anuobig
@anuobig.bsky.social
Discovering #biological_physics by inventing new #optics, #computation, #materials_science, and #fluid_dynamics techniques.
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@anuobig.bsky.social
· Oct 10
We've integrated FRAP, HILO, and TIRF microscopy into a single setup, driven entirely by a single SLM. Check out the details! #Microscopy #CellBiology #OpticsExpress
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
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Optogenetic control of mechanotransduction based on light-induced homodimerization of talin url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
Optogenetic control of mechanotransduction based on light-induced homodimerization of talin
Integrin-based adhesion complexes serve as primary sites for actomyosin force transmission to the extracellular matrix, providing traction that drives cell mechanical responses including adhesion, mig...
journals.biologists.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Optogenetic control of mechanotransduction based on light-induced homodimerization of talin url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
We've integrated FRAP, HILO, and TIRF microscopy into a single setup, driven entirely by a single SLM. Check out the details! #Microscopy #CellBiology #OpticsExpress
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We've integrated FRAP, HILO, and TIRF microscopy into a single setup, driven entirely by a single SLM. Check out the details! #Microscopy #CellBiology #OpticsExpress
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....
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This blowing my mind 🧪
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This blowing my mind 🧪
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🚨Job Alert: My department in UNSW Sydney is recruiting a teaching-only Lecturer in Biophysics. The lecturer will play a key role in the pedagogical development and delivery of courses and practicals in the new undergraduate (BSc) major in #Biophysics that we are launching from 2026. #AcademicBsky 🧪
Lecturer in Biophysics, Education Focused
The incumbent will contribute to undergraduate teaching in Biophysics and across related disciplines within the School of Biomedical Sciences. Some responsibilities include preparing and delivering le...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
🚨Job Alert: My department in UNSW Sydney is recruiting a teaching-only Lecturer in Biophysics. The lecturer will play a key role in the pedagogical development and delivery of courses and practicals in the new undergraduate (BSc) major in #Biophysics that we are launching from 2026. #AcademicBsky 🧪
Pleased to share that a SLM can achieve multiple FRAP to HILO to TIRF. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (to appear in Opt Exp opg.optica.org/oe/home.cfm). Great work done by Avinash www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-u...
and Daniel linkedin.com/in/daniel-li... from the team.
and Daniel linkedin.com/in/daniel-li... from the team.
August 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Pleased to share that a SLM can achieve multiple FRAP to HILO to TIRF. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (to appear in Opt Exp opg.optica.org/oe/home.cfm). Great work done by Avinash www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-u...
and Daniel linkedin.com/in/daniel-li... from the team.
and Daniel linkedin.com/in/daniel-li... from the team.
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We are recruiting for an academic position (Assoc Prof/Prof) in Optical and Photonic Engineering in Oxford. Please share.
Closing date 9 September 2025.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Closing date 9 September 2025.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We are recruiting for an academic position (Assoc Prof/Prof) in Optical and Photonic Engineering in Oxford. Please share.
Closing date 9 September 2025.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Closing date 9 September 2025.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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WAVE complex forms linear arrays at negative membrane curvature to instruct #lamellipodia formation, say Muziyue Wu, Orion Weiner @oweinerlab.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
July 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
WAVE complex forms linear arrays at negative membrane curvature to instruct #lamellipodia formation, say Muziyue Wu, Orion Weiner @oweinerlab.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
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Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
July 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
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Excited to share our new review with Emmanuel on tissue patterning in organ morphogenesis! We explore how repetitive patterns form, starting with the concept of L-systems and highlighting an ERK-mediated curvature feedback. Please check it out! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Curvature feedback for repetitive tissue morphogenesis – Bridging algorithmic principles and self-regulatory systems
Tissue patterning during organ development consists of intricate morphogenetic processes, driven by the interplay of physical and genetic cues among c…
sciencedirect.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Excited to share our new review with Emmanuel on tissue patterning in organ morphogenesis! We explore how repetitive patterns form, starting with the concept of L-systems and highlighting an ERK-mediated curvature feedback. Please check it out! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Join us in Singapore in September for the "Mechanobiology in Time and Space" meeting hosted by the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS @mbisg.bsky.social and Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de. Abstracts due soon! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbico...
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Join us in Singapore in September for the "Mechanobiology in Time and Space" meeting hosted by the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS @mbisg.bsky.social and Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de. Abstracts due soon! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbico...
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Combining Multi-site FRAP and HILO-TIRF microscopy using a Spatial Light Modulator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.649016v1
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Combining Multi-site FRAP and HILO-TIRF microscopy using a Spatial Light Modulator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.649016v1
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Adaptive Optics summer school - early registration deadline coming up on 14 April. Register soon to get reduced price.
