Publications

Selected publications from the Rappel Lab.

2025

Spiral defect chaos with intermittency increases mean termination time

Mulimani, Mahesh Kumar, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 112, (3), 034203

Single-cell chiral symmetry breaking under confinement

Echeverria-Alar, Sebastian, Narasimhan, Badri Narayanan, Fraley, Stephanie I, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

bioRxiv 2025.12. 23.696323

Prediction of excitable wave dynamics using machine learning

Mulimani, Mahesh Kumar, Echeverria-Alar, Sebastian, Reiss, Michael, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 192, 115990

Perspective on interdisciplinary approaches on chemotaxis

Simmchen, Juliane, Gordon, Daniel, MacKenzie, John, Pagonabarraga, Ignacio, Roggatz, Christina C, Endres, Robert G, Xiao, Zuyao, Friedrich, Benjamin M, Qiu, Tian, Painter, Kevin J

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64, (47), e202504790

Particle model of creation and annihilation captures termination dynamics of spiral defect chaos

Tyree, Timothy J, Reiss, Michael, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 35, (9)

Global versus local matrix remodeling drives rotational versus invasive collective migration of epithelial cells

Ranamukhaarachchi, Sural K, Walker, Alyssa, Tang, Man-Ho, Leineweber, William D, Lam, Sophia, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Fraley, Stephanie I

Developmental Cell 60, (6), 871-884. e8

Coupling Step-Wise Motility and Traction Force Patterns in chemotaxing cells

Echeverría-Alar, Sebastián, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

bioRxiv 2025.10. 28.685178

Boundary-driven delayed-feedback control of spatiotemporal dynamics in excitable media

Echeverría-Alar, Sebastián, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review Letters 135, (26), 267201

2024

Spatially Conserved Spiral Wave Activity During Human Atrial Fibrillation

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Baykaner, Tina, Zaman, Junaid, Ganesan, Prasanth, Rogers, Albert J, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 17, (3), e012041

Eukaryotic chemotaxis under periodic stimulation shows temporal gradient dependence

Karmakar, Richa, Karanam, Aravind, Tang, Man-Ho, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review Letters 133, (6), 068401

Coupled Dynamics in Phenotype and Tissue Spaces Shape the Three-Dimensional Cancer Invasion

Naylor, Austin, Libmann, Maximilian, Raab, Izabel, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Sun, Bo

PRX Life 2, (4), 043022

Annihilation dynamics during spiral defect chaos revealed by particle models

Tyree, Timothy J, Murphy, Patrick, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 34, (5)

2023

The Molecular Basis for Cell Migration in 3D

Martin, NR, Tang, M-H, Rappel, W-J, Weiner, OD

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL 34, (2), 451-452

A role for ethylene signaling and biosynthesis in regulating and accelerating CO2‐and abscisic acid‐mediated stomatal movements in Arabidopsis

Azoulay‐Shemer, Tamar, Schulze, Sebastian, Nissan‐Roda, Dikla, Bosmans, Krystal, Shapira, Or, Weckwerth, Philipp, Zamora, Olena, Yarmolinsky, Dmitry, Trainin, Taly, Kollist, Hannes

New Phytologist 238, (6), 2460-2475

2022

The physics of heart rhythm disorders

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physics reports 978, 1-45

Stochastic termination of spiral wave dynamics in cardiac tissue

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Krummen, David E, Baykaner, Tina, Zaman, Junaid, Donsky, Alan, Swarup, Vijay, Miller, John M, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Frontiers in network physiology 2, 809532

Predicting acute termination and non-termination during ablation of human atrial fibrillation using quantitative indices

Kappel, Cole, Reiss, Michael, Rodrigo, Miguel, Ganesan, Prasanth, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Frontiers in Physiology 13, 939350

Intermittent trapping of spiral waves in a cardiac model

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 105, (1), 014404

Boolean modelling in plant biology

Karanam, Aravind, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Quantitative Plant Biology 3, e29

2021

Three dimensional reconstruction to visualize atrial fibrillation activation patterns on curved atrial geometry

Abad, Ricardo, Collart, Orvil, Ganesan, Prasanth, Rogers, AJ, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Rodrigo, Miguel, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Plos one 16, (4), e0249873

The mechanics and dynamics of cancer cells sensing noisy 3D contact guidance

Kim, Jihan, Cao, Yuansheng, Eddy, Christopher, Deng, Youyuan, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Sun, Bo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, (10), e2024780118

Machine learned cellular phenotypes in cardiomyopathy predict sudden death

Rogers, Albert J, Selvalingam, Anojan, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Krummen, David E, Corrado, Cesare, Abuzaid, Firas, Baykaner, Tina, Meyer, Christian, Clopton, Paul, Giles, Wayne

Circulation Research 128, (2), 172-184

Electrical substrate ablation for refractory ventricular fibrillation: results of the AVATAR study

Krummen, David E, Ho, Gordon, Hoffmayer, Kurt S, Schweis, Franz N, Baykaner, Tina, Rogers, AJ, Han, Frederick T, Hsu, Jonathan C, Viswanathan, Mohan N, Wang, Paul J

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 14, (3), e008868

Deep dive into CO2-dependent molecular mechanisms driving stomatal responses in plants

Dubeaux, Guillaume, Hsu, Po-Kai, Ceciliato, Paulo HO, Swink, Kelsey J, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Schroeder, Julian I

Plant Physiology 187, (4), 2032-2042

Coupling traction force patterns and actomyosin wave dynamics reveals mechanics of cell motion

Ghabache, Elisabeth, Cao, Yuansheng, Miao, Yuchuan, Groisman, Alex, Devreotes, Peter N, Rappel, Wouter‐Jan

Molecular Systems Biology 17, (12), e10505

Cellular memory in eukaryotic chemotaxis depends on the background chemoattractant concentration

Karmakar, Richa, Tang, Man-Ho, Yue, Haicen, Lombardo, Daniel, Karanam, Aravind, Camley, Brian A, Groisman, Alex, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 103, (1), 012402

Cell dispersal by localized degradation of a chemoattractant

Karmakar, Richa, Tyree, Timothy, Gomer, Richard H, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, (6), e2008126118

Boolink: a graphical interface for open access Boolean network simulations and use in guard cell CO2 signaling

Karanam, Aravind, He, David, Hsu, Po-Kai, Schulze, Sebastian, Dubeaux, Guillaume, Karmakar, Richa, Schroeder, Julian I, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Plant Physiology 187, (4), 2311-2322

2020

Tissue topography steers migrating Drosophila border cells

Dai, Wei, Guo, Xiaoran, Cao, Yuansheng, Mondo, James A, Campanale, Joseph P, Montell, Brandon J, Burrous, Haley, Streichan, Sebastian, Gov, Nir, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Science 370, (6519), 987-990

Termination of persistent atrial fibrillation by ablating sites that control large atrial areas

Bhatia, Neal K, Rogers, Albert J, Krummen, David E, Hossainy, Samir, Sauer, William, Miller, John M, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Peszek, Adam, Armenia, Erin, Baykaner, Tina

EP Europace 22, (6), 897-905

Novel micropatterning technique reveals dependence of cell-substrate adhesion and migration of social amoebas on parental strain, development, and fluorescent markers

Karmakar, Richa, Schich, Christoph, Kamprad, Nadine, Scheller, Vanessa, Gutierrez, Edgar, Groisman, Alex, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Tarantola, Marco

PloS one 15, (7), e0236171

Machine learning to classify intracardiac electrical patterns during atrial fibrillation: machine learning of atrial fibrillation

Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Abuzaid, Firas, Rogers, Albert J, Zaman, Junaid AB, Baykaner, Tina, Clopton, Paul, Bailis, Peter, Zaharia, Matei, Wang, Paul J, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 13, (8), e008160

Machine learned cellular phenotypes predict outcome in ischemic cardiomyopathy

Rogers, Albert J, Selvalingam, Anojan, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Krummen, David E, Corrado, Cesare, Abuzaid, Firas, Baykaner, Tina, Meyer, Christian, Clopton, Paul, Giles, Wayne

Circulation research 128, (2), 172

Flower-like patterns in multi-species bacterial colonies

Xiong, Liyang, Cao, Yuansheng, Cooper, Robert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Hasty, Jeff, Tsimring, Lev

elife 9, e48885

2019

Wavefront field mapping reveals a physiologic network between drivers where ablation terminates atrial fibrillation

Leef, George, Shenasa, Fatemah, Bhatia, Neal K, Rogers, Albert J, Sauer, William, Miller, John M, Swerdlow, Mark, Tamboli, Mallika, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Armenia, Erin

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 12, (8), e006835

Rotor Mapping in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Baykaner, Tina, Brodt, Chad, Zaman, Junaid AB, Kowalewski, Christopher AB, Vidmar, David, Rappel, Wouter‐Jan

Cardiac Mapping 482-495

Response by Bhatia et al to Letter Regarding Article,“Wavefront Field Mapping Reveals a Physiologic Network Between Drivers Where Ablation Terminates Atrial Fibrillation”

