Free volume theory explains the unusual behaviour of viscosity in a non-confluent tissue during morphogenesis. elifesciences.org/articles/87966…

In eLife - the journal: Structural basis for the preservation of a subset of topologically associating domains in interphase chromosomes upon cohesin depletion doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…. #3Dgenome. Another eLife paper from Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin Davin Jeong @anyuzx.

Amazing!

Proliferation-driven mechanical feedback regulates cell dynamics in growing tissues biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

Excited to share our new paper: "Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos" with Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin, @Jbwallingford, Mark Peifer, Margot Kossmann Williams, Jessica, Robert J. Huebner. Read it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. #devbiol #nematic

Devarajan Thirumalai to Receive Biophysical Society’s 2025 Founders Award ow.ly/RQXw50Tuw5C Dave Thirumalai UT Austin

Excited to share our new work:"Rotational migration in human pancreatic ductal organoids depends on actin and myosin activity" from Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin collaborated with Jerome Irianto. #CellBiology #Organoids #PancreasResearch biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Dave Thirumalai, recipient of the 2025 American Physical Society Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics! Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin cm.utexas.edu/news/entry/dev…

On the control of cell proliferation | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin Rajsekhar #Proliferation #Mechanical #Feedback #CIP

Controlling the morphologies and dynamics in three-dimensional tissues from Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin Rajsekhar Sumit Sinha biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

With Thirumalai Lab @ UT Austin and Hung Nguyen, we wrote a review on 'Minimal Models for RNA Simulations', now published in Current Opinion/Research in Structural Biology. We highlight how coarse-grained models capture the complex behaviour of RNA, from ribozyme folding to phase separation and more. doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.…