Emergence of Active Nematic Behavior in Monolayers of Isotropic Cells

Why we need mechanics to understand animal regeneration

(2018) Kevin Chiou et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics

(2018) G. Duclos et al.   Nature Physics

Turbulent Dynamics of Epithelial Cell Cultures

(2018) C. Blanch-Mercader et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cytoskeletal Anisotropy Controls Geometry and Forces of Adherent Cells

(2018) Wim Pomp et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Shear-induced damped oscillations in an epithelium depend on actomyosin contraction and E-cadherin cell adhesion

(2018) Ehsan Sadeghipour et al.   eLife

Topological defects control collective dynamics in neural progenitor cell cultures

(2017) Kyogo Kawaguchi et al.   NATURE

Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion

(2017) Thuan Beng Saw et al.   NATURE

Quantifying forces in cell biology

(2017) Pere Roca-Cusachs et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanobiology of collective cell behaviours

(2017) Benoit Ladoux et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Active Vertex Model for cell-resolution description of epithelial tissue mechanics

(2017) Daniel L. Barton et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Collective cell durotaxis emerges from long-range intercellular force transmission

(2016) R. Sunyer et al.   SCIENCE

Orientational properties of nematic disclinations

(2016) Arthur J. Vromans et al.   Soft Matter

Motility-Driven Glass and Jamming Transitions in Biological Tissues

(2016) Dapeng Bi et al.   Physical Review X

Mechanotransduction: use the force(s)

(2015) Ewa K. Paluch et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Active gel physics

(2015) J. Prost et al.   Nature Physics

Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th Anniversary: Cell division: a source of active stress in cellular monolayers

(2015) Amin Doostmohammadi et al.   Soft Matter

Multiple scale model for cell migration in monolayers: Elastic mismatch between cells enhances motility

(2015) Benoit Palmieri et al.   Scientific Reports

Geometry and Topology of Turbulence in Active Nematics

(2015) Luca Giomi   Physical Review X

Interplay of cell dynamics and epithelial tension during morphogenesis of the Drosophila pupal wing

(2015) Raphaël Etournay et al.   eLife

Instabilities and topological defects in active nematics

(2014) Sumesh P. Thampi et al.   EPL

Forces driving epithelial wound healing

(2014) Agustí Brugués et al.   Nature Physics

Defect dynamics in active nematics

(2014) L. Giomi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Long-range ordered vorticity patterns in living tissue induced by cell division

(2014) Ninna S. Rossen et al.   Nature Communications

Defect Annihilation and Proliferation in Active Nematics

(2013) Luca Giomi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Alignment of cellular motility forces with tissue flow as a mechanism for efficient wound healing

(2013) M. Basan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanics of Epithelial Tissue Homeostasis and Morphogenesis

(2013) C. Guillot et al.   SCIENCE

Collective Cell Motion in an Epithelial Sheet Can Be Quantitatively Described by a Stochastic Interacting Particle Model

(2013) Néstor Sepúlveda et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Classifying collective cancer cell invasion

(2012) Peter Friedl et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Banding, excitability and chaos in active nematic suspensions

(2012) L Giomi et al.   NONLINEARITY

Mechanical Control of Morphogenesis by Fat/Dachsous/Four-Jointed Planar Cell Polarity Pathway

(2012) F. Bosveld et al.   SCIENCE

Advent of complex flows in epithelial tissues

(2011) Pilhwa Lee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Crawling Cells Can Close Wounds without Purse Strings or Signaling

(2011) Pilhwa Lee et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Velocity Fields in a Collectively Migrating Epithelium

(2010) L. Petitjean et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Computational Model for Cell Morphodynamics

(2010) Danying Shao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Traction forces during collective cell motion

(2009) N. S. Gov   HFSP Journal