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Membrane particle wrapping across methods and shapes
Pietro Sillano, Haochun Sun, B. Yoldaş Cinemre +1
Understanding the passive wrapping of adhesive particles by lipid membranes is a crucial step in untangling more complex endocytotic processes. However, despite the variety of comp…
MesoMem: A mesoscale membrane model based on an additive potential
Pietro Sillano, Siewert-Jan Marrink, Timon Idema
Bridging the gap between atomistic detail and continuum mechanics is a central challenge in modeling biological membranes, particularly for mesoscopic phenomena spanning large leng…
flippy: User friendly and open source framework for lipid membrane simulations
George Dadunashvili, Timon Idema
Animal cells are both encapsulated and subdivided by lipid bilayer membranes. Beyond just acting as boundaries, these membranes' shapes influence the function of cells and their co…
Curvature variation controls particle aggregation on fluid vesicles
Afshin Vahid, Anđela Šarić, Timon Idema
Cellular membranes exhibit a large variety of shapes, strongly coupled to their function. Many biological processes involve dynamic reshaping of membranes, usually mediated by prot…
Active particle dynamics beyond the jamming density
Daniel R. McCusker, Ruben van Drongelen, Timon Idema
Many biological systems form colonies at high density. Passive granular systems will be jammed at such densities, yet for the survival of biological systems it is crucial that they…
Lipid membrane-mediated attractions between curvature inducing objects
Casper van der Wel, Afshin Vahid, Anđela Šarić +3
The interplay of membrane proteins is vital for many biological processes, such as cellular transport, cell division, and signal transduction between nerve cells. Theoretical consi…
Collective dynamics of soft active particles
Ruben van Drongelen, Anshuman Pal, Carl P. Goodrich +1
We present a model of soft active particles that leads to a rich array of collective behavior found also in dense biological swarms of bacteria and other unicellular organisms. Our…
Mechanical signaling via nonlinear wavefront propagation in a mechanically-excitable medium
Timon Idema, Andrea J. Liu
Models that invoke nonlinear wavefront propagation in a chemically excitable medium are rife in the biological literature. Indeed, the idea that wavefront propagation can serve as…
Accurate determination of elastic parameters for multi-component membranes
Stefan Semrau, Timon Idema, Laurent Holtzer +2
Heterogeneities in the cell membrane due to coexisting lipid phases have been conjectured to play a major functional role in cell signaling and membrane trafficking. Thereby the ma…