Ananyo Maitra

This study investigates how fibronectin matrix remodeling by cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) influences their nematic dynamics, revealing aging and freezing of defect motion in the ECM.

This paper identifies a new mode of large-scale collective motion in epithelial cells, showing they behave as polar elastic solids with scale-free correlations and Goldstone modes, distinct from fluid-like dynamics.