Publications Linking Tissue Morphology and Tissue Healing in a Cell-Fate Model 2026 · Mani S & Tlusty T · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology bioRxiv A damage accumulation model reveals strategies of aging across species 2026 · Raz N, Yang Y, Pridham G, Shenhar B, Frenkel S, Levy T, Tlusty T, Mayo A & Alon U · Nature Aging The genetic code at the balance point of error and demand 2026 · Seo Y, Tlusty T & Jo J · PLOS Computational Biology · accepted arXiv Joint Geometric–Chemical Distance for Protein Surfaces 2026 · Swami H, McBride JM, Eckmann J-P & Tlusty T · Preprint · under review bioRxiv Water and the Many-Body Imagination 2026 · Libchaber A & Tlusty T · Preprint Walks in Rotation Spaces Return Home When Doubled and Scaled 2025 · Eckmann J-P & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters arXiv Enzymes as viscoelastic catalytic machines 2025 · Weinreb E, McBride JM, Siek M, Rougemont J, Renault R, Peleg Y, Unger T, Albeck S, Fridmann-Sirkis Y, Lushchekina S, Sussman JL, Grzybowski BA, Zocchi G, Eckmann J-P, Moses E & Tlusty T · Nature Physics News & Views Life sets off a cascade of machines 2025 · Tlusty T & Libchaber A · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences AI-predicted deformation encodes protein energy landscape 2024 · McBride JM & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters arXiv · bioRxiv Statistical Survey of Chemical and Geometric Patterns on Protein Surfaces as a Blueprint for Protein-mimicking Nanoparticles 2024 · McBride JM, Koshevarnikov A, Siek M, Grzybowski BA & Tlusty T · Small Structures arXiv · bioRxiv Tumbling Downhill Along a Given Curve 2024 · Eckmann J-P, Sobolev YI & Tlusty T · Notices of the American Mathematical Society arXiv The Physical Logic of Protein Machines 2024 · McBride JM & Tlusty T · Journal of Statistical Mechanics arXiv · bioRxiv Programmable Potentials Choreograph Defects in a Colloidal Crystal Shell 2024 · Zhu G, Gao L, Wang Y, Tlusty T & Yan L-T · Physical Review Letters Evolutionary modelling reveals melodic and harmonic constraints on global scale structure 2024 · McBride JM, Brown S, Phillips E, Savage PE & Tlusty T · Preprint Information and motor constraints shape melodic diversity across cultures 2024 · McBride JM, Kim N, Nishikawa Y, Saadakeev M, Pearce MT & Tlusty T · Preprint AlphaFold2 can predict effects of single mutations 2023 · McBride JM, Polev K, Abdirasulov A, Reinharz V, Grzybowski BA & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters arXiv · bioRxiv Quasiparticles, Flat Bands, and the Melting of Hydrodynamic Matter 2023 · Saeed I, Pak HK & Tlusty T · Nature Physics arXiv · SharedIt Solid-body trajectoids shaped to roll along desired pathways 2023 · Sobolev YI, Dong R, Tlusty T, Eckmann J-P, Granick S & Grzybowski BA · Nature SharedIt Bona fide stochastic resonance under nonGaussian active fluctuations 2023 · Paneru G, Tlusty T & Pak HK · Soft Matter arXiv Gene Birth in a Model of Non-genic Adaptation 2023 · Mani S & Tlusty T · BMC Biology bioRxiv Convergent evolution in a large cross-cultural database of musical scales 2023 · McBride JM & Tlusty T · PLOS ONE arXiv Renormalization Group-Motivated Learning 2023 · Landy J, Tlusty T, Lee Y & Jho YS · Preprint Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in a Random Driven Chemical System 2022 · Piñeros WD & Tlusty T · Nature Communications Gauging nanoswimmer dynamics via the motion of large bodies 2022 · Tripathi AK & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters arXiv A general theory of specific binding: insights from a genetic, mechano-chemical protein model 2022 · McBride JM, Eckmann J-P & Tlusty T · Molecular Biology and Evolution arXiv · bioRxiv Acceleration of enzymatic catalysis by active hydrodynamic fluctuations 2022 · Tripathi AK, Das T, Paneru G, Pak HK & Tlusty T · Communications Physics arXiv · bioRxiv Exotic topology in ordinary soft matter 2021 · Tlusty T · Physical Review E Structural asymmetry along protein sequences and co-translational folding 2021 · McBride JM & Tlusty T · Biophysical Journal bioRxiv Dimensional Reduction in Complex Living Systems: Where, Why, and How 2021 · Eckmann J-P & Tlusty T · BioEssays arXiv A topological look into the evolution of developmental programs 2021 · Mani S & Tlusty T · Biophysical Journal arXiv A comprehensive survey of developmental programs reveals a dearth of tree-like lineage graphs and ubiquitous regeneration 2021 · Mani S & Tlusty T · BMC Biology bioRxiv Inverse Design of Non-Equilibrium Steady-States: A Large Deviation Approach 2021 · Piñeros WD & Tlusty T · Physical Review E arXiv Positional information as a universal predictor of freezing 2021 · Das T & Tlusty T · Europhysics Letters arXiv Imperfect fifths pack into musical scales 2021 · McBride JM & Tlusty T · arXiv:1906.06171 Walking droplets, swimming microbes: on memory in physics and life 2020 · Libchaber A & Tlusty T · Comptes Rendus Mécanique arXiv · Nature Physics thesis (2021) Efficiency fluctuations and noise induced refrigerator-to-heater transition in information engines 2020 · Paneru G, Dutta S, Sagawa T, Tlusty T & Pak HK · Nature Communications arXiv Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions 2020 · Wang H, Park M, Dong R, Kim J, Cho YK, Tlusty T & Granick S · Science Master curve of boosted diffusion for ten catalytic enzymes 2020 · Jee AY, Tlusty T & Granick S · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences αβDCA method identifies unspecific binding but specific disruption of the group I intron by the StpA chaperone 2020 · Reinharz V & Tlusty T · RNA arXiv · bioRxiv Kinetic Proofreading and the Limits of Thermodynamic Uncertainty 2020 · Piñeros WD & Tlusty T · Physical Review E bioRxiv Approaching and violating thermodynamic uncertainty bounds on fluctuation-dissipation tradeoffs of information engines 2020 · Paneru G, Dutta S, Tlusty T & Pak HK · Physical Review E arXiv Protein: The physics of amorphous evolving matter 2019 · Eckmann J-P, Rougemont J & Tlusty T · Reviews of Modern Physics arXiv Enhanced diffusion and enzyme dissociation 2019 · Jee AY, Chen K, Tlusty T, Zhao J & Granick S · Journal of the American Chemical Society arXiv Universality, scaling and collapse in super-critical fluids 2019 · Ha MY, Yoon TJ, Tlusty T, Jho YS & Lee WB · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters arXiv Catalytic enzymes are active matter 2018 · Jee AY, Cho YK, Granick S & Tlusty T · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Green function of correlated genes in a minimal mechanical model of protein evolution 2018 · Dutta S, Eckmann J-P, Libchaber A & Tlusty T · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences arXiv Will biologists become computer scientists? 2018 · Condon A, Kirchner H, Lariviere D, Marshall W, Noireaux V, Tlusty T & Fourmentin E · EMBO Reports Widom delta of supercritical gas-liquid coexistence 2018 · Ha MY, Yoon TJ, Tlusty T, Jho YS & Lee WB · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters arXiv Enzyme leaps fuel anti-chemotaxis 2018 · Jee AY, Dutta S, Cho YK, Tlusty T & Granick S · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Lossless Brownian Information Engine 2018 · Paneru G, Lee DY, Tlusty T & Pak HK · Physical Review Letters Two-dimensional flow of driven particles: a microfluidic pathway to the non-equilibrium frontier 2017 · Beatus T, Shani I, Bar-Ziv R & Tlusty T · Chemical Society Reviews Physical model of the sequence-to-function map of proteins 2017 · Tlusty T, Libchaber A & Eckmann J-P · Physical Review X arXiv Strain analysis of protein structures and low dimensionality of mechanical allosteric couplings 2016 · Mitchell MR, Tlusty T & Leibler S · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Self-referring DNA: a remark on physical and geometrical aspects 2016 · Tlusty T · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A arXiv Where two are fighting the third wins: Stronger selection implies greater polymorphism 2016 · Lampert A & Tlusty T · PLOS ONE Binding of transcription factors adapts to resolve information-energy trade-off 2015 · Savir Y, Kagan J & Tlusty T · Journal of Statistical Physics Evolution of bow-tie architectures in biology 2015 · Friedlander T, Mayo A, Tlusty T & Alon U · PLOS Computational Biology Long-range orientational order in 2D microfluidic dipoles 2014 · Shani I, Beatus T, Bar-Ziv R & Tlusty T · Nature Physics Supplement · News & Views · Ten-year retrospective Asymmetric Effect of Mechanical Stress on the Forward and Reverse Reaction Catalyzed by an Enzyme 2014 · Joseph C, Tseng CY, Zocchi G & Tlusty T · PLOS ONE The ribosome as an optimal decoder: a lesson in molecular recognition 2013 · Savir Y & Tlusty T · Cell Resonance-Induced Multimodal Body-Size Distributions In Ecosystems 2013 · Lampert A & Tlusty T · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mutation Rules and the Evolution of Sparseness and Modularity in Biological Systems 2013 · Friedlander T, Mayo A, Tlusty T & Alon U · PLOS ONE Asymptotic Cellular Growth Rate as the Effective Information Utilization Rate 2013 · Pugatch R, Barkai N & Tlusty T · arXiv:1308.0623 Loops and Self-Reference in the Construction of Dictionaries 2012 · Levary D, Eckmann J-P, Moses E & Tlusty T · Physical Review X Physics Spotlight Balancing speed and accuracy of polyclonal T cell activation: a role for extracellular feedback 2012 · Savir Y, Waysbort N, Antebi Y, Tlusty T & Friedman N · BMC Systems Biology Spatial organization of chromosomes is linked to global gene expression program 2012 · Iyer KV, Maharana S, Gupta S, Libchaber A, Tlusty T & Shivashankar GV · PLOS ONE Effects of long DNA folding and small RNA stem-loop in thermophoresis 2012 · Maeda Y, Tlusty T & Libchaber A · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The physics of 2D microfluidic droplet ensembles 2012 · Beatus T, Bar-Ziv R & Tlusty T · Physics Reports Density Dependent Cooperation as a Mechanism for Persistence and Coexistence 2011 · Lampert A & Tlusty T · Evolution RecA-Mediated Homology Search as a Nearly Optimal Signal Detection System 2010 · Savir Y & Tlusty T · Molecular Cell Preview Leaders of Neuronal Cultures in a Quorum Percolation Model 2010 · Eckmann J-P, Moses E, Stetter O, Tlusty T & Zbinden C · Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience A Colorful Origin for the Genetic Code 2010 · Tlusty T · Physics of Life Reviews Adaptation of Rubisco towards optimality in low dimensional landscape 2010 · Savir Y, Noor E, Milo R & Tlusty T · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Quorum percolation in living neural networks 2010 · Cohen O, Kesselman A, Rodríguez Martínez M, Soriano J, Moses E & Tlusty T · Europhysics Letters Messenger RNA fluctuations and regulatory RNAs shape the dynamics of a negative feedback loop 2010 · Rodríguez Martínez M, Soriano J, Tlusty T, Pilpel Y & Furman I · Physical Review E Burgers Shock Waves and Sound in a 2D Microfluidic Droplets Ensemble 2009 · Beatus T, Tlusty T & Bar-Ziv R · Physical Review Letters Mutability as an Altruistic Trait in Finite Asexual Populations 2009 · Lampert A & Tlusty T · Journal of Theoretical Biology Molecular Recognition as an Information Channel: The Role of Conformational Changes 2009 · Savir Y & Tlusty T · Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) The Physical Language of Molecular Codes 2009 · Tlusty T · Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) Remarks on Bootstrap Percolation in Metric Networks 2009 · Tlusty T & Eckmann J-P · Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Casting Polymer Nets to Optimize Noisy Molecular Codes 2008 · Tlusty T · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Commentary Development of input connections in neural cultures 2008 · Soriano J, Rodríguez Martínez M, Tlusty T & Moses E · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Supplement Optimal Design of a Molecular Recognizer: Molecular Recognition as a Bayesian Signal Detection Problem 2008 · Savir Y & Tlusty T · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing A coarse-grained biophysical model of E. coli and its application to perturbation of the rRNA operon copy number 2008 · Tadmor AD & Tlusty T · PLOS Computational Biology A simple model for the evolution of molecular codes driven by the interplay of accuracy diversity and cost 2008 · Tlusty T · Physical Biology One-Dimensional Microfluidic Crystals Far from Equilibrium 2008 · Beatus T, Bar-Ziv R & Tlusty T · Progress of Theoretical Physics Rate-distortion scenario for the emergence and evolution of noisy molecular codes 2008 · Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters Supplement A relation between the multiplicity of the second eigenvalue of a graph