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Pintu Patra
@pintupatra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Physics @IIT Kharagpur, India

https://pintupatra05.wixsite.com/website

1) Working in Active Matter & Theoretical Biophysics

2) Highlighting recent research & news on the Collective Dynamics of Living Systems.
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Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Check our new paper: "Pair cross-correlation analysis for assessing protein co-localization." Here we provide a quantitative understanding of the image pair cross-correlation method used to analyze spatial co-localization from super-resolution images.
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https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495%2825%2900138-9
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April 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025.
cellmech2025.org
Save the date !
November 21, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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What can we learn from swarm behavior and implement it to perform diverse tasks in various environments?
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
calls for papers on Swarm Intelligence #Swarm #intelligence #Collective #Collections at Nature Communications.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Swarm intelligence - Collective motions from biology to robotic
This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Engineering, Communications Physics, and Scientific Reports brings together the ...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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This study investigates the factors affecting #swarm movement, revealing that solutal buoyancy drives their motion, with potential #biomedical applications like targeted drug delivery #Swarms #collectivebehaviour #nanomotors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Collective buoyancy-driven dynamics in swarming enzymatic nanomotors - Nature Communications
Enzymatic nanomotors exhibit collective behaviour in fuel-rich environments, forming swarms with enhanced propulsion and coverage. This study investigates the factors affecting swarm movement, reveali...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Cell shape affects bacterial colony growth under physical confinement:

Cocci -> compact spherical colonies
Rods -> elongated colonies with increased access to nutrients

#bacteria #MicroSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cell shape affects bacterial colony growth under physical confinement - Nature Communications
Lab experiments using liquid cultures or agar plates fail to capture the effects of physical confinement on bacteria. Here, Sreepadmanabh et al. use three-dimensional matrices to show that growth unde...
www.nature.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Large-scale collective motion of epithelial cells not as a fluid, but as a polar elastic solid.
Our new study posted on Biorxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Check out our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social by amazing grad students @ezlevy.bsky.social and @isabellaleite.bsky.social “A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice”
authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7fg3QW8S...
November 20, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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What a treat to be interviewed on NPR about our lab’s newest paper! We share our findings on how bottom-up signaling from muscles during exercise helps motor neurons grow 💪🏽 #myoblue

Links to interview + paper:

www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Good morning everyone ☀️🌅, and a warm welcome to the new folks on #Bluesky 🦋

👉 Like ‘old Twitter’: The #scientificcommunity 🧪finds a new home 💙 on #Bluesky!

#STEM #Research #Education #Science #WomenInSTEM #Safeplace

www.science.org/content/arti...
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:26 AM
New interesting paper:

Topological transition in filamentous cyanobacteria: from motion to structure
Authors : Jan Cammann, Mixon K. Faluweki, Nayara Dambacher, Lucas Goehring &
Marco G. Mazza
Journal: Communications Physics

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Topological transition in filamentous cyanobacteria: from motion to structure - Communications Physics
Active matter systems can spontaneously form structure. Using concepts of nonequilibrium statistical physics and experiments, this work demonstrates the existence of a topological transition in filame...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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🚨 Tomorrow, Friday 22/11 15:30 CET, Berenike Maier from University of Cologne will discuss

"How bacteria control self-attraction"

at the Population Dynamics Virtual Seminars (15:30 CEST)

Register to get the zoom link
sites.google.com/view/popdyn/
November 21, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Interested in active matter/biophysics? Our lab tzerhan.com is looking for motivated PhD students to join our nonreciprocal robotics active matter/chiral jamming/morphogenesis projects. Apply by Dec 18: physics.ucsd.edu/students/gra...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Interesting read highlighting importance of interdisciplinary research:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Artificial boundaries - Nature Physics
The 2024 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for foundational contributions to the development of artificial neural networks. The award reflects a shift in how we understand boundaries between scienti...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM