PUBLICATIONS

Previous Publications (before 2015)

Publications from our lab (since 2015)

Pseudo-energy potential
Electric cell death
Ann Xu and Hyun Youk
Nature Physics ( News & Views - 20: 1225-1226 ) ( August 2024 )
Cellular-activity potential
Microbial life in slow and stopped lanes
Rachel M. Walker, Valeria C. Sanabria, and Hyun Youk
Trends in Microbiology ( Review - 32: 650-662 ) ( July 2024 )
Macroscopically quorum-sensing ES cells
Macroscopic quorum sensing sustains differentiating embryonic stem cells
Hirad Daneshpour, Pim van den Bersselaar, Chun-Hao Chao, Thomas G. Fazzio, and Hyun Youk
Nature Chemical Biology ( Research Article - 19: 596-606 ) ( Jan. 2023 )
Yeast at 1 C
Slowest possible replicative life at frigid temperatures for yeast
Diederik S. Laman Trip, Théo Maire, and Hyun Youk
Nature Communications ( Research Article - 13: 7518 ) ( Dec. 2022 )
Landscapes for biological cellular automata
Predictive landscapes hidden beneath biological cellular automata
Lars Koopmans, and Hyun Youk
Journal of Biological Physics ( Review - 47: 355-369 ) ( Nov. 2021 )
Phase diagram for cell replication (budding yeast)
Yeasts collectively extend the limits of habitable temperatures by secreting glutathione
Diederik S. Laman Trip, and Hyun Youk
Nature Microbiology ( Research Article - 5: 943-954) ( April 2020 )
spiral wave created by cell in middle
Cellular dialogues: cell-cell communication through diffusible molecules yields dynamic spatial patterns
Yiteng Dang, Douwe A. J. Grundel, and Hyun Youk
Cell Systems ( Research Article - 10: 1-17 ) ( Jan. 2020 )
Dormancy spectrum
Modeling cell-cell communication for immune systems across space and time
Hirad Daneshpour and Hyun Youk
Current Opinion in Systems Biology ( Review - 18: 44-52 ) ( Dec. 2019 )
Dormancy spectrum
Dormancy-to-death transition in yeast spores occurs due to gradual loss of gene-expressing ability
Théo Maire, Tim Allertz, Max A. Betjes, and Hyun Youk
Molecular Systems Biology ( Research Article - 16: e9245 ) ( Nov. 2020 )
Featured and published as outstanding peer review
Evaluation of Schink et al.: Having the gem shine through a fog
Diederik S. Laman Trip, Théo Maire, and Hyun Youk
Cell Systems ( Featured as Exemplary Peer Review - 9: 3-7 ) ( July 2019 )
Mapping cellular automaton to a drifting-diffusing particle
Statistical dynamics of spatial-order formation by communicating cells
Eduardo P. Olimpio*, Yiteng Dang*, and Hyun Youk
iScience ( Research article - 2: 27-40 ) (*co-first authors) ( April 2018 )
Positive feedbacks and controlling signal-range
Progress towards quantitative design principles of multicellular systems
Eduardo P. Olimpio, Diego R. Gomez-Alvarez, and Hyun Youk
in Systems Biology, (Editors: J. Nielsen and S. Hohmann), Wiley-VCH
( Book chapter) ( March 2017 )
Positive feedbacks and controlling signal-range
Autocrine signaling and quorum sensing: Extreme ends of a common spectrum
Berkalp A. Doganer, Lawrence K. Q. Yan, and Hyun Youk
Trends in Cell Biology ( Review - 26: 262-271 ) ( April 2016 )
Molecular-level tuning of cellular autonomy controls the collective behaviors of cell populations
Théo Maire and Hyun Youk
Cell Systems ( Research Article - 1: 349-360) ( November 2015 )
Positive feedbacks and controlling signal-range
A collective path toward regeneration
Théo Maire and Hyun Youk
Cell ( Preview - 161:195-196) ( April 2015 )
Positive feedbacks and controlling signal-range
IL-2 mediated multicellular bistability
Sending mixed messages for cell population control
Hyun Youk and Wendell A. Lim
Cell ( Preview - 158:973-975) ( August 2014 )
Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors
Hyun Youk and Wendell A. Lim
Science ( Research Article - 343:1242782) ( February 2014 )
Growth landscape formed by perception and import of glucose
bottom up hierarcy: secrete and sense
secrete and sense circuit
self vs neighbor communication
Altruistic defence
Hyun Youk and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Nature ( News & Views - 467:34-35 ) ( September 2010 )
Imaging single mRNA molecules in yeast
Hyun Youk, Arjun Raj, and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Methods in Enzymology ( Book Chapter - 470:429 ) ( 2010 )
Phenomenological models in biological physics: Cell growth and pluripotency maintenance
Hyun Youk
Ph.D. Thesis in Physics, MIT ( June 2010 )
Growth landscape formed by perception and import of glucose in yeast
Hyun Youk and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Nature ( Research Article - 462:875-879 ) ( December 2009 )
E.coli
Hxt_strain_schematic
Single murine ESC - RNA FISH on Oct4
Optimal transporter equation
RNA FISH Probes - Schematic
Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast
Jeff Gore, Hyun Youk, and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Nature ( Research Letter - 459:253-256 ) ( May 2009 )
cooperator vs cheater
Halfvortices in flat nanomagnets
Gia-Wei Chern, David Clarke, Hyun Youk, and Oleg Tchernyshyov
Quantum Magnetism ( Book chapter - pp35-48 ) ( 2008 )
+1/2 vortex
-1/2 vortex
Composite domain walls in flat nanomagnets: The magnetostatic limit
Hyun Youk, Gia-Wei Chern, Kathleen Merit, Benjamin Oppenheimer, and Oleg Tchernyshyov
Journal of Applied Physics ( Research article - 99:08B101 ) ( 2006 )
vortices
smooth vortex
Topological defects in flat nanomagnets: The magnetostatic limit
Gia-Wei Chern, Hyun Youk, and Oleg Tchernyshyov
Journal of Applied Physics ( Research article - 99:08Q505 ) ( 2006 )
Condensation of magnons and spinons in a frustrated ladder
Jean-Baptiste Fouet, Frédéric Mila, David Clarke, Hyun Youk, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Paul Fendley, and R.M. Noack
Physical Review B ( Research article - 73:214405 ) ( 2006 )
frustrated ladder
The growth of ice crystals by molecular diffusion
Hyun Youk, Roland List, and Theophilus Ola
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ( Research article - 63:1650-1657 ) ( 2006 )
finite element geometry
Numerical study of quadrupole magnetic traps for neutral atoms: Anti-Helmholtz coils and U-chip
Hyun Youk
Canadian Undergraduate Physics Journal ( Research article - 3: 13-18 ) ( 2005 )
quadrupole field