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The movement of organisms and cells can be governed by occasional long distance runs, according to an approximate L\'evy walk. For T cells migrating through chronically-infected brain tissue, runs are further interrupted by long pauses, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Heiko Gimperlein , Kevin J. Painter , Jakub Stocek

The Brownian dynamics of a single microorganism coupled by chemotaxis to a diffusing concentration field which is secreted by the microorganism itself is studied by computer simulations in spatial dimensions $d=1,2,3$. Both cases of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Ankush Sengupta , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

{\sl Escherichia coli} ({\sl E. coli}) bacteria govern their trajectories by switching between running and tumbling modes as a function of the nutrient concentration they experienced in the past. At short time one observes a drift of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 Sakuntala Chatterjee , Rava Azeredo da Silveira , Yariv Kafri

This paper studies a fractional attraction-repulsion system with generalized logistic source and nonlinear productions: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &u_t = -(-\Delta)^\alpha u - \chi_1 \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + \chi_2 \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Liyan Song , Qingchun Li , Chengyuan Qu

Living cells are capable of interacting with their environments in a variety of ways, including cell signalling, adhesion, and directed motion. These behaviours are often mediated by receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane, which…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Hannah Sleath , Bortolo Mognetti , Yuval Elani , Lorenzo Di Michele

Cell migration often exhibits long-range temporal correlations and anomalous diffusion, even in the absence of external guidance cues such as chemical gradients or topographical constraints. These observations raise a fundamental question:…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Gustavo Cornejo-Olea , Lucas Buvinic , Jerome Darbon , Radek Erban , Andrea Ravasio , Anastasios Matzavinos

Chemotaxis, i.e. motion generated by chemical gradients, is a motility mode shared by many living species that has been developed by evolution to optimize certain biological processes such as foraging or immune response. In particular,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Hugues Meyer , Heiko Rieger

The purpose of this work is to propose a nonlinear non-Markovian model of subdiffusive transport that involves chemotactic substance affecting the cells at all time, not only during the jump. This leads the random waiting time to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 Akram Al-Sabbagh

Chemotaxis is typically modeled in the context of cellular motion towards a static, exogenous source of chemoattractant. Here, we propose a time-dependent mechanism of chemotaxis in which a self-propelled particle ({\it e.g.}, a cell)…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-12 Sarah A. Nowak , Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , Tom Chou , Ajay Gopinathan

We investigate the propagating profiles of a degenerate chemotaxis model describing the bacteria chemotaxis and consumption of oxygen by aerobic bacteria, in particular, the effect of the initial attractant distribution on bacterial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

Bacteria can adjust their swimming behaviour in response to chemical variations, a phenomenon known as chemotaxis. This process is characterised by a drift velocity that depends non-linearly on the concentration of chemical species and its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Adam Gargasson , Julien Bouvard , Carine Douarche , Peter Mergaert , Harold Auradou

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common mathematical models in the natural sciences and are used to model systems that combine reactions with diffusive motion. However, rather than normal diffusion, anomalous subdiffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Amanda M Alexander , Sean D Lawley

Enzymes have been recently proposed to have mechanical activity associated with their chemical activity. In a number of recent studies, it has been reported that enzymes undergo enhanced diffusion in the presence of their corresponding…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Tunrayo Adeleke-Larodo , Pierre Illien , Ramin Golestanian

This paper deals with the micro-macro derivation of virus models coupled with a reaction diffusion models that generates the dynamics in space of the virus particles. The first part of the presentation focuses, starting from [5, 6] on a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Diletta Burini , Nadia Chouhad

Collective cell migration is a multicellular phenomenon that arises in various biological contexts, including cancer and embryo development. "Collectiveness" can be promoted by cell-cell interactions such as co-attraction and contact…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-03 Viktoria Freingruber , Kevin J. Painter , Mariya Ptashnyk , Linus Schumacher

Micro-organisms aggregate through chemotaxis against a concentration gradient of signals secreted by themselves. We have numerically studied a model consisting of elements with intracellular dynamics, random walks with a state-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-31 Masayo Inoue , Kunihiko Kaneko

Collective motion in nonequilibrium steady state suspensions of self-propelled Janus motors driven by chemical reactions can arise due to interactions coming from direct intermolecular forces, hydrodynamic flow effects, or chemotactic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-10 Mu-Jie Huang , Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

Most of our understanding of bacterial chemotaxis comes from studies of Escherichia coli. However, recent evidence suggests significant departures from the E. coli paradigm in other bacterial species. This variation may stem from different…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-27 Martin Godány , Bhavin S. Khatri , Richard A. Goldstein

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

We introduce stochastic models of chemotaxis generalizing the deterministic Keller-Segel model. These models include fluctuations which are important in systems with small particle numbers or close to a critical point. Following Dean's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-01 Pierre-Henri Chavanis