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Serra Group at UCSD Physics: Nonlinear Dynamics & Physics of Living Systems. http://www.mattiaserra.com Prev. |@SchmidtFellows @Harvard, PhD @ETH_en

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 19d

📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia.
@sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jul 31

We’re recruiting PhD students & postdocs excited about nonlinear dynamics and the physics of living systems. Help us spread the word!

UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences @ucsdphysci.bsky.social · Jul 31

💥CONGRATS💥 to @mattiaserra.bsky.social on receiving a $1.6M NIH MIRA award. Mattia's project will integrate math and physics to develop data-driven frameworks for discovering the mechanisms of biological processes.

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jun 27

same here, thank you

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jun 9

📣 New paper out! How do thousands of cells shape the emergent geometry of the avian embryo? We identify distinct, independently controllable mechanisms that contribute to embryo size and shape. @alex-plum.bsky.social @bensteventon.bsky.social @Guillermo Serrano Najera
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reposted by Mattia Serra

Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Jun 7

Work by the incredibly talented PhD students Saurabh Joshi and Andre Forjaz.

Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Jun 7

InterpolaAI, based on deep learning-based optical flow, restores and interpolates sparse image stacks.

This first example is a stack of histological images of a human pancreatic duct.

6 out of 7 images were missing or defective, all now generated.

Download here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 New review! Dynamical systems and low-dimensional geometric structures in phase space help rationalize how embryos develop form and function, from large datasets. We focus on morphogenesis, cell differentiation, and their interconnection.
@alex-plum.bsky.social

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you, Denis!

Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · May 28

📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Apr 7

Super cool! Congratulations Elias and team 🔥

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Apr 3

congratulations @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social and welcome to the SSF family!

Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Mar 29

they are great!

Reposted by Mattia Serra

Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Jan 27

Ashley's postdoc work is now posted on bioRxiv.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Decaying and expanding Erk gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration

Regeneration of an amputated salamander limb or fish fin restores pre-injury size and structure, illustrating the phenomenon of positional memory. Although appreciated for centuries, the identity of p...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣Check out our work led by @alex-plum.bsky.social ! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Morphogenetic movements reshape cell-cell interaction ranges, quantified as Embryological Light Cones (ELCs). These ELCs are highly different from the corresponding static tissue patterning ELCs.

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · Jan 16

📣 Excited to receive the 💥 NSF CAREER 💥 Award. Our group is looking for PhD students and postdocs interested in the Nonlinear Dynamics and the Physics of Living Systems, with support from NSF, HFSP, and other sources. We’d appreciate your help in spreading the word! @ucsdphysci.bsky.social

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