Publications

Shree S. and Howard J.:

Protocol for Imaging the Same Class IV Neurons at Different Stages of Development.

Bio-protocol

Ianeselli A, Howard J, Gerstein M.B.:

A Discard-and-Restart MD algorithm for the sampling of realistic protein transition states and enhance structure-based drug discovery.

bioRxiv

Liao M, Bird AD, Cuntz H and Howard J:

Topology recapitulates morphogenesis of neuronal dendrites.

Cell Reports, 42, 113268, November 28, 2023

Glomb O, Swaim S, Lancao PM, Lovejoy C, Sutradhar S, Park J, Wu Y, Cason SE, Holzbaur E LF, Hammarlund M, Howard J, Ferguson SM, Gramlich MW and Yogev S:

A kinesin-1 adaptor complex controls bimodal slow axonal transport of spectrin in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Developmental Cell, Elsevier Inc.

Al-Hiyasat A, Tuna Y, Kuo Y-W, and Howard, J:

Herding of proteins by the ends of shrinking polymers.

Phys. Rev. E 107, L042601 11 April 2023

Djenoune L, Mahamdeh M, Truong T V, Nguyen C T, Fraser S E, Brueckner M, Howard J, Yuan S:

Cilia function as calcium-mediated mechanosensors that instruct left-right asymmetry.

Science 379, 71–78 6 January 2023

Luchniak A, Kuo Y-W, McGuinness C, Sutradhar S, Orbach R, Mahamdeh M,and Howard J:

Dynamic microtubules slow down during their shrinkage phase.

Biophysical Journal 122, February 21, 2023

Kuo YW and Howard J:

In Vitro Reconstitution of Microtubule Dynamics and SeveringSevering Imaged by Label-Free Interference-Reflection Microscopy.

Microtubules: Methods and Protocols

Howard J, Chasteen A, Ouyang X , Geyer VF and Sartori P:

Predicting the locations of force-generating dyneins in beating cilia and flagella.

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 11 October 2022

Shree S, Sutradhar S, Trottier O, Tu Y, Liang X and Howard J:

Dynamic instability of dendrite tips generates the highly branched morphologies of sensory neurons.

Science Advances 8, eabn0080, 29 June 2022

Liao M, Kuo YW, and Howard J,:

Counting fluorescently labeled proteins in tissues in the spinning–disk microscope using single–molecule calibrations.

Mol Biol of the Cell

Kuo YW, Mahamdeh M, Tuna Y and Howard J:

The force required to remove tubulin from the microtubule lattice by pulling on its α-tubulin C-terminal tail.

Nature Comm.

Tuna Y, Al-Hiyasat A and Howard J:

Simultaneous Interference Reflection and Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy for Imaging Dynamic Microtubules and Associated Proteins.

J. Vis. Exp. (183), e63730, doi:10.3791/63730 (2022)

Geyer V F , Howard J and Sartori P:

Ciliary beating patterns map onto a low-dimensional behavioural space.

Nature Physics, volume 18, 332–337

Rao Q, Han L, Wang Y , Chai P, Kuo YW, Yang R, Hu F, Yang Y, Howard J and Zhang K:

Structures of outer-arm dynein array on microtubule doublet reveal a motor coordination mechanism.

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology , Oct 2021

Liao, M., Liang, X., and Howard, J.:

The narrowing of dendrite branches across nodes follows a well-defined scaling law.

PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 27 e2022395118

Basak, R., Sutradhar, S., and Howard, J. :

Focal laser stimulation of fly nociceptors activates distinct axonal and dendritic Ca2D signals.

Biophysical Journal 120, 1–12, August 3, 2021

Kuo YW and Howard J:

Cutting, Amplifying, and Aligning Microtubules with Severing Enzymes.

Trends in Cell Biology, January 2021, Vol. 31, No. 1

Rodenfels J, Sartori P, Golfier S, Nagendra K, Neugebauera K M and Howard J:

Contribution of increasing plasma membrane to the energetic cost of early zebrafish embryogenesis.

Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 31, No. 7

Orbach R and Howard J:

Purification of Ciliary Tubulin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Current Protocols in Protein Science,100, e107

Kuo Y-W, Trottier O and Howard J:

Predicted Effects of Severing Enzymes on theLength Distribution and Total Mass of Microtubules.

