Dimitris Vavylonis
@dvavylonis.bsky.social
Physicist working on mathematical and computational modeling in cell biology and biophysics
The Lehigh Physics Dept is accepting MS/PhD applications for Fall 26. I am recruiting students for our biophysics group! We cover several areas of physics. Check out the virtual info session on Nov 19, as well as two free application weeks (Nov 3-8 and Dec 1-6)!
physicsgraduate.lehigh.edu
physicsgraduate.lehigh.edu
MS and PhD Graduate Program | Physics
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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Lehigh Physics Dept is accepting MS/PhD applications for Fall 26. I am recruiting students for our biophysics group! We cover several areas of physics. Check out the virtual info session on Nov 19, as well as two free application weeks (Nov 3-8 and Dec 1-6)!
physicsgraduate.lehigh.edu
physicsgraduate.lehigh.edu
Abstract deadline extended to Oct 31!
We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Abstract deadline extended to Oct 31!
We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.
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Just posted (bioRxiv): A novel #mechanobiology model revealing how #immune #Tcells combine a #nucleus as a #piston, an #uropod, and #microenvironment to power #amoeboid #cellmigration in #cellconfinement via a hydraulic cell engine. #CellBiophysics #ImmuneMigration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just posted (bioRxiv): A novel #mechanobiology model revealing how #immune #Tcells combine a #nucleus as a #piston, an #uropod, and #microenvironment to power #amoeboid #cellmigration in #cellconfinement via a hydraulic cell engine. #CellBiophysics #ImmuneMigration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com
Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
April 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com
Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
There are a few more days to apply to the biophysics summer school in Crete! Deadline is extended to April 15.
We are announcing the 2nd biophysics summer school in Rethymno, Crete, Greece for undergraduates, MS and PhD students. Please forward to anyone interested! biophysics.materials.uoc.gr
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There are a few more days to apply to the biophysics summer school in Crete! Deadline is extended to April 15.
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Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required.
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required.
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
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The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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🚨🚨Please repost!! 📢📢
Still time to submit short talk abstract for EindPBS2025!
Five themes this year:
• Mechanobiology
• Protein pattern formation
• 4D Genome
• Stochastic biology
• Biohydrodynamics
bit.ly/EdinPBS2025
Still time to submit short talk abstract for EindPBS2025!
Five themes this year:
• Mechanobiology
• Protein pattern formation
• 4D Genome
• Stochastic biology
• Biohydrodynamics
bit.ly/EdinPBS2025
February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🚨🚨Please repost!! 📢📢
Still time to submit short talk abstract for EindPBS2025!
Five themes this year:
• Mechanobiology
• Protein pattern formation
• 4D Genome
• Stochastic biology
• Biohydrodynamics
bit.ly/EdinPBS2025
Still time to submit short talk abstract for EindPBS2025!
Five themes this year:
• Mechanobiology
• Protein pattern formation
• 4D Genome
• Stochastic biology
• Biohydrodynamics
bit.ly/EdinPBS2025
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🚨PA colleagues:
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
Microsoft Forms
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February 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🚨PA colleagues:
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
We are announcing the 2nd biophysics summer school in Rethymno, Crete, Greece for undergraduates, MS and PhD students. Please forward to anyone interested! biophysics.materials.uoc.gr
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
February 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We are announcing the 2nd biophysics summer school in Rethymno, Crete, Greece for undergraduates, MS and PhD students. Please forward to anyone interested! biophysics.materials.uoc.gr
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
Lecturers include: Meredith Betterton, Michael Layden, Surya Maddu, Carl Modes, Tassos Pavlopoulos, Stas Shvartsman
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From random gliding to ordered patterns.
The movie starts with microtubules gliding on a minus-end directed molecular motor.
Then, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social added a plus-end directed motor (magenta) to induce this polarity sorting and ordering process.
more details here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The movie starts with microtubules gliding on a minus-end directed molecular motor.
Then, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social added a plus-end directed motor (magenta) to induce this polarity sorting and ordering process.
more details here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
From random gliding to ordered patterns.
The movie starts with microtubules gliding on a minus-end directed molecular motor.
Then, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social added a plus-end directed motor (magenta) to induce this polarity sorting and ordering process.
more details here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The movie starts with microtubules gliding on a minus-end directed molecular motor.
