📣Postdoc position available! Join the group of @HadrienOliveri@mpipz_cologne to work on mathematical modelling of plant morphogenesis 🌿📐
We’re excited to hear from curious, interdisciplinary researchers! #plants#career#postdoc
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❗🧠 New review in IEEE RBME
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Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoc position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz_cologne. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply🌱Reposts are appreciated! https://t.co/ey9fuFeO3W
We’re #hiring, please RT! Our #IMPRS@mpipz_cologne & @UniCologne recruits 7 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2025!
Find details at https://t.co/nYbaQrwXz4 and apply by Jan 5.
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The Weeble & the Gömböc
Weeble thought itself so clever
With its weebly wobbly ways,
But Gömböc knew the secret
Of Weeble's clever play.
So let @AlainGoriely tell a story
From mathematical heavens above,
Of how Gömböc out wobbled Weeble
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Fully funded PhD position in Applied Mathematics available at @mpipz_cologne! If you're interested in mathematical modeling, I encourage you to apply. Looking forward to welcoming motivated students! 🌱
We are #hiring ! In @hadrienoliveri project supervised @mpipz_cologne, the PhD student will explore continuum mechanical models of plant morphogenesis. 🗓️application deadline Jan 5th, 2025
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Mathematicians recently turned to nature to find a new kind of tiling: “soft cells” that stack and repeat to fill 3D space. https://t.co/66pwzyU86v 🧵
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@Ella_Maru@mpipz_cologne@mpicbg@csbdresden Let me rephrase as: a piece of tissue that grows quicker than its neighbours by definition attracts more water (since most of the volume is made of water). This defines a water sink.
🌟 New preprint w I. Cheddadi! We tackle a key challenge: building a field theory of plant morphogenesis, based on fundamental balance laws and capturing cell wall remodelling and water dynamics in tissues🌿💧@mpipz_cologne@mpicbg@csbdresden
Read more https://t.co/zT4MGy6PWk
@Ella_Maru@mpipz_cologne@mpicbg@csbdresden Thanks Ella! This is a consequence of mass balance: for a region to grow relative to its neighbours, it needs to attract more water, i.e. have lower water potential. This can be achieved by having higher osmolarity, or by being more extensible (lowering the hydrostatic pressure).
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Editors' suggestion: Active shape control by plants in dynamic environments, Hadrien Oliveri, Derek E. Moulton, Heather A. Harrington, and Alain Goriely #BiologicalPhysics https://t.co/3TRDz6CXue
New in @PhysRevE: Sachs education and the strange dynamics of plants in rotation🌱🌪️
With @AlainGoriely, @haharrington, and Derek Moulton.
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A head-spinning thread 🧵👇
In all scenarios, the plant counteracts rotation by adopting the shape that minimises its overall movement, a behaviour emerging from gravitropism AND autotropism. This offers insight into the complex out-of-equilibrium dynamics of shoots and ideas for exciting experiments! 🌱