iTHEMS Biology Seminar by Dr. Mitsusuke Tarama on June 16, 2022

On June 16th, Dr. Tarama gave us an interesting talk about the physical modeling of self-organization in the chick embryo. He first introduced several beautiful patterns in biology such as stripes of pigment cells of Zebrafish. He then explained a recent observation of the dynamical meshwork structure of chick mesodermal cells, which is the direct motivation of his theoretical work. He showed how the intercellular interactions and shape deformation of cells can produce the dynamical meshwork structure, by physical modeling and application of the persistent homology as a useful tool. We are really grateful to Dr. Tarama for his comprehensive talk from both experimental and theoretical sides.

Reported by Kyosuke Adachi