Seibel A, Kelly O, Dance Y, Nelson C, Tien J. Role of Lymphatic Endothelium in Vascular Escape of Engineered Human Breast Microtumors. Cell Mol Bioeng. 2022;15(6):553–569. PMCID: PMC9751254

Paramore S, Goodwin K, Nelson C. How to build an epithelial tree. Phys Biol. 2022;19(6). PMID: 36317265

Nelson C. Mechanical Control of Cell Differentiation: Insights from the Early Embryo. Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2022;24:307–322. PMID: 35385680

Goodwin K, Jaslove J, Tao H, Zhu M, Hopyan S, Nelson C. Patterning the embryonic pulmonary mesenchyme. iScience. 2022;25(3):103838. PMCID: PMC8889149

Dance Y, Meshulam T, Seibel A, Obenreder M, Layne M, Nelson C, Tien J. Adipose Stroma Accelerates the Invasion and Escape of Human Breast Cancer Cells from an Engineered Microtumor. Cell Mol Bioeng. 2022;15(1):15–29. PMCID: PMC8761189

Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Sundarakrishnan A, Spurlin J, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Transmural pressure signals through retinoic acid to regulate lung branching. Development. 2022;149(2). PMCID: PMC8917413

Stanton A, Goodwin K, Sundarakrishnan A, Jaslove J, Gleghorn J, Pavlovich A, Nelson C. Negative Transpulmonary Pressure Disrupts Airway Morphogenesis by Suppressing Fgf10. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021;9:725785. PMCID: PMC8673560

Palmer M, Nerger B, Goodwin K, Sudhakar A, Lemke S, Ravindran P, Toettcher J, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Stress ball morphogenesis: How the lizard builds its lung. Sci Adv. 2021;7(52):eabk0161. PMCID: PMC8694616

Farahani P, Lemke S, Dine E, Uribe G, Toettcher J, Nelson C. Substratum stiffness regulates Erk signaling dynamics through receptor-level control. Cell Rep. 2021;37(13):110181. PMCID: PMC8756379

Farahani P, Nelson C. Revealing epithelial morphogenetic mechanisms through live imaging. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2022;72:61–68. PMCID: PMC8860867

Lemke S, Nelson C. Dynamic changes in epithelial cell packing during tissue morphogenesis. Curr Biol. 2021;31(18):R1098-R1110. PMCID: PMC8496771

Nelson C. The mechanics of crypt morphogenesis. Nat Cell Biol. 2021;23(7):678–679. PMID: 34155380

Silver B, Zhang S, Rabie E, Nelson C. Substratum stiffness tunes membrane voltage in mammary epithelial cells. J Cell Sci. 2021;134(13). PMCID: PMC8310660

Rabie E, Zhang S, Dunn C, Nelson C. Substratum stiffness signals through integrin-linked kinase and β1-integrin to regulate midbody proteins and abscission during EMT. Mol Biol Cell. 2021;32(18):1664–1676. PMCID: PMC8684726

Nerger B, Jaslove J, Elashal H, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Link J, Nelson C. Local accumulation of extracellular matrix regulates global morphogenetic patterning in the developing mammary gland. Curr Biol. 2021;31(9):1903–1917.e6. PMCID: PMC8119325

Goodwin K, Nelson C. Uncovering cellular networks in branching morphogenesis using single-cell transcriptomics. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2021;143:239–280. PMID: 33820623

Tien J, Dance Y, Ghani U, Seibel A, Nelson C. Interstitial Hypertension Suppresses Escape of Human Breast Tumor Cells Convection of Interstitial Fluid. Cell Mol Bioeng. 2021;14(2):147–159. PMCID: PMC8010070

Rabie E, Zhang S, Kourouklis A, Kilinc N, Simi A, Radisky D, Tien J, Nelson C. Matrix degradation and cell proliferation are coupled to promote invasion and escape from an engineered human breast microtumor. Integr Biol (Camb). 2021;13(1):17–29. PMCID: PMC7856634

Kilinc A, Han S, Barrett L, Anandasivam N, Nelson C. Integrin-linked kinase tunes cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions to regulate the switch between apoptosis and EMT downstream of TGFβ1. Mol Biol Cell. 2021;32(5):402–412. PMCID: PMC8098849

Goodwin K, Nelson C. Mechanics of Development. Dev Cell. 2021;56(2):240–250. PMCID: PMC8177046

Tien J, Ghani U, Dance Y, Seibel A, Karakan Çağatay, Ekinci K, Nelson C. Matrix Pore Size Governs Escape of Human Breast Cancer Cells from a Microtumor to an Empty Cavity. iScience. 2020;23(11):101673. PMCID: PMC7599434

Anlas A, Nelson C. Soft Microenvironments Induce Chemoresistance by Increasing Autophagy Downstream of Integrin-Linked Kinase. Cancer Res. 2020;80(19):4103–4113. PMCID: PMC7534696

Nerger B, Nelson C. Engineered extracellular matrices: emerging strategies for decoupling structural and molecular signals that regulate epithelial branching morphogenesis. Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2020;13:103–112. PMCID: PMC7451493

Anlas A, Nelson C. Living under Strain: How Epithelia Protect Their Genomes from Repeated Stretching. Biochemistry. 2020;59(30):2761–2763. PMID: 32702973

Silver B, Wolf A, Lee J, Pang M-F, Nelson C. Epithelial tissue geometry directs emergence of bioelectric field and pattern of proliferation. Mol Biol Cell. 2020;31(16):1691–1702. PMCID: PMC7521849

Nerger B, Brun P-T, Nelson C. Marangoni flows drive the alignment of fibrillar cell-laden hydrogels. Sci Adv. 2020;6(24):eaaz7748. PMCID: PMC7292634

Palmer M, Nelson C. Fusion of airways during avian lung development constitutes a novel mechanism for the formation of continuous lumena in multicellular epithelia. Dev Dyn. 2020;249(11):1318–1333. PMID: 32510705

Goodwin K, Nelson C. Branching morphogenesis. Development. 2020;147(10). PMID: 32444428

Goodwin K, Mao S, Guyomar T, Miller E, Radisky D, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Smooth muscle differentiation shapes domain branches during mouse lung development. Development. 2019;146(22). PMCID: PMC6899029

Spurlin J, Siedlik M, Nerger B, Pang M-F, Jayaraman S, Zhang R, Nelson C. Mesenchymal proteases and tissue fluidity remodel the extracellular matrix during airway epithelial branching in the embryonic avian lung. Development. 2019;146(16). PMCID: PMC6737900

Nerger B, Brun P-T, Nelson C. Microextrusion printing cell-laden networks of type I collagen with patterned fiber alignment and geometry. Soft Matter. 2019;15(28):5728–5738. PMCID: PMC6639139

Lehmann R, Lee C, Shugart E, Benedetti M, Charo A, Gartner Z, Hogan B, Knoblich J, Nelson C, Wilson K. Human organoids: a new dimension in cell biology. Mol Biol Cell. 2019;30(10):1129–1137. PMCID: PMC6724519

Kourouklis A, Nelson C. Modeling branching morphogenesis using materials with programmable mechanical instabilities. Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2018;6:66–73. PMCID: PMC6193561

Nelson C. Epithelial Packing: Even the Best of Friends Must Part. Curr Biol. 2018;28(20):R1197-R1200. PMID: 30352189

Simi A, Pang M-F, Nelson C. Extracellular Matrix Stiffness Exists in a Feedback Loop that Drives Tumor Progression. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2018;1092:57–67. PMID: 30368748

Nerger B, Nelson C. 3D culture models for studying branching morphogenesis in the mammary gland and mammalian lung. Biomaterials. 2019;198:135–145. PMCID: PMC6387650

Goodwin K, Nelson C. Myoepithelial crowd control of cancer cells. J Cell Biol. 2018;217(10):3319–3321. PMCID: PMC6168265

Jaslove J, Nelson C. Smooth muscle: a stiff sculptor of epithelial shapes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018;373(1759). PMCID: PMC6158200

Anlas A, Nelson C. Tissue mechanics regulates form, function, and dysfunction. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2018;54:98–105. PMCID: PMC6214752

Perez F, Nelson C. Editorial overview: Cell architecture: Physical connections that drive organization and signaling. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2018;50:iv-v. PMID: 29680160

Silver B, Nelson C. The Bioelectric Code: Reprogramming Cancer and Aging From the Interface of Mechanical and Chemical Microenvironments. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2018;6:21. PMCID: PMC5845671

Han S, Pang M-F, Nelson C. Substratum stiffness tunes proliferation downstream of Wnt3a in part by regulating integrin-linked kinase and frizzled-1. J Cell Sci. 2018;131(8). PMCID: PMC5963841

Simi A, Anlas A, Stallings-Mann M, Zhang S, Hsia T, Cichon M, Radisky D, Nelson C. A Soft Microenvironment Protects from Failure of Midbody Abscission and Multinucleation Downstream of the EMT-Promoting Transcription Factor Snail. Cancer Res. 2018;78(9):2277–2289. PMCID: PMC5932229

Nelson C, Gleghorn J, Pang M-F, Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Varner V, Miller E, Radisky D, Stone H. Microfluidic chest cavities reveal that transmural pressure controls the rate of lung development. Development. 2017;144(23):4328–4335. PMCID: PMC5769635

Piotrowski-Daspit A, Nerger B, Wolf A, Sundaresan S, Nelson C. Dynamics of Tissue-Induced Alignment of Fibrous Extracellular Matrix. Biophys J. 2017;113(3):702–713. PMCID: PMC5550306

Siedlik M, Manivannan S, Kevrekidis I, Nelson C. Cell Division Induces and Switches Coherent Angular Motion within Bounded Cellular Collectives. Biophys J. 2017;112(11):2419–2427. PMCID: PMC5474845

Goodwin K, Nelson C. Generating tissue topology through remodeling of cell-cell adhesions. Exp Cell Res. 2017;358(1):45–51. PMCID: PMC5544595

Spurlin J, Nelson C. Building branched tissue structures: from single cell guidance to coordinated construction. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017;372(1720). PMCID: PMC5379029

Piotrowski-Daspit A, Simi A, Pang M-F, Tien J, Nelson C. A 3D Culture Model to Study How Fluid Pressure and Flow Affect the Behavior of Aggregates of Epithelial Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1501:245–257. PMID: 27796957

Nelson C. From static to animated: Measuring mechanical forces in tissues. J Cell Biol. 2017;216(1):29–30. PMCID: PMC5223620