Shiheng Zhao
@zhaoshh.bsky.social
PhD Student. MPI-PKS & MPI-CBG & CSBD,
Homepage: https://iamzsh.github.io/
Homepage: https://iamzsh.github.io/
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
#FlatironCCB researchers and collaborators demonstrated how mechanical forces from surrounding tissues can shape the fruit fly gut: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/17/from-ring-to-keyhole-modeling-how-tissues-mold-the-fruit-flys-gut/ #science #biology
From Ring to Keyhole: Modeling How Tissues Mold the Fruit Fly’s Gut
A study on the fruit fly gut led by Flatiron Institute researchers gives insight into how tissues are shaped by bumping into their neighbors.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#FlatironCCB researchers and collaborators demonstrated how mechanical forces from surrounding tissues can shape the fruit fly gut: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/17/from-ring-to-keyhole-modeling-how-tissues-mold-the-fruit-flys-gut/ #science #biology
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
🍂 New paper (JMPS, OA): Midveins control how drying leaves curl/fold.
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🍂 New paper (JMPS, OA): Midveins control how drying leaves curl/fold.
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
As the march meeting abstract deadline approaches, please check out our session! Please RT/forward
For the 2026 APS March Meeting, please consider submitting your abstract to our new focus session on Cellular Sensing and Signaling (04.01.29), which aims to bridge theory and experiments to understand how cells sense and respond to environmental signals.
October 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As the march meeting abstract deadline approaches, please check out our session! Please RT/forward
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems!
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.
nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems!
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
Passive morphogenesis of the gut: work by @zhaoshh.bsky.social @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social and collaborators at Princeton University, @flatironinstitute.org now #published @pnas.org:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Passive morphogenesis of the gut: work by @zhaoshh.bsky.social @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social and collaborators at Princeton University, @flatironinstitute.org now #published @pnas.org:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
A ring of cells deforms into a triangular keyhole in just 15 minutes. Meet the hindgut, a model for boundary-driven morphogenesis!
Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)
Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A ring of cells deforms into a triangular keyhole in just 15 minutes. Meet the hindgut, a model for boundary-driven morphogenesis!
Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)
Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)
On the way to my new apartment last night with the sofa.
August 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On the way to my new apartment last night with the sofa.
Lucky to see this 🌈~
July 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lucky to see this 🌈~
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
What does the force required to poke a cyst of cells reveal about cyst mechanics? Research by Shiheng Zhao, Pierre Haas @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social now highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion in Phys. Rev. Lett.!
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.228402
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.228402
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What does the force required to poke a cyst of cells reveal about cyst mechanics? Research by Shiheng Zhao, Pierre Haas @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social now highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion in Phys. Rev. Lett.!
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.228402
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.228402
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
Now #published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion: "Mechanics of poking a cyst" - the first paper from the PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Now #published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion: "Mechanics of poking a cyst" - the first paper from the PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹
Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT
Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT
May 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹
Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT
Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
New #preprint: "Euler buckling on curved surfaces" arxiv.org/abs/2503.04303
@zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface?
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
@zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface?
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New #preprint: "Euler buckling on curved surfaces" arxiv.org/abs/2503.04303
@zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface?
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
@zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface?
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
New #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688.
A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman.
@flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman.
@flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688.
A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman.
@flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman.
@flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
Reposted by Shiheng Zhao
Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...