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Mohammed Saad Bhamla

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Boulder
DepartmentBiofrontiers Institute

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    1. Lei X, Floyd C, Casas-Ferrer L, Chakrabortty T, Chandrasekharan N, Dinner AR, Coyle S, Honts J, Bhamla S. Light-induced assembly and repeatable actuation in Ca2+-driven chemomechanical protein networks. Nat Commun. 2026 Feb 21; 17(1). PMID: 41723139.
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    2. Meissner C, Bhamla MS, Emrick T, Crosby AJ. Fabricating mesoscale polymer ribbons with tunable mechanical properties via evaporative deposition and dewetting. Soft Matter. 2024 Jul 10; 20(27):5324-5330. PMID: 38853612.
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    3. Challita EJ, Rohilla P, Bhamla MS. Fluid Ejections in Nature. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng. 2024 07; 15(1):187-217. PMID: 38669514.
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    4. Kumar S, Tiwari I, Ortega-Jimenez VM, Dillman AR, He D, Hu Y, Bhamla MS. Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 10. PMID: 38915562.
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    5. Tuazon H, David S, Ma K, Bhamla MS. Leeches Predate on Fast-Escaping and Entangling Blackworms by Spiral Entombment. bioRxiv. 2024 May 15. PMID: 38798328.
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    6. Gupta A, Yu J, Challita EJ, Standeven J, Bhamla MS. OpenCell: A low-cost, open-source, 3-in-1 device for DNA extraction. PLoS One. 2024; 19(5):e0298857. PMID: 38696375.
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    7. McDonald CL, Alcalde GT, Jones TC, Laude RAP, Yap SA, Bhamla MS. Wax "tails" enable planthopper nymphs to self-right midair and land on their feet. bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 16. PMID: 38659822.
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    8. O'Neil JN, Lauren Yung K, Difini G, Walker H, Bhamla MS. Tiny amphibious insects use tripod gait for seamless transition across land, water, and duckweed. bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 02. PMID: 38617204.
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    9. O'Neil JN, Yung KL, Difini G, Rohilla P, Bhamla MS. Limb loss and specialized leg dynamics in tiny water-walking insects. bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 02. PMID: 38617355.
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    10. Lu CY, Rohilla P, Felner EI, Byagathvalli G, Azizoglu E, Bhamla MS, Prausnitz MR. Tolerability of a piezoelectric microneedle electroporator in human subjects. Bioeng Transl Med. 2024 Jul; 9(4):e10662. PMID: 39036075.
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    11. Challita EJ, Bhamla MS. Unifying fluidic excretion across life from cicadas to elephants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 03 26; 121(13):e2317878121. PMID: 38466877.
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    12. Challita EJ, Rohilla P, Bhamla MS. Fluid ejections in nature. ArXiv. 2024 Mar 04. PMID: 38495571.
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    13. Gupta A, Yu J, Challita EJ, Standeven J, Bhamla MS. OpenCell: A Low-cost, Open-Source, 3-in-1 device for DNA Extraction. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 01. PMID: 37808818.
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    14. Tuazon H, Nguyen C, Kaufman E, Tiwari I, Bermudez J, Chudasama D, Peleg O, Bhamla MS. Collecting-Gathering Biophysics of the Blackworm Lumbriculus variegatus. Integr Comp Biol. 2023 12 29; 63(6):1474-1484. PMID: 37370237.
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    15. Deblais A, Prathyusha KR, Sinaasappel R, Tuazon H, Tiwari I, Patil VP, Bhamla MS. Worm blobs as entangled living polymers: from topological active matter to flexible soft robot collectives. Soft Matter. 2023 Sep 27; 19(37):7057-7069. PMID: 37706563.
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    16. Ortega-Jimenez VM, Jusufi A, Brown CE, Zeng Y, Kumar S, Siddall R, Kim B, Challita EJ, Pavlik Z, Priess M, Umhofer T, Koh JS, Socha JJ, Dudley R, Bhamla MS. Air-to-land transitions: from wingless animals and plant seeds to shuttlecocks and bio-inspired robots. Bioinspir Biomim. 2023 08 08; 18(5). PMID: 37552773.
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    17. Challita EJ, Sehgal P, Krugner R, Bhamla MS. Author Correction: Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 20; 14(1):4376. PMID: 37474532.
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    18. Floyd C, Molines AT, Lei X, Honts JE, Chang F, Elting MW, Vaikuntanathan S, Dinner AR, Bhamla MS. A unified model for the dynamics of ATP-independent ultrafast contraction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 06 20; 120(25):e2217737120. PMID: 37307463.
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    19. Parmar B, Phiri M, Jailos L, Kachapila R, Saleb B, Mulwafu W, Manchaiah V, Bhamla MS. Comparing outcomes of ultra-low-cost hearing aids to programmable, refurbished hearing aids for adults with high frequency hearing loss in Malawi: a feasibility study. Front Rehabil Sci. 2023; 4:1153056. PMID: 37378050.
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    20. Tuazon H, Nguyen C, Kaufman E, Tiwari I, Bermudez J, Chudasama D, Peleg O, Bhamla MS. Collecting-Gathering Biophysics of the Blackworm L. variegatus. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 29. PMID: 37162967.
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    21. Patil VP, Tuazon H, Kaufman E, Chakrabortty T, Qin D, Dunkel J, Bhamla MS. Ultrafast reversible self-assembly of living tangled matter. Science. 2023 04 28; 380(6643):392-398. PMID: 37104611.
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    22. Aiello BR, Bhamla MS, Gau J, Morris JGL, Bomar K, da Cunha S, Fu H, Laws J, Minoguchi H, Sripathi M, Washington K, Wong G, Shubin NH, Sponberg S, Stewart TA. The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 05 02; 120(18):e2220404120. PMID: 37094121.
