Active Matter and Liquid Crystals in Biological and Bio-Inspired Systems I

ORAL · F20 · ID: 46480

Presentations

  • Distribution and pressure of active Levy swimmers under confinement

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    Publication: Zhou, Tingtao, et al. "Distribution and pressure of active Lévy swimmers under confinement." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2021).

    Presenters

    • (Edmond) Tingtao Zhou

      California Institute of Technology

    Authors

    • (Edmond) Tingtao Zhou

      California Institute of Technology

    • Mamikon Gulian

      Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories

    • Zhiwei Peng

      California Institute of Technology

    • John F Brady

      Caltech

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  • Mechanical properties of adipose tissue mediates breast cancer invasion

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    Presenters

    • Dong Wang

      Yale University

    Authors

    • Dong Wang

      Yale University

    • John D Treado

      Yale University

    • Garrett Beeghly

      Cornell University

    • Francesco Arceri

      Yale University

    • Michael P Murrell

      Yale University

    • Claudia Fischbach

      Cornell University

    • Mark D Shattuck

      The City College of New York

    • Corey S O'Hern

      Yale University

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  • Active mixing of phase separating mixtures

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    Publication: Manuscripts in preparation.

    Presenters

    • Fernando Caballero

      University of California, Santa Barbara

    Authors

    • Fernando Caballero

      University of California, Santa Barbara

    • Cristina Marchetti

      University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California Santa Barbara

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  • Kinetic theory modeling of bacteria diffusion and chemotaxis

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    Publication: 3D Spatial Exploration by E. coli Echoes Motor Temporal Variability, N Figueroa-Morales, et al., Physical Review X 10, 021004 (2020).
    Run-and-tumble bacteria slowly approaching the diffusive regime, A Villa-Torrealba, C Chávez-Raby, P de Castro, R Soto, Physical Review E 101, 062607 (2020).
    Memory effects in bacterial chemotaxis, A Villa-Torrealba, R Soto (in preparation).

    Presenters

    • Rodrigo B Soto

      Univ de Chile

    Authors

    • Rodrigo B Soto

      Univ de Chile

    • Andrea Villa

      Univ de Chile

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  • From nematic defects to polar order: polar active flow of cytoskeletal filaments shaped by nematic defects.

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    Publication: Alfredo Sciortino and Andreas R. Bausch (2021). "Pattern formation and polarity sorting of driven actin filaments
    on lipid membranes." PNAS 118.6

    Alfredo Sciortino, Lukas Neumann, Timo Krueger, Ivan Maryshev, Erwin Frey, Andreas R. Bausch, "Microtubules
    gliding in a nematic form polar lanes" (in preparation)

    Alfredo Sciortino, Chiao-Peng Hsu, Alice Yu De La Trobe, Andreas R. Bausch, "Polar pattern formation
    of actin gliding in giant unilamellar vesicles" (in preparation)

    Presenters

    • Alfredo Sciortino

      Technische Universität München, Tecnhische Universität München

    Authors

    • Alfredo Sciortino

      Technische Universität München, Tecnhische Universität München

    • Lukas Neumann

      Technische Universität München

    • Chiao-Peng Hsu

      Technische Universität München

    • Alice De La Trobe Yu

      Tecnhnische Universität München

    • Andreas R Bausch

      Technische Universität München, Tecnhnische Universität München

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  • Autonomous microfluidics and active flow networks in active nematics

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    Presenters

    • Claire Doré

      ESPCI Paris

    Authors

    • Claire Doré

      ESPCI Paris

    • Justine Laurent

      ESPCI

    • Jérôme Hardoüin

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Jordi Ignés-Mullol

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Francesc Sagués

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Teresa Lopez-Leon

      CNRS / ESPCI Paris, ESPCI

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  • Dynamics of active defects under non-uniform Gaussian curvature

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    Publication: Martina Clairand, Ali Mozaffari, Jérôme Hardoüin, Rui Zhang, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Francesc Sagués, Juan J. de Pablo and Teresa Lopez-Leon, "Dynamics of active defects under non-uniform Gaussian curvature" (under consideration in PNAS)

    Presenters

    • Teresa Lopez-Leon

      CNRS / ESPCI Paris, ESPCI

    Authors

    • Teresa Lopez-Leon

      CNRS / ESPCI Paris, ESPCI

    • Martina Clairand

      ESPCI Paris

    • Ali Mozaffari

      University of Chicago

    • Jérôme Hardoüin

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Rui Zhang

      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    • Jordi Ignés-Mullol

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Francesc Sagués

      University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona

    • Juan De Pablo

      University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

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  • Light-induced 2D micro-swimmers at the nematic-isotropic interface of a thermotropic liquid crystal

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    Publication: Light-induced self-propulsion of 2D platelets through nematic-isotropic transitions of a thermotropic liquid crystal (to be summited soon)

    Presenters

    • Antonio Tavera-Vazquez

      Chicago, University of Chicago

    Authors

    • Antonio Tavera-Vazquez

      Chicago, University of Chicago

    • Danai Montalvan

      Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM

    • Noe d Atzin

      University of Chicago

    • Gustavo R Perez Lemus

      Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, University of Chicago

    • Vinothan N Manoharan

      Harvard University

    • Juan De Pablo

      University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

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  • Thermodynamic equilibrium controls the growth rate of out-of-equilibrium myelin figures

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    Publication: Sepideh Khodaparast, William N. Sharratt, Robert M. Dalgliesh, and João T. Cabral, Growth of Myelin Figures from Parent Multilamellar Vesicles, Langmuir 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02464)

    Presenters

    • sepideh khodaparast

      Univ of Leeds

    Authors

    • sepideh khodaparast

      Univ of Leeds

    • William Sharratt

      Imperial College London

    • Joao T Cabral

      Imperial College London

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