Benjamin Larson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Biochemistry and Biophysics
School of Medicine

I'm broadly interested in how cells control shape and movement to thrive in various environments and in how these capacities evolve.

Awards

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• Merck Fellowship, JCC Fund, 2020-2023
• GRFP, NSF, 2016-2019
• Postbac IRTA, NIH, NHLBI, 2012-2014
• Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College, 2012

Education & Training

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• PhD Biophysics UC Berkeley 08/2019
• Physiology MBL 08/2016
• Cell Biology and Biophysics NIH 06/2014
• BA Physics Reed College 05/2012

Interests

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• Microscopy
• Protists
• Biophysics
• Quantitative Biology
• Evolutionary Cell Biology

Websites

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• @@BEuplotes on Twitter (twitter.com)

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
EukaryotaMicrotubulesCiliaNeuronsPoriferaExocytosisPC12 CellsEndocytosisBiological EvolutionMovementCytoskeletonChoanoflagellataElectrophysiological PhenomenaMorphogenesisGait

• Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons.
  Current biology : CB 2024 Larson BT, Marshall WF
• Perspectives on Principles of Cellular Behavior from the Biophysics of Protists.
  Integrative and comparative biology 2023 Larson BT
• Swimming, Feeding, and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets.
  Physical review letters 2023 Fung L, Konkol A, Ishikawa T, Larson BT, Brunet T, Goldstein RE
• A unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite-state machine
  Current Biology 2022 Ben T. Larson, Jack Garbus, Jordan B. Pollack, Wallace F.Marshall
• A unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite-state machine.
  Current biology : CB 2022 Larson BT, Garbus J, Pollack JB, Marshall WF

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• A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline.
  Nature physics 2021 Chartier NT, Mukherjee A, Pfanzelter J, Fürthauer S, Larson BT, Fritsch AW, Amini R, Kreysing M, Jülicher F, Grill SW
• Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Larson BT, Ruiz-Herrero T, Lee S, Kumar S, Mahadevan L, King N
• Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Brunet T, Larson BT, Linden TA, Vermeij MJA, McDonald K, King N
• The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes.
  PLoS biology 2019 Laundon D, Larson BT, McDonald K, King N, Burkhardt P
• Systematic spatial mapping of proteins at exocytic and endocytic structures.
  Molecular biology of the cell 2014 Larson BT, Sochacki KA, Kindem JM, Taraska JW
• Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature, editors Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray
  Lessons from Environmental Ethics about the Intrinsic Value of Synthetic Life 2013 Bedau MA, Larson BT
• Imaging the post-fusion release and capture of a vesicle membrane protein.
  Nature communications 2012 Sochacki KA, Larson BT, Sengupta DC, Daniels MP, Shtengel G, Hess HF, Taraska JW