Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A theory of synaptic transmission

   Bin Wang, Olga K Dudko

   The analytic theory establishes the general principles of synaptic transmission, enables extraction of microscopic parameters of synaptic fusion machinery from experiments, and links molecular constituents to synaptic function.
2. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Emergence of a geometric pattern of cell fates from tissue-scale mechanics in the Drosophila eye

   Kevin D Gallagher et al.
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Strong confinement of active microalgae leads to inversion of vortex flow and enhanced mixing

   Debasmita Mondal et al.

   Coupling between cell motility and strong confinement alters the force generators that cause flow fields to change their handedness and lead to enhanced mixing.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Humans optimally anticipate and compensate for an uneven step during walking

   Osman Darici, Arthur D Kuo
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Correlative all-optical quantification of mass density and mechanics of sub-cellular compartments with fluorescence specificity

   Raimund Schlüßler et al.
6. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Mechanism of life-long maintenance of neuron identity despite molecular fluctuations

   Joleen JH Traets et al.

   Differential binding kinetics of a master regulator to its target promoters can prevent spontaneous cell fate loss in a Caenorhabditis elegans neuron whose fate is controlled by a reversible switch.
7. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Antagonism between killer yeast strains as an experimental model for biological nucleation dynamics

   Andrea Giometto et al.

   Like physical systems that exhibit nucleation phenomena, an invading population of a strong microbial antagonist requires a critical inoculum size to successfully invade a population of a weaker microbial antagonist.
8. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Distinguishing different modes of growth using single-cell data

   Prathitha Kar et al.

   Single-cell data analysis must be guided by an underlying model.
9. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Learning developmental mode dynamics from single-cell trajectories

   Nicolas Romeo et al.
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    Stochastic social behavior coupled to COVID-19 dynamics leads to waves, plateaus, and an endemic state

    Alexei V Tkachenko et al.

    Time-varying heterogeneous social activity explains transient suppression of epidemic waves followed by long plateaus and eventual transition towards the endemic state of an emergent pathogen, such as COVID-19.