Vesicle is a molecular assembly configuring lipid bilayer shell, and investigated as a model system of biological cell. Using both experimental observation and minimising the total energy, we study the morphology of lipid vesicle doublet and triplet. We demonstrate that … Read More

The meeting will take place online via Zoom: Meeting ID: 833 0750 1179 Passcode: bio

The meeting will take place online via Zoom: Meeting ID: 833 0750 1179 Passcode: bio

The continuum-mechanics approach to the vertex model is useful to understand the phenomenology of tissue deformations during morphogenesis. I will review the past attempzs to derive the continuum theory and compare the theoretical results to the results of numerical simulation. … Read More

Gastrulation movements in all animal embryos start with regulated deformations of patterned epithelial sheets. Current studies of gastrulation use a wide range of model organisms and emphasize either large-scale tissue processes or dynamics of individual cells and cell groups. In … Read More

Microemulsions, mixtures of oil, water, and surfactant, are thermodynamically stable. Unlike conventional emulsions, microemulsions form spontaneously, have a monodisperse droplet size that can be controlled by adjusting the surfactant concentration, and do not degrade with time. To make microemulsions, a … Read More

The idea of using the predictable base pairing of DNA nucleobases for programmable assembly on the nanoscale dates back to the 1980s when the recently deceased Ned Seeman had the idea of using it to crystalize proteins on a DNA-based … Read More

Alphaviruses are a genus of positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that infect mammals and are transmitted by mosquitos. These viruses can cause a wide range of diseases, from dengue-like symptoms (e.g., Chikungunya virus) to encephalitis (e.g., Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus). While … Read More