Dogic’s team aims to discover the physical rules that govern systems of active matter, objects exhibiting self-organization or coordinated behavior. On a large scale, those systems can be flocks of ...

Dogic and Fraden have emerged as pioneers in active-matter research, publishing papers in such prestigious journals as Nature and Science. It helps that they have known each other since Dogic was ...

Dogic is the co-principal investigator of the study alongside Assistant Professor Daniel Beller at the University of California at Merced and former postdoctoral research associate at Brown. These ...

Dogic and his team focused on the frictional forces of actin filaments, essential cellular building blocks responsible for many biological functions including muscle contraction, ...

Zvonimir Dogic, a physicist at Brandeis University, wanted to understand what about their structure drives this waving motion so he fabricated artificial versions in the lab.

The new work, which is detailed in Science, is an important example of how to make and study 3D active crystals, Dogic adds. In a related Perspectives article , Dennis Bartolo , a researcher at the ...

And now, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Science, Dogic and his team are poised to undertake such in-depth investigation. Active matter is a relatively new field of ...

Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that perform feats such as clearing microscopic debris from the lungs and determining the correct location of organs during development, move in mysterious ways.

Dogic and co-workers began by isolating flagellar filaments from Salmonella typhimurium, which they then labelled using a fluorescent dye. Bacteria use flagellar filaments – macromolecular structures ...

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