Our Publications

For a full list of publications, please see Dr. Rikki Garner’s Google Scholar profile.

Garner, Rikki M., Sean E. McGeary, Allon M. Klein, and Sean G. Megason.
"Tissue fluidity mediates a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of multicellular patterning by cell sorting."
Biophysical Journal 124, no. 23 (2025): 4157-4175. bioRxiv, GitHub, PDF, Cell Press, X, Bluesky

Garner, Rikki M., Arthur T. Molines, Julie A. Theriot, and Fred Chang.
"Incorporating the diffusivity gradient term in Brownian dynamics simulations of diffusion."
Biophysical Journal 123, no. 16 (2024): 2641-2643. PDF, Cell Press

Velle, Katrina B., Rikki M. Garner, Tatihana K. Beckford, Makaela Weeda, Chunzi Liu, Andrew S. Kennard, Marc Edwards, and Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin.
"A conserved pressure-driven mechanism for regulating cytosolic osmolarity."
Current Biology 33, no. 16 (2023): 3325-3337. PDF, Cell Press

Garner, Rikki M., Arthur T. Molines, Julie A. Theriot, and Fred Chang.
"Vast heterogeneity in cytoplasmic diffusion rates revealed by nanorheology and Doppelgänger simulations."
Biophysical journal 122, no. 5 (2023): 767-783. bioRxiv, GitHub, PDF, Cell Press, X, Bluesky

Garner, Rikki M., and Julie A. Theriot.
"Leading edge maintenance in migrating cells is an emergent property of branched actin network growth."
eLife 11 (2022): e74389. bioRxiv, GitHub, PDF, eLife, X

Garner, Rikki M., Gemini Skariah, Amalia Hadjitheodorou, Nathan M. Belliveau, Andrew Savinov, Matthew J. Footer, and Julie A. Theriot.
"Neutrophil‐like HL‐60 cells expressing only GFP‐tagged β‐actin exhibit nearly normal motility."
Cytoskeleton 77, no. 5-6 (2020): 181-196.. PDF, Cytoskeleton