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Optimized persistent random walk in zebrafish airineme search process

June 15, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm KST

B378 Seminar room, IBS, 55 Expo-ro Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 34126 Korea, Republic of
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Speaker

Hyunjoong Kim
University of Pennsylvania

In addition to diffusive signals, cells in tissue also communicate via long, thin cellular protrusions, such as airinemes in zebrafish. Before establishing communication, cellular protrusions must find their target cell. In this talk, we demonstrate that the shapes of airinemes in zebrafish are consistent with a persistent random walk model. The probability of contacting the target cell is maximized for a balance between ballistic search (straight) and diffusive search (highly curved, random). We find that the curvature of airinemes in zebrafish, extracted from live cell microscopy, is approximately the same value as the optimum in the simple persistent random walk model. We also explore the ability of the target cell to infer direction of the airineme’s source, finding that there is a theoretical trade-off between search optimality and directional information. This provides a framework to characterize the shape, and performance objectives, of non-canonical cellular protrusions in general.

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Date:
June 15, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm KST
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Organizer

Jae Kyoung Kim
Email
jaekkim@kaist.ac.kr

Venue

B378 Seminar room, IBS
55 Expo-ro Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 34126 Korea, Republic of
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