5 papers
Emergent interactions lead to collective frustration in robotic matter
Onurcan Bektas, Adolfo Alsina, Steffen Rulands
Artificial intelligence and robotic systems are increasingly deployed as interacting collectives of learning agents. This raises the question of whether robotic matter, where many…
Spatio-temporal patterns of active epigenetic turnover
Fabrizio Olmeda, Misha Gupta, Onurcan Bektas +1
DNA methylation is a primary layer of epigenetic modification that plays a pivotal role in the regulation of development, aging, and cancer. The concurrent activity of opposing enz…
Universal quasi-particle kinetics control the cell death decision
Felix Meige, Lina Hellwig, Harald Stachelscheid +2
Understanding how fluctuations propagate across spatial scales is central to our understanding of inanimate matter from turbulence to critical phenomena. In contrast to physical sy…
Field theory of enzyme-substrate systems with restricted long-range interactions
Fabrizio Olmeda, Steffen Rulands
Enzyme-substrate kinetics form the basis of many biomolecular processes. The interplay between substrate binding and substrate geometry can give rise to long-range interactions bet…
Clonal dynamics of surface-driven growing tissues
Ruslan Mukhamadiarov, Matteo Ciarchi, Fabrizio Olmeda +1
The self-organization of cells into complex tissues relies on a tight coordination of cell behavior. Identifying the cellular processes driving tissue growth is key to understandin…