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Could animals have originally evolved by cell aggregation? we believe they could!. And here we have two publications that provide food-for-thought on this issue. Two different relatives of animals aggregating and deploying key multicellular genes. Nice collaboration with

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New work from Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow and Electrokinetics is out now in PRX Energy! Congratulations to Filipe Henrique! We show how transport of ions with different diffusivities creates coupled dynamics between the ions, which results in their impedance being represented through parallel Warburg elements.

🚨 Brand new postdoctoral researcher position in my group at Princeton University! Please apply or share with anyone interested in computational materials science and being an electron whisperer! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply….

Excited about the new work from Zuzana Dunajová & S. Tasciyan (with the Sixt Lab) - how the mechanical heterogeneity of the environment can be (by itself!) a driver of tumor cell dissemination! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Combination of in vitro exp, simulations and KPZ stat phys!👇🧵1/n

New publication from our group SoftBio Colloids Lab led by Vivien Willems. Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇 Very excited to get this work published! A step forward on active soft microsystems Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen! @crpp Université de Bordeaux

📣 New preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in active nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out Monika Wenisch's work published in Chem! We’ve engineered synthetic cells that emerge, grow, and produce offspring autonomously, powered by chemical fuel. A significant stride towards synthetic life (Movie by Leonie Kauling) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to share our new paper in Science Magazine! We found that when bacteria can’t digest available nutrients—but their neighbours can—they switch from competitors to become bonafide predators, wielding their T6SS to kill & feast on prey. 🦠🔬 ⚔️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🥳Our review on #Swarming Intelligence in #nanomotors, idea conceived years ago, the basis of my European Research Council (ERC) CoG (i-Nanoswarms), is now published in NatRevMaterials nature.com/articles/s4157… Great collaboration with Catalyst Ana Hortelão, PhD Shuqin Chen Tania Patiño

If heterochromatin is really a liquid-like condensate, why is it not spherical? We investigated whether mechanical interactions between a condensate and a fiber network can explain the variety of morphologies seen in phase-separated nuclear compartments. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another joyful and unparalleled collaboration with the amazing Amy Strom herself during my postdoc at brangwynnelab and Kosmrlj groups -- we developed a novel computational framework to study elastocapillary interactions between condensates and fiber networks (in this case

A new paper on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📢 PRFluids Editors' suggestion: When a beet slice sits in its own juice, a clear fringe appears. Liu et al. trace it to a surface dimple caused by wetting-induced suction at the beet’s edge, set by the balance of surface tension, gravity and viscosity. 🔗 go.aps.org/4nkPSAR

Excited to share our new paper in PRX Life! We uncover universal viscoelastic behavior in different vertex models of biological tissues, explaining why so many models work so well. Enjoyed working with Ojan (co-first), Liz & Lisa on this! See tinyurl.com/y27fysux

Our tour de force into the nucleolar world — a stunning exploration of spatial organization and the functional choreography of ribosome biogenesis now out in Nature✨ tinyurl.com/5n7jk3uz Led by Sofi Quinodoz, Lifei jiang, brangwynnelab, with theory partners Qiwei Yu,

🚨 New paper from my lab!🚨Led by Zain Shabeeb We developed a physics-informed Transformer-VAE that learns the complex motion of NPs in LPTEM, linking stochastic trajectories to hidden physical interactions Nature Communications Georgia Tech College of Engineering ChBE @ Georgia Tech nature.com/articles/s4146…

A simple flow of gas over water may have helped kickstart life on early Earth. Research shows how evaporation and fluid flow in a narrow channel can drive isothermal DNA replication, offering a plausible, low-temp setting for early molecular evolution. elifesciences.org/articles/10015…

Interested in living/active matter? I will be giving a Royal Society of Chemistry "desktop seminar" webinar on August 5, describing our recent work studying bacterial growth in complex fluids, along with my friend & intellectual hero Kate Stebe (U. Penn)! Register at: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regist….