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SUMMARY:How does a plant grow? A story across the scales!  - Euan Smithers
 \, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20240502T120000Z
DTEND:20240502T130000Z
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CONTACT:Marco Vona
DESCRIPTION:We face many problems in our world including the effects of cl
 imates change. As a result we need more resilient crops. However we do not
  have the fundamental understanding of how plants grow in order to accompl
 ish this goal.\n\nIn this talk I shall be detailing work from my PhD on ho
 w do plants grow. I shall begin at the microscale where we used continuum 
 mechanics and asymptotic analysis to examine how the cell wall is connecte
 d and loosened.  At the cell scale we look at how some plant cell types fo
 rm jigsaw-like shapes\,  using a visco-elastic anisotropic vertex element 
 model combined with a system of reaction diffusion equations interacting w
 ith a stochastic cytoskeleton model. I shall also quickly review my  curre
 nt research at the tissue scale\, focussed on the impact of plant cell div
 ision and different cell setups on tissue mechanics and cell-cell signalli
 ng.
LOCATION:MR15\,  Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cam
 bridge
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