Antoine Deblais
@antoinedeblais.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. In love with fluids 💧, Worms 🪱, and 🤖. Ig-Nobel 2024 for racing sober and drunk worms.
Group website: https://www.deb-lab.com/
Group website: https://www.deb-lab.com/
(ii) Lowering the worms' activity—whether by getting them drunk 🍺 or chilling them down 🥶—unexpectedly leads to higher diffusion! 🤯
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
(ii) Lowering the worms' activity—whether by getting them drunk 🍺 or chilling them down 🥶—unexpectedly leads to higher diffusion! 🤯
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
(i) Unlike their passive counterparts, living polymers spread faster in disordered media than in ordered media. Even more intriguingly, in disordered media, they move faster as the medium becomes denser, defying the common intuition that "the more crowded it is, the slower you go".
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
(i) Unlike their passive counterparts, living polymers spread faster in disordered media than in ordered media. Even more intriguingly, in disordered media, they move faster as the medium becomes denser, defying the common intuition that "the more crowded it is, the slower you go".
The 🪱 mania continues!
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The 🪱 mania continues!
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...