4 papers
Feedback-controlled epithelial mechanics: emergent soft elasticity and active yielding
Pengyu Yu, Fridtjof Brauns, M. Cristina Marchetti
Biological tissues exhibit diverse mechanical and rheological behaviors during morphogenesis. While much is known about tissue phase transitions controlled by structural order and…
Proliferating Nematic That Collectively Senses an Anisotropic Substrate
Toshi Parmar, Fridtjof Brauns, Yimin Luo +1
Motivated by recent experiments on growing fibroblasts, we examine the development of nematic order in a colony of elongated cells proliferating on a nematic elastomer substrate. A…
Spontaneous and Induced Oscillations in Confined Epithelia
Toshi Parmar, Liam P. Dow, Beth L. Pruitt +1
The feedback between mechanical and chemical signals plays a key role in controlling many biological processes and collective cell behavior. Here we focus on the emergence of spati…
The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
Gerhard Gompper, Howard A. Stone, Christina Kurzthaler +29
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskelet…