Physikalisches Kolloquium: Prof. Dr. Tanniemola Liverpool – The physics and mathematics of wound healing

Titel: The physics and mathematics of wound healing

Abstract: I will discuss some recent work looking quantitatively at the process of wound healing using ideas from thermodynamics and
statistical mechanics. Wound healing is a highly conserved process required for survival of an animal after tissue damage.
The wound repair process is not only of great interest in its own right but is also a laboratory to study complex tissue
dynamics and regeneration.
Many wounds involve damage to an epithelial (barrier) tissue (like skin) that separates different regions of the body of a
living organism. I will describe some recent work on studying wound healing in two dimensional epithelial tissues of a
fruit fly pupal wing. This epithelium was chosen because it is transparent and accessible to sophisticated imaging techniques.
We use live confocal time-lapse microscopy to follow the behaviour of cells in a tissue before and after wounding.
I will focus on three cell-behaviours that are generally accepted to contribute to wound re-epithelialisation:
cell shape deformation, cell division, and cell migration.
I will describe how we are beginning to use a combination of mathematics, physics and biology to disentangle some of the
organising principles behind the complex orchestrated dynamics that lead to wound healing.

Sprecher / Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol
Kontakt / Contact: Prof. Dr. Ana-Suncana Smith

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Thema: Physikalisches Kolloquium 2024
Zoom-Link: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/61637094478?pwd=ZamJS845k8KM9DsTrUuWzwr6Jeiap4.1
Meeting-ID: 616 3709 4478, Kenncode: 567858