• How do cells organize their interiors without a manager?
• Active matter of biological elements such as cytoskeleton and enzymes
• Fundamental physics behind exciting biological activities
• Self-assembly and self-organization of cytoskeleton

• 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2014 Scialog Fellow, Moore Foundation and Research Corporation
• 2013 National Science Foundation, INSPIRE Award
• 2013 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, Biophysical Society
• 2010 Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation
• 2005 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Grant

Xu^G, L. Valdez, A. Sen, J.L. Ross, “Self-propulsion of single enzymes,” Physical Review Letters 123, 12 (2019). arXiv:  https//doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.128101

Edozie^UG, S. Sahu^G, M. Pitta^HS, C. Fermino Do Rosario^UG, A. Englert^UG, J.L. Ross, “Self-Organization of Spindle-Like Microtubule Structures,” Soft Matter, 15, pp 4797-4807 (2019). doi: http://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM01835A bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/624874

Belonogov^UG*, M.E. Bailey^G*, M.Tyler^G*, J.L. Ross, “Katanin Catalyzes Microtubule Depolymerization Independent of Tubulin Carboxy Terminal Tails,” Cytoskeleton 76, 3, pp 254-268 (2019). *co-first authors contributed equally to experiments, analysis, and writing. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21522

Advani^G, T.J. Maresca, J.L. Ross, “Creation and testing of a new, local microtubule-disruption tool based on the microtubule-severing enzyme, katanin p60,” Cytoskeleton, 75, 531-544 (2018). doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21482

Farhadi^G, C. Fermino Do Rosario^UG, E.P. Debold, A. Baskaran, J.L. Ross, “Composite Polymer Active Matter” Frontiers in Physics, (2018). doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2018.00075

Zhang, N. Kumar, J.L. Ross, 
M.L. Gardel, J.J. de Pablo
, “Interplay of Structure, Elasticity and Dynamics in Actin-Based Nematic Materials,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 115, 2, E124–133, (2018). doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713832115