Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Distinguishing different modes of growth using single-cell data

   Prathitha Kar et al.
2. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Multisensory-motor integration in olfactory navigation of silkmoth, Bombyx mori, using virtual reality system

   Mayu Yamada et al.

   Silkmoth utilizes multimodal information to modulate behavior according to the degree of turbulence in the environment, enabling it to efficiently an odor source search.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A coarse-grained NADH redox model enables inference of subcellular metabolic fluxes from fluorescence lifetime imaging

   Xingbo Yang et al.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

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

   Debasmita Mondal et al.
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Physical observables to determine the nature of membrane-less cellular sub-compartments

   Mathias L Heltberg et al.

   Two competing descriptions of membrane-less sub-compartments, liquid droplets and polymer binding aggregates, can be cast into a common theoretical framework and tested through single-particle tracking experiments.
6. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Single-cell growth inference of Corynebacterium glutamicum reveals asymptotically linear growth

   Joris JB Messelink et al.

   A novel bacterial single-cell growth mode is identified in C. glutamicum, which sheds light on its elongation dynamics and cell size regulation.
7. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Phagocytic ‘teeth’ and myosin-II ‘jaw’ power target constriction during phagocytosis

   Daan Vorselen et al.

   During ingestion of antibody-coated targets, phagocytes probe and deform the target via Arp2/3-dependent protrusions and myosin-dependent constriction during cup closure.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Quantitative theory for the diffusive dynamics of liquid condensates

   Lars Hubatsch et al.

   Dynamical properties of liquid condensates can be quantitatively assessed by combining phase separation theory and photobleaching, which opens new avenues to understand their physicochemical properties and functioning.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Spatial alanine metabolism determines local growth dynamics of Escherichia coli colonies

   Francisco Díaz-Pascual et al.

   An investigation of spatiotemporal metabolic differentiation during colony biofilm growth of E. coli revealed that alanine is cross-fed between spatially segregated subpopulations within the colony, to support cellular growth in an otherwise nutrient-deprived region of the colony.
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.