Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Condensation tendency and planar isotropic actin gradient induce radial alignment in confined monolayers

   Tianfa Xie et al.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A framework for studying behavioral evolution by reconstructing ancestral repertoires

   Damián G Hernández et al.

   The behavioral repertoires from six species of flies are measured, and a statistical approach is developed to predict co-evolving behaviors, providing a potential framework for exploring behavioral evolution.
3. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Decoding locomotion from population neural activity in moving C. elegans

   Kelsey M Hallinen et al.

   Neurons in the brain exhibit activity with various relations to locomotion and these signals are best decoded by combining activities from many neurons.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Symmetry breaking meets multisite modification

   Vaidhiswaran Ramesh, J Krishnan

   Network symmetry represents a new vantage point for dissecting complex information processing characteristics in multisite modification, and the breaking of symmetry can confer ordering of modification and absolute concentration robustness.
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Multi-color fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy in living cells via spectral detection

   Valentin Dunsing et al.
6. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A simple regulatory architecture allows learning the statistical structure of a changing environment

   Stefan Landmann et al.

   Minimal modifications of common regulatory circuits can allow bacteria to learn from the past to better predict the future, on a physiological, rather than evolutionary, timescale.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Gut bacterial aggregates as living gels

   Brandon H Schlomann, Raghuveer Parthasarathy
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Hybrid protein assembly-histone modification mechanism for PRC2-based epigenetic switching and memory

   Cecilia Lövkvist et al.

   Extra protein memory storage elements with positive feedbacks, in addition to histone modifications, can explain epigenetic switching and memory at the PRC2 target gene FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC).
9. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Muscle-specific economy of force generation and efficiency of work production during human running

   Sebastian Bohm et al.

   During human running, the soleus muscle was found to operate as work generator under optimal conditions for work production (high force-length potential and enthalpy efficiency) while the vastus lateralis promoted tendon energy storage and economical force generation (high force-length-velocity potential).
10. 1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Emergence of a smooth interface from growth of a dendritic network against a mechanosensitive contractile material

    Medha Sharma et al.

    A smooth and circular interface can form between domains of the cell cortex from local induction of a contractile actomyosin ring by centrifugal pushing forces of an expanding Arp2/3 actin network.