Rudolf Oldenbourg

The paper shows that confined actomyosin networks generate self-centering steady-state flows that organize cellular debris into a central inclusion.

The paper introduces a polarized dual-view light-sheet microscope to recover 3D orientations and positions of fluorescent dipoles, validated with experiments on biological samples.

The paper measures cellular forces for nuclear centration in C. elegans embryos using centrifugation and microscopy, finding forces increase linearly with distance and friction is reduced in microtubule mutants.

The paper uses polarized light imaging to detect activity-dependent structural changes in dendrites of mouse hippocampal slices, revealing birefringence variations linked to synaptic activity.