Alex Grigas
Postdoc, Manning Group, Syracuse University
- How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- 2/ First, notice how different the cell architecture in the avian presomitic mesoderm (PSM) is from confluent and bubble-like cells seen in other tissues. It looks more like a network of cells attached by stellate arms.
- Our new paper relating protein folding and jamming is out in PRX Life! All protein cores are densely packed irrespective of overall fold, and we show this arises from a jamming transition where amino acids reach a critical, incompressible density. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
