SELECTED Publications

Investigating Impacts of Amino Acids on the Structural Stability of Anionic Biomembranes

Arslan Siddique, Lauren A. Lowe, Soumya Kanti De, Daniel W. K. Loo, Anton P. Le Brun, Andrew R. J. Nelson, Anna Wang

ChemSystemsChem (2025)

Discrimination between Purine and Pyrimidine-Rich RNA in Liquid–Liquid Phase-Separated Condensates with Cationic Peptides and the Effect of Artificial Crowding Agents

Anika L. Moller, Isis A. Middleton, Grace E. Maynard, Lachlan B. Cox, Anna Wang, Hsiu L. Li, Pall Thordarson

Biomacromolecules (2025)

Natural size variation amongst protocells leads to survival and growth under hypoosmotic conditions

Lauren A. Lowe, Natasha K. Kaushik, Anna Wang

Small (2024)

Optical and molecular features of negatively curved surfaces created by POPE lipids: A crucial role of the initial conditions

Petra Maleš, Ivana Nikšić-Franjić, Anna Wang, Barbara Pem, Danijela Bakarić

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (2024)

Characterization of Optical, Thermal, and Viscoelastic Properties of Pollenkitt in Angiosperm Pollen Using In-Line Digital Holographic Microscopy

Siddharth Rawat, Juan Trius Béjar, Anna Wang

ACS Applied Bio Materials (2024)

Measuring Vesicle Loading with Holographic Microscopy and Bulk Light Scattering

Lan Hai Anh Tran, Lauren A Lowe, Yaam Deckel, Matthew Turner, James Luong, Omar Abdullah A Khamis, Megan L Amos, Anna Wang

ACS Physical Chemistry Au (2024)

Lipid Exchange Promotes Fusion of Model Protocells (Small Methods 12/2023)

Ziyan Fan, Yaam Deckel, Lauren A Lowe, Daniel WK Loo, Tetsuya Yomo, Jack W Szostak, Collin Nisler, Anna Wang

Small Methods (2023)

Putative roles of terpenoids in primitive membranes

Joshua P King, Anna Wang

Frontiers Media SA (2023)

Challenges and opportunities for innovation in bioinformed sustainable materials

Devi Stuart-Fox, Leslie Ng, Leonie Barner, Andrew TD Bennett, Sean J Blamires, Mark A Elgar, Alistair R Evans, Amanda M Franklin, Katja Hölttä-Otto, James A Hutchison, Fernando Jativa, Anna-Lee Jessop, Jennifer Kelley, Janet McGaw, Jun Mei, Mohammad Mirkhalaf, Mustafa Musameh, Chiara Neto, Andrea J O’Connor, Tim Schork, Gerd E Schröder-Turk, Nicolas H Voelcker, Anna Wang, Gregory S Watson, Jolanta A Watson, Lukas Wesemann, Wallace WH Wong

Nature Communications materials (2023)

Passive endocytosis in model protocells

Stephanie J Zhang, Lauren A Lowe, Palapuravan Anees, Yamuna Krishnan, Thomas G Fai, Jack W Szostak, Anna Wang

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)

Measuring the lipid content in angiosperms using in-line digital holographic microscopy

Siddharth Rawat, Juan Trius Béjar, Anna Wang

Holography: Advances and Modern Trends VIII, Vol. 12574, 1257410 (2023)

Lipid exchange promotes fusion of model protocells

Ziyan Fan, Yaam Deckel, Lauren A Lowe, Daniel WK Loo, Tetsuya Yomo, Jack W Szostak, Collin Nisler, Anna Wang

Small Methods (2023)

Spectroscopic and Biophysical Methods to Determine Differential Salt-Uptake by Primitive Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets

Chen Chen, Ruiqin Yi, Motoko Igisu, Chie Sakaguchi, Rehana Afrin, Christian Potiszil, Tak Kunihiro, Katsura Kobayashi, Eizo Nakamura, Yuichiro Ueno, André Antunes, Anna Wang, Kuhan Chandru, Jihua Hao, Tony Z Jia

Small Methods (2023)

Assembly of Multicompartment Glycopolymer Worms in Aqueous Solution

Jordan T Lovegrove, Ben A Humphreys, Chin Ken Wong, Liliana de Campo, Anna Wang, Christopher J Garvey, Martina H Stenzel

ACS Macromolecules (2023)

Using holographic microscopy to measure the effect of confinement on crowding agents in lipid vesicles

Yaam Deckel, Lauren A Lowe, Siddharth Rawat, Matthew Turner, James Luong, Anna Wang

