Dr Kirsty Wan Associate Professor CEMPS Groups: Wan Group University profile 0000-0002-0291-328X Publications Publications 2025 Dynamics and emergence of metachronal waves in the ciliary band of a metazoan larva Published: 10/02/2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.10.637311 URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10.637311 A scotophobic response characterised by body contraction and ciliary arrest inAcroporacoral larvae Published: 06/02/2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.06.636794 URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.06.636794 2024 A call to action to address escalating global threats to academic research Journal: The Innovation Published: 31/12/2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100758 ISSN: 2666-6758 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100758 Diversity of motility patterns in benthic diatoms Published: 23/12/2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.23.630140 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.23.630140 Minimal design of a synthetic cilium Journal: Physical Review Research Published: 12/12/2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L042061 URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L042061 Biophysics of protist behaviour Journal: Current Biology Published: 30/09/2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.002 ISSN: 0960-9822 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.002 Mechanisms and functions of multiciliary coordination Journal: Current Opinion in Cell Biology Published: 31/01/2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102286 URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102286 Bioelectric control of locomotor gaits in the walking ciliate Euplotes Journal: Current Biology Published: 31/01/2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.051 URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.051 2023 Methods and measures for investigating microscale motility Journal: Integrative And Comparative Biology Published: 29/12/2023 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad075 URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad075 Ciliary propulsion and metachronal coordination in reef coral larvae Journal: Physical Review Research Published: 11/12/2023 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L042037 URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L042037 State-dependent stiffness enhances wave propagation along elastic filaments Published: 30/11/2023 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.13844 URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13844 Life through the fluid dynamics lens Journal: Nature Physics Published: 30/11/2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02299-7 URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02299-7 Active oscillations in microscale navigation Journal: Animal Cognition Published: 04/09/2023 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01819-5 ISSN: 1435-9448 ISSN: 1435-9456 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01819-5 2022 Physics and mechanics of ciliary beating Journal: The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook Published: 30/11/2022 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-822508-0.00017-4 ISBN: 9780128225080 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-822508-0.00017-4 Phenotyping single-cell motility in microfluidic confinement Journal: eLife Published: 23/11/2022 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.76519 URL: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76519 Distinct gaits of self-propelled quadriflagellate microswimmers Published: 10/05/2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.10.491287 URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.10.491287 The beat of isolated cilia Journal: Nature Physics Published: 28/02/2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01502-5 URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01502-5 2021 A new kind of beat Journal: eLife Published: 26/04/2021 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67701 URL: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67701 Origins of eukaryotic excitability Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published: 15/03/2021 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0758 URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0758 A minimal robophysical model of quadriflagellate self-propulsion Published: 15/03/2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.14.434582 URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.14.434582 2020 Functional exploration of heterotrimeric kinesin-II in IFT and ciliary length control in Chlamydomonas Journal: eLife Published: 28/10/2020 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58868 URL: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58868 Control of Helical Navigation by Three-Dimensional Flagellar Beating Published: 27/09/2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.27.315606 URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.27.315606 Intracellular coupling modulates biflagellar synchrony Published: 17/08/2020 ARXIV: arXiv:2008.07626v1 URL: On the unity and diversity of cilia Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published: 17/02/2020 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0148 URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0148 Reorganization of complex ciliary flows around regenerating Stentor coeruleus Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published: 17/02/2020 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0167 URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0167 Synchrony and symmetry-breaking in active flagellar coordination Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published: 17/02/2020 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0393 URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0393 2019 Ciliate Biology: The Graceful Hunt of a Shape-Shifting Predator. Journal: Current biology : CB Published: 31/10/2019 PMID: 31743670 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.013 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31743670 2018 Coordination of eukaryotic cilia and flagella. Journal: Essays in biochemistry Published: 30/11/2018 PMID: 30464007 PMC: PMC6281475 DOI: 10.1042/EBC20180029 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30464007 Time Irreversibility and Criticality in the Motility of a Flagellate Microorganism. Journal: Physical review letters Published: 31/07/2018 PMID: 30118294 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.058103 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30118294 2016 Coordinated beating of algal flagella is mediated by basal coupling. Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published: 30/04/2016 PMID: 27140605 PMC: PMC4878519 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518527113 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27140605 2014 Rhythmicity, recurrence, and recovery of flagellar beating. Journal: Physical review letters Published: 30/11/2014 PMID: 25526162 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.238103 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25526162 Lag, lock, sync, slip: the many ‘phases’ of coupled flagella. Journal: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface Published: 30/04/2014 PMID: 24573332 PMC: PMC3973360 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.1160 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24573332 2013 Flagellar synchronization through direct hydrodynamic interactions. Journal: eLife Published: 30/11/2013 PMID: 25073925 PMC: PMC4113993 DOI: 10.7554/elife.02750 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25073925 Antiphase synchronization in a flagellar-dominance mutant of Chlamydomonas. Journal: Physical review letters Published: 30/09/2013 PMID: 24160630 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.158101 URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24160630