Publications
  1. X. Han, D. Zhang, L. Hong, D. Yu, Z. Wu, T. Yang, M. J. Rust, Y. Tu, Q. Ouyang, "Determining subunit-subunit interaction from statistics of cryo-EM images: observation of nearest-neighbor coupling in a circadian clock protein complex" Nature Communications (in press) (2023)

  2. S. J. Kim, C. Chi, G. K. Pattanayak, A. R. Dinner, M. J. Rust, "KidA, a multi-PAS domain protein, tunes the period of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119:e2202426119 (2022)

  3. C. Agrahar, M. J. Rust, "Optimizing oscillators for specific tasks predicts preferred biochemical implementations" bioRxiv, 2022.04. 25.489380

  4. L. Melcher, E. Rennert, J. Ross, M. J. Rust, R. Robertson-Anderson, M. Das, "Sustained orderā€“disorder transitions in a model colloidal system driven by rhythmic crosslinking" Soft Matter 18:2920-2927 (2022)

  5. M. J. Rust, "Biological rhythms: The suspended animation clock", Current Biology 31:R1532-R1534 (2021) (commentary on Chavan et al.)

  6. J. Y. Sheung, D. H. Achiriloaie, C. Currie, K. Peddireddy, A. Xie, J. Simon-Parker, G. Lee, M. J. Rust, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Motor-driven restructuring of cytoskeleton composites leads to tunable time-varying elasticity", ACS Macro Letters 10:1151-1158 (2021)

  7. A. F. Schober, A. Rzhetsky, M. J. Rust, "Seasonal disease in the United States has the hallmarks of an entrained circannual clock", medRxiv, 2021.05. 26.21257655

  8. Y. Liao, M. J. Rust, "The circadian clock ensures successful DNA replication in cyanobacteria", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA118:e2022516118 (2021)

  9. A. Murugan, K. Husain, M. J. Rust, et al. "Roadmap on biology in time-varying environments", Physical Biology 18:041502 (2021)

  10. G. Lee, G. Leech, M. J. Rust, M. Das, R. J. McGorty, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Myosin-driven actin-microtubule networks exhibit self-organized contractile dynamics", Science Advances 7:eabe4334 (2021)

  11. B. J. Gurmessa, M. J. Rust, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Salt-mediated stiffening, destruction, and resculpting of actomyosin network", Frontiers in Physics 667 (2021)

  12. G. Lee, G. Leech, P. Lwin, J. Michel, C. Currie, M. J. Rust, J. L. Ross, R. J. McGorty, M. Das, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Active cytoskeletal composites display emergent tunable contractility and restructuring", Soft Matter 17:10765-10776 (2021)

  13. S. N. Ricketts, P. Khanal, M. J. Rust, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Triggering cation-induced contraction of cytoskeleton networks via microfluidics", Frontiers in physics 8:596699 (2020)

  14. G. K. Pattanayak, Y. Liao, E.W.J. Wallace, B. Budnik, D.A. Drummond, M.J. Rust, "Daily cycles of reversible protein condensation in cyanobacteria", Cell Reports 32:7 (2020)

  15. L. Hong, D. O. Lavrentovich, A. Chavan, E. Leypunskiy, E. Li, C. Matthews, A. LiWang, M. J. Rust, A. Dinner, "Bayesian modeling reveals metaboliteā€dependent ultrasensitivity in the cyanobacterial circadian clock", Mol. Sys. Bio, 16:e9355 (2020)

  16. L. Farhadi, S. N. Ricketts, M. J. Rust, M. Das, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, J. L. Ross, "Actin and microtubule crosslinkers tune mobility and control co-localization in a composite cytoskeletal network", Soft Matter, 16/:7191-7201 (2020)

  17. K. Husain, W. Pittayakanchit, G. Pattanayak, M. J. Rust, A. Murugan, "Kalman-like Self-tuned Sensitivity in Biophysical Sensing", Cell Systems, 9:459-465 (2019)

  18. S. N. Ricketts, M. L. Francis, L. Farhadi, M. J. Rust, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Varying Crosslinking Motifs Drive the Mesoscale Mechanics of Actin-Microtubule Composites", Scientific Reports, 9:1-12 (2019)

  19. B. Gurmessa, M. Francis, M. J. Rust, M. Das, J. L. Ross, R. M. Robertson-Anderson, "Counterion Crossbridges Enable Robust Multiscale Elasticity in Actin Networks", Phys. Rev. Res., 1:13-16 (2019)

  20. L. Hong, B. P. Vani, E. H. Thiede, M. J. Rust, A. Dinner, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nucleotide Release from the Circadian Clock Protein KaiC Reveal Atomic-Resolution Functional Insights", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115:E11475-E11484 (2018)

  21. Y. Liao and M. J. Rust, "The Min Oscillator Defines Sites of Asymmetric Cell Division in Cyanobacteria during Stress Recovery", Cell Systems, 7:471-481 (2018)

  22. E. Leypunskiy, E. Kıcıman, M. Shah, O. J. Walch, A. Rzhetsky, A. Dinner, M. J. Rust, "Geographically Resolved Rhythms in Twitter Use Reveal Social Pressures on Daily Activity Patterns", Curr. Biol. 28:3763-3775 (2018)

  23. W. Pittayakanchit, Z. Lu, J. Chew, M. J. Rust, A. Murugan, "Biophysical Clocks Face a Trade-off between Internal and External Noise Resistance", eLife, 2018;7:e37624 (2018) pdf

