Suggested/Upcoming

• Modeling the Growth of Organisms Validates a General Relation between Metabolic Costs and Natural Selection
• Hidden symmetries generate rigid folding mechanisms in periodic origami
• Flow Rectification in Loopy Network Models of Bird Lungs
• A Traveling-Wave Solution for Bacterial Chemotaxis with Growth
• A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline
• Passive odd viscoelasticity
• Theory of branching morphogenesis by local interactions and global guidance
• The far-reaching influence of boundaries on shaping bulk behavior of active matter
• Role of the Cell Cycle in Collective Cell Dynamics
• Ciliary chemosensitivity is enhanced by cilium geometry and motility
• Ethology of morphogenesis reveals the design principles of cnidarian size and shape development
• Instabilities and geometry of growing tissues
• 3D Shape of Epithelial Cells on Curved Substrates
• aLENS: towards the cellular-scale simulation of motor-driven cytoskeletal assemblies
• A condensate dynamic instability orchestrates oocyte actomyosin cortex activation
• Surface-tension-induced budding drives alveologenesis in human mammary gland organoids
• Physical basis for the determination of lumen shape in a simple epithelium
• Mem3DG: Modeling Membrane Mechanochemical Dynamics in 3D using Discrete Differential Geometry

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• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Non-reciprocal phase transitions
• Shashi Thutupalli
  • Viscoelastic control of spatiotemporal order in bacterial active matter
  • Mechanical stress determines morphogenesis and cell ordering in confined bacterial biofilms

Past discussions

16 March 2022

• Aditya Singh Rajput, Intracellular softening and increased viscoelastic fluidity during division

02 March 2022

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Integer topological defects organize stresses driving tissue morphogenesis

16 Feb 2022

• Tuhin Chakraborty, Escherichia coli chemotaxis is information limited

09 Feb 2022

• Jigyasa watwani, The cusp of an apple

24 September 2021

• Mandar Inamdar, Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions

17 September 2021

• Aditya Singh Rajput, Stick–slip model for actin-driven cell protrusions,cell polarization, and crawling

03 September 2021

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Gene Expression Noise in Growing Cells

07 August 2021

• Godwin Martin, Tissue hydraulics: physics of lumen formation and interaction

23 July 2021

• Aditya Rajput, Pinching the cortex of live cells reveals thickness instabilities caused by myosin II motors

09 July 2021

• Siddharth Jha, Half-integer and full-integer topological defects in polar active matter: Emergence, crossover, and coexistence

25 June 2021

• Jigyasa Watwani, Reaction-diffusion in a growing 3D domain of skin scales generates a discrete cellular automaton

11 June 2021

• Praneet Kumar Singh,
  • Active nematic defects and epithelial morphogenesis
  • Defect-mediated morphogenesis

21 May 2021

• Mandar Inamdar, Nonlinear rheology of cellular networks

14 May 2021

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Morphology of active deformable 3D droplets

07 May 2021

• Siddharth Jha, Topological defects produce kinks in biopolymer filament bundles

12 April 2021

• Aditya Rajput, Scaling of Internal Organs during Drosophila Embryonic Development

29 March 2021

• Jigyasa Watwani, Lessons from equilibrium statistical physics regarding the assembly of protein complexes

22 March 2021

• Pritha Dolai, Dissipation bounds the amplification of transition rates far from equilibrium

15 March 2021

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Motor-Free Contractility in Active Gels

08 March 2021

• Siddharth Jha, Multiscale integration of environmental stimuli in plant tropism produces complex behaviors

22 February 2021

• Praneet Kumar Singh, Lamellar to Micellar Phases and Beyond: When Tactic Active Systems Admit Free Energy Functionals

18 February 2021

• Aditya Rajput, The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior

11 February 2021

• Anupam Gupta, Mechanical feedback promotes bacterial adaptation to antibiotics

07 January 2021

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Thermodynamics of Animal Locomotion

31 December 2020

• Shashi Thutupalli, A unicellular relative of animals generates a layer of polarized cells by actomyosin-dependent cellularization

24 December 2020

• Suriya Selvarajan, Reconciling Kinetic and Equilibrium Models of Bacterial Transcription

18 December 2020

• Praneet Kumar Singh, Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells

10 December 2020

• Siddharth Jha, Statistical mechanics of a chiral active fluid

02 December 2020

• Aditya Rajput, Nutrient-Dependent Trade-Offs between Ribosomes and Division Protein Synthesis Control Bacterial Cell Size and Growth

19 November 2020

• Pritha Dolai, Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles

12 November 2020

• Praneet Kumar Singh, Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Equilibrium Dynamics and Power Spectrum

05 November 2020

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, Theory of mechanochemical patterning and optimal migration in cell monolayers

22 October 2020

• Siddharth Jha, Topological defects in the nematic order of actin fibers as organization centers of Hydra morphogenesis

15 October 2020

• Shashi Thutupalli, Proofreading through spatial gradients

01 October 2020

• Aditya Raput, Cellular mechanisms of chick limb bud morphogenesis

24 September 2020

• Vijay Krishnamurthy, A minimal self-organisation model of the Golgi apparatus

18 September 2020

• Pritha Dolai, Kinesin and dynein use distinct mechanisms to bypass obstacles

04 September 2020

• Siddharth Jha, 3D shape of epithelial cells on curved substrates

21 August 2020

• Raghavendra Nimiwal, Precision of Flow Sensing by Self-Communicating Cells
• Aditya Rajput, Embryonic Tissues as Active Foams

14 August 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

• V Jemseena, Active gel segment behaving as an active particle

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

• Aditya Rajput, Spontaneous emergence of cell-like organization in Xenopus egg extracts

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

• Siddharth Jha, How many ways a cell can move: the modes of self-propulsion of an active drop

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

• V Jemseena, Hydrodynamics of contraction-based motility in a compressible active fluid

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 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

• V Jemseena, Dynamics of Growth and Form in Prebiotic Vesicles

04 July 2019

• Pritha Dolai, Cellular interactions constrain tumor growth

13 June 2019

• Aditya 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

• V Jemseena, Tissue Flow Induces Cell Shape Changes During Organogenesis

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

• V Jemseena, Theory of mechano-chemical patterning in biphasic biological tissues

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

• Aditya Rajput, Self-organized stress patterns drive state transitions in actin cortices

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

• Vidya Menon, Effective viscosity and dynamics of spreading epithelia: a solvable model

16 February 2017

• Debajit Goswami, Exclusion and Hierarchy of Time Scales Lead to Spatial Segregation of Molecular Motors in Cellular Protrusions

02 February 2017

• Mandar Inamdar, Fluidization and Active Thinning by Molecular Kinetics in Active Gels

01 December 2016

• V Jemseena, Cortical flow aligns actin filaments to form a furrow

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

• Debajit Goswami, Percolation mechanism drives actin gels to the critically connected state
  
• S S Soumya, Clustering and jamming in epithelial–mesenchymal co-cultures