Quang D. Tran

This study shows vimentin promotes actin elongation by stabilizing ATP-actin subunits at the barbed end, and it enhances actin nucleation through a direct interaction with ATP-actin monomers.

This study investigates the mechanism of vimentin filament disassembly, revealing continuous self-repair and subunit exchange dynamics that prevent fragmentation.

This study develops a microfluidic system to control intracellular pH dynamics and validates a mathematical tool to translate fluorescence signals to pH values, revealing overshooting and undershooting pH responses.

The paper engineers a recombinant actin-vimentin crosslinker, ACTIF, which forms composite bundles and stiffens actin-vimentin networks, demonstrating modularity in crosslinker design.