  24. J. Chew, E. Leypunskiy, J. Lin, A. Murugan, M. J. Rust, "High Protein Copy Number Is Required to Suppress Stochasticity in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock", Nature Communications 9:3004 (2018) link

  25. E. Leypunskiy, J. Lin, H. Yoo, U. Lee, A. R. Dinner, M. J. Rust, "The Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock Follows Midday In Vivo and In Vitro" eLife, 2017;6:e23539 (2017) pdf

  26. S. Jun and M. J. Rust, "A Fundamental Unit of Cell Size in Bacteria" Trends in Genetics, 33:7:433-435 (2017) (commentary on Zheng and O'Shea)

  27. G. Lambert, J. Chew, M. J. Rust, "Costs of Clock-Environment Misalignment in Individual Cyanobacterial Cells" Biophysical Journal, 111:883-891 (2016)

  28. M. S. Brown, J. Grubb, A. Zhang, M. J. Rust, D. K. Bishop, "Small Rad51 and Dmc1 Complexes Often Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double Strand Break", PLoS Genetics, 11(12):e1005653 (2015) pdf

  29. G. K. Pattanayak, G. Lambert, K. Bernat, M. J. Rust, "Controlling the Cyanobacterial Clock by Synthetically Rewiring Metabolism", Cell Reports http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.11.031 (2015) pdf

  30. M. J. Rust, "Computational Recipes in Enzymology", Cell Systems 1:178-179 (2015) pdf (commentary on Savir et al.)

  31. Y.-G. Chang, S. E. Cohen, C. Phong, W. K. Meyers, Y.-I. Kim, R. Tseng, J. Lin, L. Zhang, J. Boyd, Y. Lee, S. Kang, D. Lee, S. Li, R. D. Britt, M. J. Rust, S. S. Golden, A. LiWang, "A Protein Fold Switch Joins the Circadian Oscillator to Clock Output in Cyanobacteria", Science 10.1126/science.1260031 (2015) pdf

  32. J. Lin, J. Chew, U. Chockanathan, M. J. Rust, "Mixtures of Opposing Phosphorylations within Hexamers Precisely Time Feedback in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111:E3937-E3945 (2014) pdf

  33. G. K. Pattanayak, C. Phong, M. J. Rust, "Rhythms in Energy Storage Control the Ability of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock to Reset", Curr. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.022 (2014 pdf)

  34. G. K. Pattanayak, M. J. Rust, "The Cyanobacterial Clock and Metabolism", Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 18:1-6 (2014) pdf

  35. C. Phong, J. S. Markson, C. M. Wilhoite, M. J. Rust, "Robust and Tunable Circadian Rhythms from Differentially Sensitive Catalytic Domains", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110:1124-1129 (2013) pdf

  36. M. J. Rust, "Orderly Wheels of the Cyanobacterial Clock", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1214901109 (2012) pdf (commentary on Chang et al.)



  37. M. J. Rust, S. S. Golden, E. K. O'Shea, "Light-driven Changes in Energy Metabolism Directly Entrain the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator", Science 331, 220-223 (2011) pdf

  38. M. Bates, B. Huang, M. J. Rust, G. Dempsey, W. Wang, X. Zhuang, "Sub-diffraction-limit Imaging with Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)", Nobel Volume on Single Molecule Spectroscopy in Chemistry, (Springer Publishing, in press)

  39. H. M. van der Schaar, M. J. Rust, C. Chen, H. van der Ende-Metselaar, J. Wilschut, X. Zhuang, J. M. Smit, "Dissecting the Cell Entry Pathway of Dengue Virus by Single-Particle Tracking in Living Cells", PLoS Pathogens 4, e1000244 (2008) pdf

  40. M. J. Rust, M. Lakadamyali, B. Brandenburg, X. Zhuang, "Single-virus Tracking in Live Cells" in P. R. Selvin, T. Ha (Eds.) Single Molecules Techniques: A Laboratory Manual. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008)

  41. M. J. Rust, J. S. Markson, W. S. Lane, D. S. Fisher, E. K. O'Shea, "Ordered Phosphorylation Governs Oscillation of a Three-Protein Circadian Clock", Science 318, 809-812 (2007) pdf

  42. H. M. van der Shaar, M. J. Rust, B. Waarts, H. van der Ende Metselaar, R. J. Kuhn, J. Wilschut, X. Zhuang, J. M. Smit, "Characterization of the Early Events in Dengue Virus Cell Entry by Biochemical Assays and Single-Virus tracking", J. Virol. 81, 12019-12028 (2007) pdf

  43. M. J. Rust, M. Bates, X. Zhuang, "Sub-diffraction-limit Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)", Nature Methods 3, 793-795 (2006) pdf

  44. M. Lakadamyali, M. J. Rust, X. Zhuang, "Ligands for Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis Are Differentially Sorted into Distinct Populations of Early Endosomes", Cell 124, 997-1009 (2006) pdf

  45. M. J. Rust, M. Lakadamyali, F. Zhang, X. Zhuang, "Assembly of Endocytic Machinery around Individual Influenza Viruses During Viral Entry", Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 11, 567-573 (2004) pdf

  46. M. Lakadamyali, M. J. Rust, H P. Babcock, X. Zhuang, "Visualizing Infection of Individual Influenza Viruses", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 9280-9285 (2003) pdf
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