By Associate Professor Richard Morris

Book Chapters

Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2019, 'Deriving Mesoscopic Models of Collective Behavior for Finite Populations', in INTEGRATED POPULATION BIOLOGY AND MODELING, PART B, pp. 551 - 594, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.host.2018.10.002

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2014, 'Spatial Effects: Transport on Interdependent Networks', in DAgostino G; Scala A (ed.), NETWORKS OF NETWORKS: THE LAST FRONTIER OF COMPLEXITY, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, pp. 145 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03518-5_7

Journal articles

Pollard J; Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2025, 'Gauge freedom and objective rates in fluid deformable surfaces', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.63

Currin-Ross D; Al-Izzi SC; Noordstra I; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2025, 'Advecting scaffolds: Controlling the remodeling of actomyosin with anillin', Physical Review E, 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024403

Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, 'A Dean-Kawasaki equation for reaction diffusion systems driven by Poisson noise', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad9efd

Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; Köster DV; Morris RG, 2025, 'ATP-controlled remodeling in reconstituted actomyosin', Physical Review Research, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013175

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, 'Defect dynamics in cholesterics: beyond the Peach-Koehler force', Soft Matter, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01478b

Dickson CF; Hertel S; Tuckwell AJ; Li N; Ruan J; Al-Izzi SC; Ariotti N; Sierecki E; Gambin Y; Morris RG; Towers GJ; Böcking T; Jacques DA, 2024, 'The HIV capsid mimics karyopherin engagement of FG-nucleoporins', Nature, 626, pp. 836 - 842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06969-7

Noordstra I; Hermoso MD; Schimmel L; Bonfim-Melo A; Currin-Ross D; Duong CN; Kalappurakkal JM; Morris RG; Vestweber D; Mayor S; Gordon E; Roca-Cusachs P; Yap AS, 2023, 'An E-cadherin-actin clutch translates the mechanical force of cortical flow for cell-cell contact to inhibit epithelial cell locomotion', Developmental Cell, 58, pp. 1748 - 1763.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2023.06.011

Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2023, 'Morphodynamics of active nematic fluid surfaces', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.18

Noordstra I; Morris RG; Yap AS, 2023, 'Cadherins and the cortex: A matter of time?', Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102154

Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2023, 'Dynamical demographic phases explain how population growth and mutation control the evolutionary impact of bottlenecks', Physical Review Research, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013093

Spinney RE; Lee L; Morris RG, 2022, 'Geometrical patterning of receptor sites controls kinetics via many-body effects in bivalent systems', Physical Review Research, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L042028

Hertel S; Spinney RE; Xu SY; Ouldridge TE; Morris RG; Lee LK, 2022, 'The stability and number of nucleating interactions determine DNA hybridization rates in the absence of secondary structure', Nucleic Acids Research, 50, pp. 7829 - 7841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac590

Brown JWP; Alford RG; Walsh JC; Spinney RE; Xu SY; Hertel S; Berengut JF; Spenkelink LM; Van Oijen AM; Böcking T; Morris RG; Lee LK, 2022, 'Rapid Exchange of Stably Bound Protein and DNA Cargo on a DNA Origami Receptor', ACS Nano, 16, pp. 6455 - 6467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c00699

Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2021, 'Active flows and deformable surfaces in development', Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 120, pp. 44 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.07.001

Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; Köster DV; Morris RG, 2021, 'More ATP Does Not Equal More Contractility: Power And Remodelling In Reconstituted Actomyosin', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00764v4

Morris RG; Husain KB; Budnar S; Yap AS, 2020, 'Anillin: The First Proofreading-like Scaffold?', BioEssays, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000055

Jhawar J; Morris RG; Amith-Kumar UR; Danny Raj M; Rogers T; Rajendran H; Guttal V, 2020, 'Noise-induced schooling of fish', Nature Physics, 16, pp. 488 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0787-y

Morris RG; Rao M, 2019, 'Active morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers', Physical Review E, 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022413

Budnar S; Husain KB; Gomez GA; Naghibosadat M; Varma A; Verma S; Hamilton NA; Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Anillin Promotes Cell Contractility by Cyclic Resetting of RhoA Residence Kinetics', Developmental Cell, 49, pp. 894 - 906.e12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2019.04.031

Morris RG; Dafforn TR; Turner MS, 2019, 'Solvated Membrane Nanodiscoids: A Probe For The Effects Of Gaussian Curvature', , http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00710v1

Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Erratum to: Wetting by living tissues (Nature Physics, (2019), 15, 1, (6-7), 10.1038/s41567-018-0316-4)', Nature Physics, 15, pp. 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0337-z

Morris RG; Yap AS, 2019, 'Wetting by living tissues', Nature Physics, 15, pp. 6 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0316-4

Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2018, 'Deriving mesoscopic models of collective behaviour for finite populations', Elsevier, 40, pp. 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.host.2018.10.002.

Morris RG, 2017, 'Signatures of Mechanosensitive Gating', Biophysical Journal, 112, pp. 3 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2016.12.009

Morris RG; Turner MS, 2016, 'Erratum: Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension (Physical Review Letters (2015) 115 (198101) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.198101)', Physical Review Letters, 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.239901

Morris RG; Turner MS, 2015, 'Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension', Physical Review Letters, 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.198101

Morris RG; Rogers T, 2014, 'Growth-induced breaking and unbreaking of ergodicity in fully-connected spin systems', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/34/342003

Morris RG, 2014, 'Relaxation and curvature-induced molecular flows within multicomponent membranes', Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.062704

Caltagirone F; Franz S; Morris RG; Zdeborová L, 2014, 'Dynamics and termination cost of spatially coupled mean-field models', Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.012102

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2014, 'Spatial effects: Transport on interdependent networks', Understanding Complex Systems, pp. 145 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03518-5_7

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2013, 'Interdependent networks: The fragility of control', Scientific Reports, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02764

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2012, 'Transport on coupled spatial networks', Physical Review Letters, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.128703

Morris RG; McKane AJ, 2011, 'Stability of growing vesicles', Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061151

Morris RG; Fanelli D; McKane AJ, 2010, 'Dynamical description of vesicle growth and shape change', Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031125

Preprints

Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, Noise-induced cycles in the Togashi-Kaneko model with species-dependent degradation, http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03157v1

Eckert J; Andrews TGR; Pollard J; Priya R; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2025, Capturing Nematic Order on Tissue Surfaces of Arbitrary Geometry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.28.635015

Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2024, Non-Stationary Critical Phenomena: Expanding The Critical Point, http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15627v1

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Defect Dynamics in Cholesterics: Beyond the Peach-Koehler Force, http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08866v1

Rautu SA; Morris RG; Rao M, 2024, Active morphodynamics of intracellular organelles in the trafficking pathway, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.27.615486

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Morse Theory and Meron Mediated Interactions Between Disclination Lines in Nematics, http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01032v1

Pollard J; Al-Izzi S; Morris RG, 2024, Gauge Freedom and Objective Rates in the Morphodynamics of Fluid Deformable Surfaces: the Jaumann Rate vs. the Material Derivative, http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18014v1

Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2024, A Dean-Kawasaki equation for reaction diffusion systems driven by Poisson noise, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad9efd

Currin-Ross D; Al-Izzi SC; Noordstra I; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2024, Advecting Scaffolds: Controlling The Remodelling Of Actomyosin With Anillin, http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07430v1

Dickson CF; Hertel S; Ruan J; Ariotti N; Tuckwell A; Li N; Al-Izzi SC; Sierecki E; Gambin Y; Morris RG; Towers GJ; Böcking T; Jacques DA, 2023, Karyopherin mimicry explains how the HIV capsid penetrates nuclear pores, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.23.534032

Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2022, Rethinking Population Bottlenecks: Intrinsic Fluctuations, Mutation and Dynamical Demographic Phases, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.28.501945

Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2022, Morphodynamics of Active Nematic Fluid Surfaces, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.18

Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2022, Dynamical phases in growing populations: understanding recovery from bottlenecks, http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08394v2

Spinney RE; Lee LK; Morris RG, 2022, Bivalent Kinetics: Insights from Many Body Physics, http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07010v1

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