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24. U. Andrenšek and M. Krajnc, Emergent epithelial elasticity governed by interfacial surface mechanics and substrate interaction. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15673
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23. V. Movrin and M. Krajnc, Initiation of epithelial wound closure by an active instability at the purse string, Biophys. J. 124, 107 (2025).
22. U. Železnik, M. Krajnc, and T. Sarkar, Graph polyhedral divisions in growing cell aggregates. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07551
21. J. Rozman, M. Krajnc, and P. Ziherl, Basolateral mechanics prevents rigidity transition in epithelial monolayers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168401 (2024). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19312
20. T. Sarkar and M. Krajnc, Graph topological transformations in space-filling cell aggregates, PLoS Comput. Biol. 20(5): e1012089 (2024). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11883
19. A. Popkova, U. Andrenšek, S. Pagnotta, P. Ziherl, M. Krajnc, and M. Rauzi, A mechanical wave travels along a genetic guide to drive the formation of an epithelial furrow, Dev. Cell 59, 1 (2024).
18. U. Andrenšek, P. Ziherl, and M. Krajnc, Wrinkling instability in unsupported epithelial sheets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 198401 (2023). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11883
17. M. Krajnc, T. Stern, and C. Zankoc, Active instability and nonlinear dynamics of cell-cell junctions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198103 (2021). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07058
16. J. Rozman, M. Krajnc, and P. Ziherl, Morphologies of compressed active epithelial monolayers, Eur. Phys. J. E 44, 99 (2021). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02224
15. J. Tordoff, M. Krajnc, N. Walczak, M. Lima, J. Beal, S. Y. Shvartsman, and R. Weiss, Incomplete cell sorting creates engineerable structures with long term stability, Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2, 100305 (2021). [Cover image]
14. C. Zankoc and M. Krajnc, Elasticity, Stability and Quasioscillations of Cell-Cell Junctions in Solid Confluent Epithelia, Biophys. J. 119, 1706 (2020). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02657
13. V. Fiore, M. Krajnc, F. G. Quiroz, J. Levorse, H. A. Pasolli, S. Y. Shvartsman, and E. Fuchs, Mechanics of a multilayer epithelium instruct tumour architecture and function, Nature 585, 433 (2020).
Commentary by Karolina Punovuori and Sara A. Wickström: How cancer invasion takes shape, Nature 585, 355 (2020).
12. J. Rozman, M. Krajnc, and P. Ziherl, Collective cell mechanics of epithelial sheets with organoid-like morphologies, Nat. Commun. 11, 3805 (2020). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11919
11. M. Krajnc, Solid-fluid transition and cell sorting in epithelia with junctional tension fluctuations, Soft Matter 16, 3209 (2020).
10. S. P. Ramanathan, M. Krajnc, and M. Gibson, Cell-size Pleomorphism Drives Aberrant Clone Dispersal in Proliferating Epithelia, Dev. Cell 51, 1 (2019). [Cover image]
Commentary by Barry J. Thompson: Epithelial Morphogenesis: Size Matters, Dev. Cell 51, 1 (2019).
9. S. Dutta, N. J.-V. Djabrayan, S. Torquato, S. Y. Shvartsman, and M. Krajnc, Self-similar dynamics of nuclear packing in the early Drosophila embryo, Biophys. J. 117, 743 (2019).
8. S. Y. Shvartsman and M. Krajnc, Nuclear (Bio)physics in the Embryo (Preview article), Cell 177, 799 (2019).
7. N. J.-V. Djabrayan, C. M. Smits, M. Krajnc, T. Stern, W. C. Lemon, P. J. Keller, S. Yamada, C. A. Rushlow, and S. Y. Shvartsman, Metabolic regulation of developmental cell cycles and zygotic transcription, Curr. Biol. 29, 1193 (2019).
6. P. Agrawal, A. Padmanabhan, H. Ting Ong, S. Dasgupta, M. Krajnc, and R. Zaidel-Bar, Syncytial germline architecture is actively maintained by contraction of an internal actomyosin corset, Nat. Commun. 9, 4694 (2018).
5. M. Krajnc, S. Dasgupta, P. Ziherl, and J. Prost, Fluidization of epithelial sheets by active cell rearrangements, Phys. Rev. E 98, 022409 (2018). (Editor’s suggestion). arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06500
4. N. Štorgel, M. Krajnc, P. Mrak, J. Štrus, and P. Ziherl, Quantitative morphology of epithelial folds, Biophys. J. 110, 269 (2016).
3. M. Krajnc and P. Ziherl, Theory of epithelial elasticity, Phys. Rev. E 92, 052713 (2015).
2. M. Rauzi, U. Krzic, T. E. Saunders, M. Krajnc, P. Ziherl, L. Hufnagel, and M. Leptin, Embryo-scale tissue mechanics during gastrulation movements, Nat. Commun. 6, 8677 (2015).
1. M. Krajnc, N. Štorgel, A. Hocevar Brezavšcek, and P. Ziherl, Tension-based mechanics of flat and corrugated simple epithelia, Soft Matter 9, 8368 (2013).