Marina Feric
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research Summary
Biomolecular engineering of cellular organization. Biophysical mechanisms underlying biomolecular condensates in health and disease.
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Most Recent Publications
Widespread Release of Translational Repression Across Plasmodium’s Host-to-Vector Transmission Event
Kelly Rios, James McGee, Aswathy Sebastian, Robert Moritz, Marina Feric, Sabrina Absalon, Kristian Swearingen, S Lindner, PLOS Pathogens
Widespread release of translational repression across Plasmodium’s host-to-vector transmission event
Kelly T. Rios, James P. McGee, Aswathy Sebastian, Sanjaya Aththawala Gedara, Robert L. Moritz, Marina Feric, Sabrina Absalon, Kristian E. Swearingen, Scott E. Lindner, 2025, PLoS Pathogens
Mesoscale structure–function relationships in mitochondrial transcriptional condensates
Marina Feric, Azadeh Sarfallah, Furqan Dar, Dmitry Temiakov, Rohit V. Pappu, Tom Misteli, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Function moves biomolecular condensates in phase space
Marina Feric, Tom Misteli, 2022, BioEssays
Droplets take DNA by force
Marina Feric, 2021, Nature Physics on p. 981-982
Phase separation in genome organization across evolution
Marina Feric, Tom Misteli, 2021, Trends in Cell Biology on p. 671-685
How Hierarchical Interactions Make Membraneless Organelles Tick Like Clockwork
Jeremy D. Schmit, Marina Feric, Miroslav Dundr, 2021, Trends in Biochemical Sciences on p. 525-534
Self-assembly of multi-component mitochondrial nucleoids via phase separation
Marina Feric, Tyler G. Demarest, Jane Tian, Deborah L. Croteau, Vilhelm A. Bohr, Tom Misteli, 2021, EMBO Journal
Controlling the material properties and rRNA processing function of the nucleolus using light
Lian Zhu, Tiffany M. Richardson, Ludivine Wacheul, Ming Tzo Wei, Marina Feric, Gena Whitney, Denis L.J. Lafontaine, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 17330-17335
Blank spots on the map: some current questions on nuclear organization and genome architecture
Carmen Adriaens, Leonid A. Serebryannyy, Marina Feric, Andria Schibler, Karen J. Meaburn, Nard Kubben, Pawel Trzaskoma, Sigal Shachar, Sandra Vidak, Elizabeth H. Finn, Varun Sood, Gianluca Pegoraro, Tom Misteli, 2018, Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopische Anatomie. Abteilung Histochemie on p. 579-592
Most-Cited Papers
Coexisting Liquid Phases Underlie Nucleolar Subcompartments
Marina Feric, Nilesh Vaidya, Tyler S. Harmon, Diana M. Mitrea, Lian Zhu, Tiffany M. Richardson, Richard W. Kriwacki, Rohit V. Pappu, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2016, Cell on p. 1686-1697
Phase behaviour of disordered proteins underlying low density and high permeability of liquid organelles
Ming Tzo Wei, Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Alex S. Holehouse, Carlos Chih Hsiung Chen, Marina Feric, Craig B. Arnold, Rodney D. Priestley, Rohit V. Pappu, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2017, Nature Chemistry
Phase separation in genome organization across evolution
Marina Feric, Tom Misteli, 2021, Trends in Cell Biology on p. 671-685
Controlling the material properties and rRNA processing function of the nucleolus using light
Lian Zhu, Tiffany M. Richardson, Ludivine Wacheul, Ming Tzo Wei, Marina Feric, Gena Whitney, Denis L.J. Lafontaine, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 17330-17335
Remodeling nuclear architecture allows efficient transport of herpesvirus capsids by diffusion
Jens B. Bosse, Ian B. Hogue, Marina Feric, Stephan Y. Thiberge, Beate Sodeik, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Lynn W. Enquist, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E5752-E5733
Self-assembly of multi-component mitochondrial nucleoids via phase separation
Marina Feric, Tyler G. Demarest, Jane Tian, Deborah L. Croteau, Vilhelm A. Bohr, Tom Misteli, 2021, EMBO Journal
How Hierarchical Interactions Make Membraneless Organelles Tick Like Clockwork
Jeremy D. Schmit, Marina Feric, Miroslav Dundr, 2021, Trends in Biochemical Sciences on p. 525-534
Mesoscale structure–function relationships in mitochondrial transcriptional condensates
Marina Feric, Azadeh Sarfallah, Furqan Dar, Dmitry Temiakov, Rohit V. Pappu, Tom Misteli, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Blank spots on the map: some current questions on nuclear organization and genome architecture
Carmen Adriaens, Leonid A. Serebryannyy, Marina Feric, Andria Schibler, Karen J. Meaburn, Nard Kubben, Pawel Trzaskoma, Sigal Shachar, Sandra Vidak, Elizabeth H. Finn, Varun Sood, Gianluca Pegoraro, Tom Misteli, 2018, Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopische Anatomie. Abteilung Histochemie on p. 579-592
Soft viscoelastic properties of nuclear actin age oocytes due to gravitational creep
Marina Feric, Chase P. Broedersz, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2015, Scientific Reports