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Gross, R., Mungan, M., Das, S.G., Yüksel, M., Maier, B., Bollenbach, T., Krug, J., and Visser, J.A.G.M. de (2024). Collective β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli due to β-lactamase release upon cell death. 2024.10.14.618215. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.14.618215v1

Nadig, A.S., Gross, R., Bollenbach, T., and Ansmann, G. (2024). Trace elements increase reproducibility of microbial growth. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.603609v1

Mulla, Y., Müller, J., Trimcev, D., and Bollenbach, T. (2024). Extreme diversity of phage amplification rates and phage-antibiotic interactions revealed by PHORCE. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.07.597930v1

Mulla, Y., and Bollenbach, T. (2024). Invade to evade: E. coli’s gutsy survival strategies. Cell Host Microbe 32, 300–301. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ilP76t8JEqn-g

Zagorski, M., Brandenberg, N., Lutolf, M., Tkacik, G., Bollenbach, T., Briscoe, J., and Kicheva, A. (2024). Assessing the precision of morphogen gradients in neural tube development. Nat. Commun. 15, 929.   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45148-8

Müller, J., and Bollenbach, T. (2023). Quantitative approaches to study phenotypic effects of large-scale genetic perturbations. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 74, 102333. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hBf8_V8xBZacc.

Rathmann, I., Förster, M., Yüksel, M., Horst, L., Petrungaro, G., Bollenbach, T., and Maier, B. (2022). Distribution of fitness effects of cross-species transformation reveals potential for fast adaptive evolution. ISME J.  https://rdcu.be/cXqjy.

Angermayr, S.A., Pang, T.Y., Chevereau, G., Mitosch, K., Lercher, M.J., and Bollenbach, T. (2022). Growth‐mediated negative feedback shapes quantitative antibiotic response. Mol. Syst. Biol. e10490. http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/msb.202110490.

Lukačišin, M., Espinosa-Cantú, A., and Bollenbach, T. (2022). Single-cell isogrowth profiling: Uniform inhibition uncovers non-uniform drug responses. Clin. Transl. Med. 12, e1005. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35908278/.

Lukačišin, M., Espinosa-Cantú, A., and Bollenbach, T. (2022). Intron-mediated induction of phenotypic heterogeneity. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04633-0.

Roemhild, R., Bollenbach, T., and Andersson, D.I. (2022). The physiology and genetics of bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 1–13. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00700-5.

Qi, Q., Angermayr, S.A., and Bollenbach, T. (2021). Uncovering key metabolic determinants of the drug interactions between trimethoprim and erythromycin in Escherichia coli. Front. Microbiol. in press. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.760017/full.

Petrungaro, G., Mulla, Y., and Bollenbach, T. (2021). Antibiotic resistance: Insights from evolution experiments and mathematical modeling. Curr. Opin. Syst. Biol. 28, 100365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2021.100365.

Ansmann, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2021). Building clone-consistent ecosystem models. PLOS Comput. Biol. 17, e1008635 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008635.

Kavčič, B., Tkačik, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2021). Minimal biophysical model of combined antibiotic action. PLOS Comput. Biol. 17, e1008529 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008529.

Kavčič, B., Tkačik, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2020). Mechanisms of drug interactions between translation-inhibiting antibiotics. Nat. Commun. 11, 4013 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17734-z.

Lukačišinová, M., Fernando, B., and Bollenbach, T. (2020). Highly parallel lab evolution reveals that epistasis can curb the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Nat. Commun. 11, 3105 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16932-z.

Lukačišin, M., and Bollenbach, T. (2019). Emergent Gene Expression Responses to Drug Combinations Predict Higher-Order Drug Interactions. Cell Syst. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2405471219303497.

