Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems: Publications

Pierre A. Haas^#
“Geometry of T1 transitions in epithelia”
(arXiv preprint, 2025)
Shiheng Zhao and Pierre A. Haas^#
“Euler buckling on curved surfaces”
(arXiv preprint, 2025)
Daniel S. Alber*, Shiheng Zhao*, Alexandre O. Jacinto, Eric F. Wieschaus, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman^#, and Pierre A. Haas^#
“A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis”
(arXiv preprint, 2025)
Julien Delpierre, José I. Valenzuela, Matthew J. Bovyn, Nuno Pimpao Martins, Lenka Belicova, Urska Repnik, Maarten P. Bebelman, Sarah Seifert, Pierre A. Haas, L. Yannis Kalaidzidis, and Marino Zerial^#
"Hepatoblast iterative apicobasal polarization is regulated by extracellular matrix remodeling"
(bioRxiv preprint, 2024)

Yu Meng, Szabolcs Horvát, Carl D. Modes^#, and Pierre A. Haas^#
"Impossible ecologies: Interaction networks and stability of coexistence in ecological communities"
Cell Syst. 16, 101297 (2025)
Angus Inman, Elisabeth Spiritosanto, Bridget L. Evans, Judith E. Lutton, Masazumi Tada, Till Bretschneider, Pierre A. Haas^#, and Michael Smutny^#
"A multi-tiered mechanical mechanism shapes the early neural plate"
Nat. Commun. 16, 6187 (2025)
Shiheng Zhao and Pierre A. Haas^#
"Mechanics of poking a cyst"
Phys Rev. Lett. 134, 228402 (2025)
Chandraniva Guha Ray and Pierre A. Haas^#
"Unbuckling mechanics of epithelial monolayers under compression"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 118402 (2025)
Pierre A. Haas*^,# and Steph S. M. H. Höhn*^,#
"Cut it out: Out-of-plane stresses in cell sheet folding of Volvox embryos"
Phys. Rev. E 111, 014420 (2025)

Rahul G. Ramchandran, Ricard Alert^#, and Pierre A. Haas^#
"Buckling by disordered growth"
Phys. Rev. E 110, 054405 (2024)
Matthew J. Bovyn^# and Pierre A. Haas^#
"Shaping epithelial lumina under pressure"
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 52, 331 (2024)

Maarten P. Bebelman*, Matthew J. Bovyn*, Carlotta M. Mayer, J. Delpierre, Ronald Naumann, Nuno P. Martins, Alf
Honigmann, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Pierre A. Haas^#, and Marino Zerial^#
"Hepatocyte apical bulkheads provide a mechanical means to oppose bile pressure",
J. Cell Biol. 222, e202208002 (2023)
Martine Ben Amar^#, Pasquale Ciarletta^#, and Pierre A. Haas^#,
"Morphogenesis in space offers challenges and opportunities for soft matter and biophysics",
Comm. Phys. 6, 150 (2023)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Maria A. Gutierrez, Nuno M. Oliveira^#, and R. E. Goldstein^#
"Stabilization of microbial communities by responsive phenotypic switching",
Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 033224 (2022)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Raymond E. Goldstein^#, Diana Cholakova^#, Nikolai Denkov^#, and Stoyan K. Smoukov^#
"Comment on "Faceting and Flattening of Emulsion Droplets: A Mechanical Model"",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 259801 (2021)
Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Turing's diffusive threshold in random reaction-diffusion systems",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 238101 (2021)
Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Morphoelasticity of large bending deformations of tissues during development",
Phys. Rev. E 103, 022411 (2021)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Nuno M. Oliveira^#, and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Subpopulations and Stability in Microbial Communities",
Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 022036(R) (2020)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Diana Cholakova, Nikolai Denkov, Raymond E. Goldstein, and Stoyan K. Smoukov^#,
"Shape-Shifting Polyhedral Droplets",
Phys. Rev. Res. 1, 023017 (2019)
Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Nonlinear and Nonlocal Elasticity in Coarse-Grained Differential-Tension Models of Epithelia",
Phys. Rev. E 99, 022411 (2019)

Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Embryonic Inversion in Volvox carteri: The Flipping and Peeling of Elastic Lips",
Phys. Rev. E 98, 052415 (2018)
Pierre A. Haas*, Stephanie S. M. H. Höhn*, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Julius B. Kirkegaard, and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"The noisy basis of morphogenesis: Mechanisms and Mechanics of Cell Sheet Folding Inferred from Developmental Variability",
PLoS Biol. 16, e2005536 (2018)

Pierre A. Haas, Raymond E. Goldstein^#, Stoyan K. Smoukov^#, Diana Cholakova, and Nikolai Denkov,
"Theory of Shape-Shifting Droplets",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088001 (2017)

Pierre A. Haas and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Elasticity and Glocality: Initiation of Embryonic Inversion in Volvox",
J. Roy. Soc. Interface 12, 20150671 (2015)
Stephanie Höhn, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pierre A. Haas, Philipp Khuc Trong, and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Dynamics of a Volvox Embryo Turning Itself Inside Out",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 178101 (2015)

James W. J. Anderson^#, Pierre A. Haas, Leigh-Anne Mathieson, Vladimir Volynkin, Rune Lyngsø, Paula Tataru, and Jotun Hein,
"Oxfold: kinetic folding of RNA using stochastic context-free grammars and evolutionary information",
Bioinformatics 29, 704 (2013)