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Propagating stress waves during epithelial expansion
Shiladitya Banerjee, Kazage J. C. Utuje, M. Cristina Marchetti
Coordinated motion of cell monolayers during epithelial wound healing and tissue morphogenesis involves mechanical stress generation. Here we propose a model for the dynamics of ep…
Controlling cell-matrix traction forces by extracellular geometry
Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti
We present a minimal continuum model of strongly adhering cells as active contractile isotropic media and use the model to study the effect of the geometry of the adhesion patch in…
Contractile stresses in cohesive cell layers on finite-thickness substrates
Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti
Using a minimal model of cells or cohesive cell layers as continuum active elastic media, we examine the effect of substrate thickness and stiffness on traction forces exerted by s…
Scaling of Traction Forces with Size of Cohesive Cell Colonies
Aaron F. Mertz, Shiladitya Banerjee, Yonglu Che +6
To understand how the mechanical properties of tissues emerge from interactions of multiple cells, we measure traction stresses of cohesive colonies of 1-27 cells adherent to soft…
Motor-driven Dynamics of Cytoskeletal FIlaments in Motility Assays
Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti, Kristian Müller-Nedebock
We model analytically the dynamics of a cytoskeletal filament in a motility assay. The filament is described as rigid rod free to slide in two dimensions. The motor proteins consis…
Instabilities and Oscillations in Isotropic Active Gels
Shiladitya Banerjee, M. Cristina Marchetti
We present a generic formulation of the continuum elasticity of an isotropic crosslinked active gel. The gel is described by a two-component model consisting of an elastic network…