Publications

1.  Yizeng Li, Sean X. Sun. Cell migration dynamics explained by the coupling of mechanics with electrochemistry and pH regulation. Phys. Rev. Res. 6(2), 023158 (2024) Link

2.  Md. Mofizur Rahman*, Jing Wang*, Guosheng Wang*, Zhipeng Su, Yizeng Li, Yundi Chen, Jinguo Meng, Yao Yao, Lefei Wang, Stephan Wilkens, Jifu Tan, Juntao Luo, Tao Zhang, Chuandong Zhu, Sung Hyun Cho, Lixue Wang, Luke Lee, Yuan Wan. Chimeric nanobody-decorated liposomes by self-assembly. Nat. Nanotechnol.  (2024) (*Equal Contribution) Link

3. Lingxing Yao, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun, Yizeng Li. On the Role of Myosin-Induced Actin Depolymerization During Cell Migration. Mol. Biol. Cell. 34(6), ar62 (2023) Link

4. Kaustav Bera, Alex Kiepas*, Inês Godet*, Yizeng Li*, Pranav Mehta*, Brent Ifemembi, Colin D. Paul, Anindya Sen, Selma A. Serra, Konstantin Stoletov, Jiaxiang Tao, Gabriel Shatkin, Se Jong Lee, Yuqi Zhang, Adrianna Boen, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Daniele M. Gilkes, John D. Lewis, Chen-Ming Fan, Andrew P. Feinberg, Miguel A. Valverde, Sean X. Sun, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos. Extracellular fluid viscosity enhances cell migration and cancer dissemination. Nature. 611(7935), 365 – 373 (2022) (*Equal Contribution) Link (Nature Research Briefing, News Outlets)

5. Yuqi Zhang, Yizeng Li, Keyata N. Thompson, Konstantin Stoletov, Qinling Yuan, Kaustav Bera, Se Jong Lee, Runchen Zhao, Alexander Kiepas, Yao Wang, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Selma A. Serra, John D. Lewis, Miguel A. Valverde, Stuart S. Martin, Sean X. Sun, and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos. Polarized NHE1 and SWELL1 Regulate Migration Direction, Efficiency and Metastasis. Nat. Commun. 13, 6128 (2022) Link (News Outlets)

6. Debonil Maity, Kaustav Bera, Yizeng Li, Zhuoxu Ge, Qin Ni, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Sean X. Sun. Extracellular Hydraulic Resistance Enhances Cell Migration. Adv. Sci. 9(29), 2200927 (2022) Link

7. Lingxing Yao, Yizeng Li. Effective force generation during mammalian cell migration under different molecular and physical mechanisms. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 10, 903234 (2022) Link

8. Mohammad Ikbal Choudhury, Yizeng Li, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Ana Carina N. Vasconcelos, Eryn Dixon, Jing Yang, Morgan Benson, Debonil Maity, Rebecca Walker, Leigha Martin, Fatima Koroma, Feng Qian, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Owen Woodward, Sean X. Sun. Kidney Epithelial Cells are Active Mechano-biological Fluid Pumps. Nat. Commun. 13, 2317 (2022) Link        (News Outlets)

9. Sisi Jia, Siew Cheng Phua, Yuta Nihongaki, Yizeng Li, Michael Pacella, Yi Li, Abdul M. Mohammed, Sean Sun, Takanari Inoue, Rebecca Schulman. Growth and site-specific organization of micron-scale biomolecular devices on living mammalian cells. Nat. Commun. 12, 5729 (2021) Link

10. Yizeng Li, Xiaohan Zhou, Sean X. Sun. Hydrogen, bicarbonate, and their associated exchangers in cell volume regulation. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 9, 683686 (2021) Link

11. Yizeng Li, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Runchen Zhao, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun. The importance of water and hydraulic pressure in cell dynamics. J. Cell Sci. 133 (20), jcs240341 (2020) Link

12. Haiyang Wang*, Yizeng Li*, Jing Yang, Petr Kalab, Xing Duan, Devin B. Mair, Sean X. Sun, Rong Li. Symmetry Breaking in Hydrodynamic Forces Drives Spindle Rotation in Mammalian Oocyte Meiosis. Sci. Adv. 6(14), eaaz5004 (2020) Link (*Equal Contribution)

