Excited to release our latest work, led by @almcalvo: https://t.co/1krxJjgK48!
Here, we characterize the rich dynamics of surface-attached "active drops", and develop principles to predict & control their shape and motion (morphodynamics). 💧🦠
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It was a great pleasure to present some recent work and personal stories on how I got introduced to the field of biophysics. so excited to be a part of the UCSD biophysics community.
This is (some of) us at #BMES2024.
A mathematician, several physicists, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, bioengineers, biologists, and a music major! Embracing multidisciplinary research. ❤️🫁🐭🐓🦎🦀
@EPrinceton@BMESociety
Last but not least, @ctrenado_yuste and Maryam Kohram will share their latest breakthroughs in predicting cancer cell behavior #BMES2024. Hope to see you there!
Getting to be a part of the Physiology course as a faculty instructor (along with the amazing @almcalvo@ctrenado_yuste@sesgonzalez as TAs) was a real treat!
It was intense, exciting, and inspiring.
Thank you to @brangwynnelab and @GladfelterLab for your amazing leadership.
📢Excited to share our latest work @NatureComms: https://t.co/37YNONykgS. Here, we show that minimal elastohydrodynamic networks can exhibit rich, emergent collective phenomena, such as memory effects! We term this element a 'fluidic memristor' (tweetorial below).
Sacculation🛍️. The penultimate stage of lung🫁 development. In Dev Cell @CellPressNews researchers in the Devenport and Nelson labs show how planar cell polarity proteins work in the mesenchyme to prepare lungs for their first breath. https://t.co/kmXktd5l0Q
This criterion quantitatively captures all the experimental data [state diagram below]. Thus, not only does our work reveal a pivotal role of polymers in shaping bacterial life—it also yields a simple biophysical rule to predict & control this form of colony morphogenesis! [9/10]
In this @Dev_Cell study, Drs. @parahsaramore, @ctrenado_yuste, @celestemnelson, Danelle Devenport, & team show that Vangl1/2 is required in the lung mesenchyme for sacculation.
💬 More here: https://t.co/89tviIxr9s
So pleased to announce that the first chunk of my graduate work is out now in @Dev_Cell 🫁🐭🔬 here we investigated the role of the planar cell polarity complex in lung sacculation, identifying a PCP-independent role for Vangl in the pulmonary mesenchyme https://t.co/UgEFcqxLT9
Wishing you and yours happy and healthy holidays, from @Princeton Engineering. Thanks to Carolina Trenado Yuste and Alejandro Martinez-Calvo, working in @TheSquishyLab, for letting us film their culture of blue-green algae for this video. The bright green color is chlorophyll.