Collège De France (général)

Jean-François JoannyMatière molle et biophysiqueCollège de FranceAnnée 2024-2025Conférence - Mark Bowick - Order in Biological DevelopmentMark BowickDeputy Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa BarbaraMark Bowick est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du professeur Jean-François Joanny, chaire Matière molle et biophysique.RésuméHow does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold orientational order with the flexibility of a liquid but the structural rigidity arising from orientational order. Such ideas can be tested in active (self-propelled) Voronoi models of tissue that include cell division.Mark BowickMark Bowick was born in New Zealand, obtained his B.Sc.(Hons) from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics