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  1. Sensing the shape of a surface by tightly surface-bound filaments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kerwyn Huang

  2. Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kerwyn Huang

  3. Feedback linking cell envelope stiffness, curvature, and synthesis enables robust rod-shaped bacterial growth

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kerwyn Huang

  4. Starvation induces shrinkage of the bacterial cytoplasm

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kerwyn Huang

  5. SiCTeC: An inexpensive, easily assembled Peltier device for rapid temperature shifting during single-cell imaging

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2020, PLOS

    Kerwyn Huang

  6. The inner membrane protein YhdP modulates the rate of anterograde phospholipid flow in Escherichia coli

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kerwyn Huang

  7. Conservation of conformational dynamics across prokaryotic actins

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, April 2019, PLOS

    Kerwyn Huang

  8. Who's Your DadA? D-Alanine Levels Regulate Bacterial Stiffness

    Article • mBio, October 2018, ASM Journals

    Kerwyn Huang

  9. Emergent Phototactic Responses of Cyanobacteria under Complex Light Regimes

    Article • mBio, March 2017, ASM Journals

    Kerwyn Huang

  10. Physics of Intracellular Organization in Bacteria

    Article • Annual Review of Microbiology, October 2015, Annual Reviews

    Kerwyn Huang, Andrew Pyo

  11. Dimer Dynamics and Filament Organization of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsA

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2013, Elsevier

    Kerwyn Huang