Fundamentals of Growing Active Matter

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Description

This workshop was due to be held in May 2020 but was postponed due to the coronovirus outbreak. If you submitted an abstract for the May event, we will contact you to confirm if you wish to submit the abstract for the 2021 workshop.

A wide variety of physical properties of living systems arise from interplay between activity and growth. These include pattern formation in bacterial colonies, ordering in actin networks and the emergence of resistance in tumours.

The workshop's main goal is to gather together researchers working on different systems and using different techniques (theory, simulations, and experiments). We hope that the meeting will help to identify universal characteristics of growing active matter and reveal unifying general principles (if they exist).

Organising committee:

Richard Blythe
Martin Evans
Chiu Fan Lee
Davide Marenduzzo
Bartek Waclaw

Participants
  • Aayush Gautam
  • Alejandra Guzman Herrera
  • Alfredo L'Homme
  • Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes
  • András Major
  • Angelika Manhart
  • Ankush Aggarwal
  • Anna Lappala
  • Anusha Gopalan
  • Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba
  • Ashreya Jayaram
  • Aurore Loisy
  • Aydin Ozcan
  • Azeem Khan
  • Bartlomiej Waclaw
  • Bruno Castro
  • Chenyun Yao
  • Chiu Fan Lee
  • Christopher Revell
  • Daniel Amchin
  • Dario Dell'Arciprete
  • Davide Marenduzzo
  • Dimitrios Krommydas
  • Dominic Vella
  • Emmanuel Lance Christopher VI Plan
  • Erik Maikranz
  • Fan Yang
  • Farnoosh Joulaeian
  • Fengzhu Xiong
  • Giacomo Frangipane
  • Gunnar Pruessner
  • Gülce Kardeş
  • H P Jeevan
  • Hannah Jeckel
  • Helen Pringle
  • Henry Alston
  • Holly Joyce
  • Huong Vu
  • Ilyas Djafer-Cherif
  • Irina Pi Jaumà
  • Irina Pi Jaumà
  • Isabel Palacios
  • Isabelle George
  • Jake Williams
  • Jamie Hobbs
  • Jan Cammann
  • Jan Kirschbaum
  • Jane Loveless
  • Jean-François Flot
  • Jens Elgeti
  • Joanna Materska
  • Josep-Maria Armengol
  • Julia Yeomans
  • Knut Drescher
  • Konstantin Neuhaus
  • Lakhdar Sek
  • Lancelot Da Costa
  • Liam Ruske
  • Linda Ravazzano
  • Luca Giomi
  • Lucia Vidakovic
  • Ludwig Hoffmann
  • Luke Davis
  • Marco Mazza
  • Maria Cristina Cannarsa
  • Martin Evans
  • Maxime Deforet
  • Maxime Vassaux
  • Miquel Bosch
  • Mixon Faluweki
  • Niklas Netter
  • Oliver Henrich
  • Oliver Jensen
  • Onurcan Bektas
  • Patrick Jentsch
  • Patrick Warren
  • Philip Pearce
  • Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa
  • Rastko Sknepnek
  • Rehaan Khan
  • Rhoda Hawkins
  • Ricard Alert
  • Richard Blythe
  • Rituparno Mandal
  • Robert Ross
  • Rosalind Allen
  • Roshan Shrestha
  • Sasha Bailey
  • Shuvrangsu Das
  • Silke Henkes
  • Srivatsava Viswanadha Venkata Naga Sai
  • Stephen J. Watson
  • Sujit Datta
  • Swayamshree Senapati
  • Takuya Ohmura
  • Thibault Bertrand
  • Tim Dullweber
  • Tyler Shendruk
  • Vivienne Leech
  • Xiao Fu
  • Yuting Li
Bartek Waclaw
  • Thursday, 25 March
    • 09:30 09:45
      Introduction 15m
      Speaker: Bartek Waclaw (University of Edinburgh)
    • 09:45 10:30
      Modelling confluent cell layers as active nematics 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Prof. Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford)
    • 10:30 10:55
      The emergent physics of growing active matter 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Robert Ross (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
    • 11:00 11:25
      Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Hannah Jeckel (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
    • 11:30 12:15
      Growth mechanics – Coexistence and Evolution 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Jens Elgeti (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    • 12:15 13:00
      Lunch Break 45m
    • 13:00 13:45
      The geometry of colonisation 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Luca Giomi (Leiden University)
    • 13:45 14:10
      Theoretical modelling of competitive microbial range expansion with heterogeneous mechanical interactions 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Erik Maikranz (Saarland University )
    • 14:15 14:40
      Escape from Flatland: Morphology of Three-Dimensional Bacterial Communities 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Sujit Datta (Princeton University )
    • 14:45 15:30
      Afternoon break 45m
    • 15:30 16:15
      Simulating the growth of bacterial biofilms: spatial structure formation and genetic diversity 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Prof. Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
    • 16:15 17:15
      Poster Session 1h

      Jan Cammann
      Boundary-interior principle for microbial navigation in geometric confinement

      Mixon Faluweki
      Quantifying the flexural rigidity of cyanobacteria

      Jan Kirschbaum
      Controlling biomolecular condensates via chemical reactions

      Yuting (Irene) Li
      Non-equilibrium phase separation with reactions

      Helen Pringle
      Pattern formation in the axon: Self-Assembly of Actin Rings

      Liam Ruske
      Three-dimensional organisation and morphology of active droplets

      Roshan Shrestha
      Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nanoparticles in Model Bilayers: Lipid Phase Separation and Membrane Protein Interaction

    • 18:00 19:00
      Social Gathering 1h

      Informal session for all delegates

    • 09:30 10:15
      Growing actin networks 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Rhoda Hawkins (University of Sheffield)
    • 10:15 11:00
      Flow, fluctuate and freeze: Epithelial cell sheets as soft active matter 45m

      Invited talk

      Speaker: Silke Henkes (University of Bristol)
    • 11:00 11:25
      Emergent order and structure of growing biofilms 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Philip Pearce (Harvard Medical School)
    • 11:30 11:55
      Tackling embryogenesis with an Active Junction Model 25m

      Contributed talk

      Speaker: Ilyas Djafer-Cherif (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch Break 1h
    • 13:00 14:00
      Higgs Centre Colloquium 1h

      In silico synthesis of microgels: structure, elasticity and effective interactions in bulk and at liquid-liquid interfaces

      zoom link/password in joining instructions email

      Speaker: Emanuella Zaccarelli
    • 14:00 15:00
      Discussion & Closing remarks 1h
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