Matthias Merkel

The asterisk * indicates shared first authorship.

Book chapters

• Quantitative methods to study epithelial morphogenesis and polarity.
  Matthias Merkel*, Benoît Aigouy*, Clauido Collinet*, Andreas Sagner*.
  Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis, p. 121–152 (2017).

Peer-reviewed articles

• Anisotropy links cell shapes to tissue flow during convergent extension.
  Matthias Merkel*, Xun Wang*, Leo B. Sutter*, Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, M. Lisa Manning, Karen E. Kasza.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020), arXiv: 2005.07283.
• A minimal-length approach unifies rigidity in underconstrained materials.
  Matthias Merkel, Karsten Baumgarten, Brian P. Tighe, M. Lisa Manning.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(14), p. 6560 (2019), arXiv: 1809.01586.
• Inferring statistical properties of 3D cell geometry from 2D slices.
  Tristan A. Sharp, Matthias Merkel, M. Lisa Manning, Andrea J. Liu.
  PLoS ONE 14(2), p. e0209892 (2019).
• No unjamming transition in a Voronoi model of biological tissue.
  Matthias Merkel*, Daniel M. Sussman*.
  Soft Matter 14, p. 3397 (2018), arXiv: 1708.03396.
• A geometrically controlled rigidity transition in a model for confluent 3D tissues.
  Matthias Merkel, M. Lisa Manning.
  New Journal of Physics 20, p. 022002 (2018), Fast Track Communication.
• Asymmetric cell volume changes regulate epithelial morphogenesis in zebrafish Kupffer’s vesicle.
  Agnik Dasgupta, Matthias Merkel, Andrew E. Jacob, Jonathan Dawson, M. Lisa Manning, Jeffrey D. Amack.
  eLife 7, p. e30963 (2018).
• Correlating Cell Shape and Cellular Stress in Motile Confluent Tissues.
  Xingbo Yang, Dapeng Bi, Michael Czajkowski, Matthias Merkel, M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(48), p. 12663 (2017), arXiv: 1704.05951.
• Using cell deformation and motion to predict forces and collective behavior in morphogenesis.
  Matthias Merkel, M. Lisa Manning.
  Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 67, p. 161 (2017).
• Active dynamics of tissue shear flow.
  Marko Popović, Amitabha Nandi, Matthias Merkel, Raphaël Etounay, Suzanne Eaton, Frank Jülicher, Guillaume Salbreux.
  New Journal of Physics 19, p. 033006 (2017), Selected as one of the NJP Highlights of 2017.
• Triangles bridge the scales: Quantifying cellular contributions to tissue deformation.
  Matthias Merkel, Raphaël Etounay, Marko Popović, Guillaume Salbreux, Suzanne Eaton, Frank Jülicher.
  Physical Review E 95, p. 032401 (2017), Editor's suggestion, arXiv: 1607.00357.
• TissueMiner: a multiscale analysis toolkit to quantify how cellular processes create tissue dynamics.
  Matthias Merkel*, Raphaël Etournay*, Marko Popović*, Holger Brandl*, Natalie Dye, Benoît Aigouy, Guillaume Salbreux, Suzanne Eaton, Frank Jülicher.
  eLife 5, p. e14334 (2016).
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  Interplay of cell dynamics and epithelial tension during morphogenesis of the Drosophila pupal wing.
  Matthias Merkel*, Raphaël Etournay*, Marko Popović*, Amitabha Nandi*, Corinna Blasse, Benoît Aigouy, Holger Brandl, Gene Myers, Guillaume Salbreux, Frank Jülicher, Suzanne Eaton.
  eLife 4, p. e07090 (2015).
• The Balance of Prickle/Spiny-Legs Isoforms Controls the Amount of Coupling between Core and Fat PCP Systems.
  Matthias Merkel*, Andreas Sagner*, Franz Sebastian Gruber, Raphaël Etournay, Corinna
  Blasse, Eugene Myers, Suzanne Eaton, Frank Jülicher.
  Current Biology 24, p. 2111 (2014).
• Establishment of Global Patterns of Planar Polarity during Growth of the Drosophila Wing Epithelium.
  
  Andreas Sagner, Matthias Merkel, Benoît Aigouy, Julia Gaebel, Marko Brankatschk, Frank Jülicher, Suzanne Eaton.
  Current Biology 22, p. 1296 (2012).
• Synaptic filtering of rate-coded information.
  
  Matthias Merkel, Benjamin Lindner.
  Physical Review E 81, p. 041921 (2010).

Theses

• From cells to tissues: Remodeling and polarity reorientation in epithelial tissues.
  Ph.D. thesis, Technische Universität Dresden (2014).
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• Synaptic Short-Term Plasticity and Information Transmission.
  Diploma thesis, Technische Universität Dresden (2009).
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