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Shivani Dharmadhikari

@sdharmadhikari.bsky.social

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Curious about science! PhD student with @maitrejl at @institut_curie Paris, Prev.. UG student researcher at LeptinLab @EMBL Current: Studying membrane mechanics in preimplantation mammalian development aka “pulling membrane tubes from mouse embryos”

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Nov 30

An interesting read! An article from John Hopfield on how he chooses to work on the next question(now what?)… a question, as a scientist we often ask ourselves!

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Now What?

John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. October 2018 John J. Hopfield Now What? (Article in PDF format) My first full-time permanent employment was at the Bell Telephone Labo...

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 8

It was lovely to know you and everyone else from your lab too ☺️

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

I am sure I am missing to tag so many of them here but hopefully my friends from the course will help me tag them:) with that being said MBL Physiology 2025 will be a lovely memory to cherish! ☺️

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

With social hours spent doing foldscope duels @prakashlab.bsky.social @yannis-reignier.bsky.social and solving puzzles.. watching whales and late night swims under the stars 🌌🌊🤫 with my cohort @edwardwheeler.bsky.social @vibhaka.bsky.social @rnadavid.bsky.social @michaelcchung.bsky.social ....

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

And the course manager - @samjlord.bsky.social 💪 and the lovely course assistants Peter Yunker, Pascal Keum-jae, Noah Kohn

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

Throughout the summer we had the support of very talented microscopists - Joe Brzostowski, @tanner-fadero.bsky.social , Nico Stuurman! 🔬😊

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

And we finished with collectives of collectives and electrocuting things ⚡ with @djcohen.bsky.social, Isaac Breinyn, Sameeksha Rao, Yubin Lin and Charlie Duclut

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rotation 2 continued with amazing tools to look at organelles inside the cell with @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social, Sherry Hsu, Kajal Kamble, @mczanellati.bsky.social! Had a cool group to troubleshoot with Safal, Greg, Alex, Aaron, @edwardwheeler.bsky.social , Illeana and @lucasphilipp1.bsky.social

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rotation 1 introduced me to the amazing Physarum 😍💛 Amy, Zach, Ameya, @haysconun.bsky.social and Vita from @gladfelterlab.bsky.social were encouraging TA's.

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

started with skills week with - @tanner-fadero.bsky.social , @jlazzaridean.bsky.social, Deepak Krishnamurthy, @chueschen.bsky.social, Veronica, David and Bob

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Aug 7

Spent a memorable summer at Physiology course at @mblscience.bsky.social Very coooool science with some lovely people! Thanks @brangwynnelab.bsky.social and @gladfelterlab.bsky.social for being amazinnnng course coordinators! 🧵

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Tanner Fadero @tanner-fadero.bsky.social · Feb 4

I'll kick off my bsky profile with a great 3D fluorescence microscopy time-lapse. My buddies Joe Brzostowski and Rachel Stadler (NIH) acquired this on their #snoutscope that I helped them build.

Shown is a fluorescent actin marker in Dictyostelium. Joe and Rachel called this "The Mark of Zorro!"

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Jun 25

MBL scientists use skates and their embryos to study skeletal development. By shining a light through egg cases, scientists can watch the entire maturation process.

Learn more about skates as a research organism here: bit.ly/3Rmvq3F

📹 Bioquest

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · Jun 18

The one and only Manu @prakashlab.bsky.social
inspiring @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology students at this morning's lecture.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · Jun 17

A great morning with the @mblscience.bsky.social
Physiology students after my talk today.

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Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social · Mar 31

We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Apr 24

Is there a pattern of how they arrange in the drop or have I been staring through the microscope for far toooo long? 🧐😁#beautifulembryos

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Mar 11

If you're in Europe you can watch it in French here: www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Mar 22

That’s beautiful! What did you use to stain the membrane?

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Mar 21

New cell line = New cell morphologies to explore!

This hepatic cell line has fully invested into membrane protrusions!

Actin is shown in 🟦 and DNA in 🟧

#FluorescenceFriday
#SciArt

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Mar 11

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

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Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Mar 8

I think you definitely could☺️

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Feb 9

Lovely work on shape evolution! Check out the story below:)

Aissam Ikmi @aikmi.bsky.social · Feb 9

The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Feb 7

Couldn’t help but hum.. Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel…🎶the windmills of your mind!

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Nicholas Rougeux @rougeux.bsky.social · Nov 3

New project 11 months in the making! Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté. I created a digital edition of two of his most stunning collections of illustrations from 1802–1833. Colorful posters and an in-depth blog post about how it was made:
Explore: www.c82.net/work/?id=396
Blog: www.c82.net/blog?id=95

Screenshot of lilies arranged by the order they were published

Posters of roses and lilies, each arranged by color

Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social · Feb 5

As a biologist, we have to often choose colors and the way of representation of data..but Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s plant illustrations are amazing and Nicholas Rougeux's collation and post processing and representation of data is beautiful! Lots of amazing stuff! check here - www.c82.net/work/

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