Selected recent publications

Versluis, D. M., & Insall, R. H. (2026). Communication through autoattractants can enhance and limit collective migration of immune cells. PLOS Computational Biology, 22(9), e1014809.
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Panigrahi, D. P., Sakurai, N., Mijanovic, L., Versluis, D. M., Tweedy, L., Pearce, P., … & Insall, R. H. (2026). ChemoTrack: A comprehensive dataset linking single-cell migration trajectories to precisely defined chemotactic signals. bioRxiv, 2026-06.

Kiran, A., Thomason, P. A., Versluis, D. M., Paschke, P. I., Donnelly, H., Tweedy, L., … & Insall, R. H. (2026). Macrophages self-generate and refine chemotactic gradients during migration towards complement C5a. Plos Biology, 24(4), e3003728.

Farndale, L., Insall, R., & Yuan, K. (2025). Trident: Triple deep network training for privileged knowledge distillation in histopathology. Medical Image Analysis, 102, 103479.

Buracco, S., Döring, H., Engelbart, S., Singh, S. P., Paschke, P., Whitelaw, J., … & Insall, R. H. (2024). Scar/WAVE drives actin protrusions independently of its VCA domain using proline-rich domains. Current Biology, 34(19), 4436-4451.

Donnelly, H., Kiran, A., & Insall, R. (2024). Chemotaxis Assay of Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages. In Cell Motility and Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols (pp. 1-9). New York, NY: Springer US.

Thomason, P. A., Corbyn, R., Lilla, S., Sumpton, D., Gilbey, T., & Insall, R. H. (2024). Biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex-2 is an evolutionarily ancient proto-coatomer complex. Current Biology, 34(15), 3564-3581.

Mandrou, E., Thomason, P. A., Paschke, P. I., Paul, N. R., Tweedy, L., & Insall, R. H. (2024). A reliable system for quantitative G-protein activation imaging in cancer cells. Cells, 13(13), 1114.

Donnelly, H., Mandrou, E., & Insall, R. (2023). Sinking while you swim: A dual role for CCR7 in leukocyte migration. Science Immunology, 8(87), eadj3102.

Tweedy, L., Thomason, P. A., & Insall, R. H. (2023). How Should Eukaryotic Chemotaxis be Measured?. bioRxiv, 2023-08.

Dowdell, A., Paschke, P. I., Thomason, P. A., Tweedy, L., & Insall, R. H. (2023). Competition between chemoattractants causes unexpected complexity and can explain negative chemotaxis. Current Biology, 33(9), 1704-1715.