<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear Soft Matter Colleagues and Friends,</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">On Friday 30 April 2021 at 9:30 AM we are hosting a seminar during which</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><b class="">Daniel Matoz-Fernandez </b>(FUW)</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">will give a talk</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Growth, form, and active mechanics in biology</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Abstract</font></b></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Despite significant progress in understanding the behavior of active fluids, much less is known about how activity affects the behavior of solid and viscoelastic materials, such as epithelial tissues or bacterial biofilms. In this talk, I will show how activity in the form of growth and chemical signaling can drive the system to </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">develop a wide variety of shapes due to competition with viscous relaxation. The latter is of particular interest in developing a physical understanding of morphogenesis, where the embryo has to undergo a series of carefully orchestrated shape changes to establish the functioning organism. </span></font></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">The seminar will be conducted on Zoom</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82784273907" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82784273907</font></a></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">and will begin at <b class="">9:30AM</b>. </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Maciej Lisicki</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Marek Napiórkowski</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Piotr Szymczak</font></div>
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