Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Nuclei determine the spatial origin of mitotic waves

   Felix Eduard Nolet et al.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Measuring ligand-cell surface receptor affinities with axial line-scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

   Antonia Franziska Eckert et al.
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Heterogeneous T cell motility behaviors emerge from a coupling between speed and turning in vivo

   Elizabeth R Jerison, Stephen R Quake

   Motile interstitial T cells in live zebrafish access a broad range of length-scales due to long-lived cell-intrinsic variation in speed, and a coupling between speed and directional persistence.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Stochastic bond dynamics facilitates alignment of malaria parasite at erythrocyte membrane upon invasion

   Sebastian Hillringhaus et al.
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Ant collective cognition allows for efficient navigation through disordered environments

   Aviram Gelblum et al.
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Polar pattern formation induced by contact following locomotion in a multicellular system

   Masayuki Hayakawa et al.

   Transient cell-cell contact of eukaryotic cells, called contact following locomotion, causes cell density segregation, and its high-density region traveled as a band within the disordered background.
7. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Mechanics and kinetics of dynamic instability

   Thomas CT Michaels et al.

   A theoretical framework for the growth of microtubules quantifies the roles of geometry, mechanics, kinetics and randomness and provides a phase diagram for dynamic instability in these self-assembled polymers.
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Dynamics of pattern formation and emergence of swarming in Caenorhabditis elegans

   Esin Demir et al.

   Collective responses of animals are generally controlled by complex biological mechanisms and in Caenorhabditis eleganscollective dynamics are purely controlled by physical parameters such as oxygen penetration and bacterial diffusion.
9. 1. Cancer Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Collective forces of tumor spheroids in three-dimensional biopolymer networks

   Christoph Mark et al.

   The forces that multicellular tumor aggregates exert on their environment lead to non-linear, scale-invariant tissue deformations far away from the tumor, which can be exploited to quantify its collective contractility.
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Cell Biology

    The axonal actin-spectrin lattice acts as a tension buffering shock absorber

    Sushil Dubey et al.

    A linear array of spectrin tetramers imparts mechanical stability to axons by allowing spectrin domains to unfold reversibly when an axon is stretched, thereby acting as tension buffers.