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
Prakash Lab @ Miami
Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com.
Check it out!
#cilia
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hello epithelia enthusiasts!
I’m @inesfournon.bsky.social and I study epithelial mechanics in sea anemones 🪼
Did you know epithelial cell extrusion had never been described outside bilaterian animals before? Well… not anymore 👀
Read ⬇️🧵1/9
🪸Alkalinity enhancement through tile-based local pH modulation can improve early coral recruit survivorship.
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Video
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Here they combine in vivo imaging with proteomics to characterize a protein complex comprised of Ccdc78 and Ccdc33 that acts at the extreme distal tip of 9 + 2 motile cilia to control tip architecture...
Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
How do corals use microscopic beating cilia to generate complex 3D fluid flows?
Honored to write an APS Physics Magazine Viewpoint on beautiful new PRX Life work by Siluvai Selvan, Douglas Brumley, and colleagues 😀
Viewpoint: physics.aps.org/articles/v19...
Paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
Lab day out at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science 😀😀
The Leonardo da Vinci exhibit was a highlight—art, mechanics, and curiosity all in one!
A reminder that the most interesting science lives at the intersection of ideas!
#Biophysics #FluidDynamics
What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?
They become materials.
Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀
N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Sometimes, the only way to build back up is to let everything fall apart. This is certainly true at the cellular level. www.quantamagazine.org/break-it-to-...
New paper out in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com!
A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive.
We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×.
Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN
Communications Earth & Environment
epithelial mechanics fan club
Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.
Alkalinity enhancement through tile-based local pH modulation can improve early coral recruit survivorship, as shown in laboratory-fabricated artificial reef structures made by mixing sodium bicarbona...
Nature Physics - Marine embryos are usually studied in isolation. But when starfish embryos are in a crowd, they self-assemble into living solids with unexpected dynamics, revealing how simple...
