Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg






Publications by Ilka Bischofs




.B. Bischofs, J. Hug, A. Liu, D.M. Wolf and A.P. Arkin. Complexity in bacterial cell-cell communication: Quorum signal integration and subpopulation signaling in the B. subtilis phosphorelay Proc. Nat. Acad. USA, 106(16), 6459-6464, 2009

D.M. Wolf, L. Fontaine-Bodin, I. Bischofs, G. Price, J. Keasling & A.P. Arkin. Memory in microbes: Quantifying history dependent behaviour in a bacterium PLoS ONE 3(2) e17000 18324309, 2008

I.B. Bischofs, S. Schmidt and U.S. Schwarz. Effect of adhesion geometry and rigidity on cellular force distributions Phys. Rev. Letters 103 (4), Art. No. 048101, 2009

I.B. Bischofs, F. Klein, D.Lehnert, M. Bastmeyer, U.S. Schwarz. Filamentous network mechanics and active contractility determine cell and tissue shape Biophysical Journal 95(7), 3488-3496, 2008

A. Zemel, I.B. Bischofs, S.A. Safran. Active elasticity of gels with contractile cells Phys. Rev. Letters 97 (12), Art.No. 128103, 2006

I.B. Bischofs, U.S. Schwarz. Collective effects in cellular structure formation mediated by compliant environments: a Monte Carlo study Acta Biomaterialia, 2 , 253-265, 2006

U.S. Schwarz, T. Erdmann, I.B. Bischofs. Focal adhesions as mechanosensors: the two-spring model Biosystems, 83, 225-232, 2006

U.S. Schwarz, I.B. Bischofs. Physical determinants of cell organization in soft media Medical Engineering & Physics 27, 763-772, 2005

I. B. Bischofs, U.S. Schwarz. Effect of Poisson ratio on cellular structure formation Phys. Rev. Letters 95 (6), Art. No. 068102, 2005

I.B. Bischofs, S.A. Safran, U.S. Schwarz. Elastic interactions of active cells with soft materials Phys. Rev. E 69, Art.No.021911(17), 2004

I.B. Bischofs, U.S. Schwarz. Cell organization in soft media due to active mechanosensing Proc. Nat. Acad. USA 100 (16), 9274-9279, 2003

I.B. Bischofs, V.N. Kostur, P.B. Allen. Polaron and bipolaron defects in a charge density wave: A model for lightly doped BaBiO3 Phys. Rev. B 65 (11), Art. No. 115112, 2002

P.B. Allen, I.B. Bischofs. Self-trapped exciton defects in a charge density wave: Electronic Excitations of BaBiO3 Phys. Rev. B 65 (11), Art. No. 115113, 2002

I.B. Bischofs, P.B. Allen, Kostur V.N., R. Bhargarva. Topological doping of a three-dimensional Peierls system: Predicted structure of doped BaBiO3 Phys. Rev. B 66 (17), Art. No. 174108, 2002

Book Chapters

I.B. Bischofs. Cell and tissue organization in soft materials: insight from mathematical and biophysical modelling In: Cell and Tissue Engineering, edited by B. Obradovic, Akademska Misao, Belgrade, 2008


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