Picking winners in cell-cell collisions: Wetting, speed, and contact

P Zadeh, BA Camley - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Groups of eukaryotic cells can coordinate their crawling motion to follow cues more
effectively, stay together, or invade new areas. This collective cell migration depends on cell …

Physical limits on galvanotaxis

I Nwogbaga, AH Kim, BA Camley - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Eukaryotic cells can polarize and migrate in response to electric fields via “galvanotaxis,”
which aids wound healing. Experimental evidence suggests cells sense electric fields via …

[HTML][HTML] Physical biomarkers for human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

M Tanaka, J Thoma, L Poisa-Beiro, P Wuchter… - Cells & Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Adhesion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) to the bone marrow niche
plays critical roles in the maintenance of the most primitive HSPCs. The interactions of …

Migration and division in cell monolayers on substrates with topological defects

K Kaiyrbekov, K Endresen, K Sullivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Collective movement and organization of cell monolayers are important for wound healing
and tissue development. Recent experiments highlighted the importance of liquid crystal …

Nonlinear dynamics of confined cell migration--modeling and inference

P Zadeh, BA Camley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07390, 2024 - arxiv.org
The motility of eukaryotic cells is strongly influenced by their environment, with confined cells
often developing qualitatively different motility patterns from those migrating on simple two …

Physical limits on galvanotaxis depends on cell morphology and orientation

I Nwogbaga, BA Camley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17420, 2024 - arxiv.org
Galvanotaxis is believed to be driven by the redistribution of transmembrane proteins and
other molecules, referred to as" sensors", through electrophoresis and electroosmosis. Here …

Does nematic order allow groups of elongated cells to sense electric fields better?

K Kaiyrbekov, BA Camley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04723, 2024 - arxiv.org
Collective response to external directional cues like electric fields plays a pivotal role in
processes such as tissue development, regeneration, and wound healing. In this study we …

[PDF][PDF] Cell shape and orientation control galvanotactic accuracy

I Nwogbaga, BA Camley - ArXiv, 2024 - researchgate.net
Eukaryotic cells sense and follow electric fields during wound healing and embryogenesis–
this is called galvanotaxis. Galvanotaxis is believed to be driven by the redistribution of …

MODELING GALVANOTAXIS: PHYSICAL LIMITS OF SIGNAL SENSING & MORPHOLOGY EFFECTS

I Nwogbaga - 2024 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
Galvanotaxis--the migration of cells towards an electric field--is a natural phenomenon
prevalent during many biological processes such as wound healing and embryogenesis …