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Controlling topological defects and contractile flow in confined nematic cell population
Ryo Ienaga, Kazusa Beppu, Yusuke T. Maeda
Topological defects in nematically aligned cell populations play a critical role in modulating collective motion, from microbial colonies to epithelial tissues. Despite the potenti…
Geometry-Induced Dynamics of Confined Chiral Active Matter
Archit Negi, Kazusa Beppu, Yusuke T. Maeda
Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered significant attention in fields ranging from non-equilibrium physics to chemical engineering a…
Tailoring collective motion of kinesin-driven microtubules via topographic landscapes
Shunya Araki, Kazusa Beppu, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir +2
Biomolecular motor proteins that generate forces by consuming chemical energy obtained from ATP hydrolysis are pivotal for organizing broad cytoskeletal structures in living cells.…
Phase separation and protein partitioning in compartmentalized cell-free expression reactions
Shuzo Kato, David Garenne, Vincent Noireaux +1
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is important to control a wide range of reactions from gene expression to protein degradation in a cell-sized space. To bring a better underst…
Edge Current and Pairing Order Transition in Chiral Bacterial Vortex
Kazusa Beppu, Ziane Izri, Tasuku Sato +3
We report the selective stabilization of chiral rotational direction of bacterial vortices, from turbulent bacterial suspension, in achiral circular microwells sealed by an oil-wat…
Thermal Molecular Focusing: Tunable Cross Effect of Phoresis and Advection
Tatsuya Fukuyama, Sho Nakama, Yusuke T. Maeda
The control of solute fluxes through either microscopic phoresis or hydrodynamic advection is a fundamental way to transport molecules, which are ubiquitously present in nature and…
Geometry-driven collective ordering of bacterial vortices
Kazusa Beppu, Ziane Izri, Jun Gohya +3
Controlling the phases of matter is a challenge that spans from condensed materials to biological systems. Here, by imposing a geometric boundary condition, we study controlled col…