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Controlling confined collective organisation with taxis
Albane Théry, Alexander Chamolly, Eric Lauga
Biased locomotion is a common feature of microorganisms, but little is known about its impact on self-organisation. Inspired by recent experiments showing a transition to large-sca…
Cortex-driven cytoplasmic flows in elongated cells: fluid mechanics and application to nuclear transport in Drosophila embryos
Pyae Hein Htet, Eric Lauga
The Drosophila melanogaster embryo, an elongated multi-nucleated cell, is a classical model system for eukaryotic development and morphogenesis. Recent work has shown that bulk cyt…
Eukaryotic swimming cells are shaped by hydrodynamic constraints
Maciej Lisicki, Marcos F. Velho Rodrigues, Eric Lauga
Eukaryotic swimming cells such as spermatozoa, algae or protozoa use flagella or cilia to move in viscous fluids. The motion of their flexible appendages in the surrounding fluid i…
Theoretical model of confined thermoviscous flows for artificial cytoplasmic streaming
Weida Liao, Elena Erben, Moritz Kreysing +1
Recent experiments in cell biology have probed the impact of artificially-induced intracellular flows in the spatiotemporal organisation of cells and organisms. In these experiment…
Multiflagellarity leads to the size-independent swimming speed of peritrichous bacteria
Shashank Kamdar, Dipanjan Ghosh, Wanho Lee +8
To swim through a viscous fluid, a flagellated bacterium must overcome the fluid drag on its body by rotating a flagellum or a bundle of multiple flagella. Because the drag increas…
Microswimmers in vortices: Dynamics and trapping
Ivan Tanasijevic, Eric Lauga
Biological and artificial microswimmers often self-propel in external flows of vortical nature; relevant examples include algae in small-scale ocean eddies, spermatozoa in uterine…