Search Results for author: Luca Giomi

Found 4 papers, 2 papers with code

Mechanical interplay between cell shape and actin cytoskeleton organization

1 code implementation23 May 2019 Koen Schakenraad, Jeremy Ernst, Wim Pomp, Erik H. J. Danen, Roeland M. H. Merks, Thomas Schmidt, Luca Giomi

We investigate the mechanical interplay between the spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton and the shape of animal cells adhering on micropillar arrays.

Biological Physics Soft Condensed Matter Cell Behavior

Metastability of lipid necks via geometric triality

1 code implementation4 Jan 2021 Piermarco Fonda, Luca Giomi

"Necks" are features of lipid membranes characterized by an uniquley large curvature, functioning as bridges between different compartments.

Soft Condensed Matter Differential Geometry Biological Physics

Topology-driven ordering of flocking matter

no code implementations5 Mar 2021 Amélie Chardac, Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Yoann Poupart, Luca Giomi, Denis Bartolo

We demonstrate that the self-similar ordering of flocking matter is ruled by a living network of domain walls linking all $\pm 1$ vortices, and guiding their annihilation dynamics.

Soft Condensed Matter

Theory of cellular homochirality and trait evolution in flocking systems

no code implementations24 Jul 2023 Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Luca Giomi

Combining the Vicsek model for collective behavior with the model of Jafarpour et al., developed to describe the emergence of molecular homochirality, we investigate how a homochiral state might have evolved in cells from an initially symmetric state without any mechanisms that explicitly break chiral symmetry.

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