Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Assistant Professor

Using theoretical and computational techniques, my main research goals focus on understanding the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying complex biological processes. My current research interests include collective cell behaviour and modelling embryonic developmental processes using tools from soft matter and statistical physics.

1. N. Balaghi, G. Erdemci-Tandogan, C. McFaul, and R. Fernandez-Gonzalez, “Myosin waves and a mechanical asymmetry guide the oscillatory migration of Drosophila cardiac progenitors”, Developmental Cell (2023).
2. G. Erdemci-Tandogan, and M. L. Manning, “Effect of cellular rearrangement time delays on the rheology of vertex models for confluent tissues”, PLOS Computational Biology 17, e1009049 (2021).
3. P. C. Sanematsu, G. Erdemci-Tandogan, M. Merkel, H. Patel, J. D. Amack and M. L. Manning, “3D viscoelastic drag forces drive changes to cell shapes during organogenesis in the zebrafish embryo”, bioRxiv 2021.02.23.432503, Cells & Development (2021).
4. G. Erdemci-Tandogan, M. J. Clark, J. D. Amack and M. L. Manning, “Tissue flow induces cell shape changes during organogenesis”, Biophysical Journal 115, 2259 (2018).
5. G. Erdemci-Tandogan, H. Orland, and R. Zandi, “RNA base pairing determines the conformations of RNA inside spherical viruses”, Physical Review Letters 119, 188102 (2017).
6. J. Ning*, G. Erdemci-Tandogan*, E. L. Yufenyuy*, J. Wagner, B. A. Himes, G. Zhao, C. Aiken, R. Zandi and P. Zhang, “In vitro protease cleavage and computer simulations reveal the HIV-1 capsid maturation pathway”, Nature Communications 7, 13689 (2016).
7. G. Erdemci-Tandogan, J. Wagner, P. van der Schoot, R. Podgornik and R. Zandi, “RNA topology remolds electrostatic stabilization of viruses”, Phys. Rev. E 89, 032707 (2014).

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• Rising Star in Engineering in Health (2020), Columbia University