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Excited to share my latest research in Nature Physics: nature.com/articles/s4156… 🎉🔬 Check out our open-source 3D traction force microscopy and how we detected forces in immune cells! Grateful to my amazing team and collaborators. #NaturePhysics #Science

Morphogens in the evolution of size, shape and patterning In this Review, Lewis Mosby, Amy Bowen and Zena Hadjivasiliou The Francis Crick Institute @UCL explore how morphogen-mediated patterning evolve and how theory and experiment can be interwoven to bring new perspectives: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

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Statistical Physics rocks! 2016, 2021, and (now!) 2024 Nobel prizes highlight the beauty, and the impact of this discipline with groundbreaking results in physics and crucial contributions to other branches of science such as mathematics, neuroscience and machine learning.

A thing every interdisciplinary scientist hears: "how is this X?" (X=physics, math, chemistry...) Here is Hopfield's (thoughtful) perspective from his fabulous essay "Now What".

New insights from the Hiiragi group show that the variability in how and when cells divide during embryonic development isn't an obstacle. Contrary to what scientists traditionally believed, this variability promotes healthy development. Dimitri Fabrèges hubrecht.eu/variability-ce…

Super happy to see this heroic effort by Dimitri Fabrèges and Bernat Corominas out! Via a quantitative atlas of the developmental trajectories of dozens of embryos, we can see how robust shapes and fates arise from highly stochastic cellular processes! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

If you ❤️ chromosomes and loopextruders as much as we do 🤓, then we have an interesting read for you! Here’s Janni’s latest preprint on showing how loopextruders can globally order the chromosome in E. coli and precisely position genes in the cell. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today our (me+Jeroen van Zon's lab) new 3D cell tracking software is out on biorXiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). Our student MaxBetjes presents, what we think, is a fundamental advance in cell tracking: An algorithm that accurately quantifies the uncertainty of its results. 1/10

Nice press release from Biozentrum, University of Basel University of Basel about our recent Cell papers on diatom pyrenoids and the amazing PyShell🥧🐚, a key part of the global #carbon cycle🌍♻️. Can this discovery help with Carbon Dioxide Removal #CDR? Only if we reduce emissions first!🛢️🚫

New preprint! We introduce active screws: a new class of active particles that propel by spinning on a substrate. There are several examples: from from gliding microtubules to soil bacteria, and even magnetically-driven colloidal helices. arxiv.org/abs/2410.12263…

Collagen-IV networks rule the #mechanics of our epithelia, but we know little about how they reshape. Our new preprint (with the 1st coarse-grained MD models of #collagen-IV!) shows how consuming energy during remodelling might make the difference: 📑tiny.cc/s6fqzz 🧵

A great 🇬🇧-🇦🇹team of Billie Meadowcroft (currently cycling 🚴‍♀️ across 🇺🇸) Ivan Palaia Valerio Sorichetti and Eryk teamed up with with Nargess Khalilgharibi and Yanlan Mao to simulate collagen-iv remodelling under strain and enzymatic activity. ISTAustria UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology UCL IPLS More ⬇️

Our paper on modeling DNA replication and its consequences on 3D genome is finally out in Physical Review X, tinyurl.com/3exv49tt : Replication machinery may act as a transient loop extruder ! Congrats to Dario and the team !! CNRS 🌍 @Lyon_LBMC @ENSdeLyon

1/n Our papers on BMP signaling dynamics in the neural tube and protocol for 2D neural tube organoids are out! 🔬🧫 doi.org/10.1016/j.devc… 👩‍🔬⚙️doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro… Work by Stephanie Pliskin Lehr, David Brückner, jack merrin, Edouard Hannezo, KichevaLab.

Super excited for this symposium - mark your calendars if you are at the DPG in March!

What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. Also, if the total number of 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am very excited to share our most recent work on how ‘Cell heterogeneity and fate bistability drive tissue patterning during intestinal regeneration’ ☺️ Thanks a lot to Silvia Barbiero David Brückner @prisca Edouard Hannezo and all the co-authors!

Check out our new preprint on how tissue heterogeneity controls self-organized patterning!