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XinXin Du, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology

Bio

XinXin Du joined the Center for Computational Biology in 2019 as an associate research scientist in the Biophysical Modeling group. She is interested in the physics of cells driving motility and morphogenesis.

Publications

Planar cell polarity-directed cell crawling drives polarized hair follicle morphogenesis

bioRxiv, November 14, 2025

Rishabh Sharan, et al.

Collective multicellular patterns arising from cadherin-linked cytoskeletal domains

arXiv, September 16, 2025

X. Du, I. Lavi, and M. Shelley

Independently paced Ca2+ oscillations in progenitor and differentiated cells in an ex vivo epithelial organ

Journal of Cell Science, July 19, 2022

Ann A. Kim, et al.

Events

CCB Brown Bag Seminar

Seminar

June 1, 2021

1:15–2:30 p.m. ET

Speakers

Julien Funk, XinXin Du

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