Biophysical Journal, December 3, 2019

Mahamdeh M, Howard J:

Implementation of Interference Reflection Microscopy for Label-free, High-speed Imaging of Microtubules.

J. Vis. Exp. (150), e59520

Luchniak A, Mahamdeh M, Howard J:

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides and their precursor NMN have no direct effect on microtubule dynamics in purified brain tubulin.

PLoS ONE 14(8): e0220794

Feofilova M, Mahamdeh M,Howard J :

The Kinetics of Nucleotide Binding to IsolatedChlamydomonasAxonemes Using UV-TIRFMicroscopy.

Biophysical Journal, (2019) August 20

Khataee H and Howard J:

Force Generated by Two Kinesin Motors Depends on the Load Direction and Intermolecular Coupling.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 188101, 8 May 2019

Orbach R and Howard J:

The dynamic and structural properties of axonemal tubulins support the high length stability of cilia.

Nature Communications, 10,1838 (2019)

Rodenfels J, Neugebauer K M and Howard J:

Heat Oscillations Driven by the Embryonic Cell Cycle Reveal the Energetic Costs of Signaling.

Developmental Cell, March 11

Kuo Y, Trottier O, Mahamdeh M, and Howard J:

Spastin is a dual-function enzyme that severs microtubules and promotes their regrowth to increase the number and mass of microtubules.

PNAS, March 5, 2019

Mahamdeh M, Simmert S, Luchniak A, Schaffer E, Howard J:

Label‐free high‐speed wide‐field imaging of single microtubules using interference reflection microscopy.

Journal of Microscopy, 25 July; 2018

Liang X., Howard J:

Structural Biology: Piezo Senses Tension through Curvature.

Curr Biol.; Apr 23; PMID: 29689211

Geyer V. F., Sartori P., Jülicher F., Howard J. :

Computational modeling of dynein activity and the generation of flagellar beating waveforms.

December 1, Dyneins: Dynein Mechanics, Dysfunction, and Disease, 193

Geyer V F , Sartori P, Jülicher F, Howard J:

The Flagella Beat of Chlamydomonas Has Distinctly Regulated Static and Dynamic Components, which Accord with Curvature Controlled Dynein Activity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.2309

Howard J, Garzon‐Coral Carlos:

Physical Limits on the Precision of Mitotic Spindle Positioning by Microtubule Pushing forces.

PMID: 28960439, doi: 10.1002/bies.201700122

Coombes C, Yamamoto A, McClellan M, Reid TA, Plooster M, Luxton GW, Alper J, Howard J, Gardner MK:

Mechanism of microtubule lumen entry for the α-tubulin acetyltransferase enzyme αTAT1..

PNAS. 2016 Nov 1; PMID: 27803321

Sartori P, Geyer VF, Howard J, Jülicher F:

Curvature regulation of the ciliary beat through axonemal twist.

Phys. Rev. E, 2016 Oct 28; PMID: 27841522

Xiao X, Geyer VF, Bowne-Anderson H, Howard J, Sbalzarini IF:

Automatic optimal filament segmentation with sub-pixel accuracy using generalized linear models and B-spline level-sets.

Med Image Anal. 2016 Aug; 2016 Apr 4. PMID: 27104582

Garzon-Coral C, Fantana HA, Howard J:

A force-generating machinery maintains the spindle at the cell center during mitosis.

Science. 2016 May 27. PMID: 27230381

Sartori P, Geyer VF, Scholich A, Jülicher F, Howard J:

Dynamic curvature regulation accounts for the symmetric and asymmetric beats of Chlamydomonas flagella.

Elife. 2016 May 11; 2016 May 11. PMID: 27166516

Battle C, Broedersz CP, Fakhri N, Geyer VF, Howard J, Schmidt CF, MacKintosh FC:

Broken detailed balance at mesoscopic scales in active biological systems.

Science. 2016 Apr 29. PMID: 27126047

Geyer VF, Sartori P, Friedrich BM, Jülicher F, Howard J:

Independent Control of the Static and Dynamic Components of the Chlamydomonas Flagellar Beat.

Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 25; 2016 Mar 31. PMID: 27040779

Borisy G, Heald R, Howard J, Janke C, Musacchio A, Nogales E:

Microtubules: 50 years on from the discovery of tubulin.

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2016 Apr 22. PMID: 27103327

Carrillo Oesterreich F, Herzel L, Straube K, Hujer K, Howard J, Neugebauer KM:

Splicing of Nascent RNA Coincides with Intron Exit from RNA Polymerase II.

