Excited to present this work w/ @shilabanerjee.bsky.social next week at APS Global Physics Summit 2026 on mechanical memory and learning in biological tissues.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Can biological tissues "learn"? Our new preprint shows that epithelial tissues exhibit emergent behaviors akin to unsupervised learning. Local tension remodeling allows cell networks to store long-range memory and program global elasticity properties.
Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It’s back! The DBIO Focus Session on Collective Behaviors in Biology returns to #APSMarch #APSSummit26 🎉 Submit your abstract by Oct 23 and join us in Denver! go.aps.org/3I51s36
Invited Speakers: Jasmin Imran Alsous (Flatiron Institute) & Shiladitya Banerjee (Georgia Tech)
Why do vertex models work so well to predict tissue fluidity/rigidity, even though they are simple and possibly even wrong? A new paper in PRX Life
@prxlife.bsky.social, spearheaded by @sadjadarzash.bsky.social and Ojan Damavandi, suggests universality may explain: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
Excited to share our new paper in PRX Life @prxlife.bsky.social!
We uncover universal viscoelastic behavior in different vertex models of biological tissues, explaining why so many models work so well. Enjoyed working with Ojan (co-first), Liz & Lisa on this!
See tinyurl.com/y27fysux
Rigidity of epithelial tissues as a double optimization problem, Sadjad Arzash, Indrajit Tah, Andrea J. Liu, and M. Lisa Manning
go.aps.org/3EN84RD
#SoftMatter #Biophysics #TissueMechanics
Discover work of Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and see how the NITMB supports Professor Liu’s exploration of biological systems in a new NITMB spotlight!
www.nitmb.org/post/many-mo...
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Have you ever wanted to *see* receptor activity in embryos? If so, our new preprint is for you! In it, we showcase a new live-cell biosensor for visualizing receptor tyrosine kinase activity in living embryos – pYtags!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cell Size & Growth
Tuesday 7th January 17:00, with talks from Michael Polymenis (Texas A&M) and Xiaoyu Shi (UC Irvine).
swafferlab.co.uk/size-and-gro...
🎓 Join us for our Spring School in Quantitative Biology: "Cell Dynamics in Developmental Systems"
✨ Featuring renowned speakers and hands-on workshops!
Learn more and register: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
Looking forward to attending this workshop in Jan to discuss how learning theories/frameworks could be used to study biological systems such as epithelial tissues
#epithelial #EpithelialMechanics #cellbiology
