Biological Active Matter V

Presentations

• Active surface waves drive rippling in Myxococcus xanthus colonies

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Publication: A.R. Bourque, P.A.E. Hampshire, R. Alert, and J.W. Shaevitz. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Ricard Alert

    • University of Barcelona

  Authors

  • Ricard Alert

    • University of Barcelona

  • Aaron Robert Bourque

    • Princeton University

  • Peter Hampshire

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Joshua W Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• Defect states in compressible active polar fluids with turnover

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2506.03795

  Presenters

  • Karsten Kruse

    • University of Geneva

  Authors

  • Ludovic Dumoulin

    • University of Geneva

  • Carles Blanch-Mercader

    • Institut Curie

  • Karsten Kruse

    • University of Geneva

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• Motile creases act as information bottlenecks in folded ciliary flocks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Charlotte Brannon

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Charlotte Brannon

    • Stanford University

  • Manu Prakash

    • Stanford University

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• Worm drop experiment : Dripping dynamics and tunable flow behaviour of active tangled worm assemblages

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Paulami Sarkar

    • Georgia Institute Of Technology

  Authors

  • Paulami Sarkar

    • Georgia Institute Of Technology

  • Sankar Hariharan

    • Indian Institute Of Technology , Madras, Visiting scholar Georgia Institute of Technology (2025)
    • IIT Madras

  • Ishant Tiwari

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Prathyusha K. R.

    • Georgia Institute Of Technology

  • Tom Marzin

    • Cornell University
    • Princeton University

  • Saad Bhamla

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Effective flow alignment parameter estimation for motile alga from dynamical data

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Taylor Joshsua Whitney

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  Authors

  • Taylor Joshsua Whitney

    • School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  • Thomas H Solomon

    • Bucknell University

  • Kevin A Mitchell

    • University of California, Merced

  • Liesl Winchell

    • Bucknell Univerisity

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• Universal Shape-Sensing Mechanisms of Protein Pattern Formation in Bulk-Boundary Coupled Systems

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Planned paper: Universal Shape-Sensing Mechanisms of Protein Pattern Formation in Bulk-Boundary Coupled Systems, Tsevas, A., Willeke, J., Wuerthner, L., Ziepke, A., Ziereis, N., Brauns, F., Frey, E.

  Presenters

  • Jan Willeke

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU Munich)

  Authors

  • Jan Willeke

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU Munich)

  • Andreas Tsevas

    • LMU Munich

  • Laeschkir Würthner

    • FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen

  • Alexander Ziepke

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

  • Niklas Ziereis

    • Free University Berlin
    • Freie University Berlin

  • Fridtjof Brauns

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Max-Planck-Institut for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Erwin A Frey

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

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• Trade-offs Between Growth and Adaptation in Spatially Structured Bacterial Populations

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: Planned paper from this work, april-june 2026

  Presenters

  • Rita Invernizzi

    • Humanitas University

  Authors

  • Rita Invernizzi

    • Humanitas University

  • Gabriele Micali

    • Humanitas University

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• Decoding adaptive push–pull–wrap motility in the squid symbiont Vibrio fischeri

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Haibei Zhang

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA

  Authors

  • Haibei Zhang

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA

  • Alasdair D Hastewell

    • NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, Chicago IL, 60611, USA
    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Edwin M Munro

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA
    • University of Chicago

  • Jasmine A Nirody

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA
    • University of Chicago

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• Nematic Materials on Curved Surfaces with Immersed Inclusions 

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Nematic Materials on Curved Surfaces with Immersed Inclusions - Planned Paper

  Presenters

  • Sanchita Chakraborty

    • University of Notre Dame

  Authors

  • Sanchita Chakraborty

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Scott Weady

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Mohammadhossein Firouznia

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

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• Modulating Active Living Cell Networks with focused ultrasound

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhaochong Han

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  Authors

  • Zhaochong Han

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• The dominant role of cell surface tension in cytoplasmic fluid mechanics

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Zdenek Otruba

    • Columbia Unviversity
    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Zdenek Otruba

    • Columbia Unviversity
    • Columbia University

  • Ozgur Sahin

    • Columbia University

  • Guillaume Baffou

    • Aix Marseille University

  • Brunvens Sejour

    • Columbia University

  • Sonia McGaffigan

    • Columbia University

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• From Microscope to Model: Rotating Signaling Dynamics and Cluster Size in Dictyostelium Discoideum Aggregates.

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Planned paper in BMC Molecular and Cell Biology, Special Edition on Dictyostelium, submitting by the end of the month

  Presenters

  • Sanchi Saitia

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego

  Authors

  • Sanchi Saitia

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego

  • Yi-Chieh Lai

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Man-Ho Tang

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Michael Reiss

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Wouter-Jan Rappel

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Wouter-Jan Rappel

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Traveling waves in a continuum model for schooling swimmers

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06095

  Presenters

  • Anand Uttam Oza

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Anand Uttam Oza

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Eva Kanso

    • National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Michael J Shelley

    • Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)

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• Harnessing swarm behaviours of active particles to build intelligent microrobots

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Jyoti Sharma

    • Institute of BioRobotics - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
    • Institute of BioRobotics – Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

  Authors

  • Jyoti Sharma

    • Institute of BioRobotics - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
    • Institute of BioRobotics – Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

  • Yashpal Singh Brar

    • Institute of BioRobotics – Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

  • Niccolo' Picchiarelli

    • Institute of Biorobotics - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

  • Omar Tricinci

    • Institute of Biorobotics- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

  • Stefano Palagi

    • The Biorobotics Institute - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

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• Efficient AI Generation of Protein Folding Ensembles from Limited Coarse-Grained MD Simulations

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Gabriella A Tamayo

    • Wake Forest University

  Authors

  • Gabriella A Tamayo

    • Wake Forest University

  • Samuel Cho

    • Wake Forest University

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