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Joshua Shaevitz

Professor of Physics and Genomics, Princeton University
Verified email at princeton.edu
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Capillary forces generated by biomolecular condensates

B Gouveia, Y Kim, JW Shaevitz, S Petry, HA Stone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation and related phase transitions have emerged as generic
mechanisms in living cells for the formation of membraneless compartments or biomolecular …

Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

[HTML][HTML] SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

…, SD Kocher, SSH Wang, AL Falkner, JW Shaevitz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The desire to understand how the brain generates and patterns behavior has driven rapid
methodological innovation in tools to quantify natural animal behavior. While advances in …

Direct observation of base-pair stepping by RNA polymerase

EA Abbondanzieri, WJ Greenleaf, JW Shaevitz… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
During transcription, RNA polymerase (RNAP) moves processively along a DNA template,
creating a complementary RNA. Here we present the development of an ultra-stable optical …

Fast animal pose estimation using deep neural networks

…, M Kislin, SSH Wang, M Murthy, JW Shaevitz - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The need for automated and efficient systems for tracking full animal pose has increased with
the complexity of behavioral data and analyses. Here we introduce LEAP (LEAP estimates …

Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies

…, DM Choi, W Bialek, JW Shaevitz - Journal of The Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A frequent assumption in behavioural science is that most of an animal's activities can be
described in terms of a small set of stereotyped motifs. Here, we introduce a method for …

The structure and function of bacterial actin homologs

JW Shaevitz, Z Gitai - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
During the past decade, the appreciation and understanding of how bacterial cells can be
organized in both space and time have been revolutionized by the identification and …

The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

…, NS Wingreen, JW Shaevitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial cells possess multiple cytoskeletal proteins involved in a wide range of cellular
processes. These cytoskeletal proteins are dynamic, but the driving forces and cellular functions …

Backtracking by single RNA polymerase molecules observed at near-base-pair resolution

JW Shaevitz, EA Abbondanzieri, R Landick, SM Block - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Escherichia coli RNA polymerase (RNAP) synthesizes RNA with remarkable fidelity in vivo
1 . Its low error rate may be achieved by means of a ‘proofreading’ mechanism comprised of …

Whole-brain calcium imaging with cellular resolution in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans

…, M Liu, SU Setru, JW Shaevitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The ability to acquire large-scale recordings of neuronal activity in awake and unrestrained
animals is needed to provide new insights into how populations of neurons generate animal …