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⏰ Early-bird deadline approaching – Biology for Physics 2026
Planning to join us in Barcelona for the 3rd Biology for Physics Conference – Energy and Information in Living Matter?
📅 August 1, 2026 is the deadline for:
• Early-bird registration
• Poster abstract submissions
👉 Conference information: https://www.biologyforphysics.org
👉 Registration: https://tickets.epsevents.org/bioforphysics/
#BiologyForPhysics #Biophysics #Physics #Biology #LivingMatter #ScientificConference #Barcelona
With Pierre Recho, we're now giving a doctoral-level course on #continuumMechanics and #thermodynamics of #LivingMatter.
That's the 2nd edition, the 1st one led us to write the ⬆️ above paper ⬆️ .
Lecture notes are online, happy to have feedback!
https://liphy-annuaire.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/pages_personnelles/jocelyn_etienne/LivingMatterCourse/
Our article on the #mechanics of "active" entropic biopolymer networks [possibly including #actomyosin, this is debated experimentally] is now published in J Elas.
Compared to enthalpic models, we're able to go right from the #thermodynamics of an unbiased #molecularMotor activity (in the spirit of the model by #JacquesProst for #myosin) at the molecular scale to a network-scale model in a closed form.
And we derive a method for solving quite easily the (usually tough) #viscoelastic #liquid model that we obtain, using #deformationGradientDecomposition.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-024-10102-8
(I share a paywall-free link to my followers below, but it's also on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07287 and on my webpage https://liphy-annuaire.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/pages_personnelles/jocelyn_etienne/papers.html#Jallon+Etienne.2025.1)
#cytoskeleton #cell #tissue #morphogenesis #activeMatter #livingMatter