Bhatia, Neal K, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 12, (11), e008022

Plasticity of cell migration resulting from mechanochemical coupling

Cao, Yuansheng, Ghabache, Elisabeth, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Elife 8, e48478

Mapping Atrial Organized Areas Rather than Phase Singularities in Atrial Fibrillation

Bhatia, Neal K, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 12, (11), e008022

Extinction dynamics of spiral defect chaos

Vidmar, David, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 99, (1), 012407

Contact Mapping and Ablation of Complex Cardiac Arrhythmias

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Zaman, Junaid AB, Brodt, Chad, Shenasa, Fatemah, Baykaner, Tina, Rappel, Wouter‐Jan

Cardiac Mapping 236

Chaotic tip trajectories of a single spiral wave in the presence of heterogeneities

Lombardo, Daniel M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 99, (6), 062409

Cell motility dependence on adhesive wetting

Cao, Yuansheng, Karmakar, Richa, Ghabache, Elisabeth, Gutierrez, Edgar, Zhao, Yanxiang, Groisman, Alex, Levine, Herbert, Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Soft Matter 15, (9), 2043-2050

A minimal computational model for three-dimensional cell migration

Cao, Yuansheng, Ghabache, Elisabeth, Miao, Yuchuan, Niman, Cassandra, Hakozaki, Hiroyuki, Reck-Peterson, Samara L, Devreotes, Peter N, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16, (161), 20190619

2018

To the Editor—On the deformation and interpolation of phase maps

Vidmar, David, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Heart rhythm 15, (2), e3

The cAMP-induced G protein subunits dissociation monitored in live Dictyostelium cells by BRET reveals two activation rates, a positive effect of caffeine and potential role of microtubules

Islam, AFM Tariqul, Yue, Haicen, Scavello, Margarethakay, Haldeman, Pearce, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Charest, Pascale G

Cellular signalling 48, 25-37

System for analysis of complex rhythm disorders

Narayan, Sanjiv, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Successful ventricular fibrillation functional substrate ablation via a single vascular access site

Ho, Gordon, Hoffmayer, Kurt S, Villongco, Christopher T, Vidmar, David, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Krummen, David E

HeartRhythm Case Reports 4, (5), 173-176

Possible impacts of rising CO2 on crop water use efficiency and food security

Scavo, Alexander J, Sidhom, Morgana, Rangel, Felipe J, Miaule, Alexandre, Emuka, Christine, Poomchongko, Nusra, Ali, Suwayda, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Schroeder, Julian I

California Agriculture 72, (3)

Minimal network topologies for signal processing during collective cell chemotaxis

Yue, Haicen, Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Biophysical journal 114, (12), 2986-2999

Insights into the molecular mechanisms of CO2-mediated regulation of stomatal movements

Zhang, Jingbo, De-oliveira-Ceciliato, Paulo, Takahashi, Yohei, Schulze, Sebastian, Dubeaux, Guillaume, Hauser, Felix, Azoulay-Shemer, Tamar, Toldsepp, Kadri, Kollist, Hannes, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Current Biology 28, (23), R1356-R1363

Identification of SLAC1 anion channel residues required for CO2/bicarbonate sensing and regulation of stomatal movements

Zhang, Jingbo, Wang, Nuo, Miao, Yinglong, Hauser, Felix, McCammon, J Andrew, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Schroeder, Julian I

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, (44), 11129-11137

Identification and characterization of sites where persistent atrial fibrillation is terminated by localized ablation

Zaman, Junaid AB, Sauer, William H, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Baykaner, Tina, Borne, Ryan T, Kowalewski, Christopher AB, Busch, Sonia, Zei, Paul C, Park, Shirley, Viswanathan, Mohan N

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 11, (1), e005258

Characterizing electrogram signal fidelity and the effects of signal contamination on mapping human persistent atrial fibrillation

Vidmar, David, Alhusseini, Mahmood I, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Frontiers in Physiology 9, 1232

Adaptation in living systems

Tu, Yuhai, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Annual review of condensed matter physics 9, (1), 183-205

2017

Two independent mapping techniques identify rotational activity patterns at sites of local termination during persistent atrial fibrillation

Alhusseini, Mahmood, Vidmar, David, Meckler, Gabriela L, Kowalewski, Christopher A, Shenasa, Fatemah, Wang, Paul J, Narayan, Sanjiv M, RAPPEL, WOUTER‐JAN

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 28, (6), 615-622

Systematic reduction of a detailed atrial myocyte model

Lombardo, Daniel M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 27, (9)

