4 papers
Multiscale order, flocking and phenotypic hysteresis in the cellular Potts model of epithelia
Calvin C. Bakker, Marc Durand, François Graner +1
In epithelia, how do collective cell migration and tissue spatial organization feedback on each other? We address this question through large-scale numerical simulations of the cel…
Shaping nematic order in bacterial films with single-cell resolution patterning
Matthias Le Bec, Guillem Pérez MartÃn, Cameron Boggon +7
Bacterial colonies composed of elongated cells form active nematic fluids that spontaneously self-organise into ordered domains of aligned cells and exhibit self-generated chaotic…
Mechanics of axis formation in
Arthur Hernandez, Cuncheng Zhu, Luca Giomi
The emergence of a body axis is a fundamental step in the development of multicellular organisms. In simple systems such as , growing evidence suggests that mechani…
Stretching theory of Hookean metashells
Luca Giomi
Despite being governed by the familiar laws of Hookean mechanics, elastic shells patterned with an internal structure (i.e. metashells) exhibit a wealth of unusual mechanical prope…