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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Bistable Functions and Signaling Motifs in Systems Chemistry: Taking the Next Step Toward Synthetic Cells, I. Maity, N. Wagner, D. Dev and G. Ashkenasy; Accounts of Chemical Research (2025).

​​Engineering Reaction Networks by Sequential Signal Processing, I. Maity, D. Dev, R. Cohen-Luria, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy; Chem 10, P1132 (2024).

​​A Peptide-Based Oscillator, D. Dev, N. Wagner, B. Pramanik, B. Sharma, I. Maity, R. Cohen-Luria, E. Peacock-Lopez and G. Ashkenasy; JACS​ 145, 26279 (2023).

Dynamic Surface Layer Coiled Coil Proteins Processing Analog-to-Digital Information, C. Glionna, V. Kumar, G. Le Saux, B. Pramanik, N. Wagner, R. Cohen-Luria, G. Ashkenasy and N. Ashkenasy ;  JACS​ 143, 17441 (2021).​​​​

​Primitive Selection of the Fittest Emerging through Functional Synergy in Nucleopeptide Networks, A. Kumar Bandela, N. Wagner, H. Sadihov, S. Morales-Reina, A. Chotera-Ouda, K. Basu, R. Cohen-Luria, A. de la Escosura and G. Ashkenasy;  PNAS​ 118, e2015285118 (2021).​​​​

Signaling in Systems Chemistry: Programing Gold Nanoparticles Formation and Assembly Using a Dynamic Bistable Network, I. Maity, D. Dev, K. Basu, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 60, 4512 (2021).​

Programming Multistationarity in Chemical Replication Networks, N. Wagner, R. Mukherjee, I. Maity, S. Kraun and G. Ashkenasy;  ChemSystemsChem 2, e1900048 (2020) (Computational Chemistry of Complex Systems special collection).

A Chemically Fueled Non-enzymatic Bistable Network, I. Maity, N. Wagner, R. Mukherjee, D. Dev, E. Peacock-Lopez, R. Cohen-Luria and G. Ashkenasy;  Nature Communications 10, 4636 (2019).

​Rhythm Before Life, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Nature Chemistry 11, 680 (2019) (News and Views).​

​Open Prebiotic Environments Drive Emergent Phenomena and Complex Behavior​, N. Wagner, D. Hochberg, E. Peacock-Lopez, I. Maity and G. Ashkenasy;  Life 9, 45 (2019) (Modelling Life-Like Behavior in Systems Chemistry special issue).​

Emergence of Native Peptide Sequences in Prebiotic Replication Networks, J. Nanda, B. Rubinov, D. Ivnitski, R. Mukherjee, E. Shtelman, Y. Motro, Y. Miller, N. Wagner, R. Cohen-Luria and G. Ashkenasy; Nature Communications 8, 434 (2017).

​​B​​istability and Bifurcation in Minimal Self-Replication and Non-Enzymatic Catalytic Networks, N. Wagner, R. Mukherjee, I. Maity, E. Peacock-Lopez and G. Ashkenasy;  Chem. Phys. Chem. 18, 1842 (2017).

Theoretic​​​​​al Models of Generalized Quasispecies, N. Wagner, Y. Atsmon-Raz and G. Ashkenasy;  book chapter in Quasispecies: From Theory to Experimental Systems (Springer, 2016).

A Bistable Switch in Dynamic Thiodepsipeptide Folding and Template-Directed Ligation, R. Mukherjee, R. Cohen-Luria, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 54, 12452 (2015) (Chemistry in Germany and Israel special issue).

Robustness of Synthetic Circadian Clocks to Multiple Environmental Changes, L. Gurevich, R. Cohen-Luria, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Chem. Commun. 51, 5672 (2015) (Molecular Logic Gates and Information Processing special issue).

How Catalytic Order Drives the Complexification of Molecular Replication Networks, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Israel Journal of Chemistry 55, 880 (2015). (Origin of Life special issue).

Coupled Oscillations and Circadian Rhythms in Molecular Replication Networks, N. Wagner, S. Alasibi, E. Peacock-Lopez and G. Ashkenasy;  J. Physical Chemistry Letters 6, 60 (2015).

Competition and Cooperation in Dynamic Replication Networks, Z. Dadon, N. Wagner, S. Alasibi, M. Samiappan, R. Mukherjee and G. Ashkenasy;  Chemistry Eur. J. 21, 648 (2015).