Spatiotemporal progression of early human ventricular fibrillation

Vidmar, David, Krummen, David E, Hayase, Justin, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Ho, Gordon, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 3, (12), 1437-1446

Rotors exhibit greater surface ECG variation during ventricular fibrillation than focal sources due to wavebreak, secondary rotors, and meander

Ho, Gordon, Villongco, Christopher T, Yousefian, Omid, Bradshaw, Aaron, Nguyen, Andrew, Faiwiszewski, Yonatan, Hayase, Justin, Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, McCulloch, Andrew D, Krummen, David E

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 28, (10), 1158-1166

Physical models of collective cell motility: from cell to tissue

Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal of physics D: Applied physics 50, (11), 113002

Mechanisms of cell polarization

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Edelstein-Keshet, Leah

Current opinion in systems biology 3, 43-53

Inferring single-cell behaviour from large-scale epithelial sheet migration patterns

Lee, Rachel M, Yue, Haicen, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Losert, Wolfgang

Journal of The Royal Society Interface 14, (130), 20170147

Crawling and turning in a minimal reaction-diffusion cell motility model: Coupling cell shape and biochemistry

Camley, Brian A, Zhao, Yanxiang, Li, Bo, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 95, (1), 012401

Cell-to-cell variation sets a tissue-rheology–dependent bound on collective gradient sensing

Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, (47), E10074-E10082

2016

System for analysis of complex rhythm disorders

Narayan, Sanjiv, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Reconstitution of CO2 regulation of SLAC1 anion channel and function of CO2-permeable PIP2; 1 aquaporin as CARBONIC ANHYDRASE4 interactor

Wang, Cun, Hu, Honghong, Qin, Xue, Zeise, Brian, Xu, Danyun, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Boron, Walter F, Schroeder, Julian I

The Plant Cell 28, (2), 568-582

Modeling contact inhibition of locomotion of colliding cells migrating on micropatterned substrates

Kulawiak, Dirk Alexander, Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

PLoS computational biology 12, (12), e1005239

Excitable waves and direction-sensing in Dictyostelium discoideum: steps towards a chemotaxis model

Bhowmik, Arpan, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical biology 13, (1), 016002

Determining conduction patterns on a sparse electrode grid: Implications for the analysis of clinical arrhythmias

Vidmar, David, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Krummen, David E, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 94, (5), 050401

Contact inhibition of locomotion determines cell–cell and cell–substrate forces in tissues

Zimmermann, Juliane, Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, (10), 2660-2665

Comparison of detailed and simplified models of human atrial myocytes to recapitulate patient specific properties

Lombardo, Daniel M, Fenton, Flavio H, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

PLoS computational biology 12, (8), e1005060

Collective signal processing in cluster chemotaxis: Roles of adaptation, amplification, and co-attraction in collective guidance

Camley, Brian A, Zimmermann, Juliane, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

PLoS computational biology 12, (7), e1005008

CO2 sensing and CO2 regulation of stomatal conductance: advances and open questions

Engineer, Cawas B, Hashimoto-Sugimoto, Mimi, Negi, Juntaro, Israelsson-Nordström, Maria, Azoulay-Shemer, Tamar, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Iba, Koh, Schroeder, Julian I

Trends in plant science 21, (1), 16-30

Cell–cell communication during collective migration

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, (6), 1471-1473

2015

Phase synchrony reveals organization in human atrial fibrillation

Vidmar, David, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 309, (12), H2118-H2126

Modifying ventricular fibrillation by targeted rotor substrate ablation: proof‐of‐concept from experimental studies to clinical VF

Krummen, David E, Hayase, Justin, Vampola, Stephen P, Ho, Gordon, Schricker, Amir A, Lalani, Gautam G, Baykaner, Tina, Coe, Taylor M, Clopton, Paul, RAPPEL, WOUTER‐JAN

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 26, (10), 1117-1126

Mechanisms for the termination of atrial fibrillation by localized ablation: computational and clinical studies

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Zaman, Junaid AB, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 8, (6), 1325-1333

Distinct cellular locations of carbonic anhydrases mediate carbon dioxide control of stomatal movements

Hu, Honghong, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Occhipinti, Rossana, Ries, Amber, Böhmer, Maik, You, Lei, Xiao, Chuanlei, Engineer, Cawas B, Boron, Walter F, Schroeder, Julian I

Plant physiology 169, (2), 1168-1178

2014

Velocity alignment leads to high persistence in confined cells

Camley, Brian A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 89, (6), 062705

