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Yunker Lab

@YunkerLab

Biophysicist, Soft Matter Enthusiast, Associate Professor at Georgia Tech. Views are my own.

Atlanta, GA Joined Aralık 2016
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Ángel Cabrera@CabreraAngel·
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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Ángel Cabrera@CabreraAngel·
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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Will Ratcliff
Will Ratcliff@wc_ratcliff·
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. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…
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Will Ratcliff
Will Ratcliff@wc_ratcliff·
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 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Ed Yong is not here
Ed Yong is not here@edyong209·
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. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
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Ed Yong is not here@edyong209·
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. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
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CB@cpbarzler·
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-origin…
Will Ratcliff@wc_ratcliff

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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Benjamin Kerr
Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·
In case you're looking for an article to inspire you, check out this superb new offering from @ozan_g_b, @dahaj1897, @YunkerLab, @wc_ratcliff, and their colleagues. Big congratulations (even bigger than the evolved yeast snowflakes!) to the team on this exciting work!!
Nature Microbiology@NatureMicrobiol

Out now in @Nature: De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity By G. Ozan Bozdag, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Daha, Peter Yunker, William Ratcliff & colleagues. @wc_ratcliff nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Will Ratcliff
Will Ratcliff@wc_ratcliff·
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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Shashi Thutupalli
Shashi Thutupalli@stpalli·
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. nature.com/articles/s4200…
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Thomas Day
Thomas Day@thomas_day_·
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: #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158…
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