Research Team Member
Adrian Neagu
Medical University of Timisoara, Romania
The Co-PI is a theoretical/computational biophysicist with expertise in a wide
range of analytical and computational techniques. He is a regular visitor in the
PI's laboratory, where he has been involved in computer simulations of
adhesion-guided rearrangements of living tissues using the Monte Carlo (MC)
approach. His role in the project is to build mathematical models and perform MC
simulations of the postprinting morphogenetic self-assembly events. These
simulations will be complementary to the MD method pursued by Co-PI Kosztin in
that they utilize experimentally more accessible energy parameters and can provide
a quick initial guidance for optimizing experimental conditions. Using the
interfacial energies measured in the PI's lab, the MC approach will offer useful
hints on the energetically most favorable configurations towards which the
postprinted living structure under given conditions will evolve.