Rotors in Human Atrial Fibrillation

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside 433-442

Rotor stability separates sustained ventricular fibrillation from self-terminating episodes in humans

Krummen, David E, Hayase, Justin, Morris, David J, Ho, Jeffrey, Smetak, Miriam R, Clopton, Paul, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 63, (24), 2712-2721

Polarity mechanisms such as contact inhibition of locomotion regulate persistent rotational motion of mammalian cells on micropatterns

Camley, Brian A, Zhang, Yunsong, Zhao, Yanxiang, Li, Bo, Ben-Jacob, Eshel, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, (41), 14770-14775

Modeling self-organized spatio-temporal patterns of PIP3 and PTEN during spontaneous cell polarization

Knoch, Fabian, Tarantola, Marco, Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical biology 11, (4), 046002

Intercellular stress reconstitution from traction force data

Zimmermann, Juliane, Hayes, Ryan L, Basan, Markus, Onuchic, José N, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Biophysical journal 107, (3), 548-554

Human atrial fibrillation initiates via organized rather than disorganized mechanisms

Schricker, Amir A, Lalani, Gautam G, Krummen, David E, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 7, (5), 816-824

How input noise limits biochemical sensing in ultrasensitive systems

Hu, Bo, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 90, (3), 032702

Cellular memory in eukaryotic chemotaxis

Skoge, Monica, Yue, Haicen, Erickstad, Michael, Bae, Albert, Levine, Herbert, Groisman, Alex, Loomis, William F, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, (40), 14448-14453

Cell substratum adhesion during early development of Dictyostelium discoideum

Tarantola, Marco, Bae, Albert, Fuller, Danny, Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Loomis, William F

PloS one 9, (9), e106574

2013

Theoretical considerations for mapping activation in human cardiac fibrillation

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 23, (2)

The physics of eukaryotic chemotaxis

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physics today 66, (2), 24-30

Periodic migration in a physical model of cells on micropatterns

Camley, Brian A, Zhao, Yanxiang, Li, Bo, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review letters 111, (15), 158102

Panoramic electrophysiological mapping but not electrogram morphology identifies stable sources for human atrial fibrillation: stable atrial fibrillation rotors and focal sources relate poorly to fractionated electrograms

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Shivkumar, Kalyanam, Krummen, David E, Miller, John M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 6, (1), 58-67

Alignment of cellular motility forces with tissue flow as a mechanism for efficient wound healing

Basan, Markus, Elgeti, Jens, Hannezo, Edouard, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, (7), 2452-2459

A three-dimensional finite element model of human atrial anatomy: New methods for cubic Hermite meshes with extraordinary vertices

Gonzales, Matthew J, Sturgeon, Gregory, Krishnamurthy, Adarsh, Hake, Johan, Jonas, René, Stark, Paul, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Narayan, Sanjiv M, Zhang, Yongjie, Segars, W Paul

Medical image analysis 17, (5), 525-537

2012

Treatment of atrial fibrillation by the ablation of localized sources: CONFIRM (Conventional Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation With or Without Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation) trial

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Krummen, David E, Shivkumar, Kalyanam, Clopton, Paul, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Miller, John M

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 60, (7), 628-636

Swirls, fingers and directed bulk motility in spreading epithelial sheets

Basan, Markus, Elgeti, Jens, Hannezo, Edouard, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physics and Mathematics of Cancer 29

Noise effects in nonlinear biochemical signaling

Bostani, Neda, Kessler, David A, Shnerb, Nadav M, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 85, (1), 011901

Innate non-specific cell substratum adhesion

Loomis, William F, Fuller, Danny, Gutierrez, Edgar, Groisman, Alex, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Incoherent feedforward control governs adaptation of activated ras in a eukaryotic chemotaxis pathway

Takeda, Kosuke, Shao, Danying, Adler, Micha, Charest, Pascale G, Loomis, William F, Levine, Herbert, Groisman, Alex, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Firtel, Richard A

Science signaling 5, (205), ra2-ra2

How input fluctuations reshape the dynamics of a biological switching system

Hu, Bo, Kessler, David A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 86, (6), 061910

Coupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility model

Shao, Danying, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, (18), 6851-6856

Computational mapping identifies localized mechanisms for ablation of atrial fibrillation

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Krummen, David E, Enyeart, Michael W, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Plos One 7, (9), e46034

Clinical mapping approach to diagnose electrical rotors and focal impulse sources for human atrial fibrillation

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Krummen, David E, RAPPEL, WOUTER‐JAN

