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Alizada S, Marks K, Zitnay R, Done A, Judson-Torres R, Zangle T. Temporal dynamics improves machine learning-based prediction of cell state from quantitative phase imaging. [Preprint]. 2026 August. doi: 10.64898/2026.08.24.746855.
Saha SK, Alizada S, Zangle TA, Ghandehari H. Quantitative phase imaging analysis of silica nanoparticle-induced macrophage recovery and functionality. Nanomedicine (Lond). 2026 Jul;21(14):2037-2046. doi: 10.1080/17435889.2026.2704656. Epub 2026 Jul 22. PubMed PMID: 42483852; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13432871.
Remick SM, Mazumder B, Roy K, Zangle TA. Autocatalytic growth offset by constant degradation explains mass accumulation during B cell activation. bioRxiv. 2026 May. doi: 10.64898/2026.05.22.727310.
Zitnay RG, Alizada S, Moustafa TE, Lange D, Schreiber L, Lex A, Judson-Torres RL, Zangle TA, Belote RL. QUILPEN Provides Independent and Label-Free Single-Cell Quantification of Pigmentation Dynamics and Organelle Content. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2026 Feb;39(2):e70080. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.70080. PubMed PMID: 41776748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12957719.
Zhang Y, Urquijo MA, Zitnay RG, Marks K, Belote RL, Hansen MMK, Ferita M, Neuendorf HM, Liu T, Smith EA, Mehrabad EM, Hejna M, Moustafa TE, Lange D, Hu M, Vand-Rajabpour F, Done A, Becker CA, Lieberman M, Chang M, Lohman BK, Stubben CJ, Reeves MQ, Zhang X, Weinberger LS, VanBrocklin MW, Deacon DC, Grossman D, Spike BT, Lex A, Boyle GM, Kulkarni R, Zangle TA, Judson-Torres RL. A BRN2:MYC transcriptional axis regulates interconversion between therapy-resistant and tumorigenic phenotypes in melanoma. Cell Rep. 2025 Dec 23;44(12):116675. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116675. Epub 2025 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 41405996; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12834598.
Polanco ER, Moustafa TE, Balcioglu O, Scherer SD, Cortes-Sanchez E, Remick S, Spike BT, Welm AL, Welm BE, Bernard PS, Zangle TA. Determination of Drug Sensitivity in Patient Derived Models of Breast Cancer by Multiparametric QPI. bioRxiv. 2025 Oct 1;. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.01.674349. PubMed PMID: 41256452; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12621830.
Mitchell SJ, Pardo-Pastor C, Tchoumakova A, Zangle TA, Rosenblatt J. Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion. Nature. 2025 Oct;646(8087):1187-1194. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09514-w. Epub 2025 Sep 10. PubMed PMID: 40931070; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12571905.
Ossandon M, Prickril B, Rasooly A, Zitnay R, Alizada S, Prokofyeva A, Zangle T, Judson-Torres R. Quantitative Phase Imaging for Assessing Tumor Cell Adaptability. In: Cancer Detection and Diagnosis [Internet] 1 ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 2025-7-. 118-124p. Available from: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003449942/chapters/10.1201/9781003449942-15.
Makkar H, Remick S, Roy S, Zangle T, Roy K. Marginal zone and follicular B cells respond differently to TLR4 and TLR9 stimulation. [Preprint]. 2025 May. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.20.655194.
Zhang J, Griffin J, Roy K, Hoffmann A, Zangle T. Tracking of lineage mass <i>via</i> quantitative phase imaging and confinement in low refractive index microwells. Lab on a Chip. 2024; 24(18):4440-4449. doi: 10.1039/D4LC00389F.
Smith EA, Belote RL, Cruz NM, Moustafa TE, Becker CA, Jiang A, Alizada S, Prokofyeva A, Chan TY, Seasor TA, Balatico M, Cortes-Sanchez E, Lum DH, Hyngstrom JR, Zeng H, Deacon DC, Grossmann AH, White RM, Zangle TA, Judson-Torres RL. Receptor tyrosine kinase inhibition leads to regression of acral melanoma by targeting the tumor microenvironment. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Dec 3;43(1):317. doi: 10.1186/s13046-024-03234-1. PubMed PMID: 39627834; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11613472.
Lange D, Judson-Torres R, Zangle TA, Lex A. Aardvark: Composite Visualizations of Trees, Time-Series, and Images. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2025 Jan;31(1):1290-1300. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456193. Epub 2024 Nov 25. PubMed PMID: 39255114; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12143745.
Harpring AL, Pradeep S, Zangle TA. Comparison of automated and manual intracellular particle tracking using quantitative phase imaging. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2024 Nov 1;41(11):C49-C54. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.534154. PubMed PMID: 39889053.
Moustafa TE, Belote RL, Polanco ER, Judson-Torres RL, Zangle TA. Quadrant darkfield for label-free imaging of intracellular puncta. J Biomed Opt. 2024 Nov;29(11):116501. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.29.11.116501. Epub 2024 Nov 29. PubMed PMID: 39618547; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11605245.
