Massive congratulations to all new NSF GRFP awardees! Proud of our group alumni, Ian, Paul and Dhyey who were all successful!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳. Also hats off to everyone who applied regardless of the outcome 🙌🏽

Congratulations to Virginia Jiang, who is co-advised by José Avalos and me on winning a Student Research Achievement Award from #BPS!! 🥳🥳
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Congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Thanks Krishna!

On the cover of #JCP, Pablo’s work on “Condensate Deborah Numbers”

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And Pablo will discuss his recent paper on the molecular origins of condensate viscoelasticity

Virginia will discuss a multiscale approach for engineering condensates as microreactors

Ananya will present her work on predicting LCST phase transitions of IDPs and on connections to heat stress responses

Nate will present a new framework for describing protein folding inside condensates

The first four PhD candidates in the group are all at #BPS this week!! @nathanieldhess.bsky.social @ananyac2000.bsky.social Virginia Jiang and Pablo Garcia! Check out their talks and posters!! 👇🏽

Pablo’s work on “condensate Deborah numbers” is now out in #JCP!! Selected as Editor’s Pick and featured as a #Scilight
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Thanks Trevor!

Many condensates can be described as active soft materials that generate molecular fluxes. Here we develop a new #nonequilibrium approach (TRACE) to study molecular transport through condensates! Work led by Yashraj Wani!!

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How does protein folding change inside biomolecular condensates?

Our new preprint put forwards a framework for predicting this!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 work by the talented @nathanieldhess.bsky.social

Out on the #bioRxiv in collaboration with @luciastrader.bsky.social, we probe the molecular basis for thermoresponsive condensation in plants! Work led by Sunita Pathak and @ananyac2000.bsky.social 🥳🥳

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Seriously some of the most fun I’ve had in this field so far! 🥳🥳 #kitp #roadmap #condensates

Want to learn about how we use computational approaches at different scales to study biomolecular condensates?
Check out our latest review, out in Advances in Physics X
@juliamaristany.bsky.social @alinaemelianova.bsky.social
@rcollepardo.bsky.social

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Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!!!!

Gave my last lecture yesterday. Started celebrating that, for the first time, I managed an entire semester without getting sick. Started feeling sick today 🤒…had a solid run though 😅

On the cover of #SoftMatter! Our work on condensate microstructure. Cover designed by Daniel Tan☺️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congrats everyone!! Nice to see this out! Huge shout out to Kieran! 🥳

Have not fully stopped but definitely way less now than before 💔

Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Seminar Series #25 | Allan Drummond YouTube video by Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm

Very insightful reconsideration what Stress Granules might actually be good for!

Going back to the fundamentals & questions arising from Susan Lindquist's and Nancy Kedersha's work.

Amazing talk & scholarship by @drummondlab.bsky.social!

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Biomolecular condensate viscoelasticity is dictated by the interplay between single-molecule shape memory and mesh reconfigurability Biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles that compartmentalize biological functions in living cells. Formed by the phase separation of biomolecules, condensates possess a wide range of mec...

Is there a way to directly connect microstructural dynamics of condensates to their mechanical response?

In his new pre-print, Pablo presents a “condensate Deborah number” that does just that!

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Wow 😩

Yasssssssss!!!!!! Congratulations Alex!!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Theory of Condensate Size Control by Molecular Charge Asymmetry Biomolecular condensates are complex droplets comprising diverse molecules that interact by various mechanisms. Condensation is often driven by short-range attraction, but net charges can also mediate...

Out now in #ACSMacroLett: we demonstrate how molecular charge asymmetry can control the size of condensates! Work done in collaboration with @zwickergroup.bsky.social!!

Theory led by Chengjie Luo and simulations by @nathanieldhess.bsky.social!!

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Out now in #SoftMatter, our work on linking single molecule features, microstructure, and macroscopic properties of condensates! Led by Daniel Tan, a former undergrad student who is now pursuing a PhD in Computational biophysics, Dilimulati Aierken and Pablo Garcia!

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@ananyac2000.bsky.social (not sure why your tag got messed up, my bad)! 🥳🥳

Now out in #ProteinScience! Work led by the talented 🥳🥳@ananyac2000.bsky.social

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