Moving around without a brain: Evolution of basal cognition in single-celled organisms

Project Information

EvoMotion

Grant agreement ID: 853560

DOI

10.3030/853560

EC signature date 9 October 2019

Start date 1 March 2020

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 950 430,00

EU contribution

€ 1 950 430,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Minimal design of a synthetic cilium

Author(s): Clément Moreau, Benjamin J. Walker, Rebecca N. Poon, Daniel Soto, Daniel I. Goldman, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.6.l042061

Phenotyping single-cell motility in microfluidic confinement

Author(s): Samuel A Bentley, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Vasileios Anagnostidis, Jan Cammann, Marco G Mazza, Fabrice Gielen, Kirsty Y Wan
Published in: eLife, Issue 2050084X, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.76519

Light-Dependent Switching of Circling Handedness in Microswimmer Navigation

Author(s): Zhao Wang, Samuel A. Bentley, Jiawei Li, Kirsty Y. Wan, Alan C. H. Tsang
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 136, 2026, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/6cdq-1nvv

Dynamics and emergence of metachronal waves in the ciliary band of a metazoan larva

Author(s): Rebecca N. Poon, Gáspár Jékely, Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Science Advances, 2026, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.10.637311

Bioelectric control of locomotor gaits in the walking ciliate Euplotes

Author(s): Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 697-709.e6, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.051

Mechanisms and functions of multiciliary coordination

Author(s): Kirsty Y. Wan, Rebecca N. Poon
Published in: Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Issue bimonthly, 2024, ISSN 0955-0674
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102286

Control of Helical Navigation by Three-Dimensional Flagellar Beating

Author(s): Dario Cortese, Kirsty Y Wan
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue Vol 126, issue 8, 2021, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.088003

Active oscillations in microscale navigation

Author(s): Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Animal Cognition, Issue Bimonthly, 2023, ISSN 1435-9448
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01819-5

Functional morphology of gliding motility in benthic diatoms

Author(s): Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz, Emanuele Crosato, Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2426910122

A minimal robophysical model of quadriflagellate self-propulsion

Author(s): Kelimar Diaz, Tommie L Robinson, Yasemin Ozkin Aydin, Enes Aydin, Daniel I Goldman, Kirsty Y Wan
Published in: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Issue Vol 16, no. 6, 2021, ISSN 1748-3182
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac1b6e

Intracellular coupling modulates biflagellar synchrony.

Author(s): Hanliang Guo; Hanliang Guo; Yi Man; Kirsty Y. Wan; Eva Kanso
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue Quarterly, 2021, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0660

Origins of eukaryotic excitability

Author(s): Kirsty Y Wan, Gaspar Jekely
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Issue vol 376, issue 1820, 2021, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0758

Form and function in biological filaments: a physicist’s review

Author(s): Jan Cammann, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Kirsty Y. Wan, Marco G. Mazza
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 383, 2025, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2024.0253

Ciliary propulsion and metachronal coordination in reef coral larvae

Author(s): Rebecca N. Poon, Timothy A. Westwood, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Emelie Brodrick, Jamie Craggs, Eric E. Keaveny, Gáspár Jékely, Kirsty Y. Wan
Published in: Physical Review Research, 2023, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.l042037

Methods and Measures for Investigating Microscale Motility

Author(s): Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz; Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer; Rebecca N Poon; Alexander K Boggon; Samuel A Bentley; Dario Cortese; Kirsty Y Wan
Published in: Integrative and Comparative Biology, Issue Bimonthly, 2023, Page(s) icad075, ISSN 1540-7063
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad075