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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 14d

🚀 Meet the @barakhirshberg.bsky.social Lab
From enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics to bridging physics & ML, they’re redefining how we study complex systems.

🔬 Curious how stochastic resetting speeds up protein folding or even AI training?

#MolecularDynamics #Physics @telavivuni.bsky.social

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 14d

👏 Big congrats to our very own @barakhirshberg.bsky.social on winning the Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize! 🏆
Well-deserved recognition for amazing research and an inspiring team. 🚀
#Science #Chemistry

Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 23d

What an unexpected and pleasant surprise is receiving the Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize. Thank you!
Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues.
@biosofttau.bsky.social
Congrats also to Graham!

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 29d

🔬 Meet the Bisker Lab at Tel Aviv University!
From nanosensors to protein folding, they're pushing boundaries in biophysics and nanotech.

#Science #Nanotech #Biophysics #MeetTheLab #Biosoft

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm very proud to receive the @acscomp.bsky.social OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry!
Thank you also to Rob Paton and Zoe Cournia.
Congrats Josh, Tibor and Denise, my fellow recipients 🥳
@biosofttau.bsky.social

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Aug 25

well-deserved recognition! 👏

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎉 Save the Date: Sept 9, 2025 🎉
We’re celebrating 80 years of brilliance in fluid mechanics & electrokinetics!
Join us for a full-day colloquium honoring Prof. Touvia Miloh

Top minds. Cutting-edge science. And a legacy worth celebrating.

#BioSoftTAU #Science #Electrokinetics #TAU

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 Thank you for joining BioSoft Day #6 at TAU!
A day full of inspiring talks, posters, and scientific exchange.
👏 Congrats to our poster prize winners!
📍 See you next year at BioSoft Day #7!
#BioSoftDay #Biophysics #SoftMatter

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jul 16

📅 Reminder: BioSoft Day #6 is happening on July 21, 2025, at the Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv University (09:00–17:00)!
Join us for a full day of exciting talks, poster sessions, and scientific exchange.
🔗 www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to @yairshokef.bsky.social , Chaviva Sirote-Katz, Tamás Kálmán, Naomi Spiro, Ofri Palti, Yotam Feldman, and Guy Cohen on the publication of two papers in Physical Review Research.
Outstanding work by an exceptional team!

Read here: journals.aps.org/prresearch/c...

#Metamaterials

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our two sister papers on combinatorial metamaterials published today in @physrevresearch.bsky.social, a result of a fantastic SKCM2 collaboration with Chaviva Sirote-Katz at Tel Aviv and Tamás Kálmán at Tokyo shokef.tau.ac.il

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jun 28

📢 BioSoft Day #6 is now on July 21, 2025, at the Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv University (09:00–17:00)!
If you registered for June 29—no need to re-register.
New registration open till July 11.
Posters welcome—prizes await!
🔗 www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025

BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jun 22

Due to the situation in Israel, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone BioSoft Day 2025.
We will announce a new date once conditions allow it.
Thank you for your support, patience, and understanding during this time. We look forward to coming together soon to celebrate science and community.

BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Jun 12

BioSoft Day 2025!
A full day of inspiring talks, poster sessions & networking on biophysics.
Leading speakers from top Israeli institutions will present cutting-edge research.
Enjoy poster soundbites, coffee, and lively discussions
www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025
#Biophysics #SoftMatter

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Jun 1

Mechanical interactions between plants and surroundings plays a huge role in understanding how plants negotiate their environment - but measuring low forces of free plants is hard!

In this preprint Amir Ohad presents a new sensor - using a drinking straw!

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · May 22

📢 Save the date! BioSoft Day #6.
June 29, 2025 at the Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv .
A full day of science at the physics–biology interface.
🎟️ Free with registration by June 14.
🔗 Details: www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025
Don't miss it—join us!
#BioSoftDay #TelAvivUni #PhysicsMeetsBiology

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · May 21

Science-cooking aficionados 🍩
Last week I had a fun conversation with Foodie Shaul Amsterdamski about my course “Physics of Living Systems - Lab & Kitchen”, which includes live demos by chefs :)
Last few minutes of his show “Close to the Plate”: www.kan.org.il/content/kan/...

מזון לנשמה

הפעם ספיישל מיוחד שעוסק בחיבור בין אוכל לבריאות הנפש. בתוכנית שאול מדבר עם איילת ברק, שעוסקת בטיפול בבישול, דוריאל רימר מנכ"לית עמותת "ונטעת" שמחליפה בטון בצמחייה במודל של "עיר יער" ויוטקה הרשטיין שהס...

www.kan.org.il

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · May 19

New publication from Biosoft — The Bisker Lab featured on the cover of Analytical Chemistry!

Prof. Gili Bisker and team present ACFSA, a smart method to pick minimal SWCNT-peptide sensors for accurate metal ion detection.

📄 Read: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Congrats to the team!

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 15

Our paper is now out in MLST @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social, the BEST place for stat mech for ML! @biosofttau.bsky.social

Response theory of first passage processes and the quasi-steady-state hypothesis helps optimize training protocols for neural nets👇
doi.org/10.1088/2632...

First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models - IOPscienceSearch

First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models, Meir, Sagi, Keidar, Tommer David, Reuveni, Shlomi, Hirshberg, Barak

doi.org

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you for joining the Biosoft Biophysics Prize Symposium at Tel Aviv University. A day of insightful lectures, interdisciplinary exchange, and the awarding of Excellence Prizes to leading researchers in the field.
#Biophysics #Biosoft #TAU #Science

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · May 12

Join us today Tel Aviv Univesity International Prize in Biophysics, honoring Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social Leonid Mirny and Ariel Amir

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Apr 23

Today Yotam Stern came over from Ben-Gurion University to show us how the Israelachvili Number determines the spreading of surfactant-laden droplets

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Feb 25

And some more great talk

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Feb 25

Some hot tea and group photo

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · Feb 25

Second day of @biosofttau.bsky.social retreat started with hike around Kibutz Dalia...

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Feb 25

Starting off the second day of the Biosoft center @biosofttau.bsky.social with a beautiful hike in Kibbutz Dalia, followed by a wonderful talk by Yasmine Meroz @merozlab.bsky.social

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