For the 2026 APS March Meeting, please consider submitting your abstract to our new focus session on Cellular Sensing and Signaling (04.01.29), which aims to bridge theory and experiments to understand how cells sense and respond to environmental signals.

The paper provides comprehensive evidence in support of this mechanism, but here is one of my favs: as a consequence, ectopic polysome accumulations, caused by redirecting gene expression away from the chromosome and toward plasmids, are sufficient to drive aberrant nucleoid dynamics

Not only does our model capture the dynamics of polysome and nucleoid during segregation (kymograph below), but it also explains a linear relation between segregation time and growth rate, with a single (!) fitting parameter (figure below).

Our recent work (elifesciences.org/articles/104...) combines theory and experiments (by Alex Papagiannakis and Christine Jacobs-Wagner) to understand how chromosome segregation is coupled to growth in E coli. We demonstrate that the nonequilibrium dynamics of polysomes may play a key role.

Our work on lipid domain pattern formation is now published in Soft Matter as part of the themed collection "Pioneering Investigators": pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Grateful for my advisor Andrej Košmrlj for his mentorship, and for our collaborators for teaching us a lot about membranes!

Excited to be at @apsphysics.bsky.social March meeting this week. Check out the following talks from my collaborators and me!