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 23, (5), 447-454

Adaptation in a eukaryotic pathway: combining experiments with modeling

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Firtel, Richard

Cell Cycle 11, (6), 2

Modelling self-propelled deformable cell motion in the Dictyostelium mound: a status report

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert, Nicol, Alastair, Loomis, William F

Mathematical Models for Biological Pattern Formation 121, 255

2011

“Self-assisted” amoeboid navigation in complex environments

Hecht, Inbal, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Ben-Jacob, Eshel

PloS one 6, (8), e21955

Quantifying information transmission in eukaryotic gradient sensing and chemotactic response

Hu, Bo, Chen, Wen, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal of statistical physics 142, (6), 1167-1186

How geometry and internal bias affect the accuracy of eukaryotic gradient sensing

Hu, Bo, Chen, Wen, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 83, (2), 021917

Effects of input noise on a simple biochemical switch

Hu, Bo, Kessler, David A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical review letters 107, (14), 148101

Design principles and specificity in biological networks with cross activation

Hu, Bo, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical biology 8, (2), 026001

Activated membrane patches guide chemotactic cell motility

Hecht, Inbal, Skoge, Monica L, Charest, Pascale G, Ben-Jacob, Eshel, Firtel, Richard A, Loomis, William F, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

PLoS computational biology 7, (6), e1002044

2010

The role of cell contraction and adhesion in dictyostelium motility

Buenemann, Mathias, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Sander, Leonard M

Biophysical journal 99, (1), 50-58

Physical limits on cellular sensing of spatial gradients

Hu, Bo, Chen, Wen, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical review letters 105, (4), 048104

Phenomenological approach to eukaryotic chemotactic efficiency

Hu, Bo, Fuller, Danny, Loomis, William F, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 81, (3 Pt 1), 031906

Gradient sensing in defined chemotactic fields

Skoge, Monica, Adler, Micha, Groisman, Alex, Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Integrative Biology 2, (11-12), 659-668

External and internal constraints on eukaryotic chemotaxis

Fuller, Danny, Chen, Wen, Adler, Micha, Groisman, Alex, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Loomis, William F

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, (21), 9656-9659

Eukaryotic chemotaxis and its limitations due to stochastic sensing

Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Fields Institute Communications, ed Sivaloganathan S (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI) 1-20

Computational model for cell morphodynamics

Shao, Danying, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical review letters 105, (10), 108104

A comparison of deterministic and stochastic simulations of neuronal vesicle release models

Modchang, Charin, Nadkarni, Suhita, Bartol, Thomas M, Triampo, Wannapong, Sejnowski, Terrence J, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical biology 7, (2), 026008

2009

The role of receptor occupancy noise in eukaryotic chemotaxis

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics: Model and Design of Complex Systems 61-69

Mechanisms and constraints on yeast MAPK signaling specificity

Hu, Bo, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Biophysical journal 96, (12), 4755-4763

Eukaryotic chemotaxis

Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, Loomis, William F

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine 1, (1), 141-149

Determining the scale of the Bicoid morphogen gradient

Hecht, Inbal, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, (6), 1710-1715

Compartmentalization of second messengers in neurons: a mathematical analysis

Chen, Wen, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 80, (4), 041901

2008

Repolarization and activation restitution near human pulmonary veins and atrial fibrillation initiation: a mechanism for the initiation of atrial fibrillation by premature beats

Narayan, Sanjiv M, Kazi, Dhruv, Krummen, David E, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 52, (15), 1222-1230

Receptor noise limitations on chemotactic sensing

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, (49), 19270-19275

Receptor noise and directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical review letters 100, (22), 228101

Directed Motility and Dictyostelium Aggregation

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Cell Motility 59-92

A mathematical analysis of second messenger compartmentalization

Chen, Wen, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical biology 5, (4), 046006

2007

Quantifying noise levels of intercellular signals

Wang, Kai, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Kerr, Rex, Levine, Herbert

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 75, (6), 061905

Flow photolysis for spatiotemporal stimulation of single cells

Beta, Carsten, Wyatt, Danica, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Bodenschatz, Eberhard

Analytical chemistry 79, (10), 3940-3944

2006

Swarming patterns in microorganisms: Some new modeling results

Levine, Herbert, Ben-Jacob, Eshel, Cohen, Inon, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 5073-5077

Embryonic pattern scaling achieved by oppositely directed morphogen gradients

McHale, Peter, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical biology 3, (2), 107

Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli

Kerr, Rex A, Levine, Herbert, Sejnowski, Terrence J, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, (2), 347-352

Directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis: a balanced inactivation model

Levine, Herbert, Kessler, David A, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, (26), 9761-9766

Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis: threshold for directed motion

Song, Loling, Nadkarni, Sharvari M, Bödeker, Hendrik U, Beta, Carsten, Bae, Albert, Franck, Carl, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Loomis, William F, Bodenschatz, Eberhard

European journal of cell biology 85, (9-10), 981-989

Coupling-induced cooperative behaviour in dynamic ferromagnetic cores in the presence of a noise floor

Bulsara, Adi R, Lindner, John F, In, Visarath, Kho, Andy, Baglio, Salvatore, Sacco, Vincenzo, Ando, Bruno, Longhini, Patrick, Palacios, Antonio, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physics Letters A 353, (1), 4-10

2005

Modeling wave propagation in realistic heart geometries using the phase-field method

Fenton, Flavio H, Cherry, Elizabeth M, Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 15, (1)

Membrane-bound Turing patterns

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 72, (6), 061912

Excitation-contraction coupling gain and cooperativity of the cardiac ryanodine receptor: a modeling approach

Wang, Kai, Tu, Yuhai, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Biophysical journal 89, (5), 3017-3025

Dynamics of conduction blocks in a model of paced cardiac tissue

Henry, Hervé, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 71, (5), 051911

Coupling‐Induced Oscillations In Overdamped Bistable Systems In The Presence Of A Noise Floor

Bulsara, AR, In, V, Kho, A, Lindner, J, Rappel, W‐J, Baglio, S, Ando, B, Sacco, V

AIP Conference Proceedings 800, (1), 211-218

2004

The role of M cells and the long QT syndrome in cardiac arrhythmias: simulation studies of reentrant excitations using a detailed electrophysiological model

Henry, Hervé, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 14, (1), 172-182

Noisy Fitzhugh-Nagumo model: From single elements to globally coupled networks

Acebrón, JA, Bulsara, AR, Rappel, W-J

Physical Review E 69, (2), 026202

Emergent oscillations in unidirectionally coupled overdamped bistable systems

Bulsara, Adi R, In, Visarath, Kho, Andy, Longhini, Patrick, Palacios, Antonio, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Acebron, Juan, Baglio, Salvatore, Ando, Bruno

Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 70, (3), 036103

Cooperativity can reduce stochasticity in intracellular calcium dynamics

Wang, Kai, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert

Physical biology 1, (1), 27

2003

Probing a noisy oscillator system

Acebrón, JA, Rappel, W-J, Bulsara, AR

Fluctuation and Noise Letters 3, (03), L341-L348

Injection locking near a stochastic bifurcation: the dc SQUID as a case study

Bulsara, AR, Acebrón, JA, Rappel, W-J, Hibbs, A, Kunstmanas, L, Krupka, M

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 325, (1-2), 220-229

Dynamics of globally coupled noisy excitable elements: The FitzHugh-Nagumo case

Acebrón, JA, Bulsara, AR, Rappel, W-J

IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Monticello, Illinois, USA, 26–30 August 2002 111-124

Cooperative dynamics in a class of coupled two-dimensional oscillators

Acebrón, JA, Rappel, W-J, Bulsara, AR

Physical Review E 67, (1), 016210

Cooperative dynamics in a class of coupled two-dimensional oscillators

Torres, Juan, Rappel, W-J, Bulsara, AR

Physical Review E 67, (1), 162101-1621017

Computational approach for modeling intra-and extracellular dynamics

Kockelkoren, Julien, Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 68, (3), 037702

2002

Noise-mediated cooperative behavior in a system of coupled DC SQUIDs

Acebron, Juan A, Bulsara, Adi R, Rappel, W-J

2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Proceedings (Cat. No. 02CH37353) 4, IV-IV

Establishing direction during chemotaxis in eukaryotic cells

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Thomas, Peter J, Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F

Biophysical journal 83, (3), 1361-1367

2001

Noise-mediated dynamics in a two-dimensional oscillator: Exact solutions and numerical results

Acebrón, JA, Bulsara, AR, Inchiosa, ME, Rappel, W-J

Europhysics Letters 56, (3), 354

Modeling self-propelled deformable cell motion in the Dictyostelium mound; a status report

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert, Nicol, Alastair, Loomis, William F

Mathematical Models for Biological Pattern Formation 255-267

Filament instability and rotational tissue anisotropy: a numerical study using detailed cardiac models

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 11, (1), 71-80

2000

Self-organization in systems of self-propelled particles

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Cohen, Inon

Physical Review E 63, (1), 017101

1999

Spatiotemporal control of wave instabilities in cardiac tissue

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Fenton, Flavio, Karma, Alain