Then, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social added a plus-end directed motor (magenta) to induce this polarity sorting and ordering process.
more details here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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YEARLY RECAP. Today we have the August 2024 issue of #CYTOSKELETON @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social. This #SpecialIssue on the #PHYSICS OF THE CYTOSKELETON was a huge hit when it came out! Loaded with #openaccess papers.Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592... @dvavylonis.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 5:42 PM
YEARLY RECAP. Today we have the August 2024 issue of #CYTOSKELETON @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social. This #SpecialIssue on the #PHYSICS OF THE CYTOSKELETON was a huge hit when it came out! Loaded with #openaccess papers.Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592... @dvavylonis.bsky.social
The NSF summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in Physics at Lehigh University invites student applications. We have faculty mentors in many areas, including biophysics and computational physics. Application deadline: Feb 3, 2025
physics.cas.lehigh.edu/undergraduat...
physics.cas.lehigh.edu/undergraduat...
REU | Physics
physics.cas.lehigh.edu
December 18, 2024 at 11:47 PM
The NSF summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in Physics at Lehigh University invites student applications. We have faculty mentors in many areas, including biophysics and computational physics. Application deadline: Feb 3, 2025
physics.cas.lehigh.edu/undergraduat...
physics.cas.lehigh.edu/undergraduat...
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🚨The deadline to apply for Lehigh University’s Biological Sciences PhD program is just a few weeks away! Are you (or do you know) an amazing undergrad, post-bac, or master’s student passionate about science & ready to thrive in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
December 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
🚨The deadline to apply for Lehigh University’s Biological Sciences PhD program is just a few weeks away! Are you (or do you know) an amazing undergrad, post-bac, or master’s student passionate about science & ready to thrive in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
Please join two sessions of the 8th Frontiers in Cytokinesis Subgroup on Sunday Dec 15 at #cellbio2024!
December 13, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Please join two sessions of the 8th Frontiers in Cytokinesis Subgroup on Sunday Dec 15 at #cellbio2024!
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Do you want to learn more about RNA targeting to the midbody? Check out my student's Katie Vaeth talk in CellBio 2024 meeting in San Diego. She will talk in Cytokinesis session on December 15th, 5:00pm, room 29C.
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plan.core-apps.com/ascbembo2024...
Cell Bio 2024 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting
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December 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Do you want to learn more about RNA targeting to the midbody? Check out my student's Katie Vaeth talk in CellBio 2024 meeting in San Diego. She will talk in Cytokinesis session on December 15th, 5:00pm, room 29C.
plan.core-apps.com/ascbembo2024...
plan.core-apps.com/ascbembo2024...
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what a dynamic steady state! how does assembly match exactly the disassembly rate? how does it distribute in space without rupturing the cell in multiple pieces? fascinating movie!
This is a movie of actin filaments in a cultured cell. I like watching it and I hope you do to.
November 26, 2024 at 4:01 AM
what a dynamic steady state! how does assembly match exactly the disassembly rate? how does it distribute in space without rupturing the cell in multiple pieces? fascinating movie!
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For folks just arriving in #AcademicBsky or #ScienceBsky, here are a couple of Biophysics starter packs. Biophysicists, pls tag yourself and others and I will add you to the new starter packs. go.bsky.app/4AUjqVz
November 7, 2024 at 1:02 PM
For folks just arriving in #AcademicBsky or #ScienceBsky, here are a couple of Biophysics starter packs. Biophysicists, pls tag yourself and others and I will add you to the new starter packs. go.bsky.app/4AUjqVz
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Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
November 13, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
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Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks!
go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK
go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK
November 19, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks!
go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK
go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK
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I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.
Self-identify and I will add you...
See you at APS-DFD!
go.bsky.app/8Njfprh
Self-identify and I will add you...
See you at APS-DFD!
go.bsky.app/8Njfprh
November 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM
I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.
Self-identify and I will add you...
See you at APS-DFD!
go.bsky.app/8Njfprh
Self-identify and I will add you...
See you at APS-DFD!
go.bsky.app/8Njfprh
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Structural response of microtubule and actin cytoskeletons to direct intracellular load
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Structural response of microtubule and actin cytoskeletons to direct intracellular load | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
Orii and Tanimoto study the structural mechanics of microtubule and actin cytoskeletons using high-force intracellular magnetic tweezers. The measurements
rupress.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Structural response of microtubule and actin cytoskeletons to direct intracellular load
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL. Mooren, Olivia L. et al.
Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 22, 5173 - 5186.e4
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Open access due to WashU agreement w/ Elsevier, fyi.
Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 22, 5173 - 5186.e4
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Open access due to WashU agreement w/ Elsevier, fyi.
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL
Mooren et al. show that membrane-bound CARMIL activates capping protein (CP) by dissociating
CP from V-1, thereby promoting actin polymerization nucleated by Arp2/3. The activity
of CP is a critical d...
www.cell.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL. Mooren, Olivia L. et al.
Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 22, 5173 - 5186.e4
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Open access due to WashU agreement w/ Elsevier, fyi.
Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 22, 5173 - 5186.e4
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Open access due to WashU agreement w/ Elsevier, fyi.