Por Diogo Pinto (CFTC - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa).

Physics is concerned with the universality of natural phenomena, if they depend too much on the details, e.g. cell species or organelles, then general theories will not be possible and only system dependent conclusions can be taken. In this seminar, it will be discussed recent results in the study of the collective motion of epithelial confluent tissues with implications to tissue engineering and the study of cancer. These accomplishments, along with many others, centered condensed matter physics in the study of collective cell behavior and shifted the conceptual reductionist framework to a picture of emerging collective phenomena characteristic of soft matter systems.

Short bio: Diogo obtained his degree in Physics at the University of Lisbon and he is now submitting his PhD thesis for discussion. Diogo's research focuses on the study of the mechanical properties of epithelial confluent tissues using theoretical and simulation techniques. More specifically, he has focused on the effects of disorder in the collective dynamics of cell tissues.