2023

Activin A marks a novel progenitor cell population during fracture healing and reveals a therapeutic strategy

Lutian Yao, Jiawei Lu, Leilei Zhong, Yulong Wei, Tao Gui, Luqiang Wang, Jaimo Ahn, Joel D. Boerckel, Danielle Rux, Christina Mundy, Ling Qin, Maurizio Pacifici

eLife ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Adjusting to your surroundings: An inquiry-based learning module to teach principles of mechanobiology for regenerative medicine

Christopher J. Panebianco, Madhura P. Nijsure, Erin E. Berlew, Annie L. Jeong, Joel D. Boerckel

Biomedical Engineering Education ● journal ● PDF

Mechanoepigenetic regulation of extracellular matrix homeostasis via Yap and Taz

Dakota L. Jones, Grey F. Hallström, Xi Jiang, Ryan C. Locke, Mary Kate Evans, Edward D. Bonnevie, Anjana Srikumar, Thomas P. Leahy, Madhura P. Nijsure, Joel D. Boerckel, Robert L. Mauck, Nathaniel A. Dyment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Osteocyte remodeling of the lacunar-canalicular system: What’s in a name?

Chelsea M. Heveran & Joel D. Boerckel

Current Osteoporosis Reports ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Endothelial SMAD1/5 signaling couples angiogenesis to osteogenesis during long bone growth

Annemarie Lang★, Andreas Benn★, Angelique Wolter, Tim Balcaen, Joseph Collins, Greet Kerckhofs, An Zwijsen, Joel D. Boerckel

★ denotes equal contributions

bioRxiv ● preprint

YAP and TAZ couple osteoblast precursor mobilization to angiogenesis and mechanoregulated bone development

Joseph M. Collins, Annemarie Lang, Cristian Parisi, Yasaman Moharrer, Madhura P. Nijsure, Jong Hyun Kim, Gregory L. Szeto, Ling Qin, Riccardo Gottardi, Nathaniel Dyment, Niamh Nowlan, Joel D. Boerckel

bioRxiv ● preprint

2022

Stress vesicles are induced by acute mechanical force and precede the commitment of epidermal stem cells to terminal differentiation

Sixia Huang, Paola Kuri, Jonathan Zou, Adriana Blanco, Maxwell Marshall, Gabriella Rice, Stephen Prouty, Tzvete Dentchev, Miriam Doepner, Joel D. Boerckel, Brian C. Capell, Todd W. Ridky, Panteleimon Rompolas

bioRxiv ● preprint

Virtual screening for small-molecule pathway regulators by image-profile matching

Mohammad H. Rohban, Ashley M. Fuller, Ceryl Tan, Jonathan T. Goldstein, Deepsing Syangtan, Amos Gutnick, Ann DeVine, Madhura P. Nijsure, Megan Rigby, Joshua R. Sacher, Steven M. Corsello, Grace B. Peppler, Marta Bogaczynska, Andrew Boghossian, Gabrielle E. Ciotti, Allison T. Hands, Aroonroj Mekareeya, Minh Doan, Jennifer P. Gale, Rik Derynck, Thomas Turbyville, Joel D. Boerckel, Shantanu Singh, Laura L. Kiessling, Thomas L. Schwarz, Xaralabos Varelas, Florence F. Wagner, Ran Kafri, T.S. Karin Eisinger-Mathason, Anne E. Carpenter

Cell Reports ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Mechanotransductive feedback control of endothelial cell motility and vascular morphogenesis

Devon E. Mason, Megan Goeckel, Sebastian L. Vega, Pei-Hsun Wu, Dymonn Johnson, Su-Jin Heo, Denis Wirtz, Jason A. Burdick, Levi Wood, Brian Chow, Amber N. Stratman, Joel D. Boerckel

eLife ● journal ● PDF

Activin A promotes bone fracture repair and acts through a novel myofibroblastic cell population in callus

Lutian Yao, Leilei Zhong, Yulong Wei, Tao Gui, Luqiang Wang, Jaimo Ahn, Joel D. Boerckel, Danielle Rux, Christina Mundy, Ling Qin, Maurizio Pacifici

bioRxiv ● preprint

2021

Tunnels in the rock: Dynamics of osteocyte morphogenesis

Yasaman Moharrer, Joel D. Boerckel

Bone ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Dynamic self-reinforcement of gene expression determines acquisition of cellular mechanical memory