Zhang J, Griffin J, Roy K, Hoffmann A, Zangle TA. Tracking of lineage mass via quantitative phase imaging and confinement in low refractive index microwells. Lab Chip. 2024 Sep 10;24(18):4440-4449. doi: 10.1039/d4lc00389f. PubMed PMID: 39190401; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11412070.
Moustafa T, Belote R, Polanco E, Judson-Torres R, Zangle T. Quadrant darkfield (QDF) for label-free imaging of intracellular puncta. [Preprint]. 2024 August. doi: 10.1101/2024.08.05.606686.
Pradeep S, Zangle TA. LVING reveals the intracellular structure of cell growth. Sci Rep. 2024 Apr 12;14(1):8544. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58992-x. PubMed PMID: 38609444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11014851.
Mitchell S, Pardo-Pastor C, Zangle T, Rosenblatt J. Voltage-dependent volume regulation controls epithelial cell extrusion and morphology. [Preprint]. 2023 March. doi: 10.1101/2023.03.13.532421.
Kidwell CU, Casalini JR, Pradeep S, Scherer SD, Greiner D, Bayik D, Watson DC, Olson GS, Lathia JD, Johnson JS, Rutter J, Welm AL, Zangle TA, Roh-Johnson M. Transferred mitochondria accumulate reactive oxygen species, promoting proliferation. Elife. 2023 Mar 6;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85494. PubMed PMID: 36876914; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10042539.
Moustafa TE, Polanco ER, Belote RL, Judson-Torres RL, Zangle TA. Fabrication and validation of an LED array microscope for multimodal, quantitative imaging. HardwareX. 2023 Mar;13:e00399. doi: 10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00399. eCollection 2023 Mar. PubMed PMID: 36756350; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9900438.
Polanco ER, Moustafa TE, Butterfield A, Scherer SD, Cortes-Sanchez E, Bodily T, Spike BT, Welm BE, Bernard PS, Zangle TA. Multiparametric quantitative phase imaging for real-time, single cell, drug screening in breast cancer. Commun Biol. 2022 Aug 8;5(1):794. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03759-1. PubMed PMID: 35941353; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9360018.
Nguyen TL, Pradeep S, Judson-Torres RL, Reed J, Teitell MA, Zangle TA. Quantitative Phase Imaging: Recent Advances and Expanding Potential in Biomedicine. ACS Nano. 2022 Aug 23;16(8):11516-11544. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c11507. Epub 2022 Aug 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 35916417; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10112851.
Pradeep S, Zangle TA. Quantitative phase velocimetry measures bulk intracellular transport of cell mass during the cell cycle. Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 12;12(1):6074. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10000-w. PubMed PMID: 35414087; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9005622.
Pradeep S, Tasnim T, Zhang H, Zangle T. Simultaneous measurement of neurite and neural body mass accumulation <i>via</i> quantitative phase imaging. The Analyst. 2021; 146(4):1361-1368. doi: 10.1039/D0AN01961E.
Lange D, Polanco E, Judson-Torres R, Zangle T, Lex A. Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large-Scale Microscopy Data. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2022 Jan;28(1):248-258. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114766. Epub 2021 Dec 24. PubMed PMID: 34587022.
Kidwell C, Casalini J, Pradeep S, Scherer S, Greiner D, Johnson J, Olson G, Rutter J, Welm A, Zangle T, Roh-Johnson M. Laterally transferred macrophage mitochondria act as a signaling source promoting cancer cell proliferation. [Preprint]. 2021 August. doi: 10.1101/2021.08.10.455713.
Polanco E, Griffin J, Zangle T. Fabrication and Bonding of Refractive Index Matched Microfluidics for Precise Measurements of Cell Mass. Polymers. 2021 February; 13(4):496-. doi: 10.3390/polym13040496.
Pradeep S, Tasnim T, Zhang H, Zangle TA. Simultaneous measurement of neurite and neural body mass accumulation via quantitative phase imaging. Analyst. 2021 Feb 21;146(4):1361-1368. doi: 10.1039/d0an01961e. Epub 2021 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 33393564.
Nguyen TL, Polanco ER, Patananan AN, Zangle TA, Teitell MA. Cell viscoelasticity is linked to fluctuations in cell biomass distributions. Sci Rep. 2020 May 4;10(1):7403. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64259-y. PubMed PMID: 32366921; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7198624.
Huang D, Roy IJ, Murray GF, Reed J, Zangle TA, Teitell MA. Identifying fates of cancer cells exposed to mitotic inhibitors by quantitative phase imaging. Analyst. 2019 Dec 16;145(1):97-106. doi: 10.1039/c9an01346f. PubMed PMID: 31746831; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6917840.
Waters LR, Ahsan FM, Ten Hoeve J, Hong JS, Kim DNH, Minasyan A, Braas D, Graeber TG, Zangle TA, Teitell MA. Ampk regulates IgD expression but not energy stress with B cell activation. Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 3;9(1):8176. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43985-y. PubMed PMID: 31160601; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6546716.
Polanco ER, Western N, Zangle TA. Fabrication of Refractive-index-matched Devices for Biomedical Microfluidics. J Vis Exp. 2018 Sep 10;(139). doi: 10.3791/58296. PubMed PMID: 30247465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6235158.
Mitchell S, Roy K, Zangle TA, Hoffmann A. Nongenetic origins of cell-to-cell variability in B lymphocyte proliferation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Mar 20;115(12):E2888-E2897. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715639115. Epub 2018 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 29514960; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5866559.
Huang D, Leslie KA, Guest D, Yeshcheulova O, Roy IJ, Piva M, Moriceau G, Zangle TA, Lo RS, Teitell MA, Reed J. High-Speed Live-Cell Interferometry: A New Method for Quantifying Tumor Drug Resistance and Heterogeneity. Anal Chem. 2018 Mar 6;90(5):3299-3306. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04828. Epub 2018 Feb 13. PubMed PMID: 29381859.
Kim DNH, Kim KT, Kim C, Teitell MA, Zangle TA. Soft lithography fabrication of index-matched microfluidic devices for reducing artifacts in fluorescence and quantitative phase imaging. Microfluid Nanofluidics. 2018 Jan;22. doi: 10.1007/s10404-017-2023-3. Epub 2017 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 29725276; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5927392.
Huang D, Zangle T, Teitell M. Dissection of Melanoma Drug Resistance and Heterogeneity using Live Cell Interferometry. Biophysical Journal. 2016 February; 110(3):199a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.1112.
Nguyen T, Teitell M, Zangle T. Quantifying the Effects of Cell Division on Mass Redistribution Dynamics in Multicellular Clusters using Live Cell Interferometry. Biophysical Journal. 2016 February; 110(3):135a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.771.
Kim D, Teitell M, Reed J, Zangle T. Hybrid Random Walk-Linear Discriminant Analysis Method for Unwrapping Quantitative Phase Images of Biological Samples. Biophysical Journal. 2016 February; 110(3):161a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.902.
Polanco E, Nguyen T, Teitell M, Zangle T. Quantifying Cellular Elasticity using Quantitative Phase Microscopy Measurements of Electromagnetically Actuated Magnetic Microsphere Indentation. Biophysical Journal. 2016 February; 110(3):167a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.932.
Kim D, Teitell M, Reed J, Zangle T. Hybrid random walk-linear discriminant analysis method for unwrapping quantitative phase microscopy images of biological samples. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 2015 August; 20(11):111211-. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.20.11.111211.
Zangle T, Teitell M, Reed J. Live Cell Interferometry Quantifies Dynamics of Biomass Partitioning during Cytokinesis. PLoS ONE. 2014 December; 9(12):e115726-. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115726.
Zangle TA, Teitell MA. Live-cell mass profiling: an emerging approach in quantitative biophysics. Nat Methods. 2014 Dec;11(12):1221-8. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3175. PubMed PMID: 25423019; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4319180.
Senese S, Lo Y, Huang D, Zangle T, Gholkar A, Robert L, Homet B, Ribas A, Summers M, Teitell M, Damoiseaux R, Torres J. Chemical dissection of the cell cycle: probes for cell biology and anti-cancer drug development. Cell Death & Disease. 2014 October; 5(10):e1462-e1462. doi: 10.1038/cddis.2014.420.
Zangle TA, Chun J, Zhang J, Reed J, Teitell MA. Quantification of biomass and cell motion in human pluripotent stem cell colonies. Biophys J. 2013 Aug 6;105(3):593-601. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.06.041. PubMed PMID: 23931307; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3736662.
Zangle TA, Burnes D, Mathis C, Witte ON, Teitell MA. Quantifying biomass changes of single CD8+ T cells during antigen specific cytotoxicity. PLoS One. 2013;8(7):e68916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068916. Print 2013. PubMed PMID: 23935904; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3720853.
Chun J, Zangle TA, Kolarova T, Finn RS, Teitell MA, Reed J. Rapidly quantifying drug sensitivity of dispersed and clumped breast cancer cells by mass profiling. Analyst. 2012 Dec 7;137(23):5495-8. doi: 10.1039/c2an36058f. Epub 2012 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 23057068; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3494737.
Zangle T, Reed J, Teitell M. Measurements of Cell Mass Distribution during Cell Division with Quantitative Phase Microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 2012 January; 102(3):202a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.1100.
Chun J, Zangle T, Hong J, Gimzewski J, Teitell M, Reed J. Instantaneous Mass Profiling of Live Cells via Live Cell Interferometry. Biophysical Journal. 2012 January; 102(3):563a-. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.3067.
Reed J, Chun J, Zangle T, Kalim S, Hong J, Pefley S, Zheng X, Gimzewski J, Teitell M. Rapid, Massively Parallel Single-Cell Drug Response Measurements via Live Cell Interferometry. Biophysical Journal. 2011 September; 101(5):1025-1031. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.07.022.
Suss M, Mani A, Zangle T, Santiago J. Electroosmotic pump performance is affected by concentration polarizations of both electrodes and pump. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 2011 February; 165(2):310-315. doi: 10.1016/j.sna.2010.10.002.
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