Dr Rhoda Hawkins

Lecturer in Condensed Matter Theory

Contact details

• Room : E43
• Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24524
• Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555

email : rhoda.hawkins@sheffield.ac.uk

Personal web page

Research interests

• Biological physics
• Soft matter physics
• Active matter

Teaching

• PHY221

Recent key publications

• "Spontaneous contractility-mediated cortical flow generates cell migration in 3-dimensional environments" R.J. Hawkins, R. Poincloux, O. Benichou, M. Piel, P. Chavrier and R. Voituriez. Biophysical Journal, 101, 1041 (2011)
• "Survival of the aligned: ordering of the plant cortical microtubule array" S.H. Tindemans, R.J. Hawkins, and B.M. Mulder Physical Review Letters, 104,058103 (2010)
• "Rebuilding cytoskeleton roads: Active-transport-induced polarization of cells" R.J. Hawkins, O. Benichou, M. Piel and R.Voituriez Physical Review E, 80, 040903(R) (2009)
• "Pushing off the Walls: A Mechanism of Cell Motility in Confinement" R.J. Hawkins, M. Piel, G. Faure-Andre, A.M. Lennon-Dumenil, J.F. Joanny, J. Prost and R. Voituriez Physical Review Letters, 102, 058103 (2009)