4 papers
Cell-cell adhesion cannot sustain extended follower streams in a minimal non-local model of leader-follower migration
Thomas Jun Jewell, Samuel W. S. Johnson, Ruth E. Baker +1
Cell-cell adhesion is widely hypothesised to maintain cohesion within the long streams of follower cells that trail leader subpopulations during collective migration, including in…
The spontaneous emergence of leaders and followers in a mathematical model of cranial neural crest cell migration
Samuel W. S. Johnson, Ruth E. Baker, Philip K. Maini
Many agent-based mathematical models of cranial neural crest cell (CNCC) migration impose a binary phenotypic partition of cells into either leaders or followers. In such models, t…
An energy-based mathematical model of actin-driven protrusions in eukaryotic chemotaxis
Samuel W. S. Johnson, Maddy Parsons, Ruth E. Baker +1
In eukaryotic cell chemotaxis, cells extend and retract transient actin-driven protrusions at their membrane that facilitate both the detection of external chemical gradients and d…
Modelling the impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on cell migration: a continuum framework derived from individual-based principles
Rebecca M. Crossley, Philip K. Maini, Ruth E. Baker
Collective cell migration plays a crucial role in numerous biological processes, including tumour growth, wound healing, and the immune response. Often, the migrating population co…