Cell. 2016 Apr 7; 2016 Mar 24. PMID: 27020755

Bowne-Anderson H, Hibbel A, Howard J:

Regulation of Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe: Unifying Theory and Experiment.

Trends Cell Biol. 2015 Dec. PMID: 26616192

Hibbel A, Bogdanova A, Mahamdeh M, Jannasch A, Storch M, Schäffer E, Liakopoulos D, Howard J:

Kinesin Kip2 enhances microtubule growth in vitro through length-dependent feedback on polymerization and catastrophe.

Elife. 2015 Nov 18; 2015 Nov 18. PMID: 26576948

Alper JD, Decker F, Agana B, Howard J:

The motility of axonemal dynein is regulated by the tubulin code.

Biophys J. 2014 Dec 16. PMID: 25658008

Liang X, Madrid J, Howard J:

The microtubule-based cytoskeleton is a component of a mechanical signaling pathway in fly campaniform receptors.

http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=25517144

Howard J:

Quantitative cell biology: the essential role of theory.

Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Nov 5. PMID: 25368416

Podolski M, Mahamdeh M, Howard J:

Stu2, the budding yeast XMAP215/Dis1 homolog, promotes assembly of yeast microtubules by increasing growth rate and decreasing catastrophe frequency.

J Biol Chem. 2014 Oct 10; 2014 Aug 29. PMID: 25172511

Howard J:

Jonathon Howard: motor proteins go walkabout. Interview by Caitlin Sedwick.

J Cell Biol. 2014 Jan 20. PMID: 24446480

Howard J, McIntosh JR, Odde DJ:

A brief scientific biography of Prof. Alan J. Hunt.

Cell Mol Bioeng. 2013 Dec. PMID: 24683426

Takeshita N, Mania D, Herrero S, Ishitsuka Y, Nienhaus GU, Podolski M, Howard J, Fischer R:

The cell-end marker TeaA and the microtubule polymerase AlpA contribute to microtubule guidance at the hyphal tip cortex of Aspergillus nidulans to provide polarity maintenance.

J Cell Sci. 2013 Dec 1; 2013 Oct 7. PMID: 24101725

Geyer VF, Jülicher F, Howard J, Friedrich BM:

Cell-body rocking is a dominant mechanism for flagellar synchronization in a swimming alga.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 5; 2013 Oct 21. PMID: 24145440

Trushko A, Schäffer E, Howard J:

The growth speed of microtubules with XMAP215-coated beads coupled to their ends is increased by tensile force.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Sep 3; 2013 Aug 20. PMID: 23964126

Reber SB, Baumgart J, Widlund PO, Pozniakovsky A, Howard J, Hyman AA, Jülicher F:

XMAP215 activity sets spindle length by controlling the total mass of spindle microtubules.

Nat Cell Biol. 2013 Sep; 2013 Aug 25. PMID: 23974040

Jannasch A, Bormuth V, Storch M, Howard J, Schäffer E:

Kinesin-8 is a low-force motor protein with a weakly bound slip state.

Biophys J. 2013 Jun 4. PMID: 23746518

Zanic M, Widlund PO, Hyman AA, Howard J:

Synergy between XMAP215 and EB1 increases microtubule growth rates to physiological levels.

Nat Cell Biol. 2013 Jun; 2013 May 12. PMID: 23666085

Alper JD, Tovar M, Howard J:

Displacement-weighted velocity analysis of gliding assays reveals that Chlamydomonas axonemal dynein preferentially moves conspecific microtubules.

Biophys J. 2013 May 7. PMID: 23663842

Liang X, Madrid J, Gärtner R, Verbavatz JM, Schiklenk C, Wilsch-Bräuninger M, Bogdanova A, Stenger F, Voigt A, Howard J:

A NOMPC-dependent membrane-microtubule connector is a candidate for the gating spring in fly mechanoreceptors.

Curr Biol. 2013 May 6; 2013 Apr 11. PMID: 23583554

Bowne-Anderson H, Zanic M, Kauer M, Howard J:

Microtubule dynamic instability: a new model with coupled GTP hydrolysis and multistep catastrophe.

Bioessays. 2013 May; 2013 Mar 27. PMID: 23532586

Gardner MK, Zanic M, Howard J:

Microtubule catastrophe and rescue.

Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2013 Feb; 2012 Oct 22. PMID: 23092753

Alper J, Geyer V, Mukundan V, Howard J:

Reconstitution of flagellar sliding.

Methods Enzymol. 2013. PMID: 23498749

Friel CT, Howard J:

Coupling of kinesin ATP turnover to translocation and microtubule regulation: one engine, many machines.

J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2012 Dec; 2012 Mar 24. PMID: 22447431

Leduc C, Padberg-Gehle K, Varga V, Helbing D, Diez S, Howard J:

[How to avoid the formation of molecular motors traffic jam during intracellular transport].

Med Sci (Paris). 2012 Dec; 2012 Dec 21. PMID: 23290405

Widlund PO, Podolski M, Reber S, Alper J, Storch M, Hyman AA, Howard J, Drechsel DN:

One-step purification of assembly-competent tubulin from diverse eukaryotic sources.

Mol Biol Cell. 2012 Nov; 2012 Sep 19. PMID: 22993214

Senthilan PR, Piepenbrock D, Ovezmyradov G, Nadrowski B, Bechstedt S, Pauls S, Winkler M, Möbius W, Howard J, Göpfert MC:

Drosophila auditory organ genes and genetic hearing defects.

Cell. 2012 Aug 31. PMID: 22939627

Bormuth V, Nitzsche B, Ruhnow F, Mitra A, Storch M, Rammner B, Howard J, Diez S:

The highly processive kinesin-8, Kip3, switches microtubule protofilaments with a bias toward the left.

Biophys J. 2012 Jul 3. PMID: 22828351

Leduc C, Padberg-Gehle K, Varga V, Helbing D, Diez S, Howard J:

Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Apr 17; 2012 Mar 19. PMID: 22431622

Segal M, Soifer I, Petzold H, Howard J, Elbaum M, Reiner O:

Ndel1-derived peptides modulate bidirectional transport of injected beads in the squid giant axon.

Biol Open. 2012 Mar 15; 2012 Jan 6. PMID: 23213412

Tropini C, Roth EA, Zanic M, Gardner MK, Howard J:

Islands containing slowly hydrolyzable GTP analogs promote microtubule rescues.

PLoS One. 2012; 2012 Jan 17. PMID: 22272281

Gardner MK, Zanic M, Gell C, Bormuth V, Howard J:

Depolymerizing kinesins Kip3 and MCAK shape cellular microtubule architecture by differential control of catastrophe.

Cell. 2011 Nov 23. PMID: 22118464

Alper J, Howard J:

Hybrid four-headed myosin motor engineered with antagonistic motor domains.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 20; 2011 Sep 7. PMID: 21900606

Friel CT, Howard J:

The kinesin-13 MCAK has an unconventional ATPase cycle adapted for microtubule depolymerization.

EMBO J. 2011 Aug 26; 2011 Aug 26. PMID: 21873978

Gardner MK, Charlebois BD, Jánosi IM, Howard J, Hunt AJ, Odde DJ:

Rapid microtubule self-assembly kinetics.

Cell. 2011 Aug 19. PMID: 21854983

Howard J, Grill SW, Bois JS:

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

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2011 Jun. PMID: 21602907

Widlund PO, Stear JH, Pozniakovsky A, Zanic M, Reber S, Brouhard GJ, Hyman AA, Howard J:

XMAP215 polymerase activity is built by combining multiple tubulin-binding TOG domains and a basic lattice-binding region.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 15; 2011 Jan 31. PMID: 21282620

Liang X, Madrid J, Saleh HS, Howard J:

NOMPC, a member of the TRP channel family, localizes to the tubular body and distal cilium of Drosophila campaniform and chordotonal receptor cells.

Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2011 Jan. PMID: 21069788

Bormuth V, Zörgibel F, Schäffer E, Howard J:

Functional surface attachment in a sandwich geometry of GFP-labeled motor proteins.

Methods Mol Biol. 2011. PMID: 21809197

Friel CT, Bagshaw CR, Howard J:

Analysing the ATP turnover cycle of microtubule motors.

Methods Mol Biol. 2011. PMID: 21773929

Gell C, Friel CT, Borgonovo B, Drechsel DN, Hyman AA, Howard J:

Purification of tubulin from porcine brain.

Methods Mol Biol. 2011. PMID: 21773918

Mayr MI, Storch M, Howard J, Mayer TU:

A non-motor microtubule binding site is essential for the high processivity and mitotic function of kinesin-8 Kif18A.

