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Collective durotaxis of cohesive cell clusters on a stiffness gradient
Irina Pi-Jaumà, Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt
Many types of motile cells perform durotaxis, namely, directed migration following gradients of substrate stiffness. Recent experiments have revealed that cell monolayers can migra…
Active Turbulence
Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt, Jean-François Joanny
Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self-propel…
Scaling regimes of active turbulence with external dissipation
Berta Martínez-Prat, Ricard Alert, Fanlong Meng +5
Active fluids exhibit complex turbulent-like flows at low Reynolds number. Recent work predicted that 2d active nematic turbulence follows universal scaling laws. However, experime…
Stochastic quorum percolation and noise focusing in neuronal networks
Javier G. Orlandi, Jaume Casademunt
Recent experiments have shown that the spontaneous activity of young dissociated neuronal cultures can be described as a process of highly inhomogeneous nucleation and front propag…
Role of Substrate Stiffness in Tissue Spreading: Wetting Transition and Tissue Durotaxis
Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt
Living tissues undergo wetting transitions: On a surface, they can either form a droplet-like cell aggregate or spread as a monolayer of migrating cells. Tissue wetting depends not…
Universal scaling of active nematic turbulence
Ricard Alert, Jean-François Joanny, Jaume Casademunt
A landmark of turbulence is the emergence of universal scaling laws, such as Kolmogorov's scaling of the kinetic energy spectrum of inertial turbulence with the…