Topic: actin polymerization

The cytoskeleton has the remarkable ability to self-organize into active materials which underlie diverse cellular processes ranging from motility to cell division. Actomyosin is a canonical example of an active material, which generates cellularscale contractility in part through the forces exerted by myosin motors on actin filaments. While the molecular players underlying actomyosin contractility have been well characterized, how cellular-scale deformation in disordered actomyosin networks emerges from filament-scale interactions is not well understood. In this talk, I’ll present work done