Registration is open for the European Adaptive Optics Summer School, to be held at the Institut d’Optique near Paris, France 9th – 13th June 2025. Topics cover the basics of adaptive optics across applications in vision science, ophthalmology, astronomy, microscopy, free space optics and beyond.
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Adaptive Optics summer school - early registration deadline coming up on 14 April. Register soon to get reduced price.
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📝 New preprint! 📝
Happy to share a new preprint from @kimboonekamp.bsky.social and me: We developed a 3D force inference method for budding organoids!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the labs of @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social and
@michaelboutros.bsky.social with help from U. Engel.
Here the details.
Happy to share a new preprint from @kimboonekamp.bsky.social and me: We developed a 3D force inference method for budding organoids!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the labs of @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social and
@michaelboutros.bsky.social with help from U. Engel.
Here the details.
April 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📝 New preprint! 📝
Happy to share a new preprint from @kimboonekamp.bsky.social and me: We developed a 3D force inference method for budding organoids!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the labs of @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social and
@michaelboutros.bsky.social with help from U. Engel.
Here the details.
Happy to share a new preprint from @kimboonekamp.bsky.social and me: We developed a 3D force inference method for budding organoids!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the labs of @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social and
@michaelboutros.bsky.social with help from U. Engel.
Here the details.
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Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_publ... implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_publ... implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.
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Also check out the related work led by Boaz Mohar. Pulse-chase labeling with permeable HaloLigand dyes probes protein turnover. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DELTA: a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover reveals localized plasticity during learning - Nature Neuroscience
Researchers developed DELTA, a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover with single-synapse resolution, providing a powerful tool to localize and study mechanisms underlying syna...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Also check out the related work led by Boaz Mohar. Pulse-chase labeling with permeable HaloLigand dyes probes protein turnover. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Imaging throughput of compact handheld microscopes for quantitative single cell studies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Imaging throughput of compact handheld microscopes for quantitative single cell studies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Great to be part of a fantastic community event with so much more to discover! Great science and fun Thanks to Leslie Yeo, Dario Carugo, Jessie Jeon, Christoph Westerhausen & @dfrivas.bsky.social
for putting together such a wonderful meeting on high frequency mechanostimulation #sonomechanobiology
for putting together such a wonderful meeting on high frequency mechanostimulation #sonomechanobiology
March 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Great to be part of a fantastic community event with so much more to discover! Great science and fun Thanks to Leslie Yeo, Dario Carugo, Jessie Jeon, Christoph Westerhausen & @dfrivas.bsky.social
for putting together such a wonderful meeting on high frequency mechanostimulation #sonomechanobiology
for putting together such a wonderful meeting on high frequency mechanostimulation #sonomechanobiology
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Imaging throughput of compact handheld microscopes for quantitative single cell studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.645046v1
March 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Imaging throughput of compact handheld microscopes for quantitative single cell studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.645046v1
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Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644841v1
March 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Using rotational integration of oblique interferometric scattering (RO-iSCAT) to track axial spatiotemporal responses of membrane protrusions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644841v1
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February 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Thanks! Calo @jcsmr.bsky.social for highlighting this exciting venture bit.ly/AOaccel 🎉
Ability Optics lights up a faster, clearer future for biotech
ANU spinoff company Ability Optics Pty Ltd is accelerating to revolutionise biotechnology with an aim to speed up early lead drug screening by 100-fold.
jcsmr.anu.edu.au
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Thanks! Calo @jcsmr.bsky.social for highlighting this exciting venture bit.ly/AOaccel 🎉
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In our work, we just put the camera directly into the remote refocus volume to detect the oblique plane directly, without the need for a tertiary microscope system!
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In our work, we just put the camera directly into the remote refocus volume to detect the oblique plane directly, without the need for a tertiary microscope system!
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I have seen this change the lives of many students and postdocs--if you are interested in cell biology, biophysics, microscopy or more: check this out! The Embryology course is also similarly life-changing
The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Physiology: Modern Cell Biology Using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches | Marine Biological Laboratory
This course is at the forefront of new tools — molecular, computational, biophysical — as it prepares students to tackle emerging biological questions.
www.mbl.edu
January 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have seen this change the lives of many students and postdocs--if you are interested in cell biology, biophysics, microscopy or more: check this out! The Embryology course is also similarly life-changing
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Interesting findings by Jacob Notbohm's group. Nematic defects may form as a result of spatially coordinated patterns in cell forces and motion.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.04827
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.04827
January 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Interesting findings by Jacob Notbohm's group. Nematic defects may form as a result of spatially coordinated patterns in cell forces and motion.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.04827
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.04827