<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends,</font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div><font face="HelveticaNeue">On Friday 17 November 2023 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><b>Annemiek Cornellissen and Camille Le Scao</b><font face="HelveticaNeue"><b> </b>(</font>Université Paris Cité)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">will give a talk</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><b>Morphogenesis of branching networks in jellyfish and fern leaves</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><h2 style="margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b style="font-size: 12px;">Abstract</b></h2></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Transport networks in living organisms show a variance of architecture, with either ramified or looped networks. These transport networks develop in parallel with the organisms, arising from local interactions and feedback mechanisms, resulting in self-organizing patterns.<br><br>In this presentation, we will first introduce general concepts used in morphogenesis, such as noise, instabilities and emergent patterns. We will then focus on the morphogenesis of the gastrovascular network of the jellyfish <i>Aurelia aurita</i> and on the vascular system of leaves.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor).</font></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Maciej Lisicki</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Piotr Szymczak</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Panagiotis Theodorakis</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Marek Trippenbach</font></div></div></div></body></html>