{"638213":{"#nid":"638213","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Extreme Collectives: Why Single Cells Squish and Worms Blob","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaad Bhamla, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Instutute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/jwkM1f7uswc\u0022\u003EView Seminar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk I will share two stories about how interesting dynamics emerge when living systems aggregate and form a collective. The first story revolves around gigantic single cells protists (~5mm in length) that can contract their bodies rapidly (\u0026lt;5ms). I will describe our discovery of how these cells harness these ultrafast contractions to send \u0026lsquo;hydrodynamic trigger waves\u0026rsquo; for communicating over long distances in cellular communities. The second story is about aquatic worm blobs that knot with their neighbours to form living entangled masses or blobs. I will describe how these soft squishy three dimensional blobs can rapidly morph their shape, move across terrains, and even solve mazes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHost: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biological Sciences Seminar by Saad Bhamla, Ph.D."}],"uid":"27964","created_gmt":"2020-08-21 19:36:30","changed_gmt":"2021-04-08 22:28:03","author":"Jasmine Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-10-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-10-02T12:59:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-10-02T12:59:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-10-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-10-02 16:59:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-10-02 16:59:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631503":{"id":"631503","type":"image","title":"Cells \u0026 Worms","body":null,"created":"1579805510","gmt_created":"2020-01-23 18:51:50","changed":"1579805510","gmt_changed":"2020-01-23 18:51:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"240316","name":"cells squish and worms blob.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cells%20squish%20and%20worms%20blob.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cells%20squish%20and%20worms%20blob.png","mime":"image\/png","size":321035,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cells%20squish%20and%20worms%20blob.png?itok=-O7a6FKT"}}},"media_ids":["631503"],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166892","name":"School of Biological Sciences Seminar"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"177841","name":"Saad Bhamla"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor additional login information contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jasmine.martin@biosci.gatech.edu?subject=Additional%20Login%20Details%20for%20Seminar\u0022\u003EJasmine Martin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}