MUSCLEES cafes

- Hiroshi Horii : Anomalous fluctuation phenomena in heavy-tailed renewal-reward processes
- Sophie Hecht: Journal club
Tuesday, november 12th, LJLL seminar room 15-16 201.
- Naoufel Cresson: A free-boundary problem to describe cell motility
- Abstract: We will present and discuss a model introduced by Lavi et al. (1) to describe migration and deformation of a cell confined between two parallel plates. In this model, the cell is represented as a 2D free-boundary fluid droplet transporting a solute. The interaction between the solute and the cell membrane, represented by an active traction force that disturbs surface tension, provides insights into the physical mechanisms driving cell motility. We will discuss extensions of the model to account for different effects and present simulation results.
  This work was conducted under the supervision of Nicolas Meunier at LaMME during my M2 internship.
  (1) Ido Lavi et al. “Motility and morphodynamics of confined cells”. In : Phys Rev E (2020)