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Emergent order in a continuous state adaptive network model of living systems
Carsten T. van de Kamp, George Dadunashvili, Johan L. A. Dubbeldam +1
Order can spontaneously emerge from seemingly noisy interactions between biological agents, like a flock of birds changing their direction of flight in unison, without a leader or…
Defect dynamics in growing bacterial colonies
Rachel Los, Duco van Holthe tot Echten, Gerhard Nordemann +3
Colonies of rod-shaped bacteria constitute a system of colloidal active matter with nematic properties. As a single initial bacterium multiplies through repeated divisions, the res…
Mechanics of epithelial tissue formation
Ruben van Drongelen, Tania Vazquez-Faci, Teun A. P. M. Huijben +2
A key process in the life of any multicellular organism is its development from a single egg into a full grown adult. The first step in this process often consists of forming a tis…
Point-like inclusion interactions in tubular membranes
Afshin Vahid, Timon Idema
We analytically study membrane mediated interactions between inclusions embedded in a tubular membrane. We model inclusions as constraints coupled to the curvature tensor of the me…
A Reaction-Diffusion Model of the Cadherin-Catenin System: A Possible Mechanism for Contact Inhibition and Implications for Tumorigenesis
Markus Basan, Timon Idema, Martin Lenz +2
Contact inhibition is the process by which cells switch from a motile growing state to a passive and stabilized state upon touching their neighbors. When two cells touch, an adhesi…
The syncytial Drosophila embryo as a mechanically excitable medium
Timon Idema, Julien O. Dubuis, Louis Kang +4
Mitosis in the early syncytial Drosophila embryo is highly correlated in space and time, as manifested in mitotic wavefronts that propagate across the embryo. In this paper we inve…