Recent Publications

S. Ezzatpour, K. Thakur, K. Erzoah Ndede, D. W. Buchholz, A. Choi, B. Imbiakha, J. Carter, D. Onofrei, B. Eaton, E. Postnikova, M. Murphy, B. C. Tapia, D. Bello, S. Pasari, A. Russo, M. Babayev, G. P. Holland, M. R. Holbrook, S. L. Caddy, S. J. Moran, S. Mohammad Davachi, I. Abrrey Monreal, J. Sahler, V. Ortega, J. M. Miranda, G. R. Whittaker, M. C. Jager, S. K. Bhagwat, P. Chopra, G. Jan-Boons, M. Marianski, A. B. Braunschweig, H. C. Aguilar, “Broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) inhibit viral entry across multiple virus families,” Science Advances, 2025, Vol11, Issue 35

D. R. Dave, S. Kassem, M. Coste, L. Xu, M. Tayarani-Najjaran, D. Podbevšek, P. Colon-De Leon, S. Zheng, L. Ortuno Macias, D. Sementa, M. Pérez-Ferreiro, N. Sadat Ayati, M. A. Choudhury, K. Veerasammy, S. Doganata, T. Zhong, C. Weng, J. Morales, D. C. Favaro, M. Marianski, S. Yeon Ahn, A. C. Obermeyer, T. Wang, T. Li, X. Chen, R. Tu, Y. He, R. V. Ulijn, “Adaptive peptide dispersions enable drying-induced biomolecule encapsulation,” Nature Materials, 2025

A. Rose Galvan, I. Tiboni-Wyatt, D. Mathur, C. M. Green, Y. He, R. V. Ulijn, I. L. Medintz, S. A. Díaz. Peptide Coacervates Can Protect Sequestered Oligonucleotides from Nucleases and Release Them for Transcription and Translation. Biomacromolecules, 2025, acs.biomac.5c00600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.5c00600.

S. Kim, H. Wang, D. Podbevšek, T. Wang, X. Chen, “Hydrogen-Bonding-Dependent Water-Responsive Actuation of Bacillus subtilis Cell Walls,” Langmuir, 2025

S. Kaur, B. Lesea-Pringle, S. Marjit, H. Hong, A. Rahman, B. Ma, D. C. Favaro, C. DelRe, “Simple Strategies to Quantify and Control Polymer Threading into Micropores,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025

D. Smirnova, F. Komissarenko, A. Vakulenko, S. Kiriushechkina, E. Smolina, S. Guddala, M. Allen, J. Allen, A. Alù, and A. B. Khanikaev, Polaritonic States Trapped by Topological Defects, Nature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 6355 – 6363, (2024)

S. K. Chamoli, C. Jin, , Y. Fan, M. Kiani, H. Goh, C. Huang, S. Guo, Y. Wang, F. Zhu, G. Xing, B. Li, T. Bai, A. Alù, and W. Li, Nonlocal Flat Optics for Size-Selective Image Processing and Denoising, Nature Communications, Vol. 16, No. 4473 – 4482 (2025)

G. Yang, M. Wang, J. S. Lee, N. Farmakidis, J. Shields, C. Ruiz de Galarreta, S. Kendall, J. Bertolotti, A. Moskalenko, K. Huang, A. Alù, C. D. Wright, and H. Bhaskaran, Nonlocal Phase-Change Metaoptics for Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Image Processing, Light: Science and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 182 – 192 (2025)

A. Alù, “Modeling Polaritonics and Metamaterials,” in B. Davies, S. Szyniszewski, M. A. Dias, L. de Waal, A. Kisil, V. P. Smyshlyaev, S. Cooper, I. V. Kamotski, M. Touboul, R. V. Craster, J. R. Capers, S. A. R. Horsley, R. W. Hewson, M. Santer, R. Murphy, D. Thillaithevan, S. J. Berry, G. J. Conduit, J. Earnshaw, N. Syrotiuk, O. Duncan, Ł. Kaczmarczyk, F. Scarpa, J. B. Pendry, M. Martí-Sabaté, S. Guenneau, D. Torrent, E. Cherkaev, N. Wellander, A. Alù, K. H. Madine, D. J. Colquitt, P. Sheng, L. G. Bennetts, A. O. Krushynska, Z. Zhang, M. J. Mirzaali and A. Zadpoor, “Roadmap on Metamaterial Theory, Modelling and Design,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 58, No. 203002 – 203047 (2025), (invited paper)

K. Sun, K. Wang, W. Wang, Y. Cai, L. Huang, A. Alù, and Z. Han, High-Q Photonic Flat-Band Resonances for Enhancing Third Harmonic Generation in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces, Newton, Vol. 1, 100057 – 100070, (2025)

Wu J, Baranowski MR, Aleshin AE, Isiorho EA, Lambert LJ, De Backer LJS, Han YN, Das R, Sheffler DJ, Bobkov AA, Lemberikman AM, Keedy DA, Cosford NDP, Tautz L. Fragment Screening Identifies Novel Allosteric Binders and Binding Sites in the VHR (DUSP3) Phosphatase. ACS Omega. 2025.

