3 code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Anton Solovev, Benjamin M. Friedrich
Carpets of actively bending cilia represent arrays of biological oscillators that can exhibit self-organized metachronal synchronization in the form of traveling waves of cilia phase.
Biological Physics
3 code implementations • 1 Oct 2020 • Anton Solovev, Benjamin M. Friedrich
We present a multi-scale modeling and simulation framework for low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics of shape-changing immersed objects, e. g., biological microswimmers and active surfaces.
Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics Fluid Dynamics
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • André Scholich, Simon Syga, Hernán Morales-Navarrete, Fabián Segovia-Miranda, Hidenori Nonaka, Kirstin Meyer, Walter de Back, Lutz Brusch, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Marino Zerial, Frank Jülicher, Benjamin M. Friedrich
We propose a conceptual and algorithmic framework to characterize complex patterns of polarity proteins on the surface of a cell in terms of a multipole expansion.