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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…
Pattern formation mechanisms in motility mutants of Myxococcus xanthus
Joern Starruss, Fernando Peruani, Vladimir Jakovljevic +3
Formation of spatial patterns of cells is a recurring theme in biology and often depends on regulated cell motility. Motility of M. xanthus depends on two motility machineries: the…
Self-propelled rods exhibit a novel phase-separated state characterized by the presence of active stresses and the ejection of polar clusters
Sebastian Weitz, Andreas Deutsch, Fernando Peruani
We study collections of self-propelled rods (SPR) moving in two dimensions for packing fractions less than or equal to 0.3. We find that in the thermodynamical limit the SPR underg…
Traffic jams, gliders, and bands in the quest for collective motion
Fernando Peruani, Tobias Klauss, Andreas Deutsch +1
We study a simple swarming model on a two-dimensional lattice where the self-propelled particles exhibit a tendency to align ferromagnetically. Volume exclusion effects are present…
Collective motion and nonequilibrium cluster formation in colonies of gliding bacteria
Fernando Peruani, Joern Starruss, Vladimir Jakovljevic +3
We characterize cell motion in experiments and show that the transition to collective motion in colonies of gliding bacterial cells confined to a monolayer appears through the orga…
Rippling patterns in aggregates of myxobacteria arise from cell-cell collisions
Uwe Boerner, Andreas Deutsch, Hans Reichenbach +1
Experiments with myxobacterial aggregates reveal standing waves called rippling patterns. Here, these structures are modelled with a simple discrete model based on the interplay be…