Publications

Development of the fluorescent probe CenSpark for labelling centrioles and cilia, Pourroy Cédric, Hatzopoulos Georgios N., Reymond Luc, Douma Friso E., Favez Tatiana, Croisier Marie, Cascais Sara, Arber Caroline, Wolf Benita, Laan Daphne M., Ramirez-San-Juan Guillermina R., Kuonen François, Iyer Saishree S., Grigoriev Ilya, Akhmanova Anna, Gönczy Pierre (view online) , Nat. Chem. Biol. (2026) – DOI:
 
Heterogeneity in cilia patterning enables multiple flow functions within a single cell, Laan, Daphne M. and Kourkoulou, Aikaterini M. and Ramirez-San Juan, Guillermina R (view online) , biorxiv (2026) – DOI:
 
Metachronal wave coordination encodes multimodal swimming in ciliated unicellular predators, Aikaterini M. Kourkoulou, Maggie Liu, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Guillermina R. Ramirez-San Juan (view online) , biorxiv (2025) – DOI:
 
Multi-scale spatial heterogeneity enhances particle clearance in airway ciliary arrays Ramirez-San Juan, Guillermina R. and Mathijssen, Arnold J. T. M. and He, Mu et al (view online) , Nature Phys. 16 , 958–964 (2020) – DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0923-8

Dia1-dependent adhesions are required by epithelial tissues to initiate invasion
 Fessenden, Tim B. and Beckham, Yvonne and Perez-Neut, Mathew et al (view online) , J. of Cell Biology 217 , 1485–1502 (2018) – DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201703145

Lamellipodium is a myosin-independent mechanosensor
 Oakes, Patrick W. and Bidone, Tamara C. and Beckham, Yvonne et al (view online) , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 , 2646–2651 (2018) – DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715869115

Contact guidance requires spatial control of leading-edge protrusion
 Ramirez-San Juan, G. R. and Oakes, P. W. and Gardel, M. L. (view online) , Molecular Biology of the Cell 28 , 1043–1053 (2017) – DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e16-11-0769

Cholesterol depletion impairs contractile machinery in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
 Hissa, Barbara and Oakes, Patrick W. and Pontes, Bruno et al (view online) , Scientific Reports 7 , 43764 (2017) – DOI: 10.1038/srep43764

Epithelial rotation promotes the global alignment of contractile actin bundles during Drosophila egg chamber elongation
 Cetera, Maureen and Ramirez-San Juan, Guillermina R. and Oakes, Patrick W. et al (view online) , Nature Commun. 5 , 5511 (2014) – DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6511

Effects of electrical polarization on the opening rate constant of a voltage-gated ion channel
 Ramírez-SanJuan, G. R. and Minzoni, A. A. and Islas, L. D. (view online) , Phys. Rev. E 88 , 012720 (2013) – DOI: 10.1103/Phys. .88.012720