By Associate Professor Richard Morris

Preprints

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2026, Defect Kinematics in 2D Nematics: Contributions from Surface Topology, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Geometry, Solitons, Defect Orientations, and Elastic Anisotropy, https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21855v1

Al-Izzi SC; Du Y; Veenstra J; Morris RG; Souslov A; Carlson A; Coulais C; Binysh J, 2026, Nonreciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.14725

Brown AW; Al-Izzi SC; Parker JL; Hertel S; Jacques DA; Kusumaatmaja H; Morris RG, 2025, Capillarity Reveals the Role of Capsid Geometry in HIV Nuclear Translocation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.26357

Crosato E; Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, Stochastic Multistability of Clonallike States in the Eigen Model: a Fidelity Catastrophe, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.12871

Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, Stochastically bistable growth and decay in the Togashi-Kaneko model, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.03157

Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, Non-Stationary Critical Phenomena: Expanding The Critical Point, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2412.15627

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2025, Geometric Frustration in Twist-Bend Nematic Droplets, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.16140

Worsfold JR; Morris RG, 2025, Stochastically bistable growth and decay in the Togashi-Kaneko model, https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03157v2

Spinney RE; Morris RG, 2025, A Dean-Kawasaki equation for reaction diffusion systems driven by Poisson noise, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2404.02487

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Defect Dynamics in Cholesterics: Beyond the Peach-Koehler Force, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2412.08866

Al-Izzi SC; Nodehi SG; Köster DV; Morris RG, 2024, More ATP Does Not Equal More Contractility: Power And Remodelling In Reconstituted Actomyosin, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.00764

Rautu SA; Morris RG; Rao M, 2024, Active morphodynamics of intracellular organelles in the trafficking pathway, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2409.19084

Pollard J; Morris RG, 2024, Morse Theory and Meron Mediated Interactions Between Disclination Lines in Nematics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.01032

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://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2406.18014

Currin-Ross D; Al-Izzi SC; Noordstra I; Yap AS; Morris RG, 2024, Advecting Scaffolds: Controlling The Remodelling Of Actomyosin With Anillin, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2402.07430

Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2023, Morphodynamics of Active Nematic Fluid Surfaces, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2204.13930

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

Crosato E; Philippson JN; Thutupalli S; Morris RG, 2022, Dynamical phases in growing populations: understanding recovery from bottlenecks, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2202.08394

Spinney RE; Lee LK; Morris RG, 2022, Bivalent Kinetics: Insights from Many Body Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.07010

Al-Izzi SC; Morris RG, 2021, Active Flows and Deformable Surfaces in Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2103.12264

Morris RG; Dafforn TR; Turner MS, 2019, Solvated Membrane Nanodiscoids: A Probe For The Effects Of Gaussian Curvature, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1904.00710

Jhawar J; Morris RG; Amith-Kumar UR; Raj MD; R. H; Guttal V, 2019, Noise-Induced Schooling of Fish, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1903.12132

Jhawar J; Morris RG; Guttal V, 2019, Deriving mesoscopic models of collective behaviour for finite populations, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1810.05368

Morris RG; Rao M, 2017, Covariant Active Hydrodynamics of Shape-Changing Epithelial Monolayers, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.09110

Morris RG, 2017, Signatures of Mechanosensitive Gating, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.09081

Morris RG; Turner MS, 2015, Mobility Measurements Probe Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins due to Tension, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1511.05982

Morris RG; Rogers T, 2014, Growth-induced breaking and unbreaking of ergodicity in fully-connected spin systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1404.7317

Morris RG, 2014, Relaxation and curvature-induced molecular flows within multicomponent membranes, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1310.2544

Caltagirone F; Franz S; Morris R; Zdeborová L, 2013, Dynamics and termination cost of spatially coupled mean-field models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1310.2121

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2013, Interdependent networks: the fragility of control, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1309.6972

Morris RG; Barthelemy M, 2012, Transport on coupled spatial networks, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1205.2776

Morris RG; McKane AJ, 2011, Stability of growing vesicles, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1012.3289

Morris RG; Fanelli D; McKane AJ, 2010, Dynamical description of vesicle growth and shape change, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1012.1245

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

Noordstra I; Hermoso MD; Schimmel L; Bonfim-Melo A; Currin-Ross D; Duong CN; Kalappurakkal JM; Morris RG; Vestweber D; Mayor S; Gordon E; Cusachs PR; Yap AS, An E-cadherin-actin clutch translates the mechanical force of cortical flow for cell-cell contact to inhibit epithelial cell locomotion, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.28.454239

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

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, Karyopherin mimicry explains how the HIV capsid penetrates nuclear pores, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.23.534032

Hertel S; Spinney RE; Xu SY; Ouldridge TE; Morris RG; Lee LK, Mechanisms underlying sequence-dependent DNA hybridisation rates in the absence of secondary structure, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.17.473246

Chacko LA; Nakaoka H; Morris R; Marshall W; Ananthanarayanan V, Mitochondrial function regulates cell growth kinetics to actively maintain mitochondrial homeostasis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.31.646474

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, Rapid exchange of stably bound protein and DNA cargo on a DNA origami receptor, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.16.476526

Budnar S; Husain KB; Gomez GA; Naghibosidat M; Verma S; Hamilton NA; Morris RG; Yap AS, Scaffolding of RhoA contractile signaling by anillin: a regulatory analogue of kinetic proofreading, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/282756

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