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Nicholas R. Martin

University of California, San FranciscoORCID 0000-0002-4163-032XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:mechanistic / dynamical model· 1

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From Flocks to Swarms: Rewriting the Rules of Collective Cell Migration

Nicholas R. Martin, Nolan Brown, Roman Gaidarov, Isabella Wischik, Ariel Amir, Ajay Gopinathan, Orion David Weiner

This paper develops a cell-machine interface to program collective cell migration by rewriting cell-cell interaction rules using optogenetic control and computer vision.

bioRxiv · Sep 30, 2026 · PreprintSynthetic Biology

Target cell tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis

Caitlin E. Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas R. Martin, Lucia Baldauf, Daniel A. Fletcher

This study shows that target cell cortical tension determines whether macrophages trogocytose or phagocytose, with low tension favoring trogocytosis and high tension favoring phagocytosis.

Nature Cell Biology · Dec 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBiophysics