Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2023 APS March Meeting
Volume 68, Number 3
Las Vegas, Nevada (March 5-10)
Virtual (March 20-22); Time Zone: Pacific Time
Session T06: Mechanics of Cells and Tissues IV
11:30 AM–2:30 PM,
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Room: Room 129
Sponsoring
Unit:
DBIO
Chair: Abdul Malmi Kakkada, Augusta University
Abstract: T06.00008 : Rigidity of 3D confluent tissue is governed by energy barriers to local reconnection events*
12:54 PM–1:06 PM
Presenter:
Shabeeb Ameen
(Syracuse University)
Authors:
Shabeeb Ameen
(Syracuse University)
J. M Schwarz
(Syracuse University)
Tao Zhang
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
tissue, where the bulk tissue is represented by a tessellation of polyhedral cells with shared faces, using Brownian dynamics. In this model,
a rigidity transition appears to occur as a function of the target shape index of the cells at low effective temperatures. In the rigid phase,
the system is frustrated and the average shape parameter does not reach the target value. In the fluid phase, the average shape parameters
for the cells track the target value. Here, motivated from similar studies in two dimensions, we develop numerical methods to study the
energy cost of driving individual reconnection events within the bulk three dimensional tissue model. These reconnection events are a
three-dimensional analog of the two-dimensional T1 transitions studied in foams, colloids, and vertex models. We find that the energy cost
is a function of the target shape index, pointing to a potential mechanism driving the transition to fluidity. We further study these forced
reconnection events in a model of tissue embedded in extra cellular matrix to quantify how an external coupling of bulk tissue to collagen
can influence the onset of fluidity in the tissue.
*This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant NSF-PoLS-2014192
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