Tanniemola Liverpool: The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Date

Nov 11, 2026

Time

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker

Tanniemola Liverpool

Affiliation

University of Bristol

Series

Physics of Life Seminar

Language

en

Main Topic

Biologie

Host

Helmut Schießel

Description

We are pleased to announce a new PoL Seminar by Tanniemola Liverpool from the University of Bristol.

When?  Wednesday, 11. November 2026, 11:00 am
Where? CRTD, Auditorium left

Abstract: I will discuss some recent work looking quantitatively at the process of wound healing using ideas from thermodynamics, continuum and statistical mechanics. Wound healing is a highly conserved process required for survival of an animal after tissue damage. The wound repair process is not only of great interest in its own right but is also a laboratory to study complex tissue dynamics and regeneration. Many wounds involve damage to an epithelial (barrier) tissue (like skin) that separates different regions of the body of a living organism. I will describe some recent work on studying wound healing in two dimensional epithelial tissues of a fruit fly pupal wing. This epithelium was chosen because it is transparent and accessible to sophisticated imaging techniques. We use live confocal time-lapse microscopy to follow the behaviour of cells in a tissue before and after wounding. I will focus on three cell-behaviours that are generally accepted to contribute to wound re-epithelialisation: cell shape deformation, cell division, and cell migration. I will describe how we are beginning to use a combination of mathematics, physics and biology to disentangle some of the organising principles behind the complex orchestrated dynamics that lead to wound healing.

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Everybody is very welcome. Don’t miss a great opportunity to join the seminar!

Please note: This seminar is going to take place in person at the CRTD and will not be streamed via Zoom.

Links

• Physics of Life website

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