2025
Dynamics of diazotroph particle colonization in the Arctic Ocean
Arthur Coët, Cécile Carpaneto Bastos, Mathias Lechelon, Ruth Hawley, Oliver Flanagan, Maeve C Lohan, Pierre Ronceray, Joanne E Hopkins, Claire Mahaffey, Mar Benavides
The International Society of Microbiologial Ecology Journal (2025)10.1093/ismejo/wraf098
Learning general pair interactions between self-propelled particles
Jérôme Hem, Alexis Poncet, Pierre Ronceray, Daiki Nishiguchi, Vincent Démery
Soft Matter (2025)10.1039/D5SM00655D
An independent coding scheme for idiothetic distance in the hippocampus
Mathilde Nordlund, Nicolas Levernier, Massimiliano Trippa, Romain Bourboulou, Geoffrey Marti, Rémi Monasson, Hervé Rouault, Jérôme Epsztein, Julie Koenig-Gambini
Current Biology (2025)10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.050
2024
Inferring geometrical dynamics of cell nucleus translocation
Sirine Amiri, Yirui Zhang, Andonis Gerardos, Cécile Sykes, Pierre Ronceray
Physical Review Research 6:043030 (2024)10.1103/physrevresearch.6.043030
How do particles with complex interactions self-assemble?
Lara Koehler, Pierre Ronceray, Martin Lenz
Physical Review X 14 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041061
2023
Soft Matter Roadmap
Jean-Louis Barrat, Emanuela del Gado, Stefan Egelhaaf, Xiaoming Mao, Marjolein Dijkstra, David Pine, Sanat Kumar, Kyle Bishop, Oleg Gang, Allie Obermeyer, Christine Papadakis, Costantinos Tsitsilianis, Ivan Smalyukh, Aurelie Hourlier-Fargette, Sebastien Andrieux, Wiebke Drenckhan, Norman Wagner, Ryan Murphy, Eric Weeks, Roberto Cerbino, Yilong Han, Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos, Wilson Poon, James Richards, Itai Cohen, Eric Furst, Alshakim Nelson, Stephen Craig, Rajesh Ganapathy, Ajay Kumar Sood, Francesco Sciortino, Muhittin Mungan, Srikanth Sastry, Colin Scheibner, Michel Fruchart, Vincenzo Vitelli, S. Ridout, M. Stern, I. Tah, G. Zhang, Andrea Liu, Chinedum Osuji, Yuan Xu, Heather Shewan, Jason Stokes, Matthias Merkel, Pierre Ronceray, Jean-François Rupprecht, Olga Matsarskaia, Frank Schreiber, Felix Roosen-Runge, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, Gijsje Koenderink, Rosa Espinosa-Marzal, Joaquin Yus, Jiheon Kwon
Journal of Physics: Materials (2023)10.1088/2515-7639/ad06cc
CNT effective interfacial energy and pre-exponential kinetic factor from measured NaCl crystal nucleation time distributions in contracting microdroplets
Ruel Cedeno, Romain Grossier, Nadine Candoni, Nicolas Levernier, Adrian Flood, Stéphane Veesler
The Journal of Chemical Physics 158:194705 (2023)10.1063/5.0143704
Two steps forward – and one step back?
Pierre Ronceray
Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics (2023)10.36471/jccm_July_2023_02
Local response and emerging nonlinear elastic length scale in biopolymer matrices
Haiqian Yang, Estelle Berthier, Chenghai Li, Pierre Ronceray, Yu Long Han, Chase Broedersz, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:e2304666120 (2023)10.1073/pnas.2304666120
2022
Nonlinear mechanosensation in fiber networks
Estelle Berthier, Haiqian Yang, Ming Guo, Pierre Ronceray, Chase Broedersz
Physical Review Research 6:013327 (2022)10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013327
Twenty-five years of nanoscale thermodynamics
Chase Broedersz, Pierre Ronceray
Nature 604:46-47 (2022)10.1038/d41586-022-00869-y
Liquid demixing in elastic networks: Cavitation, permeation, or size selection?
