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Suggested/Upcoming
- Modeling the Growth of Organisms Validates a General Relation between Metabolic Costs and Natural Selection
- Lessons from equilibrium statistical physics regarding the assembly of protein complexes
- The role of the Arp2/3 complex in shaping the dynamics and structures of branched actomyosin networks
- Reconciling Kinetic and Equilibrium Models of Bacterial Transcription
- Stick–slip model for actin-driven cell protrusions, cell polarization, and crawling
- Praneet Singh, Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Equilibrium Dynamics and Power Spectrum
- Pritha Dolai, Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Theory of mechanochemical patterning and optimal migration in cell monolayers
Past discussions
15 Oct 2020
- Shashi Thutupalli, Proofreading through spatial gradients
01 Oct 2020
- Aditya Raput, Cellular mechanisms of chick limb bud morphogenesis
24 Sep 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, A minimal self-organisation model of the Golgi apparatus
18 Sep 2020
04 Sep 2020
- Siddharth Jha, 3D shape of epithelial cells on curved substrates
21 Aug 2020
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Precision of Flow Sensing by Self-Communicating Cells
- Aditya Rajput, Embryonic Tissues as Active Foams
14 Aug 2020
- Pritha Dolai, Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics
- Aniruddha, Collective cell mechanics of epithelial shells with organoid-like morphologies
07 August 2020
- Saaransh Singhal, Mechanochemical symmetry breaking during morphogenesis of lateral-line sensory organs
- Ahandeep Manna, Odd viscosity in active matter: microscopic origin and 3D effects
31 July 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Contact area–dependent cell communication and the morphological invariance of ascidian embryogenesis
- Aditya Rajput, Shaping Organs: Shared Structural Principles Across Kingdoms
24 July 2020
10 July 2020
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Synthetic Turing patterns in engineered microbial consortia
- Siddharth Jha, Error-Speed Correlations in Biopolymer Synthesis
26 June 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Universal elastic mechanism for stinger design
12 June 2020
29 May 2020
- Ahandeep Manna, Active Contact Forces Drive Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations in Membrane Vesicles
- Saaransh Singhal, Cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells emerges naturally by microfilament self-organization
22 May 2020
- Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Tissue self-organization based on collective cell migration by contact activation of locomotion and chemotaxis
- Abhratanu Saha, Hydraulic control of mammalian embryo size and cell fate
15 May 2020
- Pritha Dolai, Confinement-induced self-organization in growing bacterial colonies
- Aniruddha, Sustained Oscillations of Epithelial Cell Sheets
08 May 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Universal scaling of active nematic turbulence
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal
01 May 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell
- Shashi Thutupalli, Universality of dissipative self-assembly from quantum dots to human cells
17 April 2020
- Saransh Singhal, Cooperatively enhanced reactivity and ‘stabilitaxis’ of dissociating oligomeric proteins
- Ahandeep Manna, Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows
10 April 2020
- Aditya Rajput, Action at a distance in transcriptional regulation
- Pritha Dolai, Activated diffusiophoresis
03 April 2020
24 March 2020
- Aniruddha, Active matter in a viscoelastic environment
10 March 2020
- Saaransh Singhal, Geometric cues stabilise long-axis polarisation of PAR protein patterns in C. elegans
05 March 2020
12 February 2020
- Shray Chaturvedi, Rotating lamellipodium waves in polarizing cells
29 January 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Low-dimensional dynamics of two coupled biological oscillators
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Topological chaos in active nematics
08 January 2020
- Aditya Singh Rajput, A non-linear analysis of Turing pattern formation
- Pritha Dolai, The active trap model
27 November 2019
- Aniruddha, Modulation of tissue growth heterogeneity by responses to mechanical stress
- Ahandeep Manna, Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
20 November 2019
- Shray Chaturvedi, Spectral Numerical Exterior Calculus Methods for Differential Equations on Radial Manifolds
13 November 2019
- Ajay Bansal, Mechanics of active surfaces
23 October 2019
- V Jemseena, Theoretical study of vesicle shapes driven by coupling curved proteins and active cytoskeletal forces
09 October 2019
- Siddharth Jha, Topology and morphology of self-deforming active shells
25 September 2019
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Oscillatory fluid flow drives scaling of contraction wave with system size
04 September 2019
- Shray Chaturvedi, Active morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers
21 August 2019
- Saaransh Singhal, Vertex Models of Epithelial Morphogenesis
07 August 2019
04 July 2019
- Pritha Dolai, Cellular interactions constrain tumor growth
13 June 2019
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Modelling fluid deformable surfaces with an emphasis on biological interfaces
- Jason Picardo, Cell Membranes Resist Flow
02 April 2019
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Optimal Segregation of Proteins: Phase Transitions and Symmetry Breaking
- Akhil, Active Fingering Instability in Tissue Spreading
28 March 2019
21 February 2019
- Pritha Dolai, Active wetting of epithelial tissues
- Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Trait heritability in major transitions
07 February 2019
