A paper by Daniel Sussman, Mateo Paoluzzi, Cristina Marchetti, and Lisa Manning titled “Anomalous glassy dynamics in simple models of dense biological tissue” was published in the April 6, 2018 issue of EPL. Full text of the paper is available at http://iopscience.iop.org.
Lisa Manning was featured in a Q&A for Quanta Magazine on June 11, 2018. In it, she discusses how the study of dynamic glassy materials can help us better understand embryonic development and disease. Read the Q&A at www.quantamagazine.org.
Photo credit: Jennifer May for Quanta Magazine
More than 30 educators from across the United States attended the inaugural “Building Authentic Partnerships” workshop on June 25-26, 2018. This workshop, held at UC-Irvine and sponsored by grants from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and NSF, was designed to inspire new and creative partnerships between minority-serving institutions and primarily white institutions. Organizers are currently reviewing applications for $20,000 in seed funding to support such partnerships. More information about the workshop is available here.
Congratulations to Giuseppe Passucci, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on April 18, 2018. Giuseppe’s thesis is titled “Self-propelled particle modeling, characterization, and imaging of superdiffusive fibroblast cells on 2D shape memory polymer substrates” and is available through the SU library at https://surface.syr.edu/etd/869/.
Lisa Manning, in collaboration with an organizing team of other Cottrell Scholars, will chair a 2-day workshop at UC-Irvine on June 25-26 called “Building Authentic Partnerships: Minority Serving Institutions and Primarily White Institutions Working Together to Improve Research and Education.” The objective of the workshop is to develop strategies and policies to help minority serving institutions (MSI) and primarily white institutions (PWI) develop authentic, sustainable partnerships that are mutually beneficial for faculty and students. Visit the workshop webpage for more information, including a full schedule and a list of speakers and facilitators. This workshop is funded by a grant from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement.
Postdoctoral associate Daniel Sussman was selected as a finalist for the postdoctoral speaker award by the APS Group for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP). He presented his work on anomalous interfacial tension in simple models of confluent cells in a special award session at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles.
An article by postdoc Matthias Merkel and Lisa Manning was published in the New Journal of Physics as a Fast Track Communication. In this article, we develop a model for confluent 3D tissues and study a solid-fluid transition that is controlled by a minimal surface of 3D cellular packings.
Our article “Cell volume changes contribute to epithelial morphogenesis in zebrafish Kupffer’s vesicle” was published in the Journal eLife. This work results from our ongoing collaboration with the Jeff Amack lab (Upstate Medical, Syracuse) and involved group members Matthias Merkel, Jonathan Dawson, and Lisa Manning.
An article by Daniel Sussman, Jen Schwarz, Cristina Marchetti, and Lisa manning, “Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue,” was published in Physical Review Letters and selected as an Editors’ Suggestion. The paper discusses how topological features of simple models of confluent cells can lead to unusual interfacial behavior. Read and download the article from the PRL website, and see also a brief synopsis in Physics.
