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Our colloquium speaker this week is Prof. Inna Vishik (UC Davis), who will give a talk entitled “A ‘Surface Level’ View of Weyl Semimetal Materials”. When: Friday, Feb 2, 10:30-12:00 Where: Granite Pass 135

Very happy to profile our group's latest publication, on the anomalous elasticity of blood clots, led by former postoc Andrei Zakharov science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…, “(a thread)” 🧵

Join us for our Friday seminar from Dr Benjamin Idini of UC Santa Cruz who will talk about Tidal observations of Icy Moons and Giant Planets All are welcome! When: Friday 2/9, 10:30am Where: Granite Pass 135

We are pleased to announce that the first SLAAM talk of Spring 2024 will be given by Dr. Menachem (Nachi) Stern (UPenn)! Title: Learning without neurons in physical systems Date and Time : Monday, Feb 12, at 9 am PT/12 noon ET

Thanks to the soft/bio community for their strong support to my proposal on elasticity in active matter and interdisciplinary computational education

Join us for our physics seminar this week with Dr. Eric Mjolsness of UC Irvine who will give a talk titled "Physics (and Mathematics) for Machine Learning for Physics (and Biology)" All are welcome! Where: Granite Pass 135 When: Friday, 2/16/2024

Thanks to Prof. Linda Hirst from UC Merced Physics for a great seminar on active fluids and for teaching us all a little California geography 😆 Special shoutout to our first student host of this seminar series, 4th year PEB student Charles Lomba from the YalePhysicsDept

A busy Monday for our group at #APSMarchMeeting ! Please be at these fantastic sessions on the Physics of Cytoskeleton and the DBIO Early Career Prize session to be headed by Shiladitya Banerjee where my student Patrick Noerr will also speak.

We are happy to announce that our next SLAAM seminar will be given by Dr. Carmen Lee (North Carolina State University). Title: Relating the microscale to the macroscale in granular materials. Carmen Lee Date and Time: 18 March, 9 am PT/12 noon ET (US).

Such a clear, hi-def view of the eclipse. Gives a real sense of the traveling darkness.

We are excited to announce that the next SLAAM seminar will be given by Dr. Shreyas Gokhale (MIT) on Monday, April 15, at 9 am PT/12 noon ET (US). Title: “Excitable nonreciprocal solids” @ShreyasG86

Grad student Abhinav Kumar presenting his research on modeling contractility of elastic cytoskeletal networks, at the Bay Area Cytoskeletal Workshop today. UC Merced colleague @itsthewoolab (Stephanie Woo) is one of the keynote speakers!

We are excited to announce that the next SLAAM seminar will be given by Dr. Linnea Lemma (Princeton) on Monday, May 20, at 9 am PT/12 noon ET (US). Title: Driven protein fluxes control the number, size, and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae @lsquared64

Join us for today's SLAAM seminar, will be given by Dr. Emiliano Perez Ipiña (Johns Hopkins University) at 10 am PT. Title: Cells in Motion​: The Interplay between Motility, Migration, and the Environment

We are delighted to announce the next SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr. Roman Belousov (EMBL Heidelberg) today, at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET US. Title: Poissonian Cellular Potts Models

Today's SLAAM seminar will feature Dr. Ferdinand Greiss from the Weizmann Institute of Science at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET (US time). Title: Living matter from the bottom up with single DNA molecules

Join us today for a SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr.  K. R. Prathyusha (Georgia Institute of Technology) at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. Title - Collective Dynamics of Active Polymers: From Clusters to Tangles Sign up to our mailing list here: sites.google.com/view/slaamsemi…

Join us today for a SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr. Suchismita Das (ENS Paris) at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. Title: Flocking by turning away

New preprint from the lab! We studied how single cells migrate up, down and about fibronectin gradients. Experiments by Isabela Corina Fortunato, PhD , theory by David Bruckner. Collaboration with Edouard Hannezo and Raimon Sunyer IBEC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…