Mechanical models for cellular mechanotransduction

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• Carina Dunlop, Surrey
• Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:00-13:00
• PHYW-LT (117).

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The ability of cells to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of their environments is fundamental to cellular behaviour, with stiffness found to be a key control parameter. The physical mechanisms underpinning mechanosensing are, however, not well understood. I here consider the key physical cellular behaviours of active contractility of the internal cytoskeleton and cell growth, coupling these into mechanical models. These models suggest new distinct mechanisms of mechanotransduction in cells and tissues.

This talk is part of the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series series.

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