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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 52: Posters - Multi-Cellular Systems

BP 52.2: Poster

Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 17:00–19:00, Poster C

Morphogenesis Control by Mechanical Stresses — •Jason Khadka and Karen Alim — Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

A major question in developmental biology is to understand how reproducible shapes arises from the collective behavior of individual cells. Here, we investigate the role of physical forces and mechanical feedback during plant tissue growth. We build a three dimensional vertex model to represent the plant tissue and to simulate its growth including mechanical feedback on individual cell growth. Varying the feedback strength we investigate the role of mechanical feedback on the robustness of tissue shape.