In the News

Our research on emerin nanodomains has been featured in the following news stories:




Publications
C. D. Alas, L. Wu, F. Pinaud, and C. A. Haselwandter (2025). Diffusion-driven self-assembly of emerin nanodomains at the nuclear envelope. Phys. Rev. Res. 7, L012019 (2025).

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C. D. Alas, O. Kahraman, and C. A. Haselwandter (2024). Thermosensing through membrane mechanics. (in preparation).

C. D. Alas (2023). Physical principles of membrane mechanics, membrane domain formation, and cellular signal transduction. University of Southern California Libraries. (Dissertation).

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C. D. Alas and C. A. Haselwandter (2023). Dependence of protein-induced lipid bilayer deformations on protein shape. Physical Review E.

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C. Alas, T. R. Powers, and T. Kuriabova (2021). Swimming of microorganisms in quasi-two-dimensional membranes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

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K. R. Ferguson, E. Dutch, Z. Qi, A. Green, C. Alas, C. Briggs, C. S. Park, M. A. Glaser, J. E. Maclennan, and N. A. Clark (2018). Experimental Studies of Two-dimensional Laminar Jet Flows in Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films. arXiv (preprint).

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Talks
C. D. Alas and C. A. Haselwandter (2023). Thermosensing through membrane mechanics. APS March Meeting. Caesars Forum Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

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C. D. Alas and C. A. Haselwandter (2022). Dependence of protein-induced lipid bilayer thickness deformations on protein shape. APS March Meeting. McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA.

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C. Alas and T. Kuriabova (2018). Swimming of biological filamentous microorganisms in quasi-2D membranes. CSM Student Research Conference. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.

Posters
C. D. Alas and C. A. Haselwandter (2022). Dependence of protein-induced lipid bilayer thickness deformations on protein shape. USC Computational Biology Symposium. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Poster

C. Alas and T. Kuriabova (2018). Swimming of biological filamentous microorganisms in quasi-2D membranes. CSM Student Research Conference. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.

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