Publications

Submitted manuscripts and preprints

  • 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)

2025

  • 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)

2024

2023

  • 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)

2022

  • 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)

2021

  • 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)

2020

2019

  • 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)

2018

  • 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)

2017

2015

2013

  • 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)