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Passive polymers in active turbulence undergo a collapse-stretch transition
Zahra K. Valei, Davide Marenduzzo, Tyler N. Shendruk
Active processes in living systems generate nonequilibrium forces that deform embedded passive macromolecules. To understand how such dynamics influence polymer conformation, we st…
Modelling transcriptional silencing and its coupling to 3D genome organisation
Massimiliano Semeraro, Giuseppe Negro, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Timely up- or down-regulation of gene expression is crucial for cellular differentiation and function. While gene upregulation via transcriptional activators has been extensively i…
Topological weight and structural diversity of polydisperse chromatin loop networks
Andrea Bonato, Enrico Carlon, Sergey Kitaev +2
Current biophysical models for transcriptionally active chromatin view this as a polymer with sticky sites, mimicking transcription units such as promoters and enhancers which inte…
Clifford algebras and liquid crystalline fermions
N. Johnson, L. C. Head, O. D. Lavrentovich +6
We show that Clifford algebras provide a natural language to describe the physics of liquid crystal defects in 3D. This framework shows that most of these defects have fermionic na…
Oscillation in the SIRS model
D. Marenduzzo, A. T. Brown, C. Miller +1
We study the SIRS epidemic model, both analytically and on a square lattice. The analytic model has two stable solutions, post outbreak/epidemic (no infected, ) and the endemi…
Equilibrium phases and phase transitions in multicritical magnetic polymers
Alberto Raiola, Emanuele Locatelli, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Magnetic polymers are examples of composite soft materials in which the competition between the large configurational entropy of the soft substrate (polymer) and the magnetic inter…