Publications

Preprints

Information content and optimization of self-organized developmental systems

D. B. Brückner and G. Tkačik

arXiv 2312.05895


Self-organised pattern formation in the developing neural tube by a temporal relay of BMP signalling

S. Lehr*, D. B. Brückner*, M. Greunz-Schindler, T. Minchington, J. Merrin, E. Hannezo, A. Kicheva

bioRxiv 2023.11.15.567070


BMP-dependent patterning of ectoderm tissue material properties modulates lateral mesendoderm cell migration during early zebrafish gastrulation

S. Tavano, D. B. Brückner, S. Tasciyan, R. Hauschild, X. Tong, R. Kardos, A. Schauer and C. P. Heisenberg

bioRxiv 2023.07.21.550024


Geometry-driven migration efficiency of autonomous epithelial cell clusters

E. Vercruysse*, D. B. Brückner*M. Gómez-González, A. Remson, M. Luciano, Y. Kalukula, L. Rossetti, X. Trepat,  E. Hannezo,  S. Gabriele

bioRxiv 2022.07.17.500364v2 (accepted for publication)


Morphology and Motility of Cells on Soft Substrates 

A. Goychuk, D. B. Brückner, A. W. Holle, J. P. Spatz, C. P. Broedersz and E. Frey 

arXiv 1808.00314

Reviews

Learning dynamical models of single and collective cell migration: a review

D. B. Brückner and C. P. Broedersz

Reports on Progress in Physics 87, 056601 (2024)


Connecting theory and experiment in cell and tissue mechanics

C. Schwayer and D. B. Brückner 

Journal of Cell Science 136, jcs261515 (2023)

Research Papers

Stochastic motion and transcriptional dynamics of pairs of distal DNA loci on a compacted chromosome

D. B. Brückner*,  H. Chen*, L. Barinov, B. Zoller, T. Gregor

Science 380, 1357-1362 (2023) 


Curvature induces active velocity waves in rotating spherical tissues

T. Brandstätter*, D. B. Brückner*,  Y. L. Han, R. Alert, M. Guo, C. P. Broedersz

Nature Communications 14, 1643 (2023)

Geometry adaptation of protrusion and polarity dynamics in confined cell migration

D. B. Brückner, M. Schmitt, A. Fink, G. Ladurner, J. Flommersfeld, N. Arlt, E. Hannezo, J. O. Rädler, C. P. Broedersz

Phys. Rev. X 12:031041, 2022


3D printed protein-based robotic structures actuated by molecular motor-based cortices

H. Jia, J. Flommersfeld, M. Heymann, S. Vogel, H. Franquelim, D. B. Brückner, H. Eto, C. P. Broedersz, P. Schwille

Nature Materials 21:703, 2022


Disentangling cadherin-mediated cell-cell interactions in collective cancer cell migration 

T. Zisis*, D. B. Brückner*, T. Brandstätter, W. X. Siow, J. d'Alessandro, A. Vollmar, C. P. Broedersz and S. Zahler

Biophys. J. 121:44, 2022

From collections of independent, mindless robots to flexible, mobile and directional superstructures

J. F. Boudet, J. Lintuvuori, C. Lacouture, T. Barois, A. Deblais, K. Xie, S. Cassagnere, B. Tregon, D. B. Brückner, J. C. Baret and H. Kellay

Science Robotics 6:eabd0272, 2021

Stochastic dynamics of migrating cells: a data-driven approach

D. B. Brückner

PhD Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2021


Learning the dynamics of cell-cell interactions in confined cell migration 

D. B. Brückner,  N. Arlt, A. Fink, P. Ronceray, J. O. Rädler, C. P. Broedersz

PNAS 118:e2016602118, 2021 

Inferring the dynamics of underdamped stochastic systems 

D. B. Brückner*, P. Ronceray* and C. P. Broedersz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125:058103, 2020

Disentangling the behavioural variability of confined cell migration

D. B. Brückner, A. Fink, J. O. Rädler and C. P. Broedersz

J. R. Soc. Interface 17:20190689, 2020


Area and geometry dependence of cell migration in asymmetric two-state micropatterns 

A. Fink, D. B. Brückner, C. Schreiber, P. J. F. Röttgermann, C. P. Broedersz and J. O. Rädler

Biophys. J. 118:552, 2020

Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics of Confined Cell Migration in Two-State Systems

D. B. Brückner*, A. Fink*, C. Schreiber, P. J. F. Röttgermann, J. O. Rädler, C. P. Broedersz 

Nature Physics 15:595, 2019


Guiding 3D cell migration in deformed synthetic hydrogel microstructures 

M. Dietrich, H. Le Roy, D. B. Brückner, H. Engelke, R. Zantl, J. O. Rädler and C. P. Broedersz

Soft Matter 14:2816, 2018


Thermophoretic Forces on a Mesoscopic Scale 

J. Burelbach, D. B. Brückner, D. Frenkel and E. Eiser

Soft Matter 14:7446, 2018


*equal contribution

Popular Science Articles

Dynamik der Zellmigration (in German)

D. B. Brückner

Physik Journal 21:60, 2022