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1. 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
2. 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

   NatureLink

   Highlighted in Nature
3. 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
4. 2024

   Cell motility: Bioelectric control of behavior without neurons

   BT Larson, WF Marshall

   Current Biology 34 (4)Link
5. 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
6. 2023

   Perspectives on principles of cellular behavior from the biophysics of protists

   BT Larson

   Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (6)Link
7. 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
8. 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 PhysicsPDF
9. 2020

   Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization

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

   PNAS 117 (3)PDF
10. 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
11. 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
12. 2014

    Systematic spatial mapping of proteins at exocytic and endocytic structures

    BT Larson, KA Sochacki, JM Kindem, JW Taraska

    MBoC 25 (13)PDF
13. 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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