{"id":32401,"date":"2025-11-15T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/?p=32401"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:29:32","slug":"biolight-seminar-active-matter-meets-biophysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/2025\/11\/15\/biolight-seminar-active-matter-meets-biophysics\/","title":{"rendered":"BioLight Seminar: Active matter meets Biophysics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Prof Julia M Yeomans OBE FRS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IoP Tom Duke Prize Lecture on Biological Physics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special seminar Tuesday 25th<\/sup> November 12.00<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Physics and Astronomy, Lecture Theatre C<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk title: Active matter meets biophysics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.physics.ox.ac.uk\/our-people\/yeomans<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof Julia Yeomans is the current recipient of the Tom Duke Prize, a prestigious Institute of Physics (IoP) award which the Biological Physics Group (BPG) bestows to an individual who has made exceptional impacts to the field of biological physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life defies equilibrium. Cells self-organise molecular components into intricate structures that enable them to grow, reproduce, and move. At a larger scale, collections of cells follow coordinated pathways of division, differentiation and reorganisation as a single cell develops into a mature organism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Active systems, driven by energy input at the level of individual particles, also exist out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Dense active matter shows distinctive collective behaviour: active turbulence, motile topological defects and co-ordinated flows, reminiscent of the rotation of cell clusters or the swirling patterns of a starling murmuration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, I will discuss how the ideas of active matter physics are offering fresh perspectives on mechanobiology and developmental biology: from the structure of lesions in invasive breast cancer to the rheology of active cell monolayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seminar is jointly organized by the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Centre of Biophotonics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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