Cell membranes are vital to shield a cell's interior from the environment. At the same time
they determine to a large extent the cell's mechanical resistance to external forces. In recent …

Lift forces are widespread in hydrodynamics. These are typically observed for big and fast
objects and are often associated with a combination of fluid inertia (ie large Reynolds …

Red blood cells flowing through capillaries assume a wide variety of different shapes owing
to their high deformability. Predicting the realized shapes is a complex field as they are …

Blood vessels in living tissues are an organized and hierarchical network of arteries,
arterioles, capillaries, veinules and veins. Their sizes, lengths, shapes and connectivity are …

Blood flow in the microcirculatory system is crucially affected by intrinsic red blood cell
(RBC) properties, such as their deformability. In the smallest vessels of this network, RBCs …

We combine confocal imaging, microfluidics, and image analysis to record 3D-images of
cells in flow. This enables us to recover the full 3D representation of several hundred living …

Knowledge of the transport and retention behaviors of soft deformable particles on the
microscale is essential for the design, evaluation, and application of engineered particle …

Blood rheology and microcirculation are strongly influenced by red blood cell aggregation.
We investigate the dissociation rates of red cell aggregates in extensional flow using …

A vesicle is a common model used to represent red blood cell (RBC) in silico and in vitro.
We investigate here the dynamics and the rheology of a vesicle under shear flow confined …

Clustering of cells is an essential component of many biological processes from tissue
formation to cancer metastasis. We develop a minimal, Vicsek-based model of cellular …