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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · 22h

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Physical traits of supercompetitors in cell competition | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Cell competition is a fitness control mechanism in tissues, where less fit cells are eliminated to maintain tissue homeostasis. Two primary mechanisms of cell competition have been identified: contact...

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Aug 15

Cell Geometry Limits Metabolic Efficiency
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Cell Geometry Limits Bacterial Metabolic Efficiency

Bacterial metabolic strategies are fundamentally linked to their physical form, yet a quantitative understanding of how cell size and shape constrain the efficiency of biomass production remains poorl...

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · May 22

Check out our new opinion/review on Organelle Size Control
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Design principles and feedback mechanisms in organelle size control

Intracellular organelles are essential for cellular architecture and function, and their size regulation is critical for maintaining cellular homeosta…

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · May 9

That's excellent!

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to share our new preprint on bacterial learning, with @sifangwei.bsky.social. Here we show that single bacterial cells can continually learn in dynamic environments, due to an underlying reaction network architecture that resemble a recurrent neural network
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Power-law memory governs bacterial adaptation and learning in fluctuating environments

How do single-celled organisms adapt and learn to survive in dynamic environments without a nervous system? Here, we provide experimental evidence and a theoretical model demonstrating learning-like b...

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Apr 8

good journal. Congrats!

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Apr 4

bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · Apr 3

Mechanistic basis for non-exponential bacterial growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.646116v1

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congrats Jake

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PoLS at Georgia Tech @gtpols.bsky.social · Mar 27

PoLS faculty Dan Goldman has been named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of #Science (@aaas.org)!

Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Feb 21

Read about our latest work on centrosome size control, Version of Record now available @elife.bsky.social

PoLS at Georgia Tech @gtpols.bsky.social · Feb 21

When a cell divides, its centrosome splits in two—and cell division can go catastrophically wrong if the two centrosomes grow to different sizes. How does the cell regulate centrosome size? Deb Banerjee and @shilabanerjee.bsky.social present a novel model in a new @elife.bsky.social paper!

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Feb 17

Big shout out to Jian Liu, @shilabanerjee.bsky.social and @simonereber.bsky.social for organizing a great subgroup meeting on Physical Cell Biology at #BPS2025 at Los Angeles. And afterwards a very enjoyable lunch for the speakers😁

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Feb 12

Beautiful work. Congrats!

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Feb 11

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AAMC Lawsuit Results in Nationwide Temporary Restraining Order on Proposed Drastic Cuts to NIH Funding

Judge grants restraining order after lawsuit led by the AAMC, challenging the legality of the administration’s plan to make cuts to federally funded research.

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PoLS at Georgia Tech @gtpols.bsky.social · Feb 7

How can subterranean organisms be observed as they move underground? A recent paper from Dan Goldman's CRAB Lab presents Laser Speckle Imaging (LSI) as a non-invasive way to view organisms as they move through granular media. #Physics #Biology doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Detecting subtle subterranean movement via laser speckle imaging

Summary: Laser speckle imaging non-invasively quantifies subterranean organism activity by detecting nanometer-scale movements.

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Dec 23

Hi Folks, the Physical Cell Biology subgroup of the BPS is currently searching for a secretary treasurer. We are seeking two nominations to run for an election. DM me if interested. Pleaee
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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Dec 12

A betrayal to those who opted for the new framework. Why not simply accept/reject then?

eLife @elife.bsky.social · Dec 10

After listening to community feedback, we will provide a partial feed allowing 93% of eLife authors to continue being indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. We will also move from the Scopus Journals Collection to the Scopus Preprints Collection.

Full update below.

Changes to eLife’s indexing status in Web of Science and Scopus

To best serve the needs of researchers, eLife will provide a partial feed of research to be indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. eLife will also move from the Scopus Journals Collection to…

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Dec 8

Please cite doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
as you are using a movie from this paper without crediting

Cell-scale biophysical determinants of cell competition in epithelia

Mechanical competition is controlled by biophysical parameters that regulate cellular homeostatic density, while biochemical competition is regulated by parameters that influence the organisation of c...

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 22

Work led by postdoc Fernanda Perez-Verdugo, with a very productive collaboration with Gabriel Galea's lab @UCL and @emaniou.bsky.social. Many thanks to Gabe for introducing me to this intriguing model system.

Read our earlier work on hindbrain neuropore closure here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Hindbrain neuropore tissue geometry determines asymmetric cell-mediated closure dynamics in mouse embryos | PNAS

Gap closure is a common morphogenetic process. In mammals, failure to close the embryonic hindbrain neuropore (HNP) gap causes fatal anencephaly. W...

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 22

How do physical forces influence spatiotemporal cell patterning during tissue morphogenesis? Our latest preprint integrates theoretical modeling with live imaging of mouse embryos to reveal how mechanosensitive feedback drives self-organized cell patterning during hindbrain neuropore morphogenesis.

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 20

How about 'Blueps'

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Shiladitya Banerjee @shilabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 17

🎉 Excited to share the news that my group will soon be moving to Georgia Tech to begin a new chapter in the Physics of Living Systems. Grateful for an incredible 5 years at CMU. We’re hiring postdocs - join us!

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Nov 13

Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN

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