Carlos Floyd

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csfloyd@uchicago.edu

I’m currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Chicago. I do computational and theoretical research on soft active matter systems in the groups of Suri Vaikuntanathan and Aaron Dinner.

Before coming to Chicago, I received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Maryland where I was mentored by Garyk Papoian and Chris Jarzynski. While there, I helped to develop the software package MEDYAN for agent-based simulations of cytoskeletal self-organization.

selected publications

2023

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    A unified model for the dynamics of ATP-independent ultrafast contraction
    Carlos Floyd, Arthur T Molines, Xiangting Lei, and 6 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
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2022

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    Signatures of odd dynamics in viscoelastic systems: from spatiotemporal pattern formation to odd rheology
    Carlos Floyd, Aaron R. Dinner, and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
    2022
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    On stretching, bending, shearing, and twisting of actin filaments I: Variational models
    Carlos Floyd, Haoran Ni, Ravinda S Gunaratne, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2022
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2021

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    Understanding cytoskeletal avalanches using mechanical stability analysis
    Carlos Floyd, Herbert Levine, Christopher Jarzynski, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
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2019

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    Quantifying dissipation in actomyosin networks
    Carlos Floyd, Christopher Jarzynski, and Garegin A Papoian
    Interface Focus, 2019
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