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Self-organized intracellular twisters
Sayantan Dutta, Reza Farhadifar, Wen Lu +7
Life in complex systems, such as cities and organisms, comes to a standstill when global coordination of mass, energy, and information flows is disrupted. Global coordination is no…
Towards the cellular-scale simulation of motor-driven cytoskeletal assemblies
Wen Yan, Saad Ansari, Adam Lamson +3
The cytoskeleton -- a collection of polymeric filaments, molecular motors, and crosslinkers -- is a foundational example of active matter, and in the cell assembles into organelles…
Kernel Aggregated Fast Multipole Method: Efficient summation of Laplace and Stokes kernel functions
Wen Yan, Robert Blackwell
Many different simulation methods for Stokes flow problems involve a common computationally intense task -- the summation of a kernel function over pairs of points. One po…
Two Heads Are (Sometimes) Better Than One: How Rate Formulations Impact Molecular Motor Dynamics
Robert Blackwell, David Jung, Mona Bukenberger +1
Cells are complex structures which require considerable amounts of organization via transport of large intracellular cargo. While passive diffusion is often sufficiently fast for t…
Statistical mechanics of an elastically pinned membrane: Equilibrium dynamics and power spectrum
Josip Augustin Janeš, Daniel Schmidt, Udo Seifert +1
In biological settings membranes typically interact locally with other membranes or the extracellular matrix in the exterior, as well as with internal cellular structures such as t…
Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture
Robert Blackwell, Oliver Sweezy-Schindler, Christopher Edelmaier +8
Microtubule dynamic instability allows search and capture of kinetochores during spindle formation, an important process for accurate chromosome segregation during cell division. R…
Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule/motor protein assemblies
Tong Gao, Robert Blackwell, Matthew A. Glaser +2
Microtubules and motor proteins self organize into biologically important assemblies including the mitotic spindle and the centrosomal microtubule array. Outside of cells, microtub…
Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods
Hui-Shun Kuan, Robert Blackwell, Loren E. Hough +2
Non-equilibrium active matter made up of self-driven particles with short-range repulsive interactions is a useful minimal system to study active matter as the system exhibits coll…
Multiscale polar theory of microtubule and motor-protein assemblies
Tong Gao, Robert Blackwell, Matthew A. Glaser +2
Microtubules and motor proteins are building blocks of self-organized subcellular biological structures such as the mitotic spindle and the centrosomal microtubule array. These sam…