Publications

You can find the complete list of my publication on google scholar.

Pedagogical resources

• Using Published Undergraduate Biomechanics Research on Hydra Mouth Opening to Train Undergraduates
  Stephen Hackler, Tapan Goel, Jonah Pacis, Eva-Maria Collins. The Biophysicist. (2025)
• Quantifying Planarian Behavior as an Introduction to Object Tracking and Signal Processing
  Nicole C Stowell, Tapan Goel, Vir Shetty, Jocelyne Noveral, Eva-Maria S Collins. The Biophysicist. (2021)

Research articles

• The Adaptive Plasticity of Temperate Phage $\lambda$
  Sylvain Gandon, Tapan Goel, Joshua S. Weitz, Sebastien Lion, Virus Evolution. (2026)
• Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Temperate Phages in Periodic Environments
  Tapan Goel, Stephen J. Beckett, Joshua S. Weitz. Virus Evolution. (2025)
• Non-linear Elasticity and Short-range Mechanical Coupling Govern the Rate and Symmetry of Mouth Opening in Hydra
  Tapan Goel, Ellen M. Adams, April L. Bialas, Cassidy M. Tran, Trevor Rowe, Sara Martin, Maia Chandler, Johanna Schubert, Patrick H. Diamond, Eva-Maria S. Collins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (2024)
• Mechano-Chemical Coupling in Hydra Regeneration and Patterning
  Rui Wang, April L Bialas, Tapan Goel, Eva-Maria S Collins. Integrative and Comparative Biology. (2023)
• Let it Rip: the Mechanics of Self-bisection in Asexual Planarians Determines Their Population Reproductive Strategies
  Tapan Goel, Danielle Ireland, Vir Shetty, Christina Rabeler, Patrick H Diamond, Eva-Maria S Collins. Physical Biology. (2021)
• Linalool Acts as a Fast and Reversible Anesthetic in Hydra
  Tapan Goel, Rui Wang, Sara Martin, Elizabeth Lanphear, Eva-Maria S Collins. PLoS One. (2019)
• Mouth Function Determines the Shape Oscillation Pattern in Regenerating Hydra Tissue Spheres
  Rui Wang, Tapan Goel, Kate Khazoyan, Ziad Sabry, Heng J Quan, Patrick H Diamond, Eva-Maria S Collins. Biophysical Journal. (2019)

Preprints

• Interpreting breakthrough infections given assortative mixing of partially vaccinate populations
  Mallory J. Harris, Akash Arani, Tapan Goel, Kejia Zhang, Stephen J. Beckett, Nathan C. Lo, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S. Weitz. medRxiv. (2026)
• Prophage induction states drive structural and synetgistic outcomes in marine bacterial biofilms
  Matthew J. Tuttle, Gabi Steinbach, Tapan Goel, Joshua S. Weitz, Alison Buchan. bioRxiv. (2025)