| Cellular and physical mechanisms of branching morphogenesis VD Varner, CM Nelson Development 141 (14), 2750-2759, 2014 | 196 | 2014 |
| Localized smooth muscle differentiation is essential for epithelial bifurcation during branching morphogenesis of the mammalian lung HY Kim, MF Pang, VD Varner, L Kojima, E Miller, DC Radisky, CM Nelson Developmental Cell 34 (6), 719-726, 2015 | 152 | 2015 |
| Dynamic tensile forces drive collective cell migration through three-dimensional extracellular matrices N Gjorevski, A S. Piotrowski, VD Varner, CM Nelson Scientific reports 5 (1), 11458, 2015 | 139 | 2015 |
| Apical constriction initiates new bud formation during monopodial branching of the embryonic chicken lung HY Kim, VD Varner, CM Nelson Development 140 (15), 3146-3155, 2013 | 130 | 2013 |
| Computational models for mechanics of morphogenesis MA Wyczalkowski, Z Chen, BA Filas, VD Varner, LA Taber Birth defects research part C: Embryo today: Reviews 96 (2), 132-152, 2012 | 125 | 2012 |
| Microfluidic chest cavities reveal that transmural pressure controls the rate of lung development CM Nelson, JP Gleghorn, MF Pang, JM Jaslove, K Goodwin, VD Varner, ... Development 144 (23), 4328-4335, 2017 | 112 | 2017 |
| Mechanically patterning the embryonic airway epithelium VD Varner, JP Gleghorn, E Miller, DC Radisky, CM Nelson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (30), 9230-9235, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
| Not just inductive: a crucial mechanical role for the endoderm during heart tube assembly VD Varner, LA Taber Development 139 (9), 1680-1690, 2012 | 97 | 2012 |
| Mechanics of head fold formation: investigating tissue-level forces during early development VD Varner, DA Voronov, LA Taber Development 137 (22), 3801-3811, 2010 | 97 | 2010 |
| Thinking small: progress on microscale neurostimulation technology JJ Pancrazio, F Deku, A Ghazavi, AM Stiller, R Rihani, CL Frewin, ... Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface 20 (8), 745-752, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| A meta-analysis of intracortical device stiffness and its correlation with histological outcomes AM Stiller, BJ Black, C Kung, A Ashok, SF Cogan, VD Varner, ... Micromachines 9 (9), 443, 2018 | 61 | 2018 |
| Pushing, pulling, and squeezing our way to understanding mechanotransduction MJ Siedlik, VD Varner, CM Nelson Methods 94, 4-12, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Computational models of airway branching morphogenesis VD Varner, CM Nelson Seminars in cell & developmental biology 67, 170-176, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| An in vitro model for assessing corneal keratocyte spreading and migration on aligned fibrillar collagen PB Kivanany, KC Grose, N Yonet-Tanyeri, S Manohar, Y Sunkara, ... Journal of Functional Biomaterials 9 (4), 54, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Viscoelastic material properties of the myocardium and cardiac jelly in the looping chick heart J Yao, VD Varner, LL Brilli, JM Young, LA Taber, R Perucchio | 27 | 2012 |
| ECM stiffness controls the activation and contractility of corneal keratocytes in response to TGF-β1 DP Maruri, M Miron-Mendoza, PB Kivanany, JM Hack, DW Schmidtke, ... Biophysical journal 119 (9), 1865-1877, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Computational and experimental study of the mechanics of embryonic wound healing MA Wyczalkowski, LA Taber Biophysical Journal 104 (2), 318a, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Three-dimensional traction force microscopy of engineered epithelial tissues AS Piotrowski, VD Varner, N Gjorevski, CM Nelson Tissue morphogenesis: methods and protocols, 191-206, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| Toward the directed self-assembly of engineered tissues VD Varner, CM Nelson Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering 5, 507-526, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Why is cytoskeletal contraction required for cardiac fusion before but not after looping begins? Y Shi, VD Varner, LA Taber Physical biology 12 (1), 016012, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
