Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells

This special collection features articles curated by JCB Editorial Board member Min Wu and Scientific Editor Gabriele Stephan. The collection includes exciting research articles, tools, perspectives, and reviews that explore emergent phenomena in cell biology, including how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical and electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level, and how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration and morphology. Blending aspects of mechanobiology, developmental biology, and signaling, we hope this collection will engage a broad readership interested in biophysics and systems biology.

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Vítor Yang; Cristian Marchant; Bing Liu; Mariana Osswald; Jesus Lopez-Gay; Yohanns Bellaïche; Xiaobo Wang; Eurico Morais-de-Sá
Rowan K. Naidoo; Rebecca Tam; Tony J.C. Harris
Sachi Inagaki; Housei Wada; Takeshi Itabashi; Yuki Itakura; Reiko Nakagawa; Lin Chen; Kazuyoshi Murata; Atsuko H. Iwane; Shigeo Hayashi
Samantha E. Ryken; Shu-Zon Wu; Matias L. Lee; Miranda M. Greig; Nika M. Recto; Sophia Chang Stauffer; Carlisle S. Bascom, Jr.; Eric M. Kramer; Magdalena Bezanilla
László Fazekas; Diána Kaszás; Boldizsár Vámosi; Szimonetta Xénia Tamás; Tamás Szöllősi; Vivien Mihályi; Fabian Gregor Dehne; Klaudia Vágó-Kiss; Nada Mohamed Al-Sheraji; Barnabás Paulovits; Benoit Thomas Roux; Balázs Enyedi
Maik C. Bischoff; Roberto Mayor
Jianlan Gu; Mingming Yang; Liti Zhang; Yuxiao Liu; Ruolan Yan; Danmin Pan; Xiaowei Qian; Hanjing Hu; Dandan Chu; Chen Hu; Fei Liu; Hengxiang Cui
Claudia Morais Parada; Ching-Cher Sanders Yan; Cheng-Yu Hung; I-Ping Tu; Chao-Ping Hsu; Yu-Ling Shih
Marcus A. Harrell; Ziyi Liu; Bethany F. Campbell; Olivia Chinsen; Tian Hong; Maitreyi Das
Dávid Kovács; Anne-Sophie Gay; Delphine Debayle; Sophie Abélanet; Amanda Patel; Bruno Mesmin; Frédéric Luton; Bruno Antonny
Ani Michaud; Marcin Leda; Zachary T. Swider; Songeun Kim; Jiaye He; Jennifer Landino; Jenna R. Valley; Jan Huisken; Andrew B. Goryachev; George von Dassow; William M. Bement
Jonathan B. Michaux; François B. Robin; William M. McFadden; Edwin M. Munro
Olga Iuliano; Azumi Yoshimura; Marie-Thérèse Prospéri; René Martin; Hans-Joachim Knölker; Evelyne Coudrier
Victoria E. Deneke; Stefano Di Talia
Melanie Graessl; Johannes Koch; Abram Calderon; Dominic Kamps; Soumya Banerjee; Tomáš Mazel; Nina Schulze; Jana Kathrin Jungkurth; Rutuja Patwardhan; Djamschid Solouk; Nico Hampe; Bernd Hoffmann; Leif Dehmelt; Perihan Nalbant