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cond-mat.soft2026
Memory-Driven Self-Propulsion and Flocking of Chemically Active Droplets
Samuel Kovach, Trevor GrandPre
The paper presents a theory showing that delayed (memory) feedback in biochemical reactions can destabilize stationary droplets, causing them to become self‑propelled and to align…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Extremal events dictate population growth rate inference
Trevor GrandPre, Ethan Levien, Ariel Amir
Recent methods have been developed to map single-cell lineage statistics to population growth. Because population growth selects for exponentially rare phenotypes, these methods in…