4 papers
Amoeboid cell migration and shape dynamics driven by actin polymerization
Winfried Schmidt, Chaouqi Misbah, Alexander Farutin
Cell migration is fundamental to development, tissue organization, immune response, and disease progression. Amoeboid motility is distinguished by rapid motion and strongly fluctua…
Myosin-independent amoeboid cell motility
Winfried Schmidt, Walter Zimmermann, Chaouqi Misbah +1
Mammalian cell polarization and motility are important processes involved in many physiological and pathological phenomena, such as embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer…
Suppression of bacterial rheotaxis in wavy channels
Winfried Schmidt, Igor S. Aranson, Walter Zimmermann
Controlling the swimming behavior of bacteria is crucial, for example, to prevent contamination of ducts and catheters. We show the bacteria modeled by deformable microswimmers can…
Oscillatory, non-progressing flows induce directed cell motion
Winfried Schmidt, Andre Förtsch, Matthias Laumann +1
We present a deformation-dependent propulsion phenomenon for soft particles such as cells in microchannels. It is based on a broken time reversal symmetry generated by a fast forwa…