Physics of Living Systems

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

   The French flag problem revisited: Creating robust and tunable axial patterns without global signaling

   Stephan Kremser, Gabriel Vercelli, Ulrich Gerland
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum

   Pyae Hein Htet, Edward Avezov, Eric Lauga
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Cyclic muscle contractions reinforce the acto-myosin motors and mediate the full elongation of C. elegans embryo

   Anna Dai, Martine Ben Amar
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Substrate evaporation drives collective construction in termites

   Giulio Facchini, Alann Rathery ... Andrea Perna

   Evidence of a relationship between substrate curvature, water evaporation and the building behavior of termites capable of mediating collective nest-building with no need for a building pheromone.
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in the actin cytoskeleton

   Waleed Mirza, Marco De Corato ... Marino Arroyo
6. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A Deep Learning Pipeline for Mapping in situ Network-level Neurovascular Coupling in Multi-photon Fluorescence Microscopy

   Matthew Rozak, James Mester ... Bojana Stefanovic
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Yeast cell responses and survival during periodic osmotic stress are controlled by glucose availability

   Fabien Duveau, Céline Cordier ... Pascal Hersen

   Microfluidic methods are used to quantitatively probe single yeast cells' response to either simultaneous or sequential stresses, revealing the dynamic interplay between two antagonistic inputs, osmotic stress and glucose starvation.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Mitosis sets nuclear homeostasis of cancer cells under confinement

   Malèke Mouelhi, Alexis Saffon ... Charlotte Rivière
9. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   The Geometric Basis of Epithelial Convergent Extension

   Fridtjof Brauns, Nikolas H. Claussen ... Boris I. Shraiman
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    Hydrodynamics and multiscale order in confluent epithelia

    Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi

    Confluent cellular layers display the remarkable ability of supportingmultiscale orientational order, that is the existence of different typeof liquid crystal order at different length scales.