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)
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)
Lingxing Yao, Yizeng Li. Effective force generation during mammalian cell migration
under different molecular and physical mechanisms. Front. Cell Dev. Biol.10, 903234 (2022)
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)
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)
Yizeng Li, Xiaohan Zhou, Sean X. Sun. Hydrogen, bicarbonate, and their associated
exchangers in cell volume regulation. Front. Cell Dev. Biol.9, 683686 (2021)
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)
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) (*Equal Contribution)
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 Sun, Rong Li. Dynamic Organelle
Distribution Initiates Actin-Based Spindle Migration in Mouse Oocytes. Nat. Commun. 11(1), 277 (2020)
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) (*Equal Contribution)
Yizeng Li, Lingxing Yao, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun. On the Energy Efficiency of Cell
Migration in Diverse Physical Environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.116(48), 23894 – 23900 (2019)
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)
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)
Debonil Maity, Yizeng Li, Yun Chen, Sean X. Sun. Response of Collagen Matrices under
Pressure and Hydraulic Resistance in Hydrogel. Soft Matter15(12), 2617 – 2626 (2019)
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)
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)
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)
Jiaxiang Tao, Yizeng Li, Dhruv K. Vig, Sean X. Sun, Cell Mechanics: A Dialogue. Rep. Prog. Phys.,80, 036601 (2017)
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)
Yizeng Li, Yoichiro Mori, Sean X. Sun, Flow-driven cell migration under external electric
fields. Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 268101 (2015)
Tianying Ren, Wenxuan He, Yizeng Li, Karl Grosh, Anders Fridberger, Light-induced
vibration in the hearing organ. Sci. Rep., 4, 5941 (2014)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Yizeng Li, Yongzhong Huo, Effectiveness of compositionally linearly graded interlayers
for thermal stress reduction, Thin Solid Films, 517(8), 2691–2696 (2009)
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)
Book Chapters
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
Conference Papers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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