Biologically Active Fluids

School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

Area of expertise: Microscale swimming, in particular sperm motility; non-Newtonian fluids and suspensions; active fluids; mathematical image analysis applied to biological fluid dynamics.

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Area of expertise: Microbial motility and taxes; active fluids; algal photobioreactors; microbial synthetic ecology.

School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Newcastle.

Area of expertise: Swimming micro-organisms, bioconvection and collective motion.

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool.

Area of expertise: Cell movement in fluid environments, particularly phytoplankton and bacteria; continuum models for spatial-temporal dynamics.

Department of Mathematics, University of York.

Area of expertise: Biased swimming cells in biological/ecological/industrial flows; analysis of dispersion; bioconvection; biofilms; image analysis.

DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Area of expertise: Collective and emergent behaviour of self-propelled particles, microswimmers and active fluids.

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Area of expertise: low Re and biological flows; motile cilia; rheology and surface/interface flows.

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Area of expertise: Microbial motility, active matter, microfluidics, microbial ecology, molecular biology.

School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

Area of expertise: Non-Newtonian fluids and suspensions; fibre-reinforced fluid flows; active fluids; plant growth.

Department of Physics, University of Durham.

Area of expertise: Hydrodynamic theory and simulation of collective behaviour of active particles.

Department of Mathematics, University of York.

Area of expertise: Microhydrodynamics and biofluids; microfluidics and microorganisms; animal fertilization; flagellar and cytoskeletal dynamics.

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Area of expertise: Microswimmer motility; flagellate dynamics; exploiting image analysis for understanding microswimming.

DAMTP, University of Cambridge. 

Area of expertise: Algal flagellar dynamics and multicellularity; mechanics and fluid mechanics in developmental biology; collective dynamics of bacteria and algae.

Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Area of expertise: Bacterial biofilms; active matter theory.

Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde.

Area of expertise: Algae swimming behaviour and applications to bioreactor/bioprocess design; artificial swimmers and biological transport on the nano and microscale.

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield. 

Area of expertise: Active matter theory, Cytoskeleton, active fluid droplets, active liquid crystals, cell deformation & cell motility.

School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow.

Area of expertise: Swimming micro-organisms, bioconvection, dispersion in flows, biological and ecological applications; soft tissue mechanics.

Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London.

Area of expertise: Collective dynamics and pattern formation in biological fluid system, bioconvection, continuum modelling.

School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln.

Area of expertise: Shape effects on bacterial and sperm locomotion; influence of natural viscosity on locomotion; simulations of bacterial swimming; flagellar function.

School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Area of expertise: Growth of plant and animal cells and tissues.

Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

Area of expertise: Motility and transport control in suspensions of swimming cells like bacteria or spermatozoa.

​School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

Area of expertise: Artificial microswimmers, helical propulsion.

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College.

Area of expertise: Swimming cells and their suspensions; linking individual motion and the collective dynamics; computational methods for large-scale simulation.

School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.

Area of expertise: Simulation of cell dynamics, e.g. red blood cells, in external flows.

DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Area of expertise: physics of swimming microorganisms; the flow of complex fluids; small-scale hydrodynamics. 

School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Area of expertise: Hydrodynamic of active fluids; collective behaviour in microswimmers and cell suspensions; active matter.

School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Area of expertise: Biological microswimmers, e.g. bacteria and sperm, in complex fluids; non-newtonian liquids, passive/active suspensions; spatio-temporal behaviour of active fluids, microswimmers under flow. 

​Mathematical Sciences, U. Loughborough

Area of expertise: Collective behavior of biological microswimmers and biofilms; motility in non-Newtonian fluids; theory and modelling.

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Strathclyde.

Area of expertise: 2D/3D numerical solutions of modified Ericksen-Leslie (continuum theory of active nematics); applications for micro-confined flows.

School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

Area of expertise: Artificial microscale propulsion; biomimetic swimmers; diffusiophoresis; boundary element methods.

School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Area of expertise: Microorganisms swimming in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids; coherent collective behaviour of microswimmers; microtubule-motor mixtures.

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Strathclyde.

Area of expertise: Continuum theory of active fluids: using modified Ericksen-Leslie, applications for micro-confined flows in the high and low Ericksen number limits.

Department of Engineering, University of Exeter.

Area of expertise: bio-inspired artificial swimmers, surface acoustic waves.

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde.

Area of expertise: Microfluidic flows of complex fluids; interaction of particles (e.g. algae, cells) with local flow and effect on fluid properties. Influence of viscosity and viscoelasticity on particle behaviour and transport.

DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Area of expertise: Individual and collective fluid mechanics of biological organisms - fish and birds as well as low Reynolds number.

Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

Area of expertise: Microbial motility and its environmental regulation; active suspensions; microbe-host interactions.

Department of Mathematics, University of York.

Area of expertise: Biomixing; swimming in complex environments; active matter theory.

School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Area of expertise: Microbial motility, especially bacteria and sperm; microbial growth; active suspensions; active matter.

School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.

Area of expertise: Dispersal of bacteria in engineered biological systems; chemotaxis and response to flow regimes of biofilms.

School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London.

Area of expertise: direct numerical simulation of blood cells under flows and complex multiphase flows.

Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter.

Area of expertise: Microscale swimming, individual/collective behavioural responses to stimuli, image analysis.

Department of Physics, University of York.

Area of expertise: Bacterial, eukaryotic and archael motility. High speed/high throughput imaging assays, holographic microscopy.

Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Area of expertise: Simulations and theory of active matter; cell motility; tissue mechanics; mesoscale turbulence.