We're looking for creative engineers/tinkerers/tool builders that want to engage with cutting-edge research questions in our lab at the @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social

Please help me share the word!

The Skysynth feature of from the Vera Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) is absolutely magical. Explore cosmic sounds. To get an idea, turn on your speakers for the movie below -- it's amazing!

rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

They are fanning themselves, clearly :)

stay tuned! :)

As always, Will is a master storyteller! Here’s a great thread about our recent paper.

We find that simple metabolically-driven physical mechanisms can be co-opted to generate large flows, upending the long held view that flagella or complex fluid transport structures are required for the evolution of large size in multicellular organisms.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have a new paper out on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re celebrating the newest graduate from my lab — Dr. Charuhansini Tvishamayi!

Those of you in Bangalore, free next Sunday and interested, please come, it will be a pleasure!

Poster courtesy: members of the lab.

Such a cool finding, this! So great to see this since my group and I have discussed for years about how measuring the "energetic content" of cells using so called "bomb calorimetry" can be very misleading -- all gradient information is lost that way and clearly it is significant!

Very interesting work! Looking forward to digging into the details.

We exposed yeast to -196 C freeze-thaw (without cryoprotectants) and interesting things happened -- the survival went up from about 1% to close to 80% in just 25 cycles!

The preprint is out and feedback is highly welcome --

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I first visited KITP-UCSB as a grad student in 2003, and immediately fell in love with it. Here is the story of how my notebook from a 2010 KITP program I co-ran, on evolutionary cell biology, became the source of research questions that keep me busy to this day! www.kitp.ucsb.edu/sites/defaul...

Longer lengths and larger volume fractions are both coming up. Hopefully should have some news soon.

Yes! We were intrigued by that too. Have not commented on it in this current paper but have some ideas on why that happens.

In the meantime, here is a video of the chemical field which causes the S to be a metastable configuration.

Yes, here's the S-C transition!

Before I start posting about newer results on this platform, here is a video from our most recent paper -- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perhaps it's simply the oily and watery parts of the beeswax separating out.

Classic phase separation.