Mitosch, K., Rieckh, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2019). Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria. Mol. Syst. Biol. 15, e8470 http://msb.embopress.org/lookup/doi/10.15252/msb.20188470

de Vos, M.G.J., Zagorski, M., McNally, A., and Bollenbach, T. (2017). Interaction networks, ecological stability, and collective antibiotic tolerance in polymicrobial infections. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 201713372 http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713372114.

Zagorski, M., Tabata, Y., Brandenberg, N., Lutolf, M.P., Tkačik, G., Bollenbach, T.#, Briscoe, J.#, and Kicheva, A.# (2017) Decoding of position in the developing neural tube from antiparallel morphogen gradients. Science 356, 1379–1383 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/1379 

Lukačišinová, M., and Bollenbach, T. (2017). Toward a quantitative understanding of antibiotic resistance evolution. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 46, 90–97 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28292709 [Review].

Mitosch, K., Rieckh, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2017). Noisy Response to Antibiotic Stress Predicts Subsequent Single-Cell Survival in an Acidic Environment. Cell Syst. 4, 393–403.e5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2017.03.001 Cover: http://www.cell.com/cell-systems/issue?pii=S2405-4712(16)X0005-1

Schwarz, J.*, Bierbaum, V.*, Vaahtomeri, K., Hauschild, R., Brown, M., de Vries, I., Leithner, A., Reversat, A., Merrin, J., Tarrant, T., Bollenbach, T.#, and Sixt, M.# (2017). Dendritic Cells Interpret Haptotactic Chemokine Gradients in a Manner Governed by Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Dependent on GRK6. Curr. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.004 

Schwarz, J., Bierbaum, V., Merrin, J., Frank, T., Hauschild, R., Bollenbach, T., Tay, S., Sixt, M., and Mehling, M. (2016). A microfluidic device for measuring cell migration towards substrate-bound and soluble chemokine gradients. Sci. Rep. 6, 36440 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27819270.

Chevereau, G., and Bollenbach, T. (2015). Systematic discovery of drug interaction mechanisms. Mol. Syst. Biol. 11, 807 http://msb.embopress.org/content/11/4/807.long

Bollenbach, T., and Heisenberg, C. (2015). Gradients are shaping up. Cell 161, 431–432 http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867415004262 [Preview].

Bollenbach, T. (2015). Antimicrobial interactions: mechanisms and implications for drug discovery and resistance evolution. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 27, 1–9 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527415000594 [Review].

Michalko, J., Dravecká, M., Bollenbach, T., and Friml, J. (2015). Embryo-lethal phenotypes in early abp1 mutants are due to disruption of the neighboring BSM gene. F1000Research 1104 http://f1000research.com/articles/4-1104/v1.

Chevereau, G., Dravecká, M., Batur, T., Guvenek, A., Ayhan, D.H., Toprak, E., and Bollenbach, T. (2015). Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance. PLoS Biol. 13, e1002299 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299.

Mitosch, K., and Bollenbach, T. (2014). Bacterial responses to antibiotics and their combinations. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 6, 545–557 http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1758-2229.12190 [Review].

de Vos, M.G.J., and Bollenbach, T. (2014). Suppressive drug interactions between antifungals. Chem. Biol. 21, 439–440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.04.004 [Preview].

Kicheva, A., Bollenbach, T., Ribeiro, A., Valle, H.P., Lovell-Badge, R., Episkopou, V., and Briscoe, J. (2014). Coordination of progenitor specification and growth in mouse and chick spinal cord. Science 345, 1254927 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1254927.long.

Weber, M., Hauschild, R., Schwarz, J., Moussion, C., de Vries, I., Legler, D.F., Luther, S. a, Bollenbach, T., and Sixt, M. (2013). Interstitial dendritic cell guidance by haptotactic chemokine gradients. Science 339, 328–332 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/328.long.

Pantazis, P., and Bollenbach, T. (2012). Transcription factor kinetics and the emerging asymmetry in the early mammalian embryo. Cell Cycle 11, 2055–2058 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4161/cc.20118 [Perspective].