Physical review letters 83, (2), 456

Self-organized vortex state in two-dimensional Dictyostelium dynamics

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Nicol, Alastair, Sarkissian, Armand, Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F

Physical review letters 83, (6), 1247

Phase-field model of dendritic sidebranching with thermal noise

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review E 60, (4), 3614

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc-Self-organized Vortex State in Two-Dimensional Dictyostelium Dynamics

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Nicol, Alastair, Sarkissian, Armand, Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F

Physical Review Letters 83, (6), 1247-1250

Cell-sorting in aggregates of Dictyostelium discoideum

Nicol, Alastair, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Levine, Herbert, Loomis, William F

Journal of cell science 112, (22), 3923-3929

1998

Selection of doublet cellular patterns in directional solidification through spatially periodic perturbations

Losert, W, Stillman, DA, Cummins, HZ, Kopczyński, P, Rappel, W-J, Karma, A

Physical Review E 58, (6), 7492

Quantitative phase-field modeling of dendritic growth in two and three dimensions

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review E 57, (4), 4323

PART B-Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials-Selection of doublet cellular patterns in directional solidification through spatially periodic perturbations

Losert, W, Stillman, DA, Cummins, HZ, Kopczynski, P, Rappel, WJ, Karma, A

Physical Review-Section E-Statistical Physics Plasma Fluids Related Interdiscpl Topics 58, (6), 7492-7506

Model of banding in diffusive and convective regimes during directional solidification of peritectic systems

Karma, A, Rappel, W-J, Fuh, BC, Trivedi, R

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 29, (5), 1457-1470

1997

Phase-field simulation of three-dimensional dendrites: is microscopic solvability theory correct?

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal of Crystal Growth 174, (1-4), 54-64

Collective chaos and noise in the globally coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Chabanol, Marie-Line, Hakim, Vincent, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 103, (1-4), 273-293

Cellular multiplets in directional solidification

Kopczyński, Przemek, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Karma, Alain

Physical Review E 55, (2), R1282

1996

Phase-field modeling of crystal growth: New asymptotics and computational limits

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Mathematics of Microstructural Evolution 204

Numerical simulation of three-dimensional dendritic growth

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review Letters 77, (19), 4050

Noise-induced coherence in neural networks

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Karma, Alain

Physical Review Letters 77, (15), 3256

Critical role of crystalline anisotropy in the stability of cellular array structures in directional solidification

Kopczyński, Przemek, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Karma, Alain

Physical review letters 77, (16), 3387

1995

Comment on “Spatial Subharmonics, Irrational Patterns, and Disorder in Eutectic Growth”

Karma, Alain, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review letters 75, (12), 2444

Coexisting pulses in a model for binary-mixture convection

Riecke, Hermann, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical review letters 75, (22), 4035

1994

Stochastic resonance in an autonomous system with a nonuniform limit cycle

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Strogatz, Steven H

Physical Review E 50, (4), 3249

Phase dynamics near a parity-breaking instability

Fourtune, Laurent, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Rabaud, Marc

Physical Review E 49, (5), R3576

Dynamics of a globally coupled laser model

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 49, (4), 2750

1993

Cellular structures in step-flow growth

Misbah, Chaouqi, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review B 48, (16), 12193

Asymmetric cell in directional solidification

Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review E 48, (5), 4118

1992

The stability of cells in directional solidification

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Brener, EA

Journal de Physique I 2, (9), 1779-1790

Parity breaking in directional solidification: Numerics versus amplitude equations

Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Riecke, Hermann

Physical Review A 45, (2), 846

Dynamics of the globally coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Hakim, Vincent, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review A 46, (12), R7347

1991

The oscillatory instability in rapid solidification

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Journal de Physique I 1, (9), 1291-1302

Resonant interactions and traveling-solidification cells

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan, Riecke, Hermann

Physical Review A 43, (2), 1122

1990

Patterns in Directional Solidification

Rappel, W-J

Nonlinear Structures in Physical Systems: Pattern Formation, Chaos, and Waves Proceedings of the Second Woodward Conference San Jose State University November 17–18, 1989 68-73

Numerical study for traveling waves in directional solidification

Levine, Herbert, Rappel, Wouter-Jan

Physical Review A 42, (12), 7475

1988

Exciton-polariton picture of the free-exciton lifetime in GaAs

Rappel, WJ, Feiner, LF, Schuurmans, MFH

Physical Review B 38, (11), 7874