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    23. Savoie W, Tuazon H, Tiwari I, Bhamla MS, Goldman DI. Amorphous entangled active matter. Soft Matter. 2023 Mar 08; 19(10):1952-1965. PMID: 36809295.
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    24. Challita EJ, Sehgal P, Krugner R, Bhamla MS. Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect. Nat Commun. 2023 02 28; 14(1):860. PMID: 36854758.
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    25. Ortega-Jimenez VM, Challita EJ, Kim B, Ko H, Gwon M, Koh JS, Bhamla MS. Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Nov 16; 119(46):e2211283119. PMID: 36343251.
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    26. Tuazon H, Kaufman E, Goldman DI, Bhamla MS. Oxygenation-Controlled Collective Dynamics in Aquatic Worm Blobs. Integr Comp Biol. 2022 10 29; 62(4):890-896. PMID: 35689658.
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    27. Cook A, Pandhigunta K, Acevedo MA, Walker A, Didcock RL, Castro JT, O'Neill D, Acharya R, Bhamla MS, Anderson PSL, Ilton M. A Tunable, Simplified Model for Biological Latch Mediated Spring Actuated Systems. Integr Org Biol. 2022; 4(1):obac032. PMID: 36060863.
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    28. Kim D, Gwon M, Kim B, Ortega-Jimenez VM, Han S, Kang D, Bhamla MS, Koh JS. Design of a Biologically Inspired Water-Walking Robot Powered by Artificial Muscle. Micromachines (Basel). 2022 Apr 15; 13(4). PMID: 35457930.
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    29. Xia D, Jin R, Byagathvalli G, Yu H, Ye L, Lu CY, Bhamla MS, Yang C, Prausnitz MR. An ultra-low-cost electroporator with microneedle electrodes (ePatch) for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 11 09; 118(45). PMID: 34670842.
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    30. Byagathvalli G, Challita EJ, Bhamla MS. Frugal Science Powered by Curiosity. Ind Eng Chem Res. 2021 Nov 10; 60(44):15874-15884. PMID: 35757375.
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    31. Challita EJ, Alexander SLM, Han SI, Blackledge TA, Coddington JA, Jung S, Bhamla MS. Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2021 03; 207(2):205-217. PMID: 33723624.
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    32. Ozkan-Aydin Y, Goldman DI, Bhamla MS. Collective dynamics in entangled worm and robot blobs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 02 09; 118(6). PMID: 33547237.
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    33. Sinha S, Irani UD, Manchaiah V, Bhamla MS. LoCHAid: An ultra-low-cost hearing aid for age-related hearing loss. PLoS One. 2020; 15(9):e0238922. PMID: 32966301.
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    34. Alexander SLM, Bhamla MS. Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs. Curr Biol. 2020 08 17; 30(16):R928-R929. PMID: 32810449.
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    35. Burgener K, Bhamla MS. A polymer-based technique to remove pollutants from soft contact lenses. Cont Lens Anterior Eye. 2021 Jun; 44(3):101335. PMID: 32444249.
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    36. Byagathvalli G, Sinha S, Zhang Y, Styczynski MP, Standeven J, Bhamla MS. ElectroPen: An ultra-low-cost, electricity-free, portable electroporator. PLoS Biol. 2020 01; 18(1):e3000589. PMID: 31922526.
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    37. Mathijssen AJTM, Culver J, Bhamla MS, Prakash M. Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves. Nature. 2019 07; 571(7766):560-564. PMID: 31292551.
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    38. Byagathvalli G, Pomerantz A, Sinha S, Standeven J, Bhamla MS. A 3D-printed hand-powered centrifuge for molecular biology. PLoS Biol. 2019 05; 17(5):e3000251. PMID: 31112539.
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    39. Ilton M, Bhamla MS, Ma X, Cox SM, Fitchett LL, Kim Y, Koh JS, Krishnamurthy D, Kuo CY, Temel FZ, Crosby AJ, Prakash M, Sutton GP, Wood RJ, Azizi E, Bergbreiter S, Patek SN. The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems. Science. 2018 04 27; 360(6387). PMID: 29700237.
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    40. Bhamla MS, Chai C, Àlvarez-Valenzuela MA, Tajuelo J, Fuller GG. Interfacial mechanisms for stability of surfactant-laden films. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0175753. PMID: 28520734.
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    41. Bhamla MS, Chai C, Rabiah NI, Frostad JM, Fuller GG. Instability and Breakup of Model Tear Films. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Mar; 57(3):949-58. PMID: 26943158.
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    42. Hermans E, Bhamla MS, Kao P, Fuller GG, Vermant J. Lung surfactants and different contributions to thin film stability. Soft Matter. 2015 Nov 07; 11(41):8048-57. PMID: 26307946.
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    43. Bhamla MS, Balemans C, Fuller GG. Dewetting and deposition of thin films with insoluble surfactants from curved silicone hydrogel substrates. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2015 Jul 01; 449:428-35. PMID: 25628055.
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    44. Bhamla MS, Nash WL, Elliott S, Fuller GG. Influence of lipid coatings on surface wettability characteristics of silicone hydrogels. Langmuir. 2015 Apr 07; 31(13):3820-8. PMID: 25280206.
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    45. Bhamla MS, Giacomin CE, Balemans C, Fuller GG. Influence of interfacial rheology on drainage from curved surfaces. Soft Matter. 2014 Sep 28; 10(36):6917-25. PMID: 25140576.
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    46. Jayaraman G, Ramachandran S, Ghose S, Laskar A, Bhamla MS, Kumar PB, Adhikari R. Autonomous motility of active filaments due to spontaneous flow-symmetry breaking. Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Oct 12; 109(15):158302. PMID: 23102372.
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