Islets of Langerhans consist of a large functional syncytium of beta cells that produce pulses of insulin, a key component for controlling metabolic homeostasis. In response to stimulation, the islet cells display rather well-coordinated intercellular activity patterns, which was found … Read More

I will present a new approach to studying epithelial mechanics, which is based on representing the tissue structure by a graph. As a proof of concept, I will study a tissue with random cell rearrangements and compare the results with … Read More

A cosmological first-order phase transition would have given rise to a stochastic gravitational wave background which may be observable today. Phase transitions are driven by thermal loop fluctuations, which modify background fields at leading order. This breaks the usual loop … Read More

The meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).

https://indico.ijs.si/event/1547/

Abstract Viruses likely represent the most diverse part of the biosphere; nevertheless, a large part of their diversity is still unknown. Viromics approaches, based on high-throughput sequencing, enable the studies of virus diversity inside and outside of their hosts, in … Read More

I will present a minimal Grand Unified Theory model, based on an SU(5) gauge symmetry and a global U(1) Peccei-Quinn symmetry, that predicts the existence of an ultralight axion dark matter within a narrow mass range between 0.1 neV and … Read More

Vesicles are of great research interest as they not only form naturally but are also artificially produced as liposomes, primarily used as a drug (including vaccines) delivery mechanism, owning to their biocompatibility with the cell membrane. An essential step of … Read More

https://indico.ijs.si/event/1485/

I will talk about the work accomplished for two years of my PhD. First, I will explain the simulations of the interaction between the spike protein and human skin. Using all-atom (AA) simulations we showed which are the relevant residues … Read More