Recent Publications

P. Deshpande, A. Geissmann, H.-J. Park, J. Liu, P. Casaccia, S. Elbaum-Garfinkle. Telomeric RNA and HP1α Form Interfacial Clusters That Stabilize HP1α-DNA Condensates. Commun Biol, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09173-7.

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

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)

P. Deshpande, A. Geissmann, H.-J. Park, J. Liu, P. Casaccia, S. Elbaum-Garfinkle. Telomeric RNA and HP1α Form Interfacial Clusters That Stabilize HP1α-DNA Condensates. Commun Biol, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09173-7.

C.J. Vörösmarty, M. Trujillo, P. Casaccia, A. Cak, K.H. Gardner, D.I. Greenfield, P.M. Groffman, A. Reinmann, W. Solecki, M. Serreze, J. Waldman, J.M. Bhatnagar, H. Brumberg, A. Carnaval, J. Cullmann, S.P. Egendorf, M.E. Hauber, J. Herlan, I. Kavouras, C.E. Mason, P. Marcotullio, M. McCracken, D.A. McKay, F. Miszlivetz, T. Muth, Y. Nomura, C.A. Penick, J. Rising, R. Toledo-Crow, and C. Zarnoch. A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 100558.

Siclari, J.J., Favaro, D.C., Huang, R. and Gardner, K.H.  2025. A pipeline for screening small molecule-enhanced protein stability in a bacterial orphan receptor.  Prot. Sci., 34: e70330

Gagné, D., Azad, R., Aramini, J.M., Xu, X., Isiorho, E.A., Edupuganti, U.R., Williams, J., Marcelino, L.P., Akasaka, K. and Gardner, K.H. 2025. Use of high pressure NMR spectroscopy to rapidly identify proteins with internal ligand-binding voids. Under revision, bioRxiv available

Huang, Z., Forson, M., Benman, W., Gardner, K.H.* and Bugaj, L.J.*  2025.  Pulsatory response of the BcLOV4 photoreceptor through intramolecular feed-forward regulation.  Manuscript under review; available at bioRxiv  (*: corresponding authors)

P. Deshpande, A. Geissmann, H.-J. Park, J. Liu, P. Casaccia, S. Elbaum-Garfinkle. Telomeric RNA and HP1α Form Interfacial Clusters That Stabilize HP1α-DNA Condensates. Commun Biol, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09173-7.

C.J. Vörösmarty, M. Trujillo, P. Casaccia, A. Cak, K.H. Gardner, D.I. Greenfield, P.M. Groffman, A. Reinmann, W. Solecki, M. Serreze, J. Waldman, J.M. Bhatnagar, H. Brumberg, A. Carnaval, J. Cullmann, S.P. Egendorf, M.E. Hauber, J. Herlan, I. Kavouras, C.E. Mason, P. Marcotullio, M. McCracken, D.A. McKay, F. Miszlivetz, T. Muth, Y. Nomura, C.A. Penick, J. Rising, R. Toledo-Crow, and C. Zarnoch. A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 100558.

P. Ayata, J. M. Crowley, M. F. Challman, V. Sahasrabuddhe, M. Gratuze, S. Werneburg, D. Ribeiro, E. C. Hays, V. Durán-Laforet, T. E. Faust, P. Hwang, F. Mendes Lopes, C. Nikopoulou, S. Buchholz, R. E. Murphy, T. Mei, A. A. Pimenova, C. Romero-Molina, F. Garretti, T. A. Patel, et al. Lymphoid Gene Expression Supports Neuroprotective Microglia Function. Nature, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09662-z.

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

C.J. Vörösmarty, M. Trujillo, P. Casaccia, A. Cak, K.H. Gardner, D.I. Greenfield, P.M. Groffman, A. Reinmann, W. Solecki, M. Serreze, J. Waldman, J.M. Bhatnagar, H. Brumberg, A. Carnaval, J. Cullmann, S.P. Egendorf, M.E. Hauber, J. Herlan, I. Kavouras, C.E. Mason, P. Marcotullio, M. McCracken, D.A. McKay, F. Miszlivetz, T. Muth, Y. Nomura, C.A. Penick, J. Rising, R. Toledo-Crow, and C. Zarnoch. A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 100558.

K. Brown, D.I. Greenfield, and G. Bullerjahn. A novel sandwich hybridization assay method and probe sets for cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom detection. Analytical Biochemistry, 2026, 709, 116002.

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.