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Molecular motors enhance microtubule lattice plasticity
William Lecompte, Karin John
Microtubules are key structural elements of living cells that are crucial for cell division, intracellular transport and motility. Recent experiments have shown that microtubule se…
Symmetry-breaking, motion and bistability of active drops through polarization-surface coupling
Fenna Stegemerten, Karin John, Uwe Thiele
Cell crawling crucially depends on the collective dynamics of the acto-myosin cytoskeleton. However, it remains an open question to what extent cell polarization and persistent mot…
Thin-Film Modelling of Resting and Moving Active Droplets
Sarah Trinschek, Fenna Stegemerten, Karin John +1
We propose a generic model for thin films and shallow drops of a polar active liquid that have a free surface and are in contact with a solid substrate. The model couples evolution…
Modelling of surfactant-driven front instabilities in spreading bacterial colonies
Sarah Trinschek, Karin John, Uwe Thiele
The spreading of bacterial colonies at solid-air interfaces is determined by the physico-chemical properties of the involved interfaces. The production of surfactant molecules by b…
Equilibrium contact angle and adsorption layer properties with surfactants
Uwe Thiele, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Sarah Trinschek +1
The three-phase contact line of a droplet on a smooth surface can be characterized by the Young-Dupré equation. It relates the interfacial energies with the macroscopic contact ang…
Persistent vs. arrested spreading of biofilms at solid-gas interfaces - the role of surface forces
Sarah Trinschek, Karin John, Sigolène Lecuyer +1
We introduce and analyze a model for osmotically spreading biofilm colonies at solid-air interfaces that includes wetting phenomena, i.e. surface forces. The model combines a hydro…