George Oster

Professor
PhD  Columbia University, 1967
  U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, 1961

218 Wellman Hall
Berkeley, California
goster@nature.berkeley.edu
office: 510-642-5277   lab: 510-642-5277   fax:  510-642-7428

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My research involves construction and testing of theoretical models of molecular, cellular and developmental processes.

Current projects include: the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying protein motors, cell motility, membrane biophysics, and pattern formation in various biological systems.

(2009) Boettiger, A., B. Ermentrout, G. Oster. The neural origins of shell structure and pattern in aquatic mollusks. PNAS

(2007) Sliusarenko, O., D. Zusman, G. Oster. Aggregation during fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus is driven by reducing cell movement . J. Bacteriology 189(2):611-619.

(2006) Sliusarenko, O., J. Chen, G. Oster. From biochemistry to morphogenesis in myxobacteria. Bull. Math. Biol. 68:1039-1051.

(2006) Adelman, J., J-C. Liao, Y-J. Jeong, G. Patel, D-E. Kim, G. Oster, S. Patel. The mechanochemistry of transcription termination factor Rho. Molec. Cell 22(5):611-621.

(2005) Eide, J., A. Chakraborty, G. Oster. How to Get Mechanical Work from the ATP Hydrolysis Cycle. Biophys. J. 90:4281-4294..

(2005) Xing, J., J-C. Liao, G. Oster. Making ATP. PNAS 102(46): 16539-16546.

(2005) Wolgemuth, C., L. Miao, O. Vanderlinde, T. Roberts, G. Oster. MSP dynamics drives nematode sperm locomotion. Biophys. J. 8(4): 2462-2471.

(2005) Xing, J., F. Bai, R. Berry, G. Oster. The torque-speed relationship of the bacterial flagellar motor. PNAS 103(5):1260-1265

(2005) Sliusarenko, O., D. Zusman, G. Oster. Accordion waves in myxobacteria. PNAS 103(5):1534-1539.

(2005) Liao, J-C., Y-J. Jeong, D-E. Kim, S. S. Patel, G. Oster. Mechanochemistry of T7 helicase. J. Molec. Biol. 350:452–475.

(2004) Igoshin, O., J. Neu, G. Oster. Developmental waves in Myxobacteria—a novel pattern formation mechanism. Phys. Rev. E 7(041911):1-11.

(2004) Igoshin, O., A. Goldbeter, D. Kaiser, G. Oster. A biochemical oscillator explains several aspects of M. xanthus behavior during development . PNAS 101(44):15760–15765.

(2004) Xing, J., H. Wang, P. Dimroth, C. von Balmoos, G. Oster. Torque generation by the sodium Fo-ATPase. Biophys. J. 87:2148-2163 . Oster, G., H. Wang. (2002) How protein motors convert chemical energy into mechanical work. In Molecular Motors, M. Schliwa, ed. Wiley-VCH