PLoS One. 2011; 2011 Nov 10. PMID: 22102900

Khairy K, Foo J, Howard J:

Shapes of Red Blood Cells: Comparison of 3D Confocal Images with the Bilayer-Couple Model.

Cell Mol Bioeng. 2010 Sep 1. PMID: 21031149

Redemann S, Pecreaux J, Goehring NW, Khairy K, Stelzer EH, Hyman AA, Howard J:

Membrane invaginations reveal cortical sites that pull on mitotic spindles in one-cell C. elegans embryos.

PLoS One. 2010 Aug 20; 2010 Aug 20. PMID: 20808841

Sanhaji M, Friel CT, Kreis NN, Krämer A, Martin C, Howard J, Strebhardt K, Yuan J:

Functional and spatial regulation of mitotic centromere-associated kinesin by cyclin-dependent kinase 1.

Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Jun; 2010 Apr 5. PMID: 20368358

Nitzsche B, Bormuth V, Bräuer C, Howard J, Ionov L, Kerssemakers J, Korten T, Leduc C, Ruhnow F, Diez S:

Studying kinesin motors by optical 3D-nanometry in gliding motility assays.

Methods Cell Biol. 2010. PMID: 20466139

Gell C, Bormuth V, Brouhard GJ, Cohen DN, Diez S, Friel CT, Helenius J, Nitzsche B, Petzold H, Ribbe J, Schäffer E, Stear JH, Trushko A, Varga V, Widlund PO, Zanic M, Howard J:

Microtubule dynamics reconstituted in vitro and imaged by single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.

Methods Cell Biol. 2010. PMID: 20466138

Kamal MM, Mills D, Grzybek M, Howard J:

Measurement of the membrane curvature preference of phospholipids reveals only weak coupling between lipid shape and leaflet curvature.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Dec 29; 2009 Dec 23. PMID: 20080790

Zanic M, Stear JH, Hyman AA, Howard J:

EB1 recognizes the nucleotide state of tubulin in the microtubule lattice.

PLoS One. 2009 Oct 23; 2009 Oct 23. PMID: 19851462

Varga V, Leduc C, Bormuth V, Diez S, Howard J:

Kinesin-8 motors act cooperatively to mediate length-dependent microtubule depolymerization.

Cell. 2009 Sep 18. PMID: 19766569

Bormuth V, Varga V, Howard J, Schäffer E:

Protein friction limits diffusive and directed movements of kinesin motors on microtubule.

Science. 2009 Aug 14. PMID: 19679813

Howard J, Hyman AA:

Growth, fluctuation and switching at microtubule plus ends..

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2009 Aug; 2009 Jun 10. PMID: 19513082

Howard J:

Mechanical signaling in networks of motor and cytoskeletal proteins.

Annu Rev Biophys. 2009. PMID: 19416067

Crevenna AH, Madathil S, Cohen DN, Wagenbach M, Fahmy K, Howard J:

Secondary structure and compliance of a predicted flexible domain in kinesin-1 necessary for cooperation of motors.

Biophys J. 2008 Dec; 2008 Sep 5. PMID: 18775962

Bechstedt S, Howard J:

Hearing mechanics: a fly in your ear.

Curr Biol. 2008 Sep 23. PMID: 18812084

Bormuth V, Jannasch A, Ander M, van Kats CM, van Blaaderen A, Howard J, Schäffer E:

Optical trapping of coated microspheres.

Opt Express. 2008 Sep 1. PMID: 18772994

Khairy K, Howard J:

Spherical harmonics-based parametric deconvolution of 3D surface images using bending energy minimization.

Med Image Anal. 2008 Apr; 2007 Oct 30. PMID: 18055248

Brouhard GJ, Stear JH, Noetzel TL, Al-Bassam J, Kinoshita K, Harrison SC, Howard J, Hyman AA:

XMAP215 is a processive microtubule polymerase.

Cell. 2008 Jan 11. PMID: 18191222

Elie-Caille C, Severin F, Helenius J, Howard J, Muller DJ, Hyman AA:

Straight GDP-tubulin protofilaments form in the presence of taxol.

Curr Biol. 2007 Oct 23; 2007 Oct 4. PMID: 17919908

Riedel-Kruse IH, Hilfinger A, Howard J, Jülicher F:

How molecular motors shape the flagellar beat.

