Zvonimir Dogic

Research Professor of Physics

Departments/Programs

Physics

Degrees

Brandeis University, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, B.A.

Expertise

The research interests of Zvonimir Dogic and his group lie in elucidating rules that govern self-assembly of materials, with a particular emphasis being placed on the role the particle's shape and chirality play in these assembly processes. We strive to create very simple model systems in which precise control is possible over all the relevant parameters.

Profile

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Awards and Honors

Soft Matter Gordon Research Conference vice co-chair (2015)

Hans Fisher Senior Fellow - Technical University Munich (2013 - 2016)

Cozzarelli prize for outstanding paper published in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (2011)

NSF CAREER award (2010 - 2014)

NIH Career Development Award (K25) (2008 - 2013)

Rowland Institute at Harvard Research Fellow (2003 - 2007)

Humboldt Postoctoral Fellowship (2001 - 2002)

Scholarship

Marcus Braun, Zdenek Lansky, Feodor Hilitski, Zvonimir Dogic, Stefan Diez. "Entropic forces drive contraction of cytoskeletal networks." Bioessays (2016). (forthcoming)

Louis Kang, Thomas Gibaud, Zvonimir Dogic and Tom. C. Lubensky. "Entropic forces stabilize diverse emergent structures in colloidal membranes." Soft Matter 12. (2016): 386-401.

Andrew Ward, Feodor Hilitski, Walter Schwenger, David Welch, A. W. C. Lau, Vincenzo Vitelli, L. Mahadevan and Zvonimir Dogic. "Solid Friction between soft filaments." Nature Materials 14. (2015): 583-588.

Daniel T. N. Chen, M. Heymann, S. Fraden, D. Nicastro and Z. Dogic. "ATP Consumption of Eukaryotic Flagella Measured at a Single-Cell Level." Biophysical Journal 109. (2015): 2562-2573.

David Welch, M. P. Lettinga, Marisol Ripoll, Zvonimir Dogic and Gerard A. Vliegenthart. "Trains, tails and loops of partially adsorbed semi-flexible filaments." Soft Matter 11. (2015): 7507-7514.

Feodor Hilitski, Andrew R. Ward, Luis Cajamarca, Michael F. Hagan, Gregory M. Grason and Zvonimir Dogic. "Measuring cohesion between macromolecular filaments, one pair at a time: Depletion-induced microtubule binding." Physical Review Letters 114. (2015): 138102.

Stephen DeCamp, Gabriel Redner, Aparna Baskaran, Michael Hagan and Zvonimir Dogic. "Orientational order of motile defects in active nematics." Nature Materials 14. (2015): 1110-1115.

Dogic, Zvonimir. "Tunable dynamics of microtubule-based active isotropic gels." Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society A 372. (2014): 20140142.

Felix C. Keber, Etienne Loiseau, Tim Sanchez, Stephen J. DeCamp, Luca Giomi, Mark J. Bowick, M. Cristina Marchetti, Zvonimir Dogic and Andreas R. Bausch. "Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles." Science 345. (2014): 1135-1139.

M. J. Zakhary, T. Gibaud, C. Nadir Kaplan, E. Barry, R. Oldenbourg, R. B. Meyer & Z Dogic. "Imprintable membranes from incomplete chiral coalescence." Nature Communications 5. (2014): 3063.

Prerna Sharma, Andrew Ward, T. Gibaud, Michael F. Hagan and Zvonimir Dogic. "Hierarchical organization of chiral rafts in colloidal membranes." Nature 514. (2014): 77-80.

Z. Dogic, P. Sharma and M. Zakhary. "Hypercomplex Liquid Crystals." Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics 5. (2014): 137-157.

M. J. Zakhary, P. Sharma, A. Ward, S. Yardimici and Z. Dogic. "Geometrical edgeactants control interfacial bending rigidity of colloidal membranes." Soft Matter 9. 34 (2013): 8306-8313.

T. Sanchez and Z. Dogic. "Engineering Oscillating Microtubule Bundles." Methody in Enzymology 524. (2013): 205-224.

T, Sanchez, D. T. N. Chen, S. J. DeCamp, M. Heymann and Z. Dogic. "Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter." Nature 491. (2012): 431-434.

T. Gibaud, E. Barry, M. Zakhary, M. Henglin, A. Ward, Y. Yang, C. Berciu, R. Oldenbourg, D. Nicastro, R. Meyer and Z. Dogic. "Reconfigurable Self-Assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension." Nature 481. (2012): 348-351.

Y. Yang, E. Barry. Z. Dogic and M. F. Hagan. "Self-assembly of 2D membranes from mixtures of hard rods and depleting polymers." Soft Matter 8. (2012): 707-714.

T. Sanchez, D. Welch, D. Nicastro and Z. Dogic. "Cilia-Like Beating of Active Microtubule Bundles." Science 333. (2011): 456-459.

E. Barry and Z. Dogic. "Entropy Driven Self-Assembly of Non-Amphiphilic Colloidal Membranes." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 107. (2010): 10348–10353.

K. Okada, F. Bartolini, A. M. Deaconescu, J. B. Moseley, Z. Dogic, N. Grigorieff, G. G. Gundersen and B. L. Goode. "Adenomatous polyposis coli protein nucleates actin assembly and synergizes with the formin mDia1." J. Biol. Chem. 189,. (2010): 1087.

T. Sanchez, I. Kulic and Z. Dogic. "Circularization, photo-mechanical switching and a supercoiling transition of actin filaments." Phys. Rev. Lett. 104. (2010): 098103.

A. Prasad, A. W. C. Lau and Z. Dogic. "Condensation of isolated semiflexible filaments driven by depletion interactions." EPL 87. (2009): 48006.

E. Barry, D. Beller and Z. Dogic. "A model liquid crystalline system based on rodlike viruses with variable chirality and persistence length." Soft Matter 5. (2009): 2563.

E. Barry, Z. Dogic, R. B. Meyer, A. P. Pelcovits and R. Oldenbourg. "Direct measurement of twist penetration length in single smectic A layer of colloidal particle." J. Phys. Chem. B 113. (2009): 3910.

G. H. Koenderink, Z. Dogic, F. Nakamura, P. M. Bendix, F. C. MacKintosh, J. H. Hartwig, T. P. Stossel and D. A. Weitz. "Active biopolymer networks controlled by molecular motors." Proc. Nat.Acad. Sci. 106. (2009): 15192.

P. Huang, K. Addas, A. Ward, N. T. Flynn, E. Valesco, M. F. Hagan, Z. Dogic and S. Fraden. "Pair potential of charged colloidal stars." Phys. Rev. Lett. 102. (2009): 108302.

Brangwynne CP, Koenderink GH, Barry E, Dogic Z, MacKintosh FC, Weitz DA. "Bending dynamics of fluctuating biopolymers probed by automated high-resolution filament tracking." Biophysical Journal 93. 1 (2008): 349.