Living Physics Lab
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Biological theory | “Cell learning” | Function spaces | Projection operators | Manifolds | Dynamics | Behavior | Evolution
livingphysics.org
Cambridge, UK
Living Physics Feed: https://tinyurl.com/living-physics
livingphysics.org
Cambridge, UK
Living Physics Feed: https://tinyurl.com/living-physics
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How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
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now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🚨 Late preprint alert!
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!
More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!
More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨 Late preprint alert!
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!
More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!
More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!
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October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
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Apply for our Master of Science in Physics of Life – training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics, engineering and life sciences. Scholarships available. Application deadline: 30 November. More: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de...
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Apply for our Master of Science in Physics of Life – training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics, engineering and life sciences. Scholarships available. Application deadline: 30 November. More: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de...
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@biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
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Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
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Torkel E Loman, Ruth E Baker
Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140
Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Torkel E Loman, Ruth E Baker
Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140
Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140
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We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia.
Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS
Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS
Trust Everything, Everywhere
Trust 'building blocks', like encryption, enable digital industries to flourish securely, but they don't extend into the physical world. With emerging technology blurring the line between digital and ...
link.aria.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia.
Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS
Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS
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Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!
We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!
We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...
October 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!
We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!
We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...
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Read and pitch an idea: press.asimov.com/articles/ma...
Our Next Book: Making the Modern Laboratory
An update on a forthcoming book from Asimov Press, which will delve into the origins of the machines, equipment, organisms, and reagents that have become familiar features of molecular biology laboratories over the last sixty years.
press.asimov.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Read and pitch an idea: press.asimov.com/articles/ma...
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Our next book: "Making the Modern Laboratory"
An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory.
Come help us write it!
An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory.
Come help us write it!
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Our next book: "Making the Modern Laboratory"
An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory.
Come help us write it!
An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory.
Come help us write it!
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I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine
New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
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Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next.
The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.
More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...
Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond
The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.
More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...
Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next.
The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.
More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...
Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond
The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.
More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...
Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond
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Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
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After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809
October 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809
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There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...
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"Universal Biology: The Physics of Life through the Macro-Micro Consistency Principle" will be soon published from Cambridge Univ Press. Brief introduction is here:https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/universal-biology/
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Universal Biology: The Physics of Life through the Macro-Micro Consistency Principle" will be soon published from Cambridge Univ Press. Brief introduction is here:https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/universal-biology/
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Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :)
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
Working with C. elegans
This channel provides clear demonstrations of core C. elegans lab skills, including: recognizing life stages and common phenotypes, picking and manipulating worms, and maintaining healthy cultures. De...
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :)
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
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Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly
Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...
www.biorxiv.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
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So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome | Genome Biology
rdcu.be
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
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Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
It continues to be weird to me that adult CNS neurons have a single, nonmotile cilium just hanging out, maybe acting as a site for receptor expression. Like a little extra antenna that we all just ignore in our drawings of neurons. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Primary Cilia in the Developing and Mature Brain
Primary cilia emerge as key regulators of development, neurogenesis, and signaling
in the mammalian brain. Guemez-Gamboa et al. review the status, genetic basis, potential,
controversies, and unanswer...
www.cell.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?
Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?
Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...