3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Boundary-shape driven transitions in vortex and oscillatory dynamics of confined epithelial cells
Ryo Ienaga, Kazuyuki Shigeta, Tatsuya Fukuyama +2
Controlling the collective motion of epithelial cell populations is fundamental for understanding multicellular self-organization and for advancing tissue engineering. Under spatia…
physics.bio-ph2025
Why epithelial cells collectively move against a traveling signal wave
Tatsuya Fukuyama, Hiroyuki Ebata, Akihisa Yamamoto +6
The response of cell populations to external stimuli plays a central role in biological mechanical processes such as epithelial wound healing and developmental morphogenesis. Wave-…
cond-mat.soft2025
Myosin-driven advection and actin reorganization control the geometry of confined actomyosin gel
Archit Negi, Ryota Sakamoto, Makito Miyazaki +1
Harnessing nanoscale motor proteins to actively control material shape is a promising strategy in nanotechnology and material science. One notable system is the actomyosin network,…