2001) (1)
- 7.6 Biophysics of Bacterial Cell Growth and Division (2012) (1)
- Abstract A017: Polyaneuploid Cancer Cells (PACCs) as metastasis-competent cells (2023) (0)
- 183 Spatio-temporal characterization of tumor growth and invasion (2014) (0)
- External Hydraulic Resistance Influences Cell Motility (2019) (0)
- "Inchworm Filaments": Motility and Pattern Formation (2016) (0)
- Erratum: Nucleation and decay initiation are the stiffness-sensitive phases of focal adhesion maturation. (Biophysical Journal (2011) 101 (2919-2928)) (2012) (0)
- The Interplay of Osmotic Engine Model and Actin Polymerization in Confined Cell Migration (2018) (0)
- Intrinsic cell rheology drives junction maturation (2022) (0)
- Comparison of Stochastic Simulation Methods in Mechanobiology (2015) (0)
- Single-molecule analysis the cell-virus micromechanical interface (2006) (0)
- Actin network organization at the leading edge of crawling cells (2006) (0)
- Investigation of Ht1080 Tumor Growth Dynamics and ECM Invasion in 3D (2013) (0)
- On the role of myosin-induced actin depolymerization during cell migration. (2023) (0)
- Morphology, Growth and Size Limit of Bacteria (2010) (0)
- Effect of membrane mechanics on charge transfer by the membrane protein prestin (2011) (0)
- Hypotonic stress triggers delayed cell volume increase via crosstalk between myosin, calcium signaling, and ion transport (2022) (0)
- A Two-State Eukaryotic Cell Migration Model (2012) (0)
- The interplay between physical cues and mechanosensitive ion channels in cancer metastasis (2022) (0)
- Flow-Driven Cell Motility under Electrical Fields (2015) (0)
- Erratum: Elasticity of α-Helical coiled coils (Physical Review Letters (2006) 97 (248101)) (2008) (0)
- Dynamic organelle distribution initiates actin-based spindle migration in mouse oocytes (2020) (0)
- Morphology of C. Crescentus and Crescentin (2009) (0)
- Modeling How Epidermal Homeostasis is Achieved (2014) (0)
- Mechanical Tension Serves as a Late G1 Cell Cycle Checkpoint (2018) (0)
- Mechanical influences in bacterial morphogenesis and cell division (2010) (0)
- Active Regulation of Cellular Membrane Tension (2014) (0)
- Modeling Follicle Cell Length Oscillations During Tissue Elongation in Drosophila Egg Chamber (2014) (0)
- Cell-Substrate Interaction Determines Cellular Volume and Shape (2016) (0)
- Stochastic models for cell division (2013) (0)
- Vascular Phenotype is Compromised in Dynamically Stiffening Hydrogel (2020) (0)
- University of Groningen Single-molecule Observations of Replisome Structure and Function Loparo, (2009) (0)
- CTRL: a label-free method for dynamic measurement of single-cell volume. (2020) (0)
- Modeling Muscle With A Continuum Approach, New Insights Into An Old Problem (2009) (0)
- CTRL: a label-free method for dynamic measurement of single-cell volume (2019) (0)
- Role of water permeation in confined cell migration and polarization (2013) (0)
- Cell type classification and unsupervised morphological phenotype identification from low-res images with deep learning (2019) (0)
- Stiffness and Load-Dependent Spreading of Cell-Surface Adhesions are Emergent Properties of a Molecular Model (2011) (0)
- Mechanical control of bacterial cell shape : supplemental material (2011) (0)
- Tubular Renal Epithelial Cells are Active Mechanobiological Water Pumps (2019) (0)
- The potential and electric field in the cochlear outer hair cell membrane (2015) (0)
- Mechanical Response of the Coiled Coil (2010) (0)
- Directing Multicellular Organization by Varying the Aspect Ratio of Soft Hydrogel Microwells (Adv. Sci. 17/2022) (2022) (0)
- Growth mechanics of bacterial cell wall and morphology of bacteria (2010) (0)
- To Grow is not Enough: The Impact of Cell Response Time on Fitness (2015) (0)
- Single Molecular Torque Measurements of Chromatin Fibers (2010) (0)
- Prolonged culture in aerobic environments alters Escherichia coli H2 production capacity (2020) (0)
- Single Cell Volume Measurement Utilizing the Fluorescence Exclusion Method (FXm). (2020) (0)
- Inertia and Prediction in the Response to External Perturbation of Noisy Variables (2017) (0)
- Electomechanical Model for Non-Excitable Cells (2015) (0)
- Analysis of Bundle Formation in Biofilaments (2011) (0)
- On the Transcriptomic Signature and General Stress State Associated with Aneuploidy (2020) (0)
- Water Dynamics in Living Cells and Tumor Cell Migration in Confined Microenvironments (2016) (0)
- VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE OF CHARGE TRANSFER BY PRESTIN: AN ELECTRO-DIFFUSION MODEL (2009) (0)
- Modeling the Mechanical Property of Single Actin Filament (2011) (0)
- Mechanical Regulation of Nuclear Shape and Volume (2016) (0)
- Jet Propulsion Model of Cell Motility in Confined Spaces (2013) (0)
- INVITED ARTICLE Mechanochemical models of processive molecular motors (2012) (0)
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