2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Dynamics of Wound Closure in Living Nematic Epithelia
Henry Andralojc, Jake Turley, Helen Weavers +4
We study theoretically the closure of a wound in a layer of epithelial cells in a living tissue after damage. Our analysis is informed by our recent experiments observing re-epithe…
physics.bio-ph2023
Direction selection of metachronal waves in hydrodynamic coordination of cilia
Rachel R. Bennett
Large arrays of active cilia coordinate their beat cycles into metachronal waves. These waves can travel in different directions with respect to the cilium's beat direction and the…