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Pls follow us if interested in UCSD biological physics group in physics. We will use this to announce news and many things about us, including job ads (faculty, postdocs, PhD students etc). Our current website is biophysics.ucsd.edu (to be revised this fall).

Has anyone tried feeding the transcript of a NotebookLM-generated podcast back to NotebookLM to generate a new podcast? And then iterate? Do we get a fixed-point, periodic, or chaotic attractor?

New simulations describe how #mitochondria create a tubular structure at the cellular scale. Results show how an interplay of local features — like fusion to fission rates and geometric constraints — can reshape cell-scale network morphology. 🔗 go.aps.org/3NiztMo

MLST interview with my post-bac intern Alessandro Palmarini who is doing really interesting work on AI abstraction and reasoning. Next year he will be doing a PhD in CS and Cogsci at IU Bloomington

🚨Big news! Five years in the making, our Zebrahub paper is now published in #Cell 🎉. We’ve built a timecourse atlas of zebrafish embryonic development, combining #scRNAseq data and #lightsheet live imaging, and delved deep into the dynamics of key progenitors.

Interested in active matter/biophysics? Our lab tzerhan.com is looking for motivated PhD students to join our nonreciprocal robotics active matter/chiral jamming/morphogenesis projects. Apply by Dec 18: physics.ucsd.edu/students/gradu…

Not too late to apply to UCSD Biophysics PhD program: biophysics.ucsd.edu we have a vibrant cluster of theorists and experimentalists working at the interface of biophysics/soft and active matter. Deadline Dec 18. Feel free to DM me with questions. UCSD Biological Physics

Alex Plum from Serra group @ UC San Diego ‘s group gave the last Coffee Room Forum of the year today for the UCSD biological physics group on his exciting research. We will see you in the new year! (We will transition to 🦋)

💥Congrats💥 to UC San Diego Physics prof Serra group @ UC San Diego for receiving a prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER. Mattia's work uses data-driven methods and mathematical models to study complex biological and physical systems. Check out his website to learn more about his work: mattiaserra.com

Nájera, G. S., & Weijer, C. J. (2023). The evolution of gastrulation morphologies. Development, 150(7), dev200885. doi.org/10.1242/dev.20… #EpithelialMechanicsReview

Mindscape 302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution. Even squishy organisms are subject to the fundamental laws of nature. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/0…

📣 Check out our work led by Alex Plum! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Chuai et al 2023 nicely tie in large scale tissue deformations to local cell behaviors like intercalations and ingression. x.com/EpiMechFC/stat…

Really excited to present the results of a great collaboration between our group Physics of Life Dresden and Elliot Hawkes at UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering, which were just published in Science Magazine. This is perhaps the most unexpected project we have done, mixing physics, biology and robotics! 🤖

Stoked to present our latest, brilliantly led by Chris et al & Alejandro Torres-Sanchez. How tissues are patterned during development – we found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In developing embryos, cells move a lot! Plenty of that movement is random. Is random cell mixing a feature or bug for tissue patterning? Turns out it’s both! Excited to share the 1st preprint from my postdoc w/ Sean Megason Sean McGeary Allon Klein Lab 1/20 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

📣 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…

📣 New paper out! How do thousands of cells shape the emergent geometry of the avian embryo? We identify distinct, independently controllable mechanisms that contribute to embryo size and shape. gserranonajera Alex Plum Steventon Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

In a recent paper, the physicists Mason Kamb (left) and Surya Ganguli found that the creativity in diffusion models is a consequence of their architecture. quantamagazine.org/researchers-un…