Biophysicist, Soft Matter Enthusiast, Associate Professor at Georgia Tech. Views are my own.
Joined December 2016
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30 Jul 2021
We (@thomas_day_, @dahaj1897, @dayan1406, @TonyBurnetti, @wc_ratcliff, Stephanie Hohn, and Ray Goldstein) have a new preprint on universal packing statistics in multicellularity. We also explain what multicellularity shares with piles of sand! (1/N)
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15 Aug 2023
Can we witness evolution’s unit shifting from individual to collective, in real-time?
@ozan_g_b @wc_ratcliff @YunkerLab evolved large multicellular yeast and said YES!
Great fun to spotlight this cool project & its first findings with @orshalevsk @cratzke1. @Trends_Ecol_Evo
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9 Aug 2023
Plus I learned the unrelated yet fascinating fact that the reverse of the one cent coin actually shows the Lincoln statue behind the Lincoln Memorial columns... which you can only see if you have the right optical reflectometer in your lab :) Thx @YunkerLab!
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9 Aug 2023
Provost @McLaughlin_GT and I had a blast this morning with Profs @wc_ratcliff @YunkerLab their students, who are answering truly fascinating questions about how multicellular life came to be, how a clump of individual cells can form an organism. Blown away by their work!
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26 Jun 2023
#140: Entanglement in living systems @thomas_day_ @dahaj1897 @ozan_g_b @peterlconlin @yunkerlab @wc_ratcliff
Unique entanglement, and resulting structural strength, of living systems that grow together, with confirmatory results in snowflake yeast!
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19 Jun 2023
We have a new preprint, showing that living systems can entangle in ways non-living systems can’t. In non-living systems, entanglement only occurs under specific geometric regimes. Not so for growing systems! Given time, most geometries can entangle.
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12 Jun 2023
Hi folks, we have a new preprint out on the #MuLTEE, examining the molecular basis of multicellular evolution. We found that an ancient protein folding system, Hsp90, can be tuned to drive rapid convergent multicellular evolution. 1/24
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12 May 2023
The yeast went from small microscopic clusters that were 100x weaker than gelatin to blobs the size of fruit flies with the toughness of wood.
They’ve started evolving division of labor between their constituent cells, and a kind of circulation.
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12 May 2023
I wrote about an incredible experiment in which microscopic, single-celled yeast evolved to become multicellular organisms visible to the naked eye, recreating one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions in a lab, in just one year.
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12 May 2023
Wonderful story on the MuLTEE by @edyong209 for the @TheAtlantic.
12 May 2023
I wrote about an incredible experiment in which microscopic, single-celled yeast evolved to become multicellular organisms visible to the naked eye, recreating one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions in a lab, in just one year.
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10 May 2023
A journey to the origins of multicellular life...
Read our @GTResearchNews writeup of @wc_ratcliff 's Multicellularity Long-Term Experimental Evolution here: research.gatech.edu/journey-…
10 May 2023
I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25
Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9
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10 May 2023
And now with a more accurate title! Also a gift link, so it should not be behind a paywall.
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10 May 2023
I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25
Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9
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9 May 2023
Very excited to share our work on autocatalytic self-assembly of RNA and the formation of catalytic reaction networks within the confines of coacervate compartments.
Walter Gilbert meets Kauffman Dyson meets Oparin Haldane.
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10 May 2023
A journey of a lot of collaboration, hard work and microscope time has just been published in Nature!
Congrats to these folks, I am incredibly lucky to be a part of this project. @wc_ratcliff @ozan_g_b @YunkerLab @dahaj1897 and others I missed.
Article:
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30 Mar 2023
«Ceci n’est pas un embryon» nor an organoid for the matter
This is a close animal relative, the #Ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica.
We are thrilled to have our new story out in @CurrentBiology
LINK: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Buckle up for a quick🧵
#invertedLUTs @christlet
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7 Mar 2023
How do biofilms grow vertically? Find out in our paper, out now:
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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7 Mar 2023
Interested in more about biofilm topographies? In the same session, @AdamorAtom and @AawazPokhrel are giving related talks at 8:12 and 10:12
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