Laplacian, Courant's nodal line theorem and the substantial dimension of tight polyhedral surfaces 2007 · Tlusty T · Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra A model for the emergence of the genetic code as a transition in a noisy information channel 2007 · Tlusty T · Journal of Theoretical Biology Conformational Proofreading: The Impact of Conformational Changes on the Specificity of Molecular Recognition 2007 · Savir Y & Tlusty T · PLOS ONE Journal Club The physics of living neural networks 2007 · Eckmann J-P, Feinerman O, Gruendlinger L, Moses E, Soriano J & Tlusty T · Physics Reports Anomalous Microfluidic Phonons Induced by the Interplay of Hydrodynamic Screening and Incompressibility 2007 · Beatus T, Bar-Ziv R & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters Screening by symmetry of long-range hydrodynamic interactions of polymers confined in sheets 2006 · Tlusty T · Macromolecules Rules for biological regulation based on error minimization 2006 · Shinar G, Dekel E, Tlusty T & Alon U · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences High fidelity of RecA-catalyzed recombination: a watchdog of genetic diversity 2006 · Sagi D, Tlusty T & Stavans J · Nucleic Acids Research Coding limits on the number of transcription factors 2006 · Itzkovitz S, Tlusty T & Alon U · BMC Genomics Percolation in Living Neural Networks 2006 · Breskin I, Soriano J, Moses E & Tlusty T · Physical Review Letters Percolation approach to study connectivity in living neural networks 2006 · Soriano J, Breskin I, Moses E & Tlusty T · Cooperative Behavior in Neural Systems · AIP Conference Proceedings Phonons in a one-dimensional microfluidic crystal 2006 · Beatus T, Tlusty T & Bar-Ziv R · Nature Physics News & Views Physics of cell elasticity, shape and adhesion 2005 · Safran SA, Gov N, Nicolas A, Schwarz US & Tlusty T · Physica A Molecular Model of the Contractile Ring 2005 · Biron D, Alvarez-Lacalle E, Tlusty T & Moses E · Physical Review Letters High-Fidelity DNA Sensing by Protein Binding Fluctuations 2004 · Tlusty T, Bar-Ziv R & Libchaber A · Physical Review Letters News & Views · APS Entropic networks in colloidal, polymeric and amphiphilic systems 2003 · Zilman A, Tlusty T & Safran SA · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Protein-DNA computation by stochastic assembly cascade 2002 · Bar-Ziv R, Tlusty T & Libchaber A · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Entropic networks in colloidal self-assembly 2001 · Tlusty T & Safran SA · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Topology, phase instabilities, and wetting of microemulsion networks 2000 · Tlusty T, Safran SA & Strey R · Physical Review Letters Microemulsion networks: the onset of bicontinuity 2000 · Tlusty T & Safran SA · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Defect-induced phase separation in dipolar fluids 2000 · Tlusty T & Safran SA · Science Perspective Direct observation of phase separation in microemulsion networks 1999 · Bernheim-Groswasser A, Tlusty T, Safran SA & Talmon Y · Langmuir Pearling in cells: A clue to understanding cell shape 1999 · Bar-Ziv R, Tlusty T, Moses E, Safran SA & Bershadsky A · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Optical gradient forces of strongly localized fields 1998 · Tlusty T, Meller A & Bar-Ziv R · Physical Review Letters Localized dynamic light scattering: A new approach to dynamic measurements in optical microscopy 1998 · Meller A, Bar-Ziv R, Tlusty T, Moses E, Stavans J & Safran SA · Biophysical Journal Scaling laws for microemulsions governed by spontaneous curvature 1997 · Tlusty T, Safran SA, Menes R & Strey R · Physical Review Letters Critical dynamics in the pearling instability of membranes 1997 · Bar-Ziv R, Tlusty T & Moses E · Physical Review Letters Localized dynamic light scattering: Probing single particle dynamics at the nanoscale 1997 · Bar-Ziv R, Meller A, Tlusty T, Moses E, Stavans J & Safran SA · Physical Review Letters Curvature elasticity models of microemulsions 1996 · Safran SA & Tlusty T · Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie A Simple Maximization Technique for Statistical-Mechanics Expressions 1992 · Tlusty T & Berger J · American Journal of Physics Google Scholar