Dr Andrea Jimenez Dalmaroni

Physics of cell division Self-organization of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells Microtubule organization in fission yeast during interphase Non-Markovian models of directed percolation Contact details: Office: Room 3.P1 Tel: +44 (0)207 679 9914 Ext: 39914 Fax: +44 (0)207 679 0505 Email: a.jimenez-dalmaroniucl.ac.uk Web: www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucanacj/index.html

Research Interest 

My current research interests are in the field of Biological Physics. My work is focussed on providing a theoretical understanding of biological systems at the scale of the cell, using tools of statistical physics and non-linear dynamics.Topics of current interest include mechanisms of spindle orientation during cell division, the organization of cytoskeletal filaments in eukaryotic cells, and microtubule bundle organization in fission yeast. I am also interested in applying theoretical concepts such as field-theoretical renormalization group and scaling, to investigate the universality class of physical phenomena far from equilibrium, with special focus on the universality class of directed percolation.

Recent Publications 

• “Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation” [PDF]
  Manuel Théry, A. Jiménez-Dalmaroni, Victor Racine, Michel Bornens, and Frank Jülicher
  Nature 447, 493 (2007)
• “Directed percolation with incubation times” [PDF]
  A. Jiménez-Dalmaroni
  Phys. Rev. E 74, 011123 (2006)
• “Epidemic processes with immunization” [PDF]
  A. Jiménez-Dalmaroni and H. Hinrichsen
  Phys. Rev. E 68, 036103 (2003)