Jacques Dumais
Plant morphogenesis and mechanics

Mechanics of cell wall expansion and how it controls morphogenesis at the cellular and multicellular levels, e.g. during tip growth, diffuse growth, organ expansion, meristem morphogenesis and phyllotaxis. Mechanics of fast movements in plants and fungi, e.g. operation of the Venus flytrap and spore ejection in fungi.

Publications:
Forterre, Y., Skotheim, J.M., Dumais, J. and Mahadevan, L. 2005. How the Venus flytrap snaps. Nature 433: 421-425.

Dumais, J., Long, S.R. and Shaw, S.L. 2004. The mechanics of surface expansion anisotropy in Mendicato tranculata root hairs. Plant Physiol. 136: 3266-3275.

Dumais, J. and Harrison, L.G. 2000. Whorl morphogenesis in the dasycladalean algae: the pattern formation viewpoint. Philos. Trans. R Soc. Lond., B Biol. Sci. 355: 281-305.