HFSP J. 2007 Sep. PMID: 19404446

Leduc C, Ruhnow F, Howard J, Diez S:

Detection of fractional steps in cargo movement by the collective operation of kinesin-1 motors.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 26; 2007 Jun 14. PMID: 17569782

Howard J, Tolić-Nørrelykke IM:

Bundling, sliding, and pulling microtubules in cells and in silico.

HFSP J. 2007 May; 2007 May 21. PMID: 19404456

Bormuth V, Howard J, Schäffer E:

LED illumination for video-enhanced DIC imaging of single microtubules.

J Microsc. 2007 Apr. PMID: 17381703

Schäffer E, Nørrelykke SF, Howard J:

Surface forces and drag coefficients of microspheres near a plane surface measured with optical tweezers.

Langmuir. 2007 Mar 27; 2007 Feb 28. PMID: 17326669

Howard J, Hyman AA:

Microtubule polymerases and depolymerases.

Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2007 Feb; 2006 Dec 20. PMID: 17184986

Bechstedt S, Howard J:

Models of hair cell mechanotransduction.

Curr Top Membr. 2007; 2007 Apr 17. PMID: 25168144

Pecreaux J, Röper JC, Kruse K, Jülicher F, Hyman AA, Grill SW, Howard J:

Spindle oscillations during asymmetric cell division require a threshold number of active cortical force generators.

Curr Biol. 2006 Nov 7. PMID: 17084695

Kerssemakers J, Howard J, Hess H, Diez S:

The distance that kinesin-1 holds its cargo from the microtubule surface measured by fluorescence interference contrast microscopy.

The distance that kinesin-1 holds its cargo from the microtubule surface measured by fluorescence interference contrast microscopy

Varga V, Helenius J, Tanaka K, Hyman AA, Tanaka TU, Howard J:

Yeast kinesin-8 depolymerizes microtubules in a length-dependent manner.

Nat Cell Biol. 2006 Sep; 2006 Aug 13. PMID: 16906145

Dinu CZ, Opitz J, Pompe W, Howard J, Mertig M, Diez S:

Parallel manipulation of bifunctional DNA molecules on structured surfaces using kinesin-driven microtubules.

Parallel manipulation of bifunctional DNA molecules on structured surfaces using kinesin-driven microtubules

Howard J:

Protein power strokes.

Curr Biol. 2006 Jul 25. PMID: 16860722

Helenius J, Brouhard G, Kalaidzidis Y, Diez S, Howard J:

The depolymerizing kinesin MCAK uses lattice diffusion to rapidly target microtubule ends.

Nature. 2006 May 4. PMID: 16672973

Riedel IH, Kruse K, Howard J:

A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells.

Science. 2005 Jul 8. PMID: 16002619

Poole K, Khairy K, Friedrichs J, Franz C, Cisneros DA, Howard J, Mueller D:

Molecular-scale topographic cues induce the orientation and directional movement of fibroblasts on two-dimensional collagen surfaces.

J Mol Biol. 2005 Jun 3; 2005 Apr 9. PMID: 15890202

Jiang F, Hörber H, Howard J, Müller DJ:

Assembly of collagen into microribbons: effects of pH and electrolytes.

J Struct Biol. 2004 Dec. PMID: 15522775

Lawrence CJ, Dawe RK, Christie KR, Cleveland DW, Dawson SC, Endow SA, Goldstein LS, Goodson HV, Hirokawa N, Howard J, Malmberg RL, McIntosh JR, Miki H, Mitchison TJ, Okada Y, Reddy AS, Saxton WM, Schliwa M, Scholey JM, Vale RD, Walczak CE, Wordeman L:

A standardized kinesin nomenclature.

J Cell Biol. 2004 Oct 11. PMID: 15479732

Haeberle H, Fujiwara M, Chuang J, Medina MM, Panditrao MV, Bechstedt S, Howard J, Lumpkin EA:

Molecular profiling reveals synaptic release machinery in Merkel cells.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Oct 5; 2004 Sep 24. PMID: 15448211

Jiang F, Khairy K, Poole K, Howard J, Müller DJ:

Creating nanoscopic collagen matrices using atomic force microscopy.

Microsc Res Tech. 2004 Aug. PMID: 15549696

Sawhney RK, Howard J:

Molecular dissection of the fibroblast-traction machinery.

Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2004 Jul. PMID: 15146536

Howard J, Bechstedt S: