Using Published Undergraduate Biomechanics Research on Hydra Mouth Opening to Train Undergraduates

Stephen Hackler, Tapan Goel, Jonah Pacis, Eva-Maria Schötz Collins

The Biophysicist, vol. 6, Biophysical Society, 2025 Dec, pp. 110--126

Quantifying Planarian Behavior as an Introduction to Object Tracking and Signal Processing

Nicole C. Stowell, Tapan Goel, Vir Shetty, Jocelyne Noveral, Eva-Maria S. Collins

The Biophysicist, vol. 2, Biophysical Society, 2021 Dec, pp. 1--17

The adaptive plasticity of temperate phage λ

Sylvain Gandon, Tapan Goel, Joshua S Weitz, Sébastien Lion

Virus Evolution, vol. 12, 2026 Jan, pp. veag026

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments

Tapan Goel, Stephen J Beckett, Joshua S Weitz

Virus Evolution, vol. 11, 2025 Jan, pp. veaf019

Nonlinear elasticity and short-range mechanical coupling govern the rate and symmetry of mouth opening in Hydra

Tapan Goel, Ellen M. Adams, April L. Bialas, Cassidy M. Tran, Trevor Rowe, Sara Martin, Maia Chandler, Johanna Schubert, Patrick H. Diamond, Eva-Maria S. Collins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291(2017), 2024, p. 20232123

Mechano-Chemical Coupling in Hydra Regeneration and Patterning

Rui Wang, April L Bialas, Tapan Goel, Eva-Maria S Collins

Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 63, 2023 Dec, pp. 1422-1441

Let it rip: the mechanics of self-bisection in asexual planarians determines their population reproductive strategies

Tapan Goel, Danielle Ireland, Vir Shetty, Christina Rabeler, Patrick H Diamond, Eva-Maria S Collins

Physical Biology, vol. 19, IOP Publishing, 2021 Nov, p. 016002

Linalool acts as a fast and reversible anesthetic in Hydra

Tapan Goel, Rui Wang, Sara Martin, Elizabeth Lanphear, Eva-Maria S. Collins

PLOS ONE, vol. 14, Public Library of Science, 2019 Oct, pp. 1-33

Mouth Function Determines the Shape Oscillation Pattern in Regenerating Hydra Tissue Spheres

Rui Wang, Tapan Goel, Kate Khazoyan, Ziad Sabry, Heng J. Quan, Patrick H. Diamond, Eva-Maria S. Collins

Biophysical Journal, vol. 117, 2019 Sep, pp. 1145--1155

Interpreting Breakthrough Infections Given Assortative Mixing of Partially Vaccinated Populations

Mallory J. Harris, Akash Arani, Tapan Goel, Kejia Zhang, Stephen J. Beckett, Nathan C. Lo, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S. Weitz

medRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2026

Prophage induction states drive structural and synergistic outcomes in marine bacterial biofilms

Matthew J. Tuttle, Gabi Steinbach, Tapan Goel, Joshua S. Weitz, Alison Buchan

bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025