Kicheva, A., Bollenbach, T., Wartlick, O., Jülicher, F., and Gonzalez-Gaitan, M. (2012). Investigating the principles of morphogen gradient formation: from tissues to cells. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 22, 527–532 http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959437X12000998 [Review].

Bollenbach, T., and Kishony, R. (2011). Resolution of gene regulatory conflicts caused by combinations of antibiotics. Mol. Cell 42, 413–425 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2011.04.016.

Plachta, N., Bollenbach, T., Pease, S., Fraser, S.E., and Pantazis, P. (2011). Oct4 kinetics predict cell lineage patterning in the early mammalian embryo. Nat. Cell Biol. 13, 117–123 http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ncb2154.

Bollenbach, T., Quan, S., Chait, R., and Kishony, R. (2009). Nonoptimal microbial response to antibiotics underlies suppressive drug interactions. Cell 139, 707–718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.10.025.

Swoboda, J.G., Meredith, T.C., Campbell, J., Brown, S., Suzuki, T., Bollenbach, T., Malhowski, A.J., Kishony, R., Gilmore, M.S., and Walker, S. (2009). Discovery of a small molecule that blocks wall teichoic acid biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus. ACS Chem. Biol. 4, 875–883 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cb900151k.

Bollenbach, T., and Kishony, R. (2009). Hydroxyurea triggers cellular responses that actively cause bacterial cell death. Mol. Cell 36, 728–729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2009.11.027 [Preview].

Bollenbach, T., and Kishony, R. (2009). Quiet gene circuit more fragile than its noisy peer. Cell 139, 460–461 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409012537 [Preview].

Bollenbach, T.*, Pantazis, P.*, Kicheva, A.*, Bökel, C., González-Gaitán, M., and Jülicher, F. (2008). Precision of the Dpp gradient. Development 135, 1137–1146 http://dev.biologists.org/content/135/6/1137.long.

Bollenbach, T., Vetsigian, K., and Kishony, R. (2007). Evolution and multilevel optimization of the genetic code. Genome Res. 17, 401–404 http://genome.cshlp.org/content/17/4/401.long [Perspective].

Kicheva, A.*, Pantazis, P.*, Bollenbach, T.*, Kalaidzidis, Y., Bittig, T., Jülicher, F., and González-Gaitán, M. (2007). Kinetics of morphogen gradient formation. Science 315, 521–525 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/315/5811/521.short.

Bollenbach, T., Kruse, K., Pantazis, P., González-Gaitán, M., and Jülicher, F. (2007). Morphogen transport in epithelia. Phys. Rev. E 75, 011901 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011901.

Bollenbach, T., Kruse, K., Pantazis, P., González-Gaitán, M., and Jülicher, F. (2005). Robust formation of morphogen gradients. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018103 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.018103.

Kruse, K., Pantazis, P., Bollenbach, T., Jülicher, F., and González-Gaitán, M. (2004). Dpp gradient formation by dynamin-dependent endocytosis: receptor trafficking and the diffusion model. Development 131, 4843–4856 http://dev.biologists.org/content/131/19/4843.long.

Bollenbach, T., Strother, T., and Bauer, W. (2004). 3D Core-Collapse Supernova Calculations. In Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter, (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), pp. 277–287 http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4020-2705-5_21.

Bauer, W., Berkenbusch, M., and Bollenbach, T. (2003). Breaking atomic nuclei into little pieces: Evidence for a phase transition. Rev. Mex. Fis. 49, 1–6.

Bollenbach, T., and Bauer, W. (2002). 3d Supernovae Collapse Calculations. In AIP Conference Proceedings, (AIP), pp. 219–232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1523196.

Bauer, W., Bollenbach, T., Kleine Berkenbusch, M., and Harreis, H. (2002). The percolation interpretation of the nuclear fragmentation phase transition. In Proceedings of the 18th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, (Nassau, Bahamas), pp. 20–27.