Physical Models of Collective Cell Migration | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Vol. 11:77-101 (Volume publication date March 2020) First published as a Review in Advance on September 27, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013516 Ricard Alert1,2 and Xavier Trepat3,4,5,6 1Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA; email: ricard.alert@princeton.edu 2Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 3Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain; email: xtrepat@ibecbarcelona.eu 4Facultat de Medicina, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain 5Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona 08028, Spain 6Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, Barcelona 08028, Spain Collective cell migration is a key driver of embryonic development, wound healing, and some types of cancer invasion.

Vol. 11:77-101 (Volume publication date March 2020) First published as a Review in Advance on September 27, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013516 Ricard Alert1,2 and Xavier Trepat3,4,5,6 1Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA; email: ricard.alert@princeton.edu 2Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 3Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain; email: xtrepat@ib