Mattia Serra
mattiaserra.bsky.social
Mattia Serra
@mattiaserra.bsky.social
Serra Group at UCSD Physics: Nonlinear Dynamics & Physics of Living Systems.
http://www.mattiaserra.com
Prev. |@SchmidtFellows @Harvard, PhD @ETH_en
Reposted by Mattia Serra
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.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📣 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...
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We’re recruiting PhD students & postdocs excited about nonlinear dynamics and the physics of living systems. Help us spread the word!
💥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.
July 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📣 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...
June 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Mattia Serra
Work by the incredibly talented PhD students Saurabh Joshi and Andre Forjaz.
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...
June 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
📣 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

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June 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📣Check out our work led by @alex-plum.bsky.social ! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
📣 Excited to receive the 💥 NSF CAREER 💥 Award. Our group is looking for PhD students and postdocs interested in the Nonlinear Dynamics and the Physics of Living Systems, with support from NSF, HFSP, and other sources. We’d appreciate your help in spreading the word! @ucsdphysci.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM