Publications of Simone Reber

Henkin, G.; Reber, S.: Microtubules: Decoding tubulin diversity with help from an amoeba. Current Biology 35 (2) (2025)

Troman, L.; de Gaulejac, E.; Biswas, A.; Stiens, J.; Kuropka, B.; Moores, C. A.; Reber, S.: Mechanistic basis of temperature adaptation in microtubule dynamics across frog species. Current Biology, 6:S0960-9822(24)01690-7 (2025)

Borchert, M.; Hellinga, J. R.; Reber, S.; Krücken, J.; von Samson-Himmelstjerna, G.: Benzimidazole inhibits Haemonchus contortus microtubule dynamics by intradimer structural changes observed by in silico modeling. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (2024)

Reber, S.; Singer, M.; Frischknecht, F.: Cytoskeletal dynamics in parasites. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 86, 102277 (2023)

Amini, S.; Zhu, T.; Biswas, A.; Charsooghi, M. A.; Kim, K.; Reber, S.; Dauphin, Y.; Fratzl, P.: Calcitic Prisms of The Giant Seashell Pinna Nobilis Form Light Guide Arrays. Advanced Materials, e2304166 (2023)

Meca, E.; Fritsch, A. W.; Iglesias-Artola, J. M.; Reber, S.; Wagner, B.: Predicting disordered regions driving phase separation of proteins under variable salt concentration. Frontiers in Physics 11 (2023)

Ng, S. C.; Biswas, A.; Huyton, T.; Schünemann, J.; Reber, S.; Görlich, D.: Barrier properties of Nup98 FG phases ruled by FG motif identity and inter-FG spacer length. Nature Communications 14 (1) (2023)

Kletter, T.; Biswas, A.; Reber, S.: Engineering metaphase spindles: Construction site and building blocks. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 79 (2022)

Hirst, W. G.; Fachet, D.; Kuropka, B.; Weise, C.; Saliba, K. J.; Reber, S.: Purification of functional Plasmodium falciparum tubulin allows for the identification of parasite-specific microtubule inhibitors. Current Biology 32, pp. 919 - 926 (2022)

Kletter, T.; Reusch, S.; Cavazza, T.; Dempewolf, N.; Tischer, C.; Reber, S.: Volumetric morphometry reveals spindle width as the best predictor of mammalian spindle scaling. Journal of Cell Biology 221 (1), e202106170 (2022)

Biswas, A.; Kim, K.; Cojoc, G.; Guck, J.; Reber, S.: The Xenopus spindle is as dense as the surrounding cytoplasm. Developmental Cell 56 (7), pp. 967 - 975 (2021)

Hirst, W. G.; Kiefer, C.; Abdosamadi, M. K.; Schäffer, E.; Reber, S.: In Vitro Reconstitution and Imaging of Microtubule Dynamics by Fluorescence and Label-free Microscopy. STAR Protocols 1 (3), 100177 (2020)

Reusch, S.; Biswas, A.; Hirst, W. G.; Reber, S.: Affinity Purification of Label-free Tubulins from Xenopus Egg Extracts. STAR Protocols 1 (3) (2020)

Hirst, W. G.; Biswas, A.; Mahalingan, K. K.; Reber, S.: Differences in intrinsic tubulin dynamic properties contribute to spindle length control in Xenopus species. Current Biology 30 (11) (2020)

Granada, A. E.; Jiménez, A.; Stewart-Ornstein, J.; Blüthgen, N.; Reber, S.; Jambhekar, A.; Lahav, G.: The effects of proliferation status and cell cycle phase on the responses of single cells to chemotherapy. Molecular Biology of the Cell 31 (8) (2020)

Kapoor, V.; Hirst, W. G.; Hentschel, C.; Preibisch, S.; Reber, S.: Mtrack: Automated detection, tracking, and analysis of dynamic microtubules. Scientific Reports 9 (1), 3794 (2019)

Ortega, G. C.; Falk, S.; Johansson, P. A.; Peyre, E.; Broix, L.; Sahu, S. K.; Hirst, W.; Schlichthaerle, T.; Romero, C. D. J.; Draganova, K. et al.; Vinopal, S.; Chinnappa, K.; Gavranovic, A.; Karakaya, T.; Steininger, T.; Merl-Pham, J.; Feederle, R.; Shao, W.; Shi, S.-H.; Hauck, S. M.; Jungmann, R.; Bradke, F.; Borrell, V.; Geerlof, A.; Reber, S.; Tiwari, V. K.; Huttner, W. B.; Wilsch-Bräuninger, M.; Nguyen, L.; Götz, M.: The centrosome protein AKNA regulates neurogenesis via microtubule organization. Nature 567 (7746), pp. 113 - 117 (2019)

Reber, S.; Goehring, N. W.: Intracellular Scaling Mechanisms. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 7 (12), a019067 (2015)

Reber, S.; Hyman, A. A.: Emergent Properties of the Metaphase Spindle. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 7 (7), a015784. (2015)

Reber, S.; Baumgart, J.; Widlund, P. O.; Pozniakovsky, A.; Howard, J.; Hyman, A. A.; Jülicher, F.: XMAP215 activity sets spindle length by controlling the total mass of spindle microtubules. Nature Cell Biology 15 (9) (2013)