Theory of Living Matter Group

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The Theory of Living Matter group (Cambridge, UK) is an initiative to build a network for researchers interested in theoretical analysis and modelling of biological phenomena.
Websitehttp://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/tlm/index.html
LocationCambridge (UK)
InstitutionUniversity of Cambridge
ResearchTheoretical Biology, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics, Mathematical Biology, Computational Biology

🚨 New preprint out 🚨 !

"A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics":

http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.03.551894v1?rss=1

A new approach bringing together spatial transcriptomics and mechanobiology to yield new insights on how genes and mechanical forces work in concert to shape the embryo!

Congratulations to Adrien Hallou @gurdoninstitute , Bianca Dumitrascu @Columbia & collaborators 🎉👏 !

📢 "The Future of Quantitative Biology" ECR Symposium - 27/09/23 - Cambridge UK 📢

🔸Satellite meeting of #PLM17

🔸Organized by @camphysbiol
& @TLM_Cambridge

🔸Free registration (abstract deadline: 25/08) at :

forms.gle/LajeBsMZmwYxduVx5

🚨 Wed 21/06 - 16:00 UK - 16th @TLM_Cambridge 2022/2023 Hybrid Seminar - Online & in person @slcuplants 🚨

"Does evolution have a built in Occam’s razor?"

Prof. Ard Louis @UniofOxford @oxfordphysics

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🚨 Wed 10/05 - 16:00 UK - 13th @TLM_Cambridge 2022/2023 Seminar 🚨

"Topologically entangled living matter"

Prof. Saad Bhamla @BhamlaLab @GeorgiaTech

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RT @AshleyLibby12
Calling DevBio Postdocs and Graduate Students! Come to the Developmental Biology GRS/GRC!

-exciting list of speakers
-presentations from abstracts
-trainee financial support! @NSF @Co_Biologists
-networking and development opportunity
#NSFFunded #Co_BiologistsFunded #devbio

RT @MarcoMauri81
With Xiu Jia @xibeihenai , I am organising a new seminar series for the BioTheory folk in Jena

Biotheory Meetings Jena https://sites.google.com/view/btmj/home-page?authuser=3

Jena people, join us for the first meeting on May 9th, 14h at the Fleming room in Beutenberg HKI or online via Zoom

BTMJ

The BioTheorist Meetings have the purpose to promote the collaborations within the research groups that use theory, modelling, mathematics and informatics to explore life science and biology questions in Jena. The meeting are taking place every month, the second Tuesday, both in presence and via

RT @AMartinezArias
Well, yes they helped but, before them there was the great Wilhelm His; see this account of his Science and forays into morphogenesis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12834
Image below from his experiments on the role of tensile forces in development https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1653428844169244675

RT @AdamShellard
Roberto (@mayor_lab) & I wrote a review about some emerging themes related to how stiffness infuences morphogenesis.

Thanks very much to the @BiochemSoc for the invitation! #BiochemSocTrans

You can read it here - https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/doi/10.1042/BST20220826/232986/Sculpting-with-stiffness-rigidity-as-a-regulator

Sculpting with stiffness: rigidity as a regulator of morphogenesis

From a physical perspective, morphogenesis of tissues results from interplay between their material properties and the mechanical forces exerted on them. The importance of mechanical forces in influencing cell behaviour is widely recognised, whereas the importance of tissue material properties in vivo, like stiffness, has only begun to receive attention in recent years. In this mini-review, we highlight key themes and concepts that have emerged related to how tissue stiffness, a fundamental material property, guides various morphogenetic processes in living organisms.

Portland Press

RT @greg_m_priest
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born OTD in 1860. He conceived of organismal form as primarily a matter of physical forces, rather than natural selection.

He used diagrams to represent how networks of physical forces could deform one body plan into another.

RT @katjaroeper
New lab adventure! Our first paper in a new tube morphogenesis system, nephron formation in human renal organoids from iPSCs, check out our multi-ome and functional analysis of early polarisation and MET https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.30.538857v2 @CellBiol_MRCLMB