Modeling random crawling, membrane deformation and intracellular polarity of motile amoeboid cells

Altering the threshold of an excitable signal transduction network changes cell migratory modes

(2017) Yuchuan Miao et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Contact enhancement of locomotion in spreading cell colonies

(2017) Joseph d’Alessandro et al.   Nature Physics

Intracellular Oscillations and Waves

(2017) Carsten Beta et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Modeling Contact Inhibition of Locomotion of Colliding Cells Migrating on Micropatterned Substrates

(2016) Dirk Alexander Kulawiak et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Bistability in the Rac1, PAK, and RhoA Signaling Network Drives Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics and Cell Motility Switches

(2016) Kate M. Byrne et al.   Cell Systems

Computational approaches to substrate-based cell motility

(2016) Falko Ziebert et al.   npj Computational Materials

Chemotaxis of a model organism: progress with Dictyostelium

(2015) John ME Nichols et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Moving towards a paradigm: common mechanisms of chemotactic signaling in Dictyostelium and mammalian leukocytes

(2014) Yulia Artemenko et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Actin and PIP3 waves in giant cells reveal the inherent length scale of an excited state

(2014) Matthias Gerhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Spiral actin-polymerization waves can generate amoeboidal cell crawling

(2014) A Dreher et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Modeling self-organized spatio-temporal patterns of PIP3and PTEN during spontaneous cell polarization

(2014) Fabian Knoch et al.   PHYSICAL BIOLOGY

Quantifying the degree of persistence in random amoeboid motion based on the Hurst exponent of fractional Brownian motion

(2014) Natallia Makarava et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Geometry-Driven Polarity in Motile Amoeboid Cells

(2014) Oliver Nagel et al.   PLoS One

Polarity mechanisms such as contact inhibition of locomotion regulate persistent rotational motion of mammalian cells on micropatterns

(2014) B. A. Camley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionarily conserved coupling of adaptive and excitable networks mediates eukaryotic chemotaxis

(2014) Ming Tang et al.   Nature Communications

Intracellular Encoding of Spatiotemporal Guidance Cues in a Self-Organizing Signaling System for Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium Cells

(2013) Tatsuo Shibata et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

An excitable signal integrator couples to an idling cytoskeletal oscillator to drive cell migration

(2013) Chuan-Hsiang Huang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Phase-field approach to chemotactic driving of neutrophil morphodynamics

(2013) Sara Najem et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Actin cytoskeleton of chemotactic amoebae operates close to the onset of oscillations

(2013) C. Westendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phase geometries of two-dimensional excitable waves govern self-organized morphodynamics of amoeboid cells

(2013) D. Taniguchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling crawling cell movement on soft engineered substrates

(2013) Jakob Löber et al.   Soft Matter

Distinct cell shapes determine accurate chemotaxis

(2013) Luke Tweedy et al.   Scientific Reports

Interaction of Motility, Directional Sensing, and Polarity Modules Recreates the Behaviors of Chemotaxing Cells

(2013) Changji Shi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

PIP3 Waves and PTEN Dynamics in the Emergence of Cell Polarity

(2012) Günther Gerisch et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Active Brownian particles

(2012) P. Romanczuk et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Modeling the self-organized phosphatidylinositol lipid signaling system in chemotactic cells using quantitative image analysis

(2012) T. Shibata et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

A Stochastic Description of Dictyostelium Chemotaxis

(2012) Gabriel Amselem et al.   PLoS One

Coupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility model

(2012) D. Shao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Polarity: Quantitative Modeling as a Tool in Cell Biology

(2012) A. Mogilner et al.   SCIENCE

Cell polarity: mechanochemical patterning

(2012) Nathan W. Goehring et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Cell Shape Dynamics: From Waves to Migration

(2012) Meghan K. Driscoll et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Biased excitable networks: how cells direct motion in response to gradients

(2011) Pablo A Iglesias et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

A Quorum-Sensing Factor in Vegetative Dictyostelium Discoideum Cells Revealed by Quantitative Migration Analysis

(2011) Laurent Golé et al.   PLoS One

How Cells Use Pseudopods for Persistent Movement and Navigation

(2011) P. J. M. Van Haastert   Science Signaling

Chemotaxis: A Feedback-Based Computational Model Robustly Predicts Multiple Aspects of Real Cell Behaviour

(2011) Matthew P. Neilson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Comparison of Mathematical Models for Polarization of Single Eukaryotic Cells in Response to Guided Cues

(2011) Alexandra Jilkine et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: A Network of Signaling Pathways Controls Motility, Directional Sensing, and Polarity

(2010) Kristen F. Swaney et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

A Stochastic Model for Chemotaxis Based on the Ordered Extension of Pseudopods

(2010) Peter J.M. Van Haastert   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Quantitative analysis of random ameboid motion

(2010) H. U. Bödeker et al.   EPL

Helical crack-front instability in mixed-mode fracture

(2010) Antonio J. Pons et al.   NATURE

Transient Localized Patterns in Noise-Driven Reaction-Diffusion Systems

(2010) Inbal Hecht et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Computational Model for Cell Morphodynamics

(2010) Danying Shao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cells navigate with a local-excitation, global-inhibition-biased excitable network

(2010) Y. Xiong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-organization of the phosphatidylinositol lipids signaling system for random cell migration

(2010) Y. Arai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Ordered Extension of Pseudopodia by Amoeboid Cells in the Absence of External Cues

(2009) Leonard Bosgraaf et al.   PLoS One

Navigation of Chemotactic Cells by Parallel Signaling to Pseudopod Persistence and Orientation

(2009) Leonard Bosgraaf et al.   PLoS One

Cell motility as random motion: A review

(2008) D. Selmeczi et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

A bistable mechanism for directional sensing

(2008) C Beta et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Persistent Cell Motion in the Absence of External Signals: A Search Strategy for Eukaryotic Cells

(2008) Liang Li et al.   PLoS One

Functional Analysis of Spontaneous Cell Movement under Different Physiological Conditions

(2008) Hiroaki Takagi et al.   PLoS One

Ordered Patterns of Cell Shape and Orientational Correlation during Spontaneous Cell Migration

(2008) Yusuke T. Maeda et al.   PLoS One

Anomalous dynamics of cell migration

(2008) P. Dieterich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA