Active layer dynamics drives a transition to biofilm fingering

E Young, G Melaugh, RJ Allen - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of spatial organisation in biofilm growth is one of the most fundamental
topics in biofilm biophysics and microbiology. It has long been known that growing biofilms …

Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions

M Gralka, O Hallatschek - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The population genetics of most range expansions is thought to be shaped by the
competition between Darwinian selection and random genetic drift at the range margins …

Edwards–Wilkinson depinning transition in fractional Brownian motion background

N Valizadeh, H Hamzehpour, M Samadpour… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
There are various reports about the critical exponents associated with the depinning
transition. In this study, we investigate how the disorder strength present in the support can …

Pinning transition in biofilm structure driven by active layer dynamics

E Young, G Melaugh, RJ Allen - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Surface-attached communities of microbes, known as biofilms, are diverse in their
morphologies. Characterising distinct types of biofilm spatial structure, and understanding …

Effect of heterogeneity and spatial correlations on the structure of a tumor invasion front in cellular environments

Y Azimzade, AA Saberi, M Sahimi - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Analysis of invasion front has been widely used to decipher biological properties, as well as
the growth dynamics of the corresponding populations. Likewise, the invasion front of tumors …

Edwards-Wilkinson depinning transition in random Coulomb potential background

N Valizadeh, M Samadpour, H Hamzehpour, MN Najafi - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
The quenched Edwards-Wilkinson growth of the 1+ 1 interface is considered in the
background of the correlated random noise. We use random Coulomb potential as the …

Invasion front dynamics of interactive populations in environments with barriers

Y Azimzade - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Invading populations normally comprise different subpopulations that interact while trying to
overcome existing barriers against their way to occupy new areas. However, the majority of …

Invasion front dynamics in disordered environments

Y Azimzade, M Sasar, I Maleki - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Invasion occurs in environments that are normally spatially disordered, however, the effect of
such a randomness on the dynamics of the invasion front has remained less understood …

The collective effect of finite-sized inhomogeneities on the spatial spread of populations in two dimensions

W Möbius, F Tesser, KMJ Alards… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The dynamics of a population expanding into unoccupied habitat has been primarily studied
for situations in which growth and dispersal parameters are uniform in space or vary in one …

Anomalous phase diagram of the elastic interface with nonlocal hydrodynamic interactions in the presence of quenched disorder

MG Nezhadhaghighi - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We investigate the influence of quenched disorder on the steady states of driven systems of
the elastic interface with nonlocal hydrodynamic interactions. The generalized elastic model …