Séminaire du LPTMS: Charlie Duclut (MPI PKS Dresden)

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31/03/2020    
11:00 - 12:00

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Quorum effects in assemblies of chemotactic cells

Charlie Duclut (MPI PKS Dresden)

ZOOM MEETING ID: 908 161 299 – PASSWORD: 026475 —

To self-organise into complex structures such as tissues and organs, individual cells need to interact. A generic mechanism for this interaction is a chemical signalling. The ability of an individual cell to follow a gradient of chemicals is called chemotaxis. Starting from a microscopic description of chemotactic cells, I will present a coarse-graining procedure to describe an assembly of such particles. This system exhibits a phase transition that I will then study using a dynamical renormalisation group approach. This analysis indicates the crucial role of a polarity-based chemotactic interaction, usually overlooked in phenomenological approaches. Finally, I will discuss an emergent symmetry of the model that allows us to compute scaling exponents exactly. In particular, we deduce a superdiffusive behavior of the particles in all physical dimensions.

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