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Arvind Murugan

TitleAssociate Professor, Physics and the James Franck Institute
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentPhysics
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    1. Falk MJ, Zhou L, Matsubara YJ, Husain K, Szostak JW, Murugan A. Suppression of errors in collectively coded information. ArXiv. 2025 Sep 24. PMID: 40909159; PMCID: PMC12407629.
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    2. Floyd C, Dinner AR, Murugan A, Vaikuntanathan S. Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 05; 16(1):7184. PMID: 40764290; PMCID: PMC12325794.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    
    3. Alston H, Rouches M, Murugan A, Walczak AM, Mora T. Optimal sensing through phase separation. ArXiv. 2025 Jul 25. PMID: 40740517; PMCID: PMC12310130.
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    4. Russo CJ, Husain K, Ranganathan R, Pincus D, Murugan A. Simple biological controllers drive the evolution of soft modes. ArXiv. 2025 Jul 16. PMID: 40709308; PMCID: PMC12288653.
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    5. Dhanuka A, Flamholz AI, Murugan A, Goyal A. Ecosystems as adaptive living circuits. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 29. PMID: 40667370; PMCID: PMC12262599.
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    6. Falk MJ, Strupp AT, Scellier B, Murugan A. Temporal Contrastive Learning through implicit non-equilibrium memory. Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 04; 16(1):2163. PMID: 40038254; PMCID: PMC11880436.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    7. Russo CJ, Husain K, Murugan A. Soft Modes as a Predictive Framework for Low-Dimensional Biological Systems Across Scales. Annu Rev Biophys. 2025 05; 54(1):401-426. PMID: 39971349; PMCID: PMC12079786.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    8. Crocker K, Skwara A, Kannan R, Murugan A, Kuehn S. Microbial functional guilds respond cohesively to rapidly fluctuating environments. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 15. PMID: 39974892; PMCID: PMC11838272.
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    9. Scellier B, Murugan A, Falk MJ, Strupp AT. Temporal Contrastive Learning through implicit non-equilibrium memory. ArXiv. 2025 Jan 29. PMID: 38235062; PMCID: PMC10793480.
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    10. Ravasio R, Husain K, Evans CG, Phillips R, Ribezzi M, Szostak JW, Murugan A. A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order. ArXiv. 2025 Jan 05. PMID: 38800660; PMCID: PMC11118666.
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    11. Crocker K, Skwara A, Kannan R, Murugan A, Kuehn S. Timescale of environmental change modulates metabolic guild cohesion in microbial communities. ISME J. 2025 Jan 02; 19(1). PMID: 40843988; PMCID: PMC12448442.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Cells
    12. Russo CJ, Husain K, Murugan A. Soft Modes as a Predictive Framework for Low Dimensional Biological Systems across Scales. ArXiv. 2024 Dec 18. PMID: 39764393; PMCID: PMC11702803.
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    13. Husain K, Sachdeva V, Ravasio R, Peruzzo M, Liu W, Good BH, Murugan A. Direct and indirect selection in a proofreading polymerase. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 15. PMID: 39464107; PMCID: PMC11507774.
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    14. Floyd C, Dinner AR, Murugan A, Vaikuntanathan S. Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes. ArXiv. 2024 Sep 09. PMID: 39314507; PMCID: PMC11419181.
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    15. Jaeger HM, Murugan A, Nagel SR. Training physical matter to matter. Soft Matter. 2024 Aug 28; 20(34):6695-6701. PMID: 39140794.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    
    16. Falk MJ, Roach FD, Gilpin W, Murugan A. Curiosity-driven search for novel nonequilibrium behaviors. Phys Rev Res. 2024 Jul-Sep; 6(3). PMID: 40964154; PMCID: PMC12439759.
      Citations: 2     
    17. Evans CG, O'Brien J, Winfree E, Murugan A. Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly. Nature. 2024 Jan; 625(7995):500-507. PMID: 38233621; PMCID: PMC10794147.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    
    18. Narla AV, Hwa T, Murugan A. Dynamic coexistence driven by physiological transitions in microbial communities. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 12. PMID: 38260536; PMCID: PMC10802591.
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    19. Narla AV, Hwa T, Murugan A. Dynamic coexistence driven by physiological transitions in microbial communities. ArXiv. 2024 Jan 04. PMID: 38259349; PMCID: PMC10802671.
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    20. Goyal A, Flamholz AI, Petroff AP, Murugan A. Closed ecosystems extract energy through self-organized nutrient cycles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 12 26; 120(52):e2309387120. PMID: 38127977; PMCID: PMC10756307.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    
    21. Falk MJ, Wu J, Matthews A, Sachdeva V, Pashine N, Gardel ML, Nagel SR, Murugan A. Learning to learn by using nonequilibrium training protocols for adaptable materials. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jul 04; 120(27):e2219558120. PMID: 37364104; PMCID: PMC10319023.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    
    22. Devany J, Falk MJ, Holt LJ, Murugan A, Gardel ML. Epithelial tissue confinement inhibits cell growth and leads to volume-reducing divisions. Dev Cell. 2023 08 21; 58(16):1462-1476.e8. PMID: 37339629; PMCID: PMC10528006.
