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<div class="csl-entry">Zampetaki, A., & Fürthauer, S. (2023, July 4). <i>Cytoskeletal Networks at Interfaces</i> [Poster Presentation]. Physics of living systems: From physical principles to biological function (EMBO Workshop), Dresden, Germany.</div>
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/187603
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Cytoskeletal networks play a key role in multiple mechanical and dynamical processes in
cells. Recently, a continuum theory has been developed [1],
allowing for the prediction of the material properties of highly crosslinked
cytoskeletal networks on a cellular scale from a phenomenological modelling of the
interactions between the cytoskeleton filaments at a molecular level. We extend this
theoretical framework to account for external forces, allowing us to explore how the
properties of cytoskeletal networks are affected by the presence of various interfaces.
This extended theory allows to study the interplay between cytoskeletal networks and the
organelles that it interacts with, such as the centrosomes in spindles, vesicles embedded
in intracellular actin networks, or even cortex-membrane interactions at the cell periphery.
[1] S. Fürthauer, D. J. Needleman, M. J. Shelley, NJP 23, 013012 (2021).
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