📢Preprint: Positional information (PI) and information flows in dynamic tissues.
Our mathematical framework quantifies, from data, how the coupled stochastic dynamics of cell positions and properties preserve, degrade and generate PI. @alex-plum.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Honored to receive the 2026 Sloan Fellowship in Physics. I’m grateful to my mentors, my research group, and those who supported my nomination. Thank you! #SloanFellow
We’re recruiting PhD students & postdocs excited about nonlinear dynamics and the physics of living systems. Help us spread the word!
We have postdoc openings for data-driven modeling and information flows in living systems, with a focus on embryonic development. mattiaserra.com
Requirements: PhD in Physics, Applied Math, or similar; prior exposure to biological data preferred.
Please share with potential candidates. Thank you!
Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics?
I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
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📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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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Congratulations to Mattia Serra on receiving the Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics! 🎉 Mattia has made groundbreaking advances in using #FluidDynamics to better understand developmental biology.
Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our #SloanFellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada.
Full list: sloan.org/fellowships/...
Work by the incredibly talented PhD students Saurabh Joshi and Andre Forjaz.
UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences
💥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.
UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Denis Wirtz
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...
