Farid Alisafaei

ME 304: FLUID MECHANICS

ME 618: ST: MECHANOBIOLOGY: MECHANICS OF CELLS AND TISSUES

Y Hong*, X Peng*, H Yu, M Jafari, D Shakiba, J Sandler, KM Pryse, EL Elson, GM Genin, F Alisafaei. 2022. "Mechanobiology of Fibroblast Activation in Skin Grafting." bioRxiv, pp. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.12.511903 (*Equal contribution).

AE Loneker, F Alisafaei, A Kant, PA Janmey, VB Shenoy, RG Wells. 2022. "Lipid droplets are intracellular mechanical stressors in fatty hepatocyte." bioRxiv, pp. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.27.505524.

F Alisafaei*, D Shakiba*, LE Iannucci, MD Davidson, KM Pryse, PG Chao, JA Burdick, SP Lake, EL Elson, VB Shenoy, GM Genin. 2022. "Tension anisotropy drives phenotypic transitions of cells via two-way cell-ECM feedback." bioRxiv, pp. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.13.484154 (*Equal contribution).

F Alisafaei, K Mandal, M Swoger, H Yang, M Guo, PA Janmey, AE Patteson, VB Shenoy. 2022. "Vimentin intermediate filaments can enhance or abate active cellular forces in a microenvironmental stiffness-dependent manner." bioRxiv, pp. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.02.486829.

S Jiang, F Alisafaei, YY Huang, Y Hong, X Peng, C Qu, P Puapatanakul, S Jain, JH Miner, GM Genin, HY Suleiman. 2022. "An ex vivo culture model of kidney podocyte injury reveals mechanosensitive, synaptopodin-templating, sarcomere-like structures." Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 35, pp. eabn6027.

X Peng, Y Huang, F Alisafaei. 2022. "Cytoskeleton-mediated alterations of nuclear mechanics by extracellular mechanical signals." Biophysical Journal, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 1-3.

F Alisafaei, X Chen, T Leahy, PA Janmey, VB Shenoy. 2021. "Long-range mechanical signaling in biological systems." Soft Matter, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 241-253.

M Mondrinos, F Alisafaei, AY Yi, H Ahmadzadeh, I Lee, C Blundell, J Seo, M Osborn, TJ Jeon, SM Kim, VB Shenoy, DD Huh. 2021. "Surface-directed engineering of tissue anisotropy in microphysiological models of musculoskeletal tissue." Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. eabe9446.

HP Lee, F Alisafaei, K Adebawale, VB Shenoy, O Chaudhuri. 2021. "The nuclear piston activates mechanosensitive ion channels to generate cell migration paths in confining microenvironments." Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. eabd4058.

F Alisafaei*, Z Gong*, VE Johnson, JP Dollé, DH Smith, VB Shenoy. 2020. "Mechanisms of local stress amplification in axons near the gray-white matter interface." Biophysical Journal, vol. 119, no. 7, pp. 1290-1300 (*Equal contribution).

J Zhang*, F Alisafaei*, M Nikolić, XA Nou, H Kim, VB Shenoy, G Scarcelli. 2020. "Nuclear mechanics within intact cells is regulated by cytoskeletal network and internal nanostructures." Small, vol. 16, no. 18, pp. 1907688 (*Equal contribution).

D Shakiba, F Alisafaei, A Savadipour, R Rowe, Z Liu, KM Pryse, VB Shenoy, EE Elson, GM Genin. 2020. "The Balance between actomyosin contractility and microtubule polymerization regulates hierarchical protrusions that govern efficient fibroblast–collagen interactions." ACS Nano, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 7868-7879.

N Garg, G Chandrashekar, F Alisafaei, CS Han. 2020. "Fiber diameter-dependent elastic deformation in polymer composites-a numerical study." Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, vol. 142, no. 1, pp. 011002.

J Seo, WY Byun, F Alisafaei, A Georgescu, M Massaro-Giordano, VB Shenoy, V Lee, VY Bunya, DD Huh. 2019. "Multiscale revere engineering of the human ocular surface." Nature Medicine, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1310-1318.

F Alisafaei, DS Jokhun, GV Shivashankar, VB Shenoy. 2019. "Regulation of nuclear architecture, mechanics, and nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of epigenetic factors by cell geometric constraints." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 116, no. 27, pp. 13200-13209.

K Damodaran*, S Venkatachalapathy*, F Alisafaei, AV Radhakrishnan, DS Jokhun, VB Shenoy, GV Shivashankar. 2018. "Compressive force induces reversible chromatin condensation and cell geometry dependent transcriptional response." Molecular Biology of the Cell, vol. 29, no. 25, pp. 3039-3051 (*Equal contribution).

MS Hall, F Alisafaei, E Ban, X Feng, CY Hui, VB Shenoy, M Wu. 2016. "Fibrous nonlinear elasticity enables positive mechanical feedback between cells and ECMs." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 113, no. 49, pp. 14043-14048.

N Garg, CS Han, F Alisafaei. 2016. "Length scale dependence in elastomers - Comparison of indentation experiments with numerical simulations." Polymer, vol. 98, pp. 201-209.

F Alisafaei, CS Han, N Garg. 2016. "On couple-stress elasto-plastic constitutive frameworks for glassy polymers." International Journal of Plasticity, vol. 77, pp. 30-53.

CS Han, SHR Sanei, F Alisafaei. 2016. "On the origin of indentation size effect and depth dependent mechanical properties of elastic polymers." Journal of Polymer Engineering, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 103-111.

AN Bucsek, F Alisafaei, CS Han, N Lakhera. 2016. "On thresholds in the indentation size effect of polymers." Polymer Bulletin, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 763-772.

F Alisafaei, CS Han. 2015. "Indentation depth dependent mechanical behavior in polymers." Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, pp. 391579.

G Chandrashekar, F Alisafaei, CS Han. 2015. "Length scale dependent deformation in natural rubber." Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 132, no. 43, pp. 42683.

F Alisafaei, R Ansari, A Alipour. 2014. "A semi-analytical approach for the interaction of carbon nanotori." Physica E, vol. 58, pp. 63-66.

F Alisafaei, CS Han, N Lakhera. 2014. "Characterization of indentation size effects in epoxy." Polymer Testing, vol. 40, pp. 70-78.

F Alisafaei, CS Han, SHR Sanei. 2013. "On the time and indentation depth dependence of hardness, dissipation and stiffness in polydimethylsiloxane." Polymer Testing, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1220-1228.

F Alisafaei, R Ansari. 2012. "Dynamic analysis of heterogeneous pressure vessels subjected to thermomechanical loads." Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 061202.

F Alisafaei, R Ansari, H Rouhi. 2012. "Force distribution and offset configuration for carbon nanotubes." International Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 11, no. 02, pp. 1250014.

R Ansari, F Alisafaei, A Alipour, E Mahmoudinezhad. 2012. "On the van der Waals interaction of carbon nanocones." Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 751-756.

F Alisafaei, R Rouhi, H Rouhi. 2011. "Continuum modeling of van der Waals interaction force between carbon nanocones and carbon nanotubes." Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 031002.

F Alisafaei, R Ansari. 2011. "Mechanics of concentric carbon nanotubes: interaction force and suction energy." Computational Materials Science, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1406-1413.

R Ansari, F Alisafaei, P Ghaedi. 2010. "Dynamic analysis of multi-layered filament-wound composite pipes subjected to cyclic internal pressure and cyclic temperature." Composite Structures, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1100-1109.