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Prof. Vivek Prakash, Biophysics, Marine & Developmental Biology, Depts of Physics, Biology, Marine Biology & Ecology, University of Miami, FL Prev: @Stanford Profile: https://people.miami.edu/profile/[email protected] Lab site: www.marinebiophysics.org

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · Feb 5

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org
🥳😃 🐣
Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 12d

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 23d

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️
😀🥳

We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE!
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 20d

In another exciting development our new preprint is online:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 20d

Looks like I am late to this party but have exciting news. I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study #XtrmCells! Thankful to @erc.europa.eus for this opportunity, and to my collaborators, mentors, and group for their support. Looking forward to exploring the mechanics of these cells!

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 21d

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳

PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development!
Cover art: embryos + flow fields
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 23d

@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast
www.upr.org/podcasts/103...

I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉

Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org
🦑🧪🌊

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected].

More info: www.shekharlab.org

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Aug 16

A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University

Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · May 22

Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!

Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · May 12

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · May 22

Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! 😀🪸🎼
Here is a news article with more details:
news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

youtu.be/C-JNPIXyKes?...

Coral Sonification

YouTube video by University of Miami

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Apr 26

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com

Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Apr 2

A new study originating from the #MBL proposes that physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life! 🦠 Follow the link to read more about Stentor, a single-celled organism that could offer an early model for multicellularity.

📲 More: bit.ly/4cilZvV

A host of yellow, trumpet-shaped cells gather in a ball shape, with trumpets pointing outward, on a black background. The trumpets move around slightly.

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Apr 2

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics
@naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor!

How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · Apr 3

for a little back-story on how this project started in the Physiology course at the @mblscience.bsky.social , including how two of the authors become involved in the project after emerging from the water at "garbage beach" carrying lasers, check this out: wayback.archive-it.org/12248/201508...

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com

Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Awesome, congrats!!

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics
@naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor!

How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s41...?

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · Mar 29

Thanks Allan!

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Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social · Mar 29

And a milestone for the sea urchins too! Congrats to all 🎉

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · Mar 29

CONGRATULATIONS to my first PhD student Bikram Shrestha for successfully defending his thesis!! 🥳 😃

This marks a major milestone for Bikram, me, and our lab!!

@univmiami.bsky.social

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Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thanks @focalplane.bsky.social for the highlight, great to show an spiralian larva to all this amazing crowd.

#WormWednesday #DevBio #EvoDevo

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Mar 26

We caught up with @allancarbal.bsky.social, who acquired this beautiful image of an actinotroch which you can view in our image gallery at #biologists100. Keywords from Allan’s research are #spiralia and #evodev.

Picture of Allan Carrillo-Baltodano in a FocalPlane-branded polaroid style selfie frame next to an image of an actinotroch displayed on an easel.

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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · Feb 19

Sad news… A giant in fluid mechanics and particulate flows cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...

In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering

Andreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the second...

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