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Dense active matter: topology in biology
- Julia Yeomans(
- University of Oxford
Abstract
Active materials such as bacteria, molecular motors and self- propelled colloids, are Nature's engines. They continuously transform chemical energy from their environment to mechanical work. Dense active matter shows mesoscale turbulence, the emergence of chaotic flow structures characterised by high vorticity and motile topological defects. I shall describe flow patterns in active matter in confinement and the transition to active turbulence in channels. In recent work we have been modelling cell layers as active systems, and I will give examples where topological defects may be of relevance to biological function.
Dense active matter: topology in biology
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Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB
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The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
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EH9 3FD
UK
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK
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