Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Dynamics of cooperative excavation in ant and robot collectives

   S Ganga Prasath, Souvik Mandal ... L Mahadevan

   Observations of ant excavation from a confining corral, along with theoretical models and synthetic robot experiments show the emergence of cooperation induced by pheromones in a malleable environment that is moulded by and moulds collective behavior.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems
   2. Plant Biology

   Seed Dispersal: Deciding when to move

   Lauren Sullivan

   Dandelion seeds respond to wet weather by closing their plumes, which reduces dispersal when wind conditions are poor.
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Geometric control of Myosin-II orientation during axis elongation

   Matthew F Lefebvre, Nikolas H Claussen ... Sebastian J Streichan
4. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Scale-free behavioral dynamics directly linked with scale-free cortical dynamics

   Sabrina A Jones, Jacob H Barfield ... Woodrow L Shew
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Novel analytical tools reveal that local synchronization of cilia coincides with tissue-scale metachronal waves in zebrafish multiciliated epithelia

   Christa Ringers, Stephan Bialonski ... Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
6. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Quantifying changes in the T cell receptor repertoire during thymic development

   Francesco Camaglia, Arie Ryvkin ... Nir Friedman
7. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Active morphogenesis of patterned epithelial shells

   Diana Khoromskaia, Guillaume Salbreux

   An epithelium modelled as an active, nematic surface can display flattening, budding, and tubulation morphogenetic events, which are observed during development in biological organisms.
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Dynamics of immune memory and learning in bacterial communities

   Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, Sidhartha Goyal
9. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Predictive modeling reveals that higher-order cooperativity drives transcriptional repression in a synthetic developmental enhancer

   Yang Joon Kim, Kaitlin Rhee ... Hernan G Garcia

   The combination of theoretical modeling and quantitative live imaging revealed that the repressor proteins work cooperatively or anti-cooperatively depending on enhancer architecture.
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    On the origin of universal cell shape variability in confluent epithelial monolayers

    Souvik Sadhukhan, Saroj Kumar Nandi

    The nearly universal nature of scaled cell shape variability in an epithelial monolayer is unavoidable, irrespective of health or disease, as it comes from a mathematical property.