PUBLICATIONS

In preparation

Submitted

22. V. Movrin and M. Krajnc, Active dynamics of wound closure.

21. J. Rozman, M. Krajnc, and P. Ziherl, Basolateral mechanics prevents rigidity transition in epithelial monolayers. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19312

20. T. Sarkar and M. Krajnc, Graph Vertex Model. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11883

Published

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 fluctuationsSoft 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 MattersDev. 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).