Colin B. Macdonald

Modelling Plant Cortical Microtubules: Curvature Sensing from Bending Energy

This paper models plant cortical microtubules to show how curvature sensing from bending energy influences their organization on complex surfaces, revealing new roles for proteins in navigating high-curvature edges.

Conflicting roles of cell geometry, microtubule deflection and orientation-dependent dynamic instability in cortical array organization

This paper uses computational modeling to show that cell geometry and orientation-dependent microtubule dynamics influence cortical microtubule array organization, with curvature and anchoring processes playing key roles.