Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar

Despite significant progress in understanding the behavior of active fluids, much less is known about how activity affects the behavior of solid and viscoelastic materials, such as epithelial tissues or bacterial biofilms. In this talk, I will show how activity in the form of growth and chemical signaling can drive the system to develop a wide variety of shapes due to competition with viscous relaxation. The latter is of particular interest in developing a physical understanding of morphogenesis, where the embryo has to undergo a series of carefully orchestrated shape changes to establish the functioning organism.

The seminar will be held on Zoom
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