Christopher C. Price, Jairaj Mathur, Joel D. Boerckel, Amit Pathak, Vivek B. Shenoy

Biophysical Journal ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Pathogenesis, symptomatology, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through analysis of viral genomics and structure

Halie M. Rando, Adam L. MacLean, Alexandra J. Lee, Ronan Lordan, Sandipan Ray, Vikas Bansal, Ashwin N. Skelly, Elizabeth Sell, John J. Dziak, Lamonica Shinholster, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Marouen Ben Guebila, Nils Wellhausen, Sergey Knyazev, Simina M. Boca, Stephen Capone, Yanjun Qi, YoSon Park, David Mai, Yuchen Sun, Joel D. Boerckel, Christian Brueffer, James Brian Byrd, Jeremy P. Kamil, Jinhui Wang, Ryan Velazquez, Gregory L. Szeto, John P. Barton, Rishi Raj Goel, Serghei Mangul, Tiago Lubiana, Anthony Gitter, Casey S. Greene

mSystems ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Single‐component optogenetic tools for inducible RhoA GTPase signaling

Erin E. Berlew, Ivan A. Kuznetsov, Keisuke Yamada, Lukasz J. Bugaj, Joel D. Boerckel, Brian Y. Chow

Advanced Biology ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Editorial peer reviewers as shepherds, rather than gatekeepers

Joel D. Boerckel, Lilian I. Plotkin, Natalie A. Sims

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Effects of chondrogenic priming duration on mechanoregulation of engineered cartilage

Anna M. McDermott, Emily A. Eastburn, Daniel J. Kelly, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Biomechanics ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Scaffold-free human mesenchymal stem cell construct geometry regulates long bone regeneration

Samuel Herberg, Daniel Varghai, Daniel S. Alt, Phuong N. Dang, Honghyun Park, Yuxuan Cheng, Jung-Youn Shin, Anna D. Dikina, Joel D. Boerckel, Marsha W. Rolle, Eben Alsberg

Communications Biology ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

YAP and TAZ promote periosteal osteoblast precursor expansion and differentiation for fracture repair

Christopher D. Kegelman, Madhura P. Nijsure, Yasaman Moharrer, Hope B. Pearson, James H. Dawahare, Kelsey M. Jordan, Ling Qin, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2020

Gone caving: roles of the transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ in skeletal development

Christopher D. Kegelman, Joseph M. Collins, Madhura P. Nijsure, Emily A. Eastburn, Joel D. Boerckel

Current Osteoporosis Reports ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Extracellular matrix compression temporally regulates microvascular angiogenesis

Marissa A. Ruehle, Emily A. Eastburn, Steven A. LaBelle, Laxminarayanan Krishnan, Jeffrey A. Weiss, Joel D. Boerckel, Levi B. Wood, Robert E. Guldberg, Nick J. Willett

Science Advances ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

YAP and TAZ mediate osteocyte perilacunar/canalicular remodeling

Christopher D. Kegelman, Jennifer C. Coulombe, Kelsey M. Jordan, Daniel J. Horan, Ling Qin, Alexander G. Robling, Virginia L. Ferguson, Teresita M. Bellido, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2019

Effects of bone morphogenetic protein-2 on neovascularization during large bone defect regeneration

Hope B. Pearson, Devon E. Mason, Christopher D. Kegelman, Liming Zhao, James H. Dawahare, Melissa A. Kacena, Joel D. Boerckel

Tissue Engineering Part A ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Combinatorial morphogenetic and mechanical cues to mimic bone development for defect repair

Samuel Herberg, Anna M. McDermott, Phuong N. Dang, Daniel S. Alt, Rui Tang, James H. Dawahare, Daniel Varghai, Jung-Youn Shin, Alexandra McMillan, Anna D. Dikina, Felicia He, Yu Bin Lee, Yuxuan Cheng, Kentaro Umemori, Pei-Chun Wong, Honghyun Park, Joel D. Boerckel, Eben Alsberg

Science Advances ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Recapitulating bone development through engineered mesenchymal condensations and mechanical cues for tissue regeneration

Anna M. McDermott, Samuel Herberg, Devon E. Mason, Joseph M. Collins, Hope B. Pearson, James H. Dawahare, Rui Tang, Amit N. Patwa, Mark W. Grinstaff, Daniel J. Kelly, Eben Alsberg, Joel D. Boerckel

Science Translational Medicine ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

YAP and TAZ limit cytoskeletal and focal adhesion maturation to enable persistent cell motility

Devon E. Mason, Joseph M. Collins, James H. Dawahare, Trung Dung Nguyen, Yang Lin, Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Pinar Zorlutuna, Mervin C. Yoder, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Cell Biology ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Periosteal mesenchymal progenitor dysfunction and extraskeletally‐derived fibrosis contribute to atrophic fracture nonunion

Luqiang Wang, Robert J. Tower, Abhishek Chandra, Lutian Yao, Wei Tong, Zekang Xiong, Kai Tang, Yejia Zhang, X. Sherry Liu, Joel D. Boerckel, Xiaodong Guo, Jaimo Ahn, Ling Qin

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2018

Skeletal cell YAP and TAZ combinatorially promote bone development

Christopher D. Kegelman, Devon E. Mason, James H. Dawahare, Daniel J. Horan, Genevieve D. Vigil, Scott S. Howard, Alexander G. Robling, Teresita M. Bellido, Joel D. Boerckel

The FASEB Journal ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy by stepwise optical saturation

Yide Zhang, Prakash D. Nallathamby, Genevieve D. Vigil, Aamir A. Khan, Devon E. Mason, Joel D. Boerckel, Ryan K. Roeder, Scott S. Howard

Biomedical Optics Express ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Bone marrow mechanotransduction in porcine explants alters kinase activation and enhances trabecular bone formation in the absence of osteocyte signaling

Kimberly J. Curtis, Thomas R. Coughlin, Devon E. Mason, Joel D. Boerckel, Glen L. Niebur

Bone ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2017

Intraoperative biomechanics of lumbar pedicle screw loosening following successful arthrodesis

Hope B. Pearson, Christopher J. Dobbs, Eric Grantham, Glen L. Niebur, James L. Chappuis, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Orthopaedic Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Reverse engineering development: Crosstalk opportunities between developmental biology and tissue engineering

Ralph S. Marcucio, Ling Qin, Eben Alsberg, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of Orthopaedic Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Bone: a fertile soil for cancer metastasis

Thomas R. Coughlin, Ricardo Romero-Moreno, Devon E. Mason, Lukas Nystrom, Joel D. Boerckel, Glen Niebur, Laurie E. Littlepage

Current Drug Targets ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2016

Influence of structural load-bearing scaffolds on mechanical load-and BMP-2-mediated bone regeneration

Anna M. McDermott, Devon E. Mason, Angela S.P. Lin, Robert E. Guldberg, Joel D. Boerckel

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Acellular hydroxyapatite‐collagen scaffolds support angiogenesis and osteogenic gene expression in an ectopic murine model: Effects of hydroxyapatite volume fraction

Matthew J. Meagher, Holly E. Weiss‐Bilka, Margaret E. Best, Joel D. Boerckel, Diane R. Wagner, Ryan K. Roeder

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

Net shape fabrication of calcium phosphate scaffolds with multiple material domains

Yangmin Xie, Laurence E. Rustom, Anna M. McDermott, Joel D. Boerckel, Amy J. Wagoner Johnson, Andrew G. Alleyne, David J. Hoelzle

Biofabrication ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF

2015

Evolution of bone grafting: bone grafts and tissue engineering strategies for vascularized bone regeneration

Kaitlyn S. Griffin, Korbin M. Davis, Todd O. McKinley, Jeffrey O. Anglen, Tien-Min G. Chu, Joel D. Boerckel, Melissa A. Kacena

Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism ● journal ● PDF

2014

Microcomputed tomography: approaches and applications in bioengineering

Joel D. Boerckel, Devon E. Mason, Anna M. McDermott, Eben Alsberg

Stem Cell Research & Therapy ● journal ● PubMed ● PDF