Internship and thesis proposals
Self-organization of chemotactic cell assemblies

Domaines
Condensed matter
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Soft matter
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Physics of living systems
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics

Type of internship
Théorique, numérique
Description
The goal of this internship is to study the self-organization of cell assemblies due to the interplay between chemotaxis (the ability of an individual cell to follow a gradient of chemicals) and proliferation. To characterize the nonlinear pattern formation stemming from this interplay, several approaches could be considered: (i) a numerical approach, based on simulations of the microscopic equations of motions or on solving the coarse-grained partial differential equations, (ii) a field-theoretical approach, that will allow characterizing the critical points and scaling properties of such colonies. See pdf for details

Contact
Charlie Duclut
Laboratory : PCC - UMR 168
Team : Approches physiques de problématiques biologiques
Team Website
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