ECSP ChemBioChem (2023)

Preparation of Giant Vesicles with Mixed Single-Tailed and Double-Tailed Lipids

Lauren A Lowe, Anna Wang

Liposomes: Methods and Protocols (2023)

In-line holographic microscopy with model-based analysis

Caroline Martin, Lauren E Altman, Siddharth Rawat, Anna Wang, David G Grier, Vinothan N Manoharan

Nature Reviews Methods Primers (2022)

A Physicochemical Consideration of Prebiotic Microenvironments for Self-Assembly and Prebiotic Chemistry

Arpita Saha, Ruiqin Yi, Albert C Fahrenbach, Anna Wang, Tony Z Jia

Life (2022); for Special Issue "Origin of Life in Chemically Complex Messy Environments"

cGAN-assisted imaging through stationary scattering media

Siddharth Rawat , Jonathan Wendoloski, Anna Wang

Optics Express (2022)

Subtle Changes in pH Affect the Packing and Robustness of Fatty Acid Bilayers

Lauren A Lowe, James T Kindt, Charles G Cranfield, Bruce Cornell, Alexander Macmillan, Anna Wang

Soft Matter (2022)

Dehydration Enhances Prebiotic Lipid Remodeling and Vesicle Formation in Acidic Environments

Luke H. Steller, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, and Anna Wang

Soft Matter (2022)

Methods for Forming Giant Unilamellar Fatty Acid Vesicles

Lauren A Lowe, Daniel WK Loo, Anna Wang

Membrane Lipids (2022)

Thermally driven membrane phase transitions enable content reshuffling in primitive cells

Roger Rubio-Sánchez, Derek K O’Flaherty, Anna Wang, Francesca Coscia, Gianluca Petris, Lorenzo Di Michele, Pietro Cicuta, Claudia Bonfio

JACS (2021)

Digital Hologram Denoising Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Rawat S, Wang A

Applied Optics (2021)

Accurate and practical feature extraction from noisy holograms

Rawat S, Wang A

Applied Optics (2021)

Population-level Membrane Diversity Triggers Growth and Division of Protocells

Toparlak ÖD, Wang A, Mansy S

JACS Au (2021)

How to build a bone? - Hydroxyapatite or Posner’s clusters as bone minerals

Roohani I, Cheong S, Wang A

Open Ceramics (2021)

Bulk, Self-Assembly of Giant, Unilamellar Vesicles

Kindt JT, Szostak JW, Wang A

ACS Nano (2020)

Holographic Microscopy with Python and HoloPy

Barkley S, Dimiduk TG, Fung J, Kaz DM, Manoharan VN, McGorty R, Perry RW, Wang A

Computing in Science and Engineering (2020)

Before the breach: Interactions between colloidal particles and liquid interfaces at nanoscale separations

Wang A, Zwanikken JW, Kaz DM, McGorty R, Goldfain AM, Rogers WB, Manoharan VN

Physical Review E (2019)

Lipid constituents of model protocell membranes

Wang A, Szostak JW

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences (2019)

Core-shell modelling of light scattering by vesicles: effect of size, contents, and lamellarity

Wang A*, Chan Miller C, Szostak JW*, “”, Biophysical Journal (2019) *co-corresponding authors

Using Imaging Flow Cytometry to Quantify and Optimize Giant Vesicle Production by Water-in-oil Emulsion Transfer Methods

Matsushita-Ishiodori Y, Hanczyc M, Wang A, Szostak JW, Yomo T

Langmuir (2019)

Effects of contact-line pinning on the adsorption of nonspherical colloids at liquid interfaces

Wang A, Rogers WB, Manoharan VN

Physical Review Letters (2017)

Contact-line pinning controls how quickly colloidal particles equilibrate with liquid interfaces

Wang A, Kaz DM, McGorty R, Manoharan VN

Soft Matter (2016)

Tracking E. coli runs and tumbles with scattering solutions and digital holographic microscopy

Wang A, Garmann RF, Manoharan VN

Optics Express 24 21 (2016)

Capillary driven dynamics and thermally activated kinetics

Rahmani AM, Wang A, Manoharan VN, Colosqui CE

Soft Matter, 12 (2016)

Charged hydrophobic colloids at an oil/aqueous phase interface

Colm P. Kelleher, Anna Wang, Guillermo Iván Guerrero-García, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Rodrigo E. Guerra, Bhaskar Jyoti Krishnatreya, David G. Grier, Vinothan N. Manoharan, and Paul M. Chaikin

Physical Review E, 92, 062306 (2015)