Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Coarsening dynamics can explain meiotic crossover patterning in both the presence and absence of the synaptonemal complex

   John A Fozard, Chris Morgan, Martin Howard

   Mathematical modelling, together with super-resolution imaging in Arabidopsis, demonstrates that a recently proposed coarsening model for meiotic crossover interference can explain the dynamic patterning of crossovers in many contexts, including in zyp1 and pch2 chromosome structure mutants.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   In-line swimming dynamics revealed by fish interacting with a robotic mechanism

   Robin Thandiackal, George Lauder

   Fish in the thrust wake of a flapping foil reduce tail-beat frequencies, synchronize with oncoming vortices, and swim energetically more efficiently.
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Animal Locomotion: The benefits of swimming together

   Iain D Couzin, Liang Li

   When a fish beats its tail, it produces vortices in the water that other fish could take advantage of to save energy while swimming.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems
   2. Neuroscience

   How human runners regulate footsteps on uneven terrain

   Nihav Dhawale, Madhusudhan Venkadesan

   When running on uneven terrain, humans mostly rely on the body's mechanical response for stability instead of planning their footsteps to seek out level ground.
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Controlling periodic long-range signalling to drive a morphogenetic transition

   Hugh Z Ford, Angelika Manhart, Jonathan R Chubb

   Cells control signal circulation to set the frequency of information transmitted over tissue scales.
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Lonafarnib improves cardiovascular function and survival in a mouse model of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

   Sae-Il Murtada, Nicole Mikush ... Jay D Humphrey

   Daily administration of the farnesyltransferase inhibitor lonafarnib decreases central artery stiffness, increases distal artery vasoactivity, and improves left ventricular function consistent with increased survival in a mouse model of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
7. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Granger causality analysis for calcium transients in neuronal networks, challenges and improvements

   Xiaowen Chen, Faustine Ginoux ... Claire Wyart

   A practical toolbox for application of Granger causality inference to calcium imaging data identifies strong driver neurons in the locus of the mesencephalic locomoter region in larval zebrafish.
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Motor processivity and speed determine structure and dynamics of microtubule-motor assemblies

   Rachel A Banks, Vahe Galstyan ... Rob Phillips

   Mesoscopic properties of motor-microtubule assemblies, such as contractile rates and length scales, can be quantitatively connected to single-motor properties of kinesin motors.
9. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Beta oscillations and waves in motor cortex can be accounted for by the interplay of spatially-structured connectivity and fluctuating inputs

   Ling Kang, Jonas Ranft, Vincent Hakim
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    Vein fate determined by flow-based but time-delayed integration of network architecture

    Sophie Marbach, Noah Ziethen ... Karen Alim