Domaines
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Soft matter
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Physics of living systems
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique Description
The interior of a cell is a striking example of an active soft material: it is dense, heterogeneous, viscoelastic, and continuously driven far from equilibrium by internal energy-consuming processes. From a physics perspective, this activity can fluidize an otherwise glassy material and strongly enhance tracer motion. Yet we still lack a quantitative description of how energy injection and packing control fluctuations, transport, and mechanical response. The ANR-funded project, ActiveCyt, addresses this problem by combining controlled experiments with statistical-physics modeling.
Contact
Wylie Ahmed