Researchers from the Murray Lab, led by Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) graduate student Piyush Nanda, have recently published a paper in the journal Current Biology on a computational model that can predict the size of yeast clusters by considering the physical links that connect a mother cell and her daughter. The project began as a result of a conversation between Andrew Murray and his friend, Boris Shraiman, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, over sushi on a Southern California summer evening. Shraiman asked what physical features set the size of multicellular yeast clusters that the Murray lab had evolved.
