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, in press (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^#, Marino Zerial^#
"Hepatocyte apical bulkheads provide a mechanical means to oppose bile pressure",
J. Cell Biol. 222, e202208002 (2023)
Martine Ben Amar^#, Pasquale Ciarletta^#, 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",
Physical Review Research 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"",
Physical Review Letters 126, 259801 (2021)
Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Turing's diffusive threshold in random reaction-diffusion systems",
Physical Review Letters 126, 238101 (2021)
Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Morphoelasticity of large bending deformations of tissues during development",
Physical Review E 103, 022411 (2021)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Nuno M. Oliveira^#, and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Subpopulations and Stability in Microbial Communities",
Physical Review Research (Rapid Communications) 2, 022036(R) (2020)

Pierre A. Haas^#, Diana Cholakova, Nikolai Denkov, Raymond E. Goldstein, and Stoyan K. Smoukov^#,
"Shape-Shifting Polyhedral Droplets",
Physical Review Research 1, 023017 (2019)

Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Nonlinear and Nonlocal Elasticity in Coarse-Grained Differential-Tension Models of Epithelia",
Physical Review E 99, 022411 (2019)

Pierre A. Haas^# and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Embryonic Inversion in Volvox carteri: The Flipping and Peeling of Elastic Lips",
Physical Review 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 Biology 16, e2005536 (2018)

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

Pierre A. Haas and Raymond E. Goldstein^#,
"Elasticity and Glocality: Initiation of Embryonic Inversion in Volvox",
Journal of the Royal Society 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",
Physical Review Letters 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)