- Kanaya Malakar, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Scalar Active Matter with Diffusivity Edge
- Mandar Inamdar, Geometry of epithelial cells provides a robust method for image based inference of stress within tissues
24 January 2019
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Thermodynamic equilibrium of binary mixtures on curved surfaces
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Shaping the topology of folding pathways in mechanical systems
02 January 2019
- Siddharth Jha, Differential growth and shape formation in plant organs
- Pritha Dolai, Robustness of Clocks to Input Noise
11 December 2018
25 October 2018
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Positioning of Particles in Active Droplets
- Mandar Inamdar, Planar morphometrics using Teichmüller maps
11 October 2018
- V Jemseena, Dynamic Morphologies and Stability of Droplet Interface Bilayers
- Padmalochini, Statistical Properties of Autonomous Flows in 2D Active Nematics
27 September 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Stabilization of a spatially uniform steady state in two systems exhibiting Turing patterns
12 September 2018
30 August 2018
- Vidya Menon, Actomyosin meshwork mechanosensing enables tissue shape to orient cell force
- Pritha Dolai, Self-organized stress patterns drive state transitions in actin cortices
16 August 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Universal inverse design of surfaces with thin nematic elastomer sheets
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Geometry of Wave Propagation on Active Deformable Surfaces
02 August 2018
- Padmalochini, Deciphering microbial interactions in synthetic human gut microbiome communities
- V Jemseena, Active Growth and Pattern Formation in Membrane-Protein Systems
19 July 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Growth of Form in Thin Elastic Structures
- Shashank Roy, Active crystals on a sphere
05 July 2018
- D V Arjun, Stochastic Turing patterns in a synthetic bacterial population
- Shubham Anand, Viscotaxis: Microswimmer Navigation in Viscosity Gradients
21 June 2018
- Pritha Dolai, Active motion on curved surfaces
- Vidya Menon, C. elegans germ cells divide and differentiate along a folded epithelium
14 June 2018
- Aditya Rajput, Tissue flow induces cell shape changes during organogenesis
31 May 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Growth patterns for shape-shifting elastic bilayers
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Gravisensors in plant cells behave like an active granular liquid
03 May 2018
- Jason Picardo, Fluctuations uncover a distinct class of travelling waves
12 April 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Pinning of Diffusional Instabilities by Non-Uniform Curvature
- Padma Lochini, Defining a Physical Basis for Diversity in Protein Self-Assemblies
Using a Minimal Model
22 March 2018
- Vidya Menon, Structure of the fission yeast actomyosin ring during constriction
- V Jemseena, Role of hydrodynamic flows in chemically driven droplet
division
08 March 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by the spatial distribution of myosin motors
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Rethinking pattern formation in reaction-diffusion
systems
14 February 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, A Preferred Curvature-Based Continuum Mechanics Framework for Modeling Embryogenesis
- V Jemseena, Curvature-induced defect unbinding and dynamics in active nematic toroids
25 January 2018
- Padma Lochini, Nuclear envelope rupture and repair during cancer cell migration
- Debajit Goswami, Regulating positioning and orientation of mitotic spindles via cell size and shape
23 November 2017
- Pritha Dolai, Lattice Model to Derive the Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Active Particles with Inertia
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Theory of Turing Patterns on Time Varying Networks
09 November 2017
- Mandar Inamdar, Geometric frustration and solid-solid transitions in model 2D tissue
- Padma Lochini, Approximate Bayesian computation reveals the importance of
repeated measurements for parameterising cell-based models of growing
tissues
16 October 2017
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Five ways to model active processes in elastic solids
- V Jemseena, Geometric constraints alter cell arrangements within curved epithelial tissues
28 September 2017
- V Jemseena, Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces
- Vidya Menon, Mechanochemical Signaling Directs Cell-Shape Change
23 July 2017
- Vidya Menon, Positive Feedback Between Contractile Ring Myosin and Ring-Directed Cortical Flow Drives Cytokinesis
- Padma Lochini, Activation and synchronization of the oscillatory morphodynamics in multicellular monolayer
12 July 2017
- Debajit Goswami, Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction
27 June 2017
- Mandar Inamdar, Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion
- V Jemseena, Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth
02 March 2017
16 February 2017
- Debajit Goswami, Exclusion and Hierarchy of Time Scales Lead to Spatial Segregation of Molecular Motors in Cellular Protrusions
02 February 2017
01 December 2016
17 November 2016
- Debajit Goswami, Intermediate scattering function of an anisotropic active Brownian particle
- Mandar Inamdar, Myosin II controls junction fluctuations to guide epithelial tissue ordering
03 November 2016
- Debajit Goswami, Boundaries steer the contraction of active gels
- V Jemseena, Stochastic thermodynamics for active matter
- Shashi Thutupalli, Spatiotemporal order and emergent edge currents in active spinner materials
13 October 2016
- Pallab Basu, First-order patterning transitions on a sphere as a route to cell morphology
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Stresslets Induced by Active Swimmers
29 September 2016