Biological Active Matter III

Presentations

• Motility-driven fracture in biological active matter from cancer to the germline

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Brian Camley

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Brian Camley

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Collective Properties of Hydrodynamically-interacting Active Oligomeric Assemblies

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • James Adams

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • James Adams

    • Syracuse University

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• Contact inhibition can drive cell dispersal and tissue ordering

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Nolan Brown

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  Authors

  • Nolan Brown

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • University of California, Merced

  • Jesselynn Labelle

  • Stephanie Woo

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• Huygens-Fresnel principle for active collectives

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Tanumoy Dhar

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Tanumoy Dhar

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Eloise Masquelier

  • Alejandro Martinez-Calvo

    • Princeton University

  • Sujit Datta

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Mechano-chemical feedback under confinement drives single-cell rotation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: Planned paper: Echeverria-Alar, S., Narasimhan, B.M., Fraley, S.I., Rappel, W.J. (2025). Mechano-chemical feedback under confinement drives single-cell chiral symmetry breaking.

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Echeverria-Alar

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Sebastian Echeverria-Alar

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Wouter-Jan Rappel

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Towards understanding the topology of the avian left-right organizer during body axis specification

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Jackson

    • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  Authors

  • Jonathan Jackson

    • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  • Julia Pfanzelter

  • Jonas Neipel

    • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)

  • Adrian Lahola-Chomiak

  • Frank Julicher

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Stephan Grill

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• The neurotransmitter glutamate modulates collective cell dynamics and calcium signaling during Isotropic–Nematic–Jamming transitions in glioma cancer cells, behaving as an active liquid crystal

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Daiana Perez-Visnuk

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Daiana Perez-Visnuk

    • University of Michigan

  • Maria Luisa Varela

  • Anna Argento

    • University of Michigan

  • Maria Castro

  • Pedro Lowenstein

    • University of Michigan

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• Cluster size dependent transition from chemorepulsion to chemoattraction in malignant lymphocytes

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Monika Sanoria

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  Authors

  • Monika Sanoria

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  • Gema Malet-Engra

  • Giorgio Scita

  • Nir Gov

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • University of California, Merced

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• Odd elasticity framework for cell monolayer mechanics

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Sreejith Santhosh

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Sreejith Santhosh

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Mattia Serra

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Understanding the Emergence of Topological Defects in Cell Monolayers

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Aidan Smith

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Aidan Smith

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Emergence of Distinct Cell Morphology and Size of Confluent Cell Sheet

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Ee Hou Yong

    • Nanyang Technological University

  Authors

  • Ee Hou Yong

    • Nanyang Technological University

  • Hon Lin Too

  • Haiyi Liang

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• Tensed Blobs of Matter: Cytoskeletal Prestress Connects Nuclear Shape with Cell Shape

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Publication: Lawton, S. et al. Cell Morphology accurately predicts the nuclear shape of adherent cells. 2024.12.28.630588 Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630588 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Rosaline Danzman

    • Colorado State University

  Authors

  • Rosaline Danzman

    • Colorado State University

  • Ashok Prasad

    • Colorado State University

  • Renzo Spagnuolo

  • Skylar Stephan

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• Universal scaling in the rheology of model cell monolayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Helen Ansell

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Helen Ansell

    • Emory University

  • Daniel Sussman

    • Emory University

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