Pierre Ronceray, Sheng Mao, Andrej Košmrlj, Mikko Haataja
EPL - Europhysics Letters 137:67001 (2022)10.1209/0295-5075/ac56ac
Stoichiometry Controls the Dynamics of Liquid Condensates of Associative Proteins
Pierre Ronceray, Yaojun Zhang, Xichong Liu, Ned Wingreen
Physical Review Letters 128:038102 (2022)10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.038102
2021
Pinching the cortex of live cells reveals thickness instabilities caused by myosin II motors
Valentin Laplaud, Nicolas Levernier, Judith Pineau, Mabel San, Lucie Barbier, Pablo J Sáez, Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil, Pablo Vargas, Karsten Kruse, Olivia Du Roure, Matthieu Piel, Julien Heuvingh
Science Advances (2021)
An integrative model of plant gravitropism linking statoliths position and auxin transport
Nicolas Levernier, Olivier Pouliquen, Yoel Forterre
Frontiers in Plant Science (2021)10.3389/fpls.2021.651928
Reply to “Comment on ‘Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for d ≥ 2 ”’
Nicolas Levernier, Johannes Textor, Olivier Bénichou, Raphaël Voituriez
Physical Review Letters 126 (2021)10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.048902
Self-organization and shape change by active polarization in nematic droplets
Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Pierre Ronceray, Kimberly Weirich, Kinjal Dasbiswas
Physical Review Research 3:043061 (2021)10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043061
Nucleation landscape of biomolecular condensates
Shunsuke Shimobayashi, Pierre Ronceray, David Sanders, Mikko Haataja, Clifford Brangwynne
Nature 599:503-506 (2021)10.1038/s41586-021-03905-5
Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells
Xingbo Yang, Matthias Heinemann, Jonathon Howard, Greg Huber, Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Guillaume Le Treut, Michael Lynch, Kristi L Montooth, Daniel J Needleman, Simone Pigolotti, Jonathan Rodenfels, Pierre Ronceray, Sadasivan Shankar, Iman Tavassoly, Shashi Thutupalli, Denis V Titov, Jin Wang, Peter J Foster
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:e2026786118 (2021)10.1073/pnas.2026786118
2020
Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for d ≥ 2
Nicolas Levernier, Johannes Textor, Olivier Bénichou, Raphaël Voituriez
Physical Review Letters 124 (2020)10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.080601
2019
Fiber plucking by molecular motors yields large emergent contractility in stiff biopolymer networks
Pierre Ronceray, Chase P. Broedersz, Martin Lenz
Soft Matter 15:1481-1487 (2019)10.1039/c8sm00979a
Range of geometrical frustration in lattice spin models
Pierre Ronceray, Bruno Le Floch
Physical Review E 100:052150 (2019)10.1103/PhysRevE.100.052150
Stress-dependent amplification of active forces in nonlinear elastic media
Pierre Ronceray, Chase Broedersz, Martin Lenz
Soft Matter 15:331-338 (2019)10.1039/c8sm00949j
2018
Cell contraction induces long-ranged stress stiffening in the extracellular matrix
Yu Long Han, Pierre Ronceray, Guoqiang Xu, Andrea Malandrino, Roger Kamm, Martin Lenz, Chase P. Broedersz, Ming Guo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:4075-4080 (2018)10.1073/pnas.1722619115
2016
The dynamics of filament assembly define cytoskeletal network morphology
Giulia Foffano, Nicolas Levernier, Martin Lenz
Nature Communications 7:13827 (2016)10.1038/ncomms13827
Fiber networks amplify active stress
Pierre Ronceray, Chase Broedersz, Martin Lenz
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113:2827-2832 (2016)10.1073/pnas.1514208113
From liquid structure to configurational entropy: introducing structural covariance
Pierre Ronceray, Peter Harrowell
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2016:084002 (2016)
The free energy of a liquid when viewed as a population of overlapping clusters
Pierre Ronceray, Peter Harrowell
Molecular Simulation 42:1149-1156 (2016)10.1080/08927022.2015.1114180
• PI startup package CENTURI , 2021-26 Measuring and modeling soft living matter
• CENTURI 2023-2025, Understanding margination, from vessels to vascular networks