Prathyusha K. R.

Yesterday, at APS March meeting 2026, Ramesh @raamesh123 gave a poster presentation and a talk and I co-organized and co-chaired a session on “dynamics, activity and topology in slender matter” and presented my work. What an eventful day for our family #APSSummit26 #couplegoal

This study was conducted by Rosa Sinaasappel, @AntoineDeblais, and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam, @krprathyusha, Saad Bhamla, and colleagues at @GeorgiaTech, and collaborators at Sorbonne University.

Individual active filaments, from living worms to a robotic filament chain, aggregate dispersed non-Brownian passive particles from repeated contact and body deformation, with clustering dynamics governed by filament length and bending stiffness. 🔗 go.aps.org/45iz5an

Had the pleasure of giving an invited online lecture last week at NIT Calicut. It was especially meaningful to revisit DPD, a method I first explored during my PhD — and to contribute in a small way to Kerala’s higher education, engaging with MTech students and faculty members.

Check out the full preprint, now posted to the @arxiv! Thanks to authors R. Sinaasappel, @krprathyusha, @TuazonHarry, E. Mirzahossein, P. Illien, @BhamlaLab, and A. Deblais for their wonderful work! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

My very first biology conference, SICB 2025, Atlanta #SICB2025

Professor Rudolf Podgornik, renowned physicist and biophysicist, passes away at 69 ias.tau.ac.il/rudolph_podgor…

@luke_phys Congrats

🎉 Grant news! 🎉 I have won a Wellcome Accelerator Award! This will fund some of my research at UoE (Edinburgh). Grateful to Wellcome and for all the support I have received from UoE, mentors, collaborators, friends, and family. I will be hiring a 2-year Postdoc! Stay tuned.

@shigekomura Fanlong and Prof Doi?

2024 International Workshop on Soft Matter and Biophysics Theories (SMBT2024)が終わりました。私は昨日、生体膜中の高分子ダイナミクスとランダム界面上のブラウン運動について話しました。少し前の研究内容ですが、今回改めて準備し直す中で新しい問題設定にも気付くことができて良かったです。

All excited about this invited talk.

Abstract deadline in two days! October 25 th. Focus Session: "Topological Complexities in Slender Matter and its Applications" Session no: 02.01.19 (DSOFT). @itiwari93 @BhamlaLab @ApsDsoft

Abstract submission summit.aps.org/attend/abstrac…

@itiwari93, @BhamlaLab, I are organizing a focus session on "Topological Complexities in Slender Matter and its Applications" (@ApsDsoft, @APSphysics). We have exciting invited speakers @shucong_li_hhh and Stefan Karpitschka. Submit your abstracts by October 25.

@zamakany Figure from my paper

More from Stefan Karpitschka’s lecture on collective motion of motile microbes 🙌

And off to a great start the Konstanz school of collective behavior 2024 . First lecture by Stefan Karpitschka on collective motion of motile microbes

Congrats @AntoineDeblais and other winners. So proud of you :). I always thought it is a funny and clever idea to change the worm activity. A big achievement to active polymer and active matter community. Glad that we are already collaborating. 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations to Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen! They won an Ig Nobel prize for their research in which they investigate the behaviour of drunk worms as a particular form of active matter. iop.uva.nl/content/news/2…

It feels incredibly overwhelming when the hardcopy from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK arrives by the post. The link to the paper pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

… always great to see majority women-authored papers in (especially theoretical) physics. Hopefully LMP @LivMatPhys will contribute more in the future. #womeninSTEM

Chemical activity, chemotaxis & steric repulsion work together to create complex dynamics in clusters of colloids/enzymes. @krprathyusha, @SahaSuropriya & @RGolestanian from @LivMatPhys analyze fluctuations & glassy behavior in this new paper. @PhysRevLett doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…