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Stephan W. Grill

Stephan W. Grill

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
17684
World Ranking
12321
National Ranking
878

Overview

Stephan W. Grill is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work is primarily situated within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, encompassing 75 published studies. Within this domain, Grill's research focuses on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Aging, Physiology, and Biophysics.

Their main research topics cover various aspects of genetics, cellular mechanics, and molecular dynamics. These include:

  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Grill has frequently published in a selection of scientific journals, with a strong record in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Physics
  • Nature

Their recent papers reflect a focus on biophysical processes and molecular interactions, with notable publications including:

  • HP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains, 2021, eLife
  • Sequence-dependent surface condensation of a pioneer transcription factor on DNA, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Regionalized tissue fluidization is required for epithelial gap closure during insect gastrulation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A condensate dynamic instability orchestrates actomyosin cortex activation, 2022, Nature
  • A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline, 2021, Nature Physics

Collaboratively, Grill has worked extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Frank Jülicher
  • Tina Wiegand
  • Roman Renger
  • José A. Morín
  • Lokesh G. Pimpale

Best Publications

  • A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation

    Avinash Patel;Hyun O. Lee;Louise Jawerth;Shovamayee Maharana

  • Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Molecules to Embryos at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

    Bi Chang Chen;Wesley R. Legant;Kai Wang;Lin Shao

  • Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness

    Titus M. Franzmann;Marcus Jahnel;Marcus Jahnel;Andrei Pozniakovsky;Julia Mahamid

  • Polarity controls forces governing asymmetric spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo

    Stephan W. Grill;Pierre Gönczy;Pierre Gönczy;Ernst H. K. Stelzer;Anthony A. Hyman

  • Anisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows

    Mirjam Mayer;Martin Depken;Justin S. Bois;Frank Jülicher

  • Rab6 Coordinates a Novel Golgi to ER Retrograde Transport Pathway in Live Cells

    Jamie White;Ludger Johannes;Frédéric Mallard;Andreas Girod

  • Forces Driving Epithelial Spreading in Zebrafish Gastrulation

    Martin Behrndt;Guillaume Salbreux;Pedro Campinho;Robert Hauschild

  • The distribution of active force generators controls mitotic spindle position.

    Stephan W. Grill;Jonathon Howard;Erik Schäffer;Ernst H. K. Stelzer

  • SAS-4 Is a C. elegans Centriolar Protein that Controls Centrosome Size

    Matthew Kirkham;Thomas Müller-Reichert;Karen Oegema;Stephan Grill

  • Translation of Polarity Cues into Asymmetric Spindle Positioning in Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos.

    Kelly Colombo;Stephan W. Grill;Randall J. Kimple;Francis S. Willard

  • Polarization of PAR proteins by advective triggering of a pattern-forming system.

    Nathan W. Goehring;Philipp Khuc Trong;Justin S. Bois;Debanjan Chowdhury

  • Backtracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner

    Eric A. Galburt;Stephan W. Grill;Anna Wiedmann;Lucyna Lubkowska

  • Turing's next steps: the mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis.

    Jonathon Howard;Stephan W. Grill;Justin S. Bois

  • Spindle Positioning by Cortical Pulling Forces

    Stephan W. Grill;Anthony A. Hyman

  • Pattern Formation in Active Fluids

    Justin S. Bois;Frank Jülicher;Stephan W. Grill

  • DNA translocation and loop formation mechanism of chromatin remodeling by SWI/SNF and RSC.

    Yongli Zhang;Corey Lewis Smith;Anjanabha Saha;Stephan W. Grill

  • Impaired DNA damage response signaling by FUS-NLS mutations leads to neurodegeneration and FUS aggregate formation

    Marcel Naumann;Arun Pal;Anand Goswami;Xenia Lojewski

  • Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking

    Sundar Ram Naganathan;Sundar Ram Naganathan;Sebastian Fürthauer;Masatoshi Nishikawa;Masatoshi Nishikawa;Frank Jülicher

  • Hydrodynamic theory of active matter

    Frank Jülicher;Stephan W Grill;Guillaume Salbreux;Guillaume Salbreux

  • Spindle Oscillations during Asymmetric Cell Division Require a Threshold Number of Active Cortical Force Generators

    Jacques Pecreaux;Jens-Christian Röper;Jens-Christian Röper;Karsten Kruse;Frank Jülicher

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher Max Planck Society
Anthony A. Hyman
Anthony A. Hyman Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Ernst H. K. Stelzer
Ernst H. K. Stelzer Goethe University Frankfurt
Pierre Gönczy
Pierre Gönczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Simon Alberti
Simon Alberti TU Dresden
Jonathon Howard
Jonathon Howard Yale University
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Julie Ahringer
Julie Ahringer University of Cambridge
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Ina Poser
Ina Poser Max Planck Society

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