Amoeboid motility has come to refer to a spectrum of cell migration modes enabling a cell to
move in the absence of strong, specific adhesion. To do so, cells have evolved a range of …

The adaptive and surprising emergent properties of biological materials self-assembled in
far-from-equilibrium environments serve as an inspiration for efforts to design nanomaterials …

Microtubules and molecular motors are essential components of the cellular cytoskeleton,
driving fundamental processes in vivo, including chromosome segregation and cargo …

When a physical system is driven away from equilibrium, the statistical distribution of its
dynamical trajectories informs many of its physical properties. Characterizing the nature of …

Active materials form a class of far-from-equilibrium systems that are driven internally and
exhibit self-organization, which can be harnessed to perform mechanical work. Inspired by …

Lecture notes after the doctoral school (Post) Modern Thermodynamics held at the
University of Luxembourg, December 2022, 5-7, covering and advancing continuous-time …

We discover unexpected connections between packing configurations and rare fluctuations
in dense systems of active particles subject to pulsation of size. Using large deviation theory …

In this study, we investigate the response of self-assembled cytoskeletal structures to
external mechanical perturbations, focusing on filament and crosslinker mixtures in two …

A fundamental problem in computer simulation of systems of biophysical interest is the
separation of timescales. This refers to the fact that stable integration of the equations that …

Stochastic computational models, which are based on mathematical approaches rooted in
probability analyses, are powerful tools that are well suited for the simulation of active matter …