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1. 2026

   Trophic state modulates congruence between metabarcoding and microscopy in freshwater biomonitoring

   M Castro Berman, AR Hrycik, E Palmer, JR Johansen, KL Reinl, JS Dordick, K Rose, BT Larson

   Ecological Indicators, in press
2. 2026

   Cell morphogenesis: Generalizable control principles from a peculiar protist

   C Doyle, BT Larson

   Current Biology 36 (14)Link
3. 2026

   Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells in Euplotes gigatrox

   BT Larson, D Giannotti, M Mtawali, SJ Lord, V Boscaro, PJ Keeling

   PNAS 123 (20)PDF

   Popular press: Science Friday, Science News
4. 2026

   Mixed clonal-aggregative multicellularity entrained by extreme salinity fluctuations in a close relative of animals

   N Ros-Rocher*, J Reyes-Rivera*, U Horo, C Combredet, Y Foroughijabbari, BT Larson, MC Coyle, EAT Houtepen, MJA Vermeij, J Steenwyk, T Brunet

   Nature 651Link

   Highlighted in Nature

   Popular press: The Atlantic
5. 2025

   The cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant cell that embeds symbiotic algae in a microtubule meshwork

   V Boudreau*, AR Albright*, BT Larson, TM Gerbich, T Fadero, V Yan, A Lucas-DeMott, J Yung, SLY Moulin, CP Descovich, MM Slabodnick, A Burlacot, JR Wang, KK Niyogi, WF Marshall

   MBoC 36 (4)Link
6. 2024

   Cell motility: Bioelectric control of behavior without neurons

   BT Larson, WF Marshall

   Current Biology 34 (4)Link
7. 2023

   Swimming, feeding and inversion of multicellular choanoflagellate sheets

   L Fung, A Konkol, T Ishikawa, BT Larson, T Brunet, RE Goldstein

   Physical Review Letters 131 (168401)Link
8. 2023

   Perspectives on principles of cellular behavior from the biophysics of protists

   BT Larson

   Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (6)Link
9. 2022

   A unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite-state machine

   BT Larson, J Garbus, JB Pollack, WF Marshall

   Current Biology 32 (17)Link

   Popular press: New Scientist, UCSF News
10. 2021

    A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline

    NT Chartier*, A Mukherjee*, J Pfanzelter*, S Fürthauer, BT Larson, AW Fritsch, M Kreysing, F Jülicher, SW Grill

    Nature Physics 17PDF
11. 2020

    Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization

    BT Larson, T Ruiz-Herrero, S Li, S Kumar, L Mahadevan, N King

    PNAS 117 (3)PDF
12. 2019

    Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate

    T Brunet*, BT Larson*, TA Linden*, MJA Vermeij, KL McDonald, N King

    Science 366 (6463)PDF

    Highlighted in journals: Science, eLife, and Current Biology

    Popular press: Scientific American, Science News, and Science Daily
13. 2019

    The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes

    D Laundon, BT Larson, KL McDonald, N King, P Burkhardt

    PLOS Biology 17 (4)PDF
14. 2014

    Systematic spatial mapping of proteins at exocytic and endocytic structures

    BT Larson, KA Sochacki, JM Kindem, JW Taraska

    MBoC 25 (13)PDF
15. 2012

    Imaging the post-fusion release and capture of a vesicle membrane protein

    KA Sochacki, BT Larson, DC Sengupta, MP Daniels, G Shtengel, HF Hess, JW Taraska

    Nature Communications 3 (1)PDF

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