Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations

A Boussard, A Fessel, C Oettmeier… - … of the Royal …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum, an aneural organism, uses information from
previous experiences to adjust its behaviour, but the mechanisms by which this is …

Physarum polycephalum: Smart Network Adaptation

M Le Verge-Serandour, K Alim - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Life evolved organisms to adapt dynamically to their environment and autonomously exhibit
behaviors. Although complex behaviors in organisms are typically associated with the …

Encoding memory in tube diameter hierarchy of living flow network

M Kramar, K Alim - Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 2021‏ - pnas.org
The concept of memory is traditionally associated with organisms possessing a nervous
system. However, even very simple organisms store information about past experiences to …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal analysis in unsteady oscillatory Darcy blood flow through stenosed artery

G Shankar, EP Siva, D Tripathi, OA Beg - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study aims to provide an extensive overview of the consequences of heat source and
thermal radiation on blood flow in stenosed arteries through Casson fluid. We examine the …

[PDF][PDF] Biotensegrity or fascintegrity?

B Bordoni, MA Varacallo, B Morabito, M Simonelli - Cureus, 2019‏ - cureus.com
The biotensegrity view of the living is a theoretical model and there is no mathematical study
in vitro or in vivo that demonstrates its validity, taking into account the presence of liquids …

Emergence of behaviour in a self-organized living matter network

P Fleig, M Kramar, M Wilczek, K Alim - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
What is the origin of behaviour? Although typically associated with a nervous system, simple
organisms also show complex behaviours. Among them, the slime mold Physarum …

Vascular adaptation model from force balance: Physarum polycephalum as a case study

S Marbach, N Ziethen, K Alim - New Journal of Physics, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding vascular adaptation, namely what drives veins to shrink or grow, is key for
the self-organization of flow networks and their optimization. From the top–down principle of …

Flow-network adaptation and behavior in slime molds

A Dussutour, C Arson - Fungal Ecology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is an amoebozoa that grows forming a cytoplasm
network that adapts its geometry to external stimuli. The cytoplasm is made of ectoplasm …

Uni-cellular integration of complex spatial information in slime moulds and ciliates

D Schenz, Y Nishigami, K Sato, T Nakagaki - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Single-celled organisms show a fascinating faculty for integrating spatial information and
adapting their behaviour accordingly. As such they are of potential interest for elucidating …

Living system adapts harmonics of peristaltic wave for cost-efficient optimization of pum** performance

FK Bäuerle, S Karpitschka, K Alim - Physical review letters, 2020‏ - APS
Wavelike patterns driving transport are ubiquitous in life. Peristaltic pumps are a paradigm of
efficient mass transport by contraction driven flows—often limited by energetic constraints …