Our understanding of the role of membrane tension in the field of membrane biophysics is
rapidly evolving from a passive construct to an active player in a variety of cellular …

Force generation by actin assembly shapes cellular membranes. An experimentally
constrained multiscale model shows that a minimal branched actin network is sufficient to …

Budding of membranes by protein coats is a universal phenomenon that is critically
important in cellular trafficking pathways. Recent experiments have demonstrated that …

In this paper a stationary action principle is proved to hold for capillary fluids, ie fluids for
which the deformation energy has the form suggested, starting from molecular arguments …

Cellular nuclei are bound by two uniformly separated lipid membranes that are fused with
each other at numerous donut-shaped pores. These membranes are structurally supported …

Governing equations of motion for a viscous incompressible material surface are derived
from the balance laws of continuum mechanics. The surface is treated as a time-dependent …

Adsorption of proteins onto membranes can alter the local membrane curvature. This
phenomenon has been observed in biological processes such as endocytosis, tubulation …

Living systems are chiral on multiple scales, from constituent biopolymers to large scale
morphology, and their active mechanics is both driven by chiral components and serves to …

Dendritic spines are small, bulbous protrusions along the dendrites of neurons and are sites
of excitatory postsynaptic activity. The morphology of spines has been implicated in their …

The cell cortex is a thin layer beneath the plasma membrane that gives animal cells
mechanical resistance and drives most of their shape changes, from migration, division to …