Research publications

A. L. Tribby, J. S. Bois, S. A. Montzka, E. L. Atlas, I. Vimont, X. Lan, P. P. Tans, J. W. Elkins, D. R. Blake, P. O. Wennberg, Hydrocarbon tracers suggest methane emissions from fossil sources occur predominately before gas processing and that petroleum plays are a significant source, Environ. Sci. Technol., 56, 9623-9631, 2022. [download]
C. J. Su, A. Murugan, J. M. Linton, A. Yeluri, J. S. Bois, H. Klumpe, Y. E. Antebi, M. B. Elowitz, Ligand-receptor promiscuity enables cellular addressing, Cell Syst., 15, 408-425, 2022. [download]
P. Gross, K. V. Kumar, N. W. Goehring, J. S. Bois, C. Hoege, F. Jülicher, S. W. Grill, Guiding self-organized pattern formation in cell polarity establishment, Nature Physics, 15, 293-300, 2019. [download]
R. D. Nath, C. N. Bedbrook, M. J. Abrams, T. Basinger, J. S. Bois, D. A. Prober, P. W. Sternberg, V. Gradinaru, L. Goentoro, The jellyfish Cassiopea exhibits a sleep-like state, Curr. Biol., 27, 2984-2990, 2017. [download]
B. Bor, N. Poweleit, J. S. Bois, L. Cen, J. K. Bedree, Z. H. Zhou, R. P. Gunsalus, R. Lux, J. S. McLean, X. He, and W. Shi, Phenotypic and physiological characterization of the epibiotic interaction between TM7x and its basibiont Actinomyces, Microb. Ecol., 71, 243-255, 2016. [download]
A. Webster, S. Li, J. K. Hur, M. Wachsmuth, J. S. Bois, E. M. Perkins, D. Patel, and A. A. Aravin, Aub and Ago3 are recruited to nuage through two mechanisms to form a ping-pong complex assembled by Krimper, Molecular Cell, 59, 564-575, 2015. [download]
B. Bor, J. S. Bois, and M. E. Quinlan, Regulation of the formin Cappuccino is critical for polarity of Drosophila oocytes, Cytoskeleton, 72, 1-15, 2015. [download]
A. S. Rasson, J. S. Bois, D. S. L. Pham, H. Yoo, and M. E. Quinlan, Filament assembly by Spire: Key residues and concerted actin binding, J. Mol. Biol., 427, 824-839, 2015. [download]
K V. Kumar, J. S. Bois, F. Jülicher, S. W. Grill, Pulsatory patterns in active fluids, Phys. Rev. Lett., 112, 208101, 2014. [download]
E. A. Roth-Johnson, C. L. Vizcarra, J. S. Bois, and M. E. Quinlan, Interaction between microtubules and the Drosophila formin Cappuccino and its effect on actin assembly, J. Bio. Chem., 289, 4395-4404, 2014. [download]
N. W. Goehring, P. Khuc Trong, J. S. Bois, D. Chowdhury, E. M. Nicola, A. A. Hyman, and S. W. Grill, Polarizing PAR proteins by advective triggering of a pattern-forming system, Science, 334, 1137-1141, 2011. [download]
J. S. Bois, F. Jülicher, and S. W. Grill, Pattern formation in active fluids, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 028103, 2011. [download]
J. N. Zadeh*, C. Steenberg*, J. S. Bois*, B. R. Wolfe*, M. B. Pierce, A. R. Khan, R. M. Dirks, and N. A. Pierce, NUPACK: Analysis and design of nucleic acid systems, J. Comput. Chem., 32, 170–173, 2011. [download]
M. Mayer, M. Depken*, J. S. Bois*, F. Jülicher, and S. W. Grill, Anisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows, Nature, 467, 617–621, 2010. [download]
A. V. Klopper, J. S. Bois, and S. W. Grill, Influence of secondary structure on the early stages of RNA transcription, Phys. Rev. E, 81, 030904, 2009. [download]
L. Carvalho, J. Stühmer, J. S. Bois, Y. Kalaidzidis, V. Lecaudey, and C.-P. Heisenberg, Control of convergent yolk syncytial layer nuclear movement in zebrafish, Development, 136, 1305–1315, 2009. [download]
R. M. Dirks*, J. S. Bois*, J. M. Schaeffer, E. Winfree, and N. A. Pierce, Thermodynamic analysis of interacting nucleic acid strands, SIAM Rev., 49, 65–88, 2007. [download]
J. S. Bois*, S. Venkataraman*, H. M. T. Choi, A. J. Spakowitz, Z.-G. Wang, and N. A. Pierce, Topological constraints in nucleic acid hybridization kinetics, Nucleic Acids Res., 33, 4090–4095, 2005. [download]

Book chapters and reviews

J. S. Bois and S. W. Grill, Mechanochemical pattern formation in the polarization of the one-cell C. elegans embryo, in Engineering of Chemical Complexity, A. S. Mikhailov and G. Ertl, Eds., World Scientific, 2013. [book website]
J. Howard, S. W. Grill, and J. S. Bois, Turing's next steps: the mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis, Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell. Biol., 12, 392–398, 2011. [download]

Ph.D. thesis

J. S. Bois, Analysis of interacting nucleic acids in dilute solutions, Caltech thesis, 2007. [download]

*Authors contributed equally