We are a biological and soft matter physics research group at UC Merced Physics working on the theory and modeling of cell mechanics and active matter
Joined March 2021
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
4 Mar 2025
Stand up for science! Happening this Friday 3/7 - look up for local events near you : standupforscience2025.org/ most campus nationwide will organize, join if you can, make our voice heard
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23 Nov 2024
looking forward to connect with scientific colleagues on the other side!
@dasbiswaslab.bsky.social
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23 Nov 2024
Congratulations to Subhaya Bose for successfully defending his PhD dissertation tonight. Thanks also to the committee for being very engaged and keeping him on track in the last 5 years.
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14 Nov 2024
It was fun to attend this fantastic workshop on Mechanobiology organized by my good friend and collaborator Xinpeng Xu in Hangzhou, China. The recorded talks are now available
The video recordings from the recent @BIRS_Math workshop on Cell and Tissue Mechanics: Modeling Meets Experiments (24w5507) at Hangzhou are now online birs.ca/events/2024/5-day-wo…
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
13 Nov 2024
All excited about this invited talk.
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12 Nov 2024
Our article on a long-range mechanism for durotaxis is now published! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Grad student Subhaya Bose and coworkers introduce elastic dipolar interactions into an active particle model: a cell may sense a stiffness interface from afar without straddling it!
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Thank you @ApsDsoft for organizing such a great Panel Session! Lots of great questions - and if anyone is interested feel free to reach out for any further advice
You're already a PhD student? Currently looking for a #postdoc in #softmatter #physics? We have another panel discussion for you! Join faculty and postdocs as they give tips on finding a position, applying for fellowships, and reaching out to potential advisors
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
17 Oct 2024
Registrations are open for the Qlife Quantitative Biology spring school on Cell Dynamics in Developmental System March 3-April 04 2025. Great line of talks, lectures and hands-on practicals on omics, image analysis, modeling and inference: shorturl.at/Ygthh
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
3 Oct 2024
I will be giving the SLAAM Seminar next Monday morning October 7 (10am Pacific time/1pm Eastern) on Zoom. Please attend if you're interested in biomolecular phase separation, transcriptional control and hyperuniformity!
More details: sites.google.com/view/slaams…
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Monday: check out a Zoom seminar by postdoc Emiliano Perez Ipina on the SLAAM series sites.google.com/view/slaams… - he'll talk about his work on cells interacting with and modifying complex environments
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
14 Sep 2024
📢 IgNobel prize for active matter! The physics of drunk worms! 🪱
13 Sep 2024
Congratulations to Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen! They won an Ig Nobel prize for their research in which they investigate the behaviour of drunk worms as a particular form of active matter. iop.uva.nl/content/news/2024…
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
5 Sep 2024
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We’re No. 1! 🎉
UC Merced is making bold strides, ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for social mobility, No. 18 overall, and No. 5 among public universities by the Wall Street Journal! 🏆
Click the 🔗 to read more about our rankings: ucm.edu/da4sfu
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29 Aug 2024
A belated post: Patrick Noerr successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Mechanical interactions in biological active filaments and networks" earlier this summer. Congratulations Dr. Noerr! Wish you all the best in your postdoc career at UCSD!
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
25 Aug 2024
Cell 1: I am going this way.
Cell 2: No, come this way with me.
Cell 1: Where are we going?
Cell 2: No clue, but at least we will be together.
Some that wander are lost........
#CellBiology
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
21 Aug 2024
📢 Applications for ELBE postdoc fellowships are open! If you're up for a biophysics theory-experiment collaboration in the Dresden environment, please apply! @csbdresden, @mpi_pks, @mpicbg, @tudresden_de
20 Aug 2024
You have a background in math/physics/computer science/ML and are looking for an interdisciplinary postdoc fellowship in life science, with free choice of host groups? Then join us at the CSBD as an ELBE postdoc, application deadline is 19. September!
csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a-p…
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19 Jun 2024
Great collection. I would also add this from the groups of Giorgio Scita, Nir Gov and Ajay Gopinathan science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… which showed clusters of chemotactic cells switching from running to rotating phases
16 Jun 2024
Collective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all.
I'm @onenimesa, and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
18 Jun 2024
When in 3D, confinement drives new collective states in epithelial sheets. Glad to see our work with @anne_grapin @mpopov1c Julicher complements this growing body of exciting work
16 Jun 2024
@tzerhan29 et al show topological defects in cell traction forces underlie emergent chirality
They show pancreas derived organoids rotates as an active solid!
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
15 Jun 2024
Bacterial nanomotors spin at up to 20,000 rpm
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
7 Jun 2024
Stress propagation in active solids induces spontaneous actuation of floppy modes without exciting vibrational modes
Letter: go.aps.org/4aViIjP
Focus: go.aps.org/3XdD2K1
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dasbiswas_lab retweeted
6 Jun 2024
To what extent can bacteria leave the segregation of their chromosomes up to chance? We revisit a long-standing question regarding the roles of entropy and active mechanisms in bacterial chromosome segregation. Now out in @NatureComms
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