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Mouland, A. J., Parent, L., Weber, S. C., and Holehouse, A. S. (2023) Virus Induced Membraneless Organelles and Biomolecular Condensates, Journal of Molecular Biology 435, 168213.


Boeynaems, S., Chong, S., Gsponer, J., Holt, L., Milovanovic, D., Mitrea, D.M., Mueller-Cajar, O., Portz, B., Reilly, J.F., Reinkemeier, C.D., Sabari, B.R., Sanulli, S., Shorter, J., Sontag, E., Strader, L., Stachowiak, J., Weber, S.C., White, M., Zhang, H., Zweckstetter, M., Elbaum-Garfinkle, S., and Kriwacki, R. (2023) Phase Separation in Biology and Disease; Current Perspectives and Open Questions, Journal of Molecular Biology 435, 167971.


Sagan, S. M. and Weber, S. C. (2023) Let’s phase it: viruses are master architects of biomolecular condensates, Trends in Biochemical Sciences 48, 229.


Parmar, B. S. and Weber, S. C. (2023) Single-Molecule Tracking of RNA Polymerase In and Out of Condensates in Live Bacterial Cells, Methods in Molecular Biology 2563, 371.


Swain, P. and Weber, S. C. (2020) Dissecting the complexity of biomolecular condensates, Biochemical Society Transactions 48, 2591.


Ladouceur, A.-M.*, Parmar, B. S.*, Biedzinski, S., Wall, J., Tope, S. G., Cohn, D., Kim, A., Soubry, N., Reyes-Lamothe, R. and Weber, S. C. (2020) Clusters of bacterial RNA polymerase are biomolecular condensates that assemble through liquid-liquid phase separation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 18540.

*These authors contributed equally

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McGill’s press release

Research brief in The McGill Tribune


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Biedzinski, S.*, Parmar, B.* and Weber, S. C. (2020) Beyond equilibrium phase diagrams: Enzymatic activity shakes up bacterial condensates, Molecular Cell 79, 205.

*These authors contributed equally


Samhadaneh, D. M., Mandl, G. A., Han, Z., Mahjoob, M., Weber, S. C., Tuznik, M., Rudko, D. A., Capobianco, J. A. and Stochaj, U. (2020) Evaluation of lanthanide- doped upconverting nanoparticles for in vitro and in vivo applications, ACS Applied Bio Materials 3, 4358.


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Stochaj, U. and Weber, S. C. (2020) Nucleolar Organization and Functions in Health and Disease, Cells 9, 526.

Guest editorial for Special Issue


A, P. and Weber, S. C. (2019) Evidence for and against liquid-liquid phase separation in the nucleus, Non-Coding RNA 5, 50.

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Weber, S. C. (2017) Sequence-encoded material properties dictate the structure and function of nuclear bodies, Current Opinion in Cell Biology 46, 62.  


Uppaluri, S., Weber, S. C., and Brangwynne, C. P. (2016) Hierarchical size scaling during multicellular growth and developmentCell Reports 17, 345.

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Berry, J. M.*, Weber, S. C.*, Vaidya, N., Haataja, M. and Brangwynne, C. P. (2015) RNA transcription modulates phase transition-driven nuclear body assembly, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, E5237.  *Co-first authors


Weber, S. C., and Brangwynne, C. P. (2015) Inverse size scaling of the nucleolus by a concentration-dependent phase transition, Current Biology 25, 641.

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Weber, S. C., and Brangwynne, C. P. (2012) Getting RNA and protein in phase, Cell 149, 1188.


Weber, S. C., Thompson, M. A., Moerner, W. E., Spakowitz, A. J. and Theriot, J. A. (2012) Analytical tools to distinguish the effects of localization error, confinement and medium elasticity on the velocity autocorrelation function, Biophysical Journal 102, 2443.


Weber, S. C., Spakowitz, A. J. and Theriot, J. A. (2012) Nonthermal ATP-dependent fluctuations contribute to the in vivo motion of chromosomal loci, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 7338.

 

Active diffusion: the erratic dance of chromosomal loci


Weber, S. C., Theriot, J. A. and Spakowitz, A. J. (2010) Subdiffusive motion of a polymer composed of subdiffusive monomers, Physical Review E 82, 011913.


Weber, S. C. and Theriot, J. A. (2010) Mu gets in the loop, Molecular Cell 39, 1.


Weber, S. C., Spakowitz, A. J. and Theriot, J. A. (2010) Bacterial chromosomal loci move subdiffusively through a viscoelastic cytoplasm, Physical Review Letters 104, 238102. 

 

Synopsis: Scenes from a cytoplasm