Andrej Vilfan

Biological and active fluids.

[Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @BPoD_s]

Intrinsic chirality or handedness of cyanobacteria moving in a water drop – advancing understanding of bacterial collective behaviour

📹 Andrej Vilfan et al, LFPB, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in @PNASNews
➡️ https://t.co/QoQF25PRef + @DrJohnAnkers

[Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan]

Chiral gliding: cyanobacteria move straight in water, but steer right on dry surface. A navigation strategy? With @Lei_La_, Stefano Villa and Vahid Nasirimarekani from @mpids. Just out in @PNASnews. https://t.co/PQXdOhjz9W

[Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan]

What is the energetic cost of erasing information by mixing? The optimal shear protocol turns out to be determined by the trajectory of a non-linear pendulum. By Luca Cocconi, @YihongShi_ and @AndrejVilfan, from @mpids and @JSI_SLO.

Now in @PhysRevLett
https://t.co/SscJSU6eWe

[Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan]

@AgudoCanalejo Congratulations! Well deserved! 👍

[ESBS 2025 @ESBS2025]

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming conference, “Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems” (ESBS 2025), will be held at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center in the Physics Department of LMU Munich from August 18 to 22, 2025.

[Physical Review X @PhysRevX]

Experiments with #bacteria show that, collectively, bacterial colonies exhibit chiral flows along the external boundaries of the colony. Similar but counter-clockwise flows formed along internal boundaries.

Read the paper: https://t.co/NtDwGAjivI

#chirality #biophysics

[Physical Review Research @PhysRevResearch]

Chirotactic response of microswimmers in fluids with odd viscosity, Yuto Hosaka, Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan @yuto_hosaka @MikeChatzittofi @AndrejVilfan @RGolestanian @LivMatPhys @mpids #SoftMatter #StatisticalPhysics https://t.co/RpFxv2pb8u

[Rudi Podgornik 岳儒迪 @rpodgornik]

Erich Sackmann passed away. He was among the founding fathers of modern biophysics whose work influenced several generations. A fine man and a dedicated scientist.

[Physical Review Research @PhysRevResearch]

Mutual information as a measure of mixing efficiency in viscous fluids, Yihong Shi, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan @RGolestanian @YihongShi_
@mpids @LivMatPhys #SoftMatter #StatisticalPhysics https://t.co/SiAtHVfl9i

[DiezLab @StefanDiezLab]

Happy to announce that our review article with @LauraMeissner12 on "Helical motion and torque generation by #microtubule motors (#kinesin and #dynein)" is out #OpenAccess https://t.co/5keQGgx39t

[Living Matter Physics @LivMatPhys]

How efficient is propulsion by interfacial surface tension gradients? Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, @RGolestanian & @AndrejVilfan derive an analytical theorem for the minimum dissipation, placing Marangoni surfers among the most efficient microswimmers.
https://t.co/yO8q11XFIX

[Theoretical & Computational Biophysics Department @CompBioPhys]

Exciting news! Our latest paper in @PNASNews explores entropy production in coarse-grained nonequilibrium systems using a method called "milestoning". Check it out here: https://t.co/ZjpU6aUYE3 #statphys #entropy #PNAS

[DiezLab @StefanDiezLab]

Very much looking forward to meet many great colleagues and feeling honoured to present at the @GordonConf on Cytoskeletal Motors in July 2024.

[Roman Tsukanov 🇺🇦 @RomanTsukanov]

📢 Excited to share our new preprint "Three-dimensional multi-target super-resolution microscopy of cells using Metal-Induced Energy Transfer and DNA-PAINT"! https://t.co/CPVTMYjYdv
#DNAPAINT #MIETPAINT #FLPAINT #SRM #MIET #FLIM @uniGoettingen
A short 🧵👇

[Theoretical & Computational Biophysics Department @CompBioPhys]

🎉We have an open #PhDposition in the Mathematical #bioPhysics group of Aljaz Godec addressing "#Theory of non-equilibrium stochastic many-body systems constrained by conservation laws" More details on our website 🔗https://t.co/oz7HeXmmvL You are welcome to apply! 📜#Job #math

[Lorenzo Piro @LorenzoPiro4]

Fun fact: disk-like swimmers self-propelling in a fluid flow automatically follow time-optimal paths without steering! This and much more on how shape influences navigation in our work w\ @RGolestanian @andrejvilfan and B. Mahault out in @PhysRevResearch

https://t.co/h2SE1bfGoj

[Benjamin Friedrich @friedrich_group]

Diatoms live in glass houses, with ornate silica cell walls. We propose a new mechanism of branching morphogenesis to quantitatively explain branched silica rib patterns, a recurring pattern feature - just out in @PNASNews 🧵https://t.co/zK3IyQy3gO

[Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan]

Now officially out in Small: Our paper about peculiar rotation and lane formation of ferromagnetic platelets in an AC magnetic field. With Mojca Vilfan, Alenka Mertelj, Darja Lisjak and others.
https://t.co/ZyEXZtMZU4

[Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @BPoD_s]

#Computermodel of beating #cilia reveals the mechanism of their synchronisation. Watch the (metachronal) #Mexicanwave emerge! Video & research by David J. Hickey, @RGolestanian & @AndrejVilfan @mpids @LivMatPhys in @PNASNews. On https://t.co/63SznCcmvb

[MPI-DS Göttingen @mpids]

A new model from the department Living Matter Physics @LivMatPhys at MPI-DS extends the Lorentz theorem to fluids with broken symmetries. 💔
This now allows to explore such systems in further detail: https://t.co/jCUxW0yIk2