3 papers
q-bio.PE2020
Inferring the effect of interventions on COVID-19 transmission networks
Simon Syga, Diana David-Rus, Yannik Schälte +3
Countries around the world implement nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Design of efficient NPIs requires identification of the structure of…
physics.bio-ph2020
Entropy-driven cell-decision making predicts fluid-to-solid transition in multicellular systems
Arnab Barua, Simon Syga, Pietro Mascheroni +4
Cellular decision making allows cells to assume functionally different phenotypes in response to microenvironmental cues, without genetic change. It is an open question, how indivi…
q-bio.TO2019
Quantification of Nematic Cell Polarity in Three-dimensional Tissues
André Scholich, Simon Syga, Hernán Morales-Navarrete +9
How epithelial cells coordinate their polarity to form functional tissues is an open question in cell biology. Here, we characterize a unique type of polarity found in liver tissue…