13. Xing Duan, Yizeng Li, Kexi Yi, Fengli Guo, Haiyang Wang, Pei Hsun Wu, Jing Yang, Devin Mair, Edwin Morales Obregon, Petr Kalab, Denis Wirtz, Sean X. Sun, Rong Li. Dynamic Organelle Distribution Initiates Actin-Based Spindle Migration in Mouse Oocytes. Nat. Commun. 11(1), 277 (2020) Link

14. Panagiotis Mistriotis*, Emily Wisniewski*, Kaustav Bera, Jeremy Keys, Yizeng Li, Soontorn Tuntithavornwat, Robert A. Law, Nicolas Perez, Eda Erdogmus, Yuqi Zhang, Runchen Zhao, Sean X. Sun, Petr Kalab, Jan Lammerding, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos. Confinement Hinders Motility by Inducing RhoA-Mediated Nuclear Influx, Volume Expansion and Blebbing. J. Cell Biol. 218(12), 4093 – 4111 (2019) Link (*Equal Contribution)

15. Yizeng Li, Lingxing Yao, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun. On the Energy Efficiency of Cell Migration in Diverse Physical Environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116(48), 23894 – 23900 (2019) Link

16. Runchen Zhao, Alexandros Afthinos, Tian Zhu, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Yizeng Li, Selma A. Serra, Yuqi Zhang, Christopher L. Yankaskas, Shuyu He, Miguel A. Valverde, Sean X. Sun, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos. Cell Sensing and Decision-Making in Confinement: The role of TRPM7 in the tug of war between hydraulic pressure and cross-sectional area. Sci. Adv. 5(7), eaaw7243 (2019) Link

17. Sitong Zhou, Michael Giannetto, James DeCourcey, Hongyi Kang, Ning Kang, Yizeng Li, Suilan Zheng, Hetince Zhao, William R. Simmons, Helen S. Wei, Bodine M. David, Philip S. Low, Maiken Nedergaard, Jiandi Wan. Oxygen tension-mediated erythrocyte membrane interactions regulate cerebral capillary hyperemia. Sci. Adv. 5(5), eaaw4466 (2019) Link

18. Debonil Maity, Yizeng Li, Yun Chen, Sean X. Sun. Response of Collagen Matrices under Pressure and Hydraulic Resistance in Hydrogel. Soft Matter 15(12), 2617 – 2626 (2019) Link

19. Yizeng Li, Sean X. Sun, Transition between actin-driven and water-driven cell migration depends on the external hydraulic resistance. Biophys. J. 114(12), 2965 – 2973 (2018) Link

20. Florence Yellin, Yizeng Li, Varun K. A. Sreenivasan, Brenda Farrell, Manu B. Johny, David Yue, Sean X. Sun. Electromechanics and Volume Dynamics in Non-excitable Tissue Cells. Biophys. J. 114(9), 2231–2242 (2018) Link (Featured Article)

21. Yizeng Li, Lijuan He, Nicolas A. P. Gonzalez, Jenna Graham, Charles Wolgemuth, Denis Wirtz, Sean X. Sun, Going with the Flow: Water Flux and Cell Shape during Cytokinesis. Biophys. J., 113(11), 2487–2495 (2017) Link

22. Jiaxiang Tao, Yizeng Li, Dhruv K. Vig, Sean X. Sun, Cell Mechanics: A Dialogue. Rep. Prog. Phys., 80(3), 036601 (2017) Link

23. Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, The Coda of the Transient Response in a Sensitive Cochlea: A Computational Modeling Study. PloS Comp. Biol., 12(7), e1005015 (2016) Link

24. Yizeng Li, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun, Flow-driven cell migration under external electric fields. Phys. Rev. Lett., 115(26), 268101 (2015) Link

25. Tianying Ren, Wenxuan He, Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, Anders Fridberger, Light-induced vibration in the hearing organ. Sci. Rep., 4, 5941 (2014) Link

26. Yongjiang Li, Yizeng Li, Tun Cao, Kairong Qin, Transport of Dynamic Biochemical Signals in Steady Flow in a Shallow Y-shaped Microfluidic Channel: Effect of Transverse Diffusion and Longitudinal Dispersion. J. Biomech. Eng.-Trans. ASME, 135(12), 121011 (2013) Link