Guerrero L, Ebrahim A, Riley BT, Kim SH, Bishop AC, Wu J, Han YN, Tautz L, Keedy DA. Three STEPs Forward: A Trio of Unexpected Structures of PTPN5. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 2025

Woods VA*, Sharma S*, Lemberikman AM, Keedy DA. Orchestrating function: concerted dynamics, allostery, and catalysis in protein tyrosine phosphatases. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 2025.

Sharma S, Mehlman (Skaist) T, Sagabala RS, Boivin B, Keedy DA. High-resolution double vision of the allosteric phosphatase PTP1B. Acta Cryst F. 2024. 80(Pt 1):1-12.

Green, C.M., Sementa, D., Mathur,D., Melinger, J.S., Deshpande, P., Elbaum-Garfinkle, S., Medintz, I.L., Ulijn, R.V., Díaz, S.A. (2024). Sequestration within peptide coacervates improves the fluorescence intensity, kinetics, and limits of detection of dye-based DNA biosensors. Communications Chemistry, 7/1 (49).

T. E. Faust, Y.-H. Lee, C. D. O’Connor, M. A. Boyle, G. Gunner, V. Durán-Laforet, L. L. Ferrari, R. E. Murphy, A. Badimon, K. Sakers, C. Eroglu, P. Ayata, A. Schaefer, D. P. Schafer. Microglia-Astrocyte Crosstalk Regulates Synapse Remodeling via Wnt Signaling. Cell, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.08.023.

D. R. Dave, S. Kassem, M. Coste, L. Xu, M. Tayarani-Najjaran, D. Podbevšek, P. Colon-De Leon, S. Zheng, L. Ortuno Macias, D. Sementa, M. Pérez-Ferreiro, N. Sadat Ayati, M. A. Choudhury, K. Veerasammy, S. Doganata, T. Zhong, C. Weng, J. Morales, D. C. Favaro, M. Marianski, S. Yeon Ahn, A. C. Obermeyer, T. Wang, T. Li, X. Chen, R. Tu, Y. He, R. V. Ulijn, “Adaptive peptide dispersions enable drying-induced biomolecule encapsulation,” Nature Materials, 2025

A. Rose Galvan, I. Tiboni-Wyatt, D. Mathur, C. M. Green, Y. He, R. V. Ulijn, I. L. Medintz, S. A. Díaz. Peptide Coacervates Can Protect Sequestered Oligonucleotides from Nucleases and Release Them for Transcription and Translation. Biomacromolecules, 2025, acs.biomac.5c00600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.5c00600.

J. Yin, H.-L. Chen, A. Grigsby-Brown, Y. He, M. L. Cotten, J. Short, A. Dermady, J. Lei, M. Gibbs, E. S. Cheng, D. Zhang, C. Long, J. Tabet, L. Xu, T. Zhong, R. Abzalimov, M. Haider, R. Sun, Y. He, Q. Zhou, et al. Glia-Derived Noncanonical Fatty Acid Binding Protein Modulates Brain Lipid Storage and Clearance. Sci. Adv., 2025, 11 (31), eadv2902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv2902.

D. DeIngeniis, M. Blum, R. M. Lee, A. D. Shereen, Y. Nomura. Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Ambient Heat May Amplify the Adverse Impact of Superstorm Sandy on Basal Ganglia Volume among School-Aged Children. PLoS One, 2025, 20 (6), e0324150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324150.

H.H. Bokhari, F. Corsi, A. Miara, B.M. Fekete, S. Gangrade, S.-C. Kao, N.D. Jackson, and C.J. Vörösmarty. An Integrated Hydroclimatic Assessment of Future Reservoir and Hydropower Operations in the U.S. Earth’s Future, 2025, 13, 9, e2025EF006203.

J. Howe, P.M. Groffman, W.J. Hernández, and S. Merchant. Heavy metal contamination and blue carbon sequestration in mangrove ecosystems of Puerto Rico. Journal of Environmental Quality, 2025, 1-11.

D.C. Danko, J.C. Papciak, J. Golden, C. Vörösmarty, A. Cak, F. Corsi, A. Albanese, C.E. Mason, R. Maciel-de-Freitas, D. Nagy-Szakal, X. Rodó, and N.B. O’Hara. The challenges and opportunities in creating a One Health warning system for pandemics. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 0, 100485.

S.B. Caron, A. Bailey, N.L. Cleavitt, C.T. Driscoll, T. Fahey, P. Groffman, B. Leonardi, L. Rustad, G. Wilson, and P.H. Templer. Links between litter quality and nitrogen oligotrophication in a northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2025, 55, 1-13.

S.P. Egendorf, M. Deeb, B. Singer, N. Flores, M. Prefer, Z. Cheng, and P. Groffman. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in an urban constructed technosol: The artist-led carbon sponge pilot study. Geoderma, 2025, 460, 117422.