      Citations: 21     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    23. Arinze C, Stern M, Nagel SR, Murugan A. Learning to self-fold at a bifurcation. Phys Rev E. 2023 Feb; 107(2-2):025001. PMID: 36932611.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    
    24. Schaffter SW, Chen KL, O'Brien J, Noble M, Murugan A, Schulman R. Publisher Correction: Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks. Nat Chem. 2022 Nov; 14(11):1335. PMID: 36075970.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    
    25. Schaffter SW, Chen KL, O'Brien J, Noble M, Murugan A, Schulman R. Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks. Nat Chem. 2022 11; 14(11):1224-1232. PMID: 35927329.
      Citations: 22     Fields:    
    26. Su CJ, Murugan A, Linton JM, Yeluri A, Bois J, Klumpe H, Langley MA, Antebi YE, Elowitz MB. Ligand-receptor promiscuity enables cellular addressing. Cell Syst. 2022 05 18; 13(5):408-425.e12. PMID: 35421362; PMCID: PMC10897978.
      Citations: 36     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    27. Murugan A, Husain K, Rust MJ, Hepler C, Bass J, Pietsch JMJ, Swain PS, Jena SG, Toettcher JE, Chakraborty AK, Sprenger KG, Wang S, Wood KB, Skanata A, Kussell E, Ranganathan R, Shih HY, Goldenfeld N, Mora T, Walczak AM, Rivoire O. Roadmap on biology in time varying environments. Phys Biol. 2021 05 17; 18(4). PMID: 33477124; PMCID: PMC8652373.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    
    28. Son M, Wang AG, Tu HL, Metzig MO, Patel P, Husain K, Lin J, Murugan A, Hoffmann A, Tay S. NF-?B responds to absolute differences in cytokine concentrations. Sci Signal. 2021 01 19; 14(666). PMID: 34211635; PMCID: PMC8244746.
      Citations: 26     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    29. Galstyan V, Husain K, Xiao F, Murugan A, Phillips R. Proofreading through spatial gradients. Elife. 2020 12 24; 9. PMID: 33357378; PMCID: PMC7813546.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    30. Husain K, Murugan A. Physical Constraints on Epistasis. Mol Biol Evol. 2020 10 01; 37(10):2865-2874. PMID: 32421772.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    
    31. Stern M, Arinze C, Perez L, Palmer SE, Murugan A. Supervised learning through physical changes in a mechanical system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 06 30; 117(26):14843-14850. PMID: 32546522; PMCID: PMC7334525.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    
    32. Sachdeva V, Husain K, Sheng J, Wang S, Murugan A. Tuning environmental timescales to evolve and maintain generalists. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 06 09; 117(23):12693-12699. PMID: 32457160; PMCID: PMC7293598.
      Citations: 21     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    33. Zhong W, Lu Z, Schwab DJ, Murugan A. Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Continuous Attractors. Neural Comput. 2020 06; 32(6):1033-1068. PMID: 32343645.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    34. Husain K, Pittayakanchit W, Pattanayak G, Rust MJ, Murugan A. Kalman-like Self-Tuned Sensitivity in Biophysical Sensing. Cell Syst. 2019 Nov 27; 9(5):459-465.e6. PMID: 31563474; PMCID: PMC10170658.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    35. O'Brien J, Murugan A. Temporal Pattern Recognition through Analog Molecular Computation. ACS Synth Biol. 2019 04 19; 8(4):826-832. PMID: 30836003.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    36. Stern M, Jayaram V, Murugan A. Shaping the topology of folding pathways in mechanical systems. Nat Commun. 2018 10 16; 9(1):4303. PMID: 30327460; PMCID: PMC6191449.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    
    37. Chew J, Leypunskiy E, Lin J, Murugan A, Rust MJ. High protein copy number is required to suppress stochasticity in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Nat Commun. 2018 08 01; 9(1):3004. PMID: 30068980; PMCID: PMC6070526.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    38. Pittayakanchit W, Lu Z, Chew J, Rust MJ, Murugan A. Biophysical clocks face a trade-off between internal and external noise resistance. Elife. 2018 07 10; 7. PMID: 29988019; PMCID: PMC6059770.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    39. Pinson MB, Stern M, Carruthers Ferrero A, Witten TA, Chen E, Murugan A. Self-folding origami at any energy scale. Nat Commun. 2017 05 18; 8:15477. PMID: 28516913; PMCID: PMC5454341.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    
    40. Murugan A, Vaikuntanathan S. Topologically protected modes in non-equilibrium stochastic systems. Nat Commun. 2017 01 10; 8:13881. PMID: 28071644; PMCID: PMC5234070.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    41. Huntley MH, Murugan A, Brenner MP. Information capacity of specific interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 May 24; 113(21):5841-6. PMID: 27155013; PMCID: PMC4889362.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    
    42. Zwicker D, Murugan A, Brenner MP. Receptor arrays optimized for natural odor statistics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 May 17; 113(20):5570-5. PMID: 27102871; PMCID: PMC4878513.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    43. Murugan A, Zou J, Brenner MP. Undesired usage and the robust self-assembly of heterogeneous structures. Nat Commun. 2015 Feb 11; 6:6203. PMID: 25669898.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    44. Murugan A, Zeravcic Z, Brenner MP, Leibler S. Multifarious assembly mixtures: systems allowing retrieval of diverse stored structures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jan 06; 112(1):54-9. PMID: 25535383; PMCID: PMC4291664.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    
    45. Murugan A, Huse DA, Leibler S. Speed, dissipation, and error in kinetic proofreading. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 24; 109(30):12034-9. PMID: 22786930; PMCID: PMC3409783.
      Citations: 54     Fields:    Translation:Cells
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