27. Lei Cheng, Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, Including fluid shear viscosity in a structural acoustic finite element model using a scalar fluid representation, J. Comput. Phys., 247, 248–261 (2013) Link

28. Yong Zhu, Yizeng Li, Kairong Qin, Hong Tang, Tianshuang Qiu, Transportation of dynamic biochemical signals in non-reversing oscillatory flows in blood vessels, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron., 56(2), 322–327 (2013) Link

29. Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, Direction of wave propagation in the cochlea for internally excited basilar membrane, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131(6), 4710–4721 (2012) Link

30. Kairong Qin, Yizeng Li, Progress on the quantitative modulation of intracellular calcium signals induced by shear flow (in Chinese), Journal of Medical Biomechanics, 26(5), 389–394 (2011) Link

31. Binglian Wang, Yizeng Li, Yongzhong Huo, Thermal stress distributions and optimization on stress reductions with or/and without linearly graded interlayers, Compos. Pt. B-Eng., 42(5), 993–1007 (2011) Link

32. Yizeng Li, Yongzhong Huo, Effectiveness of compositionally linearly graded interlayers for thermal stress reduction, Thin Solid Films, 517(8), 2691–2696 (2009) Link

33. Yihan Lin, Yizeng Li, Saint-Venant’s Principle and Stress Edge Conditions for Orthotropic Plates in Higher-order Asymptotic Analysis (in Chinese), Journal of Taiyuan University of Technology, 36(6), 638–641 (2005) Link

Yizeng Li, Sean X. Sun. Fundamental mechanics of cell shape and movement. In Michael Schnoor, Lei-Miao Yin, and Sean X Sun, editors, Cell Movement in Health and Disease. Pp. 85 – 100. Academic Press 2022. Paperback ISBN: 9780323901956 Link

1.  Karl Grosh, Tianying Ren, Wenxuan He, Anders Fridberger, Yizeng Li, Amir Nankali, Light-induced basilar membrane vibrations in the sensitive cochlea. In K. Domenica Karavitaki and D. P. Corey, editors, Protein to Perception. AIP Conf. Proc. 1703, 070005 (2015). Proceedings of the 12th International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Jun. 23–29, 2014, Attica, Greece Link

2. Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, The coda of the transient response in a sensitive cochlea. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) Vol. 19, pp. 050113. 21st International Congress on Acoustics, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, and 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Jun. 2–7, 2013, Montréal, Québec, Canada Link

3. Bingjie Wang, Binglian Wang, Yongzhong Huo, Yizeng Li, What Is the Optimal Way to Reduce Thermal Stress in A Bilayer Structure? World Journal of Engineering. 20th Annual International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering, July 22–28, 2012, Beijing, China

4. Yongjiang Li, Yizeng Li, Tun Cao, Kairong Qin, Dispersion of Dynamic Biochemical Signals in Steady Flow in a Shallow Y-type Microfluidic Channel. In M. Long, editor, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) Proceedings Vol. 39. Pp. 301–304 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26–31, 2012, Beijing, China Link

5. Yizeng Li, Julien Meaud, Karl Grosh, Coupling the subtectorial fluid with the tectorial membrane and hair bundles of the cochlea. In C. A. Shear and L. S. Olson, editors, What fire is in my ears: progress in auditory biomechanics. American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York USA. Pp. 104–109. Proceedings of the 11th International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Jul. 16–22, 2011, Williamstown, MA, USA Link

6. Julien Meaud, Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, The generation of harmonic distortion and distortion products in a computational model of the cochlea. In C. A. Shear and L. S. Olson, editors, What fire is in my ears: progress in auditory biomechanics. American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York USA. Pp. 231–237. Proceedings of the 11th International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Jul. 16–22, 2011, Williamstown, MA, USA Link

7. Binglian Wang, Yizeng Li, Yongzhong Huo, Thermal Stress Reduction of Bilayered Systems by Means of Linearly Graded Interlayers. Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering 7493, art. No. 749348. 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, July 8–11, 2009, Weihai, China

Yizeng Li. How cancer cells move and metastasize is influenced by the fluids surrounding them – understanding how tumors migrate can help stop their spread. The Conversation, January 9, 2023. Link