Transient Fibril Structures Facilitating Non-Enzymatic Self-Replication , B. Rubinov, N. Wagner, M. Matmor, O. Regev, N. Ashkenasy and G. Ashkenasy;  ACS Nano 6, 7893 (2012); featured in  Nature Nanotechnology 7, 549 (2012).

Chemical and Light Triggering of Peptide Networks under Partial Thermodynamic Control, Z. Dadon, M. Samiappan, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Chem. Commun. 48, 1419 (2012) (Emerging Investigators special issue).

Reaction Networks, Z. Dadon, N. Wagner, R. Cohen-Luria and G. Ashkenasy, book chapter in Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecules to Nanomaterials (Wiley, 2012).

Peptide Based Computation: Switches, Gates and Simple Arithmetic, Z. Dadon, M. Samiappan, N. Wagner, N. Ashkenasy and G. Ashkenasy, book chapter in Molecular and Biomolecular Information Processing (Wiley, 2012).

Beta-Sheet Induced Chirogenesis in Polymerization of Oligopeptides, N. Wagner, B. Rubinov and G. Ashkenasy; Chem. Phys. Chem. 12, 2771 (2011).

How Symmetry and Order Affect Logic Operations and Computation in Catalytic Chemical Networks, N. Wagner, S. Alesebi and G. Ashkenasy;  Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 8, 471 (2011).

Building Logic into Peptide Networks: Bottom-Up and Top-Down, G. Ashkenasy, Z. Dadon, S. Alesebi, N. Wagner and N. Ashkenasy;  Israel Journal of Chemistry 51, 106 (2011).

The Nature of Stability in Replicating Systems, N. Wagner and A. Pross; Entropy 13, 518 (2011).

Second Order Catalytic Quasispecies Yields Discontinuous Mean Fitness at Error Threshold, N. Wagner, E. Tannenbaum and G. Ashkenasy;  Physical Review Letters 104, 188101 (2010).

Selection Advantage of Metabolic over Non-metabolic Replicators: A Kinetic Analysis, N. Wagner, A. Pross and E. Tannenbaum;  BioSystems 99, 126 (2010).

Self-Replicating Amphiphilic Beta-Sheet Peptides, B. Rubinov, N. Wagner, H. Rapaport and G. Ashkenasy;  Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 48, 6683 (2009).

Symmetry and Order in Systems Chemistry, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  J. Chem. Physics 130, 164907 (2009).

Systems Chemistry: Logic Gates, Arithmetic Units and Network Motifs in Small Networks, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Chemistry Eur. J. 15, 1765 (2009).

The Road to Non-enzymatic Molecular Networks , Z. Dadon, N. Wagner and G. Ashkenasy;  Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 47, 6128 (2008).

Monte-Carlo Results for Continuum Percolation in Low and High Dimensions, N. Wagner, I. Balberg and D. Klein;  Physical Review E 74, 011127 (2006).

AMOS2 Satellite Angular Velocity Estimation from a Single Sun Vector, N. Wagner;  Proceedings of the 46th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (March 2006).

PRF Phase Diagrams, N. Wagner and C.A. Hartzstein;  (IAI internal, 1994).

Tunneling and Percolation Behavior in Granular Metals, I. Balberg, N. Wagner, Y. Goldstein and S.Z. Weisz;  MRS Symp. Proc. 195, 233 (1990).

Critical Behavior of the Electrical Resistance and its Noise in Inverted Random-Void Systems, I. Balberg, N. Wagner, D.W. Hearn and J.A. Ventura;  Physical Review Letters 60, 1887 (1988).

Computer Study of the Electrical Noise in High-Dimensional Percolating Systems, I. Balberg, N. Wagner, D.W. Hearn and J.A. Ventura;  Physical Review B 37, 3829 (1988).

Anomalous Diffusion and Continuum Percolation, N. Wagner and I. Balberg;  J. Statistical Physics 49, 369 (1987).

Excluded Volume and its Relation to the Onset of Percolation, I. Balberg, C.H. Anderson, S. Alexander and N. Wagner;  Physical Review B 30, 3933 (1984).

Percolation Thresholds in the Three-Dimensional Sticks System, I. Balberg, N. Binenbaum and N. Wagner;  Physical Review Letters 52, 1465 (1984).