Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Deb S., Falk, Martin J., Gardel, Margaret L, Walczak, Aleksandra M., Mora, Thierry, Vaikuntanathan, Suriyanarayanan
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Published: 2025
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author Banerjee, Deb S.
Falk, Martin J.
Gardel, Margaret L
Walczak, Aleksandra M.
Mora, Thierry
Vaikuntanathan, Suriyanarayanan
author_facet Banerjee, Deb S.
Falk, Martin J.
Gardel, Margaret L
Walczak, Aleksandra M.
Mora, Thierry
Vaikuntanathan, Suriyanarayanan
contents In this work we show how a network inspired by a coarse-grained description of actomyosin cytoskeleton can learn - in a contrastive learning framework - from environmental perturbations if it is endowed with mechanosensitive proteins and motors. Our work is a proof of principle for how force-sensitive proteins and molecular motors can form the basis of a general strategy to learn in biological systems. Our work identifies a minimal biologically plausible learning mechanism and also explores its implications for commonly occuring phenomenolgy such as adaptation and homeostatis.
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spellingShingle Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks
Banerjee, Deb S.
Falk, Martin J.
Gardel, Margaret L
Walczak, Aleksandra M.
Mora, Thierry
Vaikuntanathan, Suriyanarayanan
Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
In this work we show how a network inspired by a coarse-grained description of actomyosin cytoskeleton can learn - in a contrastive learning framework - from environmental perturbations if it is endowed with mechanosensitive proteins and motors. Our work is a proof of principle for how force-sensitive proteins and molecular motors can form the basis of a general strategy to learn in biological systems. Our work identifies a minimal biologically plausible learning mechanism and also explores its implications for commonly occuring phenomenolgy such as adaptation and homeostatis.
title Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15107