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Submission open for the tenth YBM Meeting (deadline - 24th April)! Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

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Now #published @physreve.bsky.social: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure"

doi.org/10.1103/qtcv-gk3y

#PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh, a model of cell intercalations during epiboly as elastoplastic deformations of a surface.

@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Jena JSMC offers several positions

- PhD in assembly, function and stability of polymicrobial biofilm communities (experimental)

- Potsdoc in mathematical modelling of the gut-liver-lung axis as a network of tipping elements (theory)

in the Allen group
www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...

We have three exciting speakers lined up for this session: @sindhu16.bsky.social, Vaibhav Mohanty and @mayankandhouse.bsky.social

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The tenth session of YBM is coming up next week. Join us for two exciting talks on Monday (6th April 2026) at 11am (EST). Mark your calendars🗓️: tinyurl.com/37b3uk9p Zoom Meeting link: sites.google.com/view/theoret...

Deadline approaching! Submit your abstracts for the 10th session of YBM by tomorrow. Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

Deadline approaching for next YBM! Submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

See you soon at PACIFIC #MVIF 47!

Heads up ⏰ due to daylight saving time,
start times shift by 1 hour in some regions:

1 hour later for Pacific!

PhD Position in Computational Modelling of Fungal Evolution How do giant mobile elements called ‘Starships’ reshape fungal plant pathogens? Help us computationally model their spread and impact in nature and agriculture!

Phd Position alert 🚨

Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution.

It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Excited to decode the intricate language of ubiquitin chains and unravel their role in protein degradation? 🧬🔬
👉 APPLY NOW to join the lab of Dr. Leo Kiss @leokiss.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social.
#CellularBiochemistry #Ubiquitin #Proteostasis #ProteinDegradation

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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🗓 Extended schedule for this term, now with Harman Jaggi @harmanjaggi.bsky.social joining our lineup of speakers!

All details and Zoom link here: iite.info/seminar/

Also, don't forget we have 75+ previous talks archived on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical...

Colorado convention center and its blue bear sculpture behind the APS logo.

The APS Global Physics Summit is in full swing!

Such large conferences are always a bit overwhelming, so I'm starting a thread to digest it from my point of view as a computational biophysicist.

#APSsummit26
@apsphysics.bsky.social

🚨 Tomorrow Friday 20/03 15:30 EU, Julia Schwartzman (University of Southern California) will present the talk

Ecological Dynamics of Bacterial Groups

at the Population Dynamics Seminars.

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🚨 Next Friday 20/03 15:30 EU, Julia Schwartzman (University of Southern California) will present the talk

Ecological Dynamics of Bacterial Groups

at the Population Dynamics Seminars.

Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

ICBP 2026 We proudly invite experts in biological physics worldwide to the International Conference on Biological Physics 2026 (ICBP 2026) in the magnificent Italian city of Genoa from June 28 to July 5, 2026

International Congress in Biological Physics, Genova, Italy, 28 June to 3 July 2026.

URGENT: submission deadline 25 March.

Session topics, plenary and invited speakers:

www.icbp2026.org

IUPAP Physics of Life medal awarded at meeting.

Spread the word - and act quickly to submit your work.

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on:

⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐

Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍)
Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
See you there!

The consensus mode for linker histone (H1) association coincides with ‘on-dyad’ binding to an individual nucleosome, making it challenging to rationalize the chromatin dynamics and compacting activities of H1 in the context of a highly heterogeneous structural scaffold. Here, we investigate the activity of the somatic H1 variants by conducting crystallographic analysis of nucleosomal assemblies and characterization of nucleosome array condensates, which recapitulate long-range nucleosome fiber interactions in chromatin. H1 is observed to associate variant-dependently with nucleosomes through a diversity of binding modes that include linking multiple nucleosomes/fibers together. Binding versatility is facilitated by the proclivity of the H1 globular domain to recognize DNA structural motifs, which are similar between an individual nucleosome and specific niches within clusters of nucleosomes. We propose that linker histones support a structurally and functionally complex repertoire for chromatin regulation by assuming a variety of context-and variant-dependent DNA binding modes.

Adhireksan et al, 2026. Linker histones consolidate heterogenous nucleosome fiber contacts by linking together multiple nucleosomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The list of the speakers of the Population Dynamics Virtual Seminars 2026 is here!

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First speaker: Julia A. Schwartzman on the 20th of March 2026

Stay tuned!

A new preprint with Matthew Schmitt, @kiseokmicro.bsky.social and Vincenzo Vitelli makes a huge step forward in learning functional groups of components in complex biological systems. It's dimension reduction that speaks to biological function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Submission open for the tenth YBM Meeting (deadline - 26th March)! Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria Noise in bacterial stress responses is often dismissed as mere randomness. While true stochasticity exists, much variation reflects hidden variables—cell state, history, and microenvironment—that are ...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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