Plant and Fungal Physics

Presentations

• Mechanical and Evolutionary Constraints on Hyphal Shape and Growth

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2025, 8:36 AM

  Publication: Ohairwe ME, Zivanovic BE, Rojas ER. A fitness landscape instability governs the morphological diversity of tip-growing cells. Cell Reports. 113961.

  Presenters

  • Enrique Rojas

    • NYU Biology
    • NYU

  Authors

  • Enrique Rojas

    • NYU Biology
    • NYU

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• Bacterial dynamics in the rhizosphere observed through transparent soil

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2025, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Ahmed Al Harraq

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Ahmed Al Harraq

    • Princeton University

  • Gayoung Choi

    • Princeton University

  • Joshua W Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

  • Sujit S Datta

    • Princeton University
    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

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• Probing the interaction of forced and endogenous oscillation in rice roots

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2025, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Madison Hales

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Madison Hales

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Aradhya Rajanala

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Yu Yang

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Christopher J Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mingyuan Zhu

    • Duke University

  • Philip N Benfey

    • Duke University

  • Noah J Cowan

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Tech

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• Growing and anchoring of plant root-inspired soft structures in granular media

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2025, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Nicholas D Naclerio

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Nicholas D Naclerio

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Deniz Kerimoglu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Aradhya Rajanala

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Elliot Hawkes

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

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Tech

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• Cell to Organ Modeling of Mechanics of Circumnutation in Rice Roots

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2025, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Aradhya Rajanala

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Aradhya Rajanala

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mingyuan Zhu

    • Duke University

  • Christopher J Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Madison Hales

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Deniz Kerimoglu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Tech

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• Twining Plants Capitalize on Circumnutations to Assess Mechanical Properties of a Candidate Support, and Initiate a Thigmotropic Twining Response.

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2025, 9:36 AM

  Publication: None

  Presenters

  • Amir Ohad

    • Tel Aviv University

  Authors

  • Amir Ohad

    • Tel Aviv University

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• Many ways to play dead: diversification in form and function among the world's largest flowers.

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2025, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Javier Chico Vazquez

    • University of Oxford

  Authors

  • Javier Chico Vazquez

    • University of Oxford

  • Dominic Vella

    • University of Oxford

  • Derek E Moulton

    • University of Oxford

  • Chris T Thorogood

    • University of Oxford

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• The mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2025, 10:00 AM

  Publication: F. Box, D.E. Moulton, D. Vella, Y. Bhagotra, T. Lowe, A. Goriely, and C. Thorogood, "Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber", accepted for publication at PNAS

  Presenters

  • Derek E Moulton

    • University of Oxford

  Authors

  • Derek E Moulton

    • University of Oxford

  • Finn Box

    • University of Manchester

  • Alain Goriely

    • University of Oxford

  • Dominic Vella

    • University of Oxford

  • Chris T Thorogood

    • University of Oxford

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• Packings of pavement epidermal cells

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2025, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Alexander Morand

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Alexander Morand

    • Yale University

  • Sam Banks

    • Yale University

  • Adam B Roddy

    • New York University
    • NYU
    • Florida International University

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

  • Corey S O'Hern

    • Yale University

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• Geometric Diversity in the Plant Epidermis

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2025, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Sam Banks

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Sam Banks

    • Yale University

  • Alexander Morand

    • Yale University

  • Adam B Roddy

    • New York University
    • NYU
    • Florida International University

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

  • Corey S O'Hern

    • Yale University

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• A simple physics principle governs complex dynamics of cellulose

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2025, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Christina A McBean

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Christina A McBean

    • Columbia University

  • Saima Aktar Sumaiya

    • Columbia University

  • Zdenek Otruba

    • Columbia University

  • Leonardo I. Ruiz-Ortega

    • Columbia University

  • Adedayo T Ogunlana

    • Columbia University

  • Brunvens Sejour

    • Columbia University

  • Ozgur Sahin

    • Columbia University

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• Packed Granular Microgels as a Transparent Soil Medium for Biophysical Plant Studies

  ORAL

  March 20, 2025, 10:36 AM – March 20, 2025, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Christopher S O'Bryan

    • University of Missouri
    • University of Missouri, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Columbia, MO

  Authors

  • Christopher S O'Bryan

    • University of Missouri
    • University of Missouri, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Columbia, MO

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 20, 2025, 10:48 AM – March 20, 2025, 11:00 AM

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