Suraj Shankar 🏳️🌈
@surajshankar.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. in Physics
LSA Collegiate fellow
University of Michigan
Previously JF at Harvard & PhD at SU
he/him
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/shankar-lab/
How function emerges collectively in soft, active, living matter? | Physics, maths, & biology
LSA Collegiate fellow
University of Michigan
Previously JF at Harvard & PhD at SU
he/him
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/shankar-lab/
How function emerges collectively in soft, active, living matter? | Physics, maths, & biology
Excited to be at ICTS for the school on Geometry, Mechanics and the Physics of Growth, co-organized with Ganga Prasath (IITM) and @joelmarthelot.bsky.social (Aix-Marseille)! Fantastic start with a lecture on continuum elasticity by @abigailplummer.bsky.social (BU)
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Excited to be at ICTS for the school on Geometry, Mechanics and the Physics of Growth, co-organized with Ganga Prasath (IITM) and @joelmarthelot.bsky.social (Aix-Marseille)! Fantastic start with a lecture on continuum elasticity by @abigailplummer.bsky.social (BU)
Preprint 🚨! B cells form localized patterns in the immune synapse when mature, allowing improved affinity discrimination. How? We suggest a new mechanism using dynamic active forces and feedback! Read more @ arxiv.org/abs/2510.18771. Great colab with Shenshen Wang, Tom Chou and Tony Wong (UCLA).
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Preprint 🚨! B cells form localized patterns in the immune synapse when mature, allowing improved affinity discrimination. How? We suggest a new mechanism using dynamic active forces and feedback! Read more @ arxiv.org/abs/2510.18771. Great colab with Shenshen Wang, Tom Chou and Tony Wong (UCLA).
Excited to share the first preprint from our lab! Active solids show oscillations, but can they be fast (inertial)? Yes! We show how mechanochemical feedback can power inertial dynamics and chaos, in soft solids. A great colab with groups of X. Mao and N. Boechler!
See more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18272
See more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18272
May 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Excited to share the first preprint from our lab! Active solids show oscillations, but can they be fast (inertial)? Yes! We show how mechanochemical feedback can power inertial dynamics and chaos, in soft solids. A great colab with groups of X. Mao and N. Boechler!
See more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18272
See more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18272
Tony Hyman giving an absolutely spectacular #PriscillaConnel lecture on LLPS in cell biology, reminding us how dynamic, polyphasic, and crowded the innards of our cells are.
May 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Tony Hyman giving an absolutely spectacular #PriscillaConnel lecture on LLPS in cell biology, reminding us how dynamic, polyphasic, and crowded the innards of our cells are.
March 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM