Andrej Vilfan

Intrinsic chirality or handedness of cyanobacteria moving in a water drop – advancing understanding of bacterial collective behaviour 📹 Andrej Vilfan et al, LFPB, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in @PNASNews ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/4… + @DrJohnAnkers

Chiral gliding: cyanobacteria move straight in water, but steer right on dry surface. A navigation strategy? With @Lei_La_, Stefano Villa and Vahid Nasirimarekani from @mpids. Just out in @PNASnews. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

What is the energetic cost of erasing information by mixing? The optimal shear protocol turns out to be determined by the trajectory of a non-linear pendulum. By Luca Cocconi, @YihongShi_ and @AndrejVilfan, from @mpids and @JSI_SLO. Now in @PhysRevLett doi.org/10.1103/cl9m-c…

@AgudoCanalejo Congratulations! Well deserved! 👍

Thank you to the IOP Biological Physics group for this award! It's a pleasure to contribute to the biological physics community in the UK.

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming conference, “Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems” (ESBS 2025), will be held at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center in the Physics Department of LMU Munich from August 18 to 22, 2025.

Experiments with #bacteria show that, collectively, bacterial colonies exhibit chiral flows along the external boundaries of the colony. Similar but counter-clockwise flows formed along internal boundaries. Read the paper: go.aps.org/4gWFoV1 #chirality #biophysics

Chirotactic response of microswimmers in fluids with odd viscosity, Yuto Hosaka, Michalis Chatzittofi, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan @yuto_hosaka @MikeChatzittofi @AndrejVilfan @RGolestanian @LivMatPhys @mpids #SoftMatter #StatisticalPhysics go.aps.org/4dELcAA

Erich Sackmann passed away. He was among the founding fathers of modern biophysics whose work influenced several generations. A fine man and a dedicated scientist.

Mutual information as a measure of mixing efficiency in viscous fluids, Yihong Shi, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan @AndrejVilfan @RGolestanian @YihongShi_ @mpids @LivMatPhys #SoftMatter #StatisticalPhysics go.aps.org/3VqaLOW

Happy to announce that our review article with @LauraMeissner12 on "Helical motion and torque generation by #microtubule motors (#kinesin and #dynein)" is out #OpenAccess authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

How efficient is propulsion by interfacial surface tension gradients? Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, @RGolestanian & @AndrejVilfan derive an analytical theorem for the minimum dissipation, placing Marangoni surfers among the most efficient microswimmers. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.20…

Exciting news! Our latest paper in @PNASNews explores entropy production in coarse-grained nonequilibrium systems using a method called "milestoning". Check it out here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #statphys #entropy #PNAS

Very much looking forward to meet many great colleagues and feeling honoured to present at the @GordonConf on Cytoskeletal Motors in July 2024.

📢 Excited to share our new preprint "Three-dimensional multi-target super-resolution microscopy of cells using Metal-Induced Energy Transfer and DNA-PAINT"! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #DNAPAINT #MIETPAINT #FLPAINT #SRM #MIET #FLIM @uniGoettingen A short 🧵👇

🎉We have an open #PhDposition in the Mathematical #bioPhysics group of Aljaz Godec addressing "#Theory of non-equilibrium stochastic many-body systems constrained by conservation laws" More details on our website 🔗t1p.de/gn6i5 You are welcome to apply! 📜#Job #math

Fun fact: disk-like swimmers self-propelling in a fluid flow automatically follow time-optimal paths without steering! This and much more on how shape influences navigation in our work w\ @RGolestanian @andrejvilfan and B. Mahault out in @PhysRevResearch doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

Diatoms live in glass houses, with ornate silica cell walls. We propose a new mechanism of branching morphogenesis to quantitatively explain branched silica rib patterns, a recurring pattern feature - just out in @PNASNews 🧵pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Now officially out in Small: Our paper about peculiar rotation and lane formation of ferromagnetic platelets in an AC magnetic field. With Mojca Vilfan, Alenka Mertelj, Darja Lisjak and others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm…

#Computermodel of beating #cilia reveals the mechanism of their synchronisation. Watch the (metachronal) #Mexicanwave emerge! Video & research by David J. Hickey, @RGolestanian & @AndrejVilfan @mpids @LivMatPhys in @PNASNews. On bpod.org.uk/archive/2023/1…

A new model from the department Living Matter Physics @LivMatPhys at MPI-DS extends the Lorentz theorem to fluids with broken symmetries. 💔 This now allows to explore such systems in further detail: ds.mpg.de/4035034/231127…