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Datta Lab
@TheSquishyLab
Lab of Sujit Datta @Caltech studying transport of soft (“squishy”) and living systems to address challenges in biotech, energy, medicine, & sustainability.
Pasadena, CA Katılım Ocak 2020
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Life in soil demands the attention of biological physicists: it is fundamentally interesting and key to understanding the sustainability of this planet. Our goal here is to draw attention to this area by framing open problems & clarifying directions for research. [4/5]
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Excited to release a review led by postdocs Pablo Bravo, @DharTanumoy, Eloise Masquelier, & PhD student Danielle Sclafani: arxiv.org/abs/2607.10734!
We argue that studying the feedback between bacteria & soil is an exciting frontier for physics. 🌱🦠
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Thrilled that former postdoc @BabakVH is joining the faculty at UC Berkeley! Babak studied how bacteria self-organize in confinement (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…) & how yeast use biogenic CO₂ bubbles to escape confinement (arxiv.org/abs/2604.07768). Many exciting things to come! 🎉
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad@BabakVH
I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, @UCB_Chemistry, @UCBerkeley as an Assistant Professor in January 2027! I am incredibly excited for this next chapter. 🐻 (1/6)
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We’re bringing all of our research updates together in one place. Follow @apsjournals for the full portfolio of research and publishing news.
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It was a pleasure to work on this project with Simon Haward & @ShenU_OIST.
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback. Please RT/share with whoever might be interested! [7/7]
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The missing piece of physics was polymer extension at stagnation points in the pore space. As fluid squeezes past each obstacle, polymers stretch, which costs energy and adds to the macroscopic pressure drop. Emily direct linked this pore-scale physics to macroscopic flow. [5/6]
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Excited to release our latest work, led by PhD alumnus of the group Emily Chen: arxiv.org/abs/2605.27731!
We provide a mechanistic explanation for why polymer solutions anomalously "flow thicken" in porous media—but not in bulk. 🧽💧
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Undergraduate Soft Matter Summer School 2026 at UMass Amherst in June!
Open to undergraduate physics students interested in soft matter research. To know more: websites.umass.edu/ugsmss2026/
@ApsDsoft @UMassAmherst #SoftMatter #UndergraduateResearch #Physics
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Reminder: Submit your abstract to the Society of Rheology's annual meeting! This year's meeting will be held in Boston, MA October 25-29.
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Thrilled to see this paper published @JFluidMech!
Check it out at doi.org/10.1017/jfm.20….
In it, we describe how elastic flow instabilities manifest in ordered granular media — and how inter-grain contacts shape the characteristics of the unstable flow. 🌪️⌛️
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Datta Lab@TheSquishyLab
Excited to release our latest work, led by Emily Chen: arxiv.org/abs/2412.03510! Here, we reveal & highlight the pivotal, but previously-overlooked, role of inter-grain contacts in shaping viscoelastic flow instabilities in granular media. 💧🌪️🧽 Tweetorial follows... [1/6]
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This #EarthDay we're featuring Rockefeller's Avi Flamholz, who studies how microbes contribute to #climatechange and how they could offer solutions to this problem via their metabolisms.
From @TheScientistLLC:
the-scientist.com/a-microbiologi…
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📢 We’re kicking off the first klogW seminar of the year!
Join us on April 21st at 12PM EST for a talk by Douglas Jerolmack (UPenn) — 2026 APS-DSNP Fellow — presenting "Fragility of Soft Earth Materials" 🌎🌍🌏
Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Each tubule of fungal root systems is about one-tenth the width of a human hair. New technology has allowed scientists to glimpse nutrients flowing through them for the first time. It’s revolutionizing the field.
quantamagazine.org/an-arctic-road…
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