Ivan Palaia

Last days to apply for a #PhD in Computational #Biophysics at @KingsCollegeLon @KCL_Physics @KingsNMES Deadline February 28! Details 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/t… #PhD #PhDposition #PhDSky #AcademicSky #computationalphysics

I am recruiting a #PhDstudent in Computational #Biophysics at @KingsCollegeLon @KCL_Physics @KingsNMES to start in October! Deadline February 28. Details 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project... Feel free to share with interested students! 💻🧬 #PhD #PhDposition #computationalphysics

Cool #preprint by @Cate_Giannini @FrimlLab addressing how #auxin induces #autophagy. Glad we can contribute... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎓 #PhD positions for Chinese students at King's College London 🇨🇳🇬🇧 Email us asap if interested in biological physics and soft matter – and me for computational #biophysics! 📋kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…

Very happy to be a part of this story, connecting like-charge attraction, condensates and cell division 🤩 Check out @v_sorichetti's beautiful tweet-skeetorial! 📃biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)

@BillieMeadowcr1🚵 @v_sorichetti @NargessKGharibi @YanlanMao @IvnPla @SaricLab @ISTAustria @UCL_IPLS @LMCB_UCL #HorizonEU #MSCA

Thus energy consumption unlocks forbidden parts of the mechanical phase space. Life might use this to tune tissue mechanics over time simply via enzyme concentration, without needing to modify the binding sites of collagen-IV molecules or the network structure.

Collagen-IV networks rule the #mechanics of our epithelia, but we know little about how they reshape. Our new preprint (with the 1st coarse-grained MD models of #collagen-IV!) shows how consuming energy during remodelling might make the difference: 📑tiny.cc/s6fqzz 🧵

New PhD in the family!: Chris Vanhille Campos @vainhilla96 🍸🥂🧉🧁. Chris was our stellar ☄️💫 student with many passions — from bacterial division, to vesicle reshaping, condensates, self-assembly, guitar, icey Danube 🧊, braving bears, to making softies @ISTAustria happy 🍧

The actin #cortex is attached to the #membrane via linking proteins. When these linkers get trapped in the cortex meshes, actin jams🚧, #contractility stops🛑 and cells polarise☄️Exciting collaboration (+ real fun!) with @diz_lab @TesoroRuben @SaricLab 📑biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

First manuscript of the PhD in @biorxivpreprint ! Congrats to all co-authors and specially Srishti,@IvnPla ,@diz_lab ! I think we bring forward some cool concepts and questions to the field! (Slightly biased statement😜) Check it out and stay tuned for more things to come! 🤗

Did you know cell filaments love to treadmill? 🔄 They grow and shrink on opposite ends and burn energy doing it! But why? How does it drive self-organisation and bacterial division? Dive into our new publication ft. @SaricLab @nartimsoole @seamus_holden labs to find out! 🧫🔬🖥️

@CHHDellago @vainhilla96 @SaricLab @nartimsoole @ISTAustria Surely a tribute to all the Swifties who invaded Vienna these days👑😆

Treadmilling, curvature and cell division by @vainhilla96 @SaricLab @nartimsoole @ISTAustria 😃🦠🏖️

Ready to hear our PIVOTING story? The preprint "Microtubule pivoting driven by spindle elongation rescues polar chromosomes to ensure faithful mitosis" led by @isabella__k and @Stimac_V is out. Here's a tweetorial for you! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…