Toshi Parmar

Interplay of mechanics, growth and viral infection dynamics in a spatially expanding bacterial colony

The paper studies how mechanical forces, bacterial growth, and viral infection dynamics interact during the expansion of an E. coli colony, revealing phage hitchhiking and anisotropic spread.

Spontaneous and Induced Oscillations in Confined Epithelia

The paper studies oscillations in epithelial cell trains, showing that spontaneous oscillations depend on cell train size and exhibit resonance when subjected to external deformations.