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Tzer Han Tan
@tzerhan29.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @UCSDPhySci @UCSDPhysics. Interest in how complex dynamics arise in active living and robotic matter. Lab website: https://www.tzerhan.com/
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nesmicroscopy.bsky.social
Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Our lab has some ongoing data driven/AI/ML in active matter projects that can be supported through postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/schm.... if you are interested, or if you have some ideas of your own, feel free to reach out!
Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs Program
postdoc.ucsd.edu
September 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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epimechfc.bsky.social
@tzerhan29.bsky.social et al show topological defects in cell traction forces underlie emergent chirality

They show pancreas derived organoids rotates as an active solid! bsky.app/profile/epim...
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Honored to be selected and join the 2025-26 cohort of UCSD Hellman Fellows! today.ucsd.edu/story/larges...
Largest Cohort in UC San Diego Program’s History Receives Hellman Fellowships
Over 30 years ago, the Society of Hellman Fellows Program was founded at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. The program awarded 10 Hellman Fellowships in 1995 at UC San Diego. This spring, 26 UC San Diego ...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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junlab.bsky.social
If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us!

www.pew.org/en/projects/...
Pew Latin American Fellows: To Apply
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June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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brandy-syglass.bsky.social
LIVE sea urchin larvae for #3DThursday! Catch me at the MIT Museum tonight at AfterDark and see it in person.

🔬: @brukercorporation.bsky.social TruLive3D
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
June 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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nesmicroscopy.bsky.social
Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum!

🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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socdevbio.bsky.social
✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social
#Microscopy #DevBio
June 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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baronelab.bsky.social
Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab!
doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
Juvenile sea stars in a petri dish
May 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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marionamec.bsky.social
Llegeix l'article sencer de @tzerhan29.bsky.social, Aboutaleb Amiri, Irene Seijo-Barandiaran, Michael F. Staddon, Anne Materne, Sandra Tomas, Charlie Duclut,
@mrkppvc.bsky.social, @anne-grapin.bsky.social i Frank Jülicher aquí:

📄https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/PRXLife.2.033006
Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres
Spontaneous rotations of epithelial spheres reveals chiral tissue patterning mechanisms, showing the interplay between geometry, topology, and collective dynamics.
journals.aps.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Always great fun to brainstorm at our UCSD monthly biophysics forum - let's bring the intelligence into active matter
junlab.bsky.social Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social · May 2
@tzerhan29.bsky.social is giving our biophysics forum talk on his collaboration with Hongbo Zhao on… “intelligent robots”!
May 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
🧪⚛️

Textbooks: cell is a bag of weirdly shaped stuff.

Reality: it's all moving & changing shape.

Research on the endoplasmic reticulum by my colleagues Zuben Scott, Lena Koslover, Greg Huber and their experimental collaborators Laura Westrate & Samuel Sheen.

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Scientists Develop Simple Model for an Intricate, Ever-Evolving Cell Structure
Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital to cellular life, constantly reshapes and reorganizes itself. As a second-ye...
scitechdaily.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
When two grids with a twist make a pattern exist, that’s a moiré. Listen to this week's episode of Quanta Science Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
April 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social
Looking for a reading snack? Our work is featured as a @NaturePhysics research briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Optical control of an excitable enzyme circuit for engineering dynamic cell shapes - Nature Physics
Light-switchable enzymes hold great promise for mediating molecular activations in living cells, yet their full potential in realizing versatile controls in nonlinear networks remains unexplored. Now,...
www.nature.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Glad to see this work finally out. Happy to have played a small part in this project with teams @fakhrilab.bsky.social @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social!
March 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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junlab.bsky.social
Ramin Golestanian (Oxford & MPI Göttingen) visited us and gave an inspiring informal seminar yesterday. 🙏🏻
March 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Four #SPLASHY talks from the lab for #APSphysics March meeting next week at Anaheim, from starfish embryos to robotic active matter - looking forward! #ApsDsoft #ApsDbio #PRX_Life
March 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
#standupforscience at UCSD!
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
APS March meeting coming up: the fun starts Sun 3/16 with Squishy Science Sunday!
March 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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loicaroyer.bsky.social
Exciting opportunity at @CZBiohub SF! Join us as an Optical Scientist developing cutting-edge light-sheet microscopy to map vertebrate development. PhD in Optics/EE/Physics preferred. #ScienceJobs #Microscopy #BioImaging 🧪🔬💻

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March 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
Stand up for science! Happening this Friday 3/7 - look up for local events near you : standupforscience2025.org most campus nationwide will organize, join if you can, make our voice heard, repost, organize! #standupforscience
March 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
tzerhan29.bsky.social
It was great visiting UMich Ann Arbor and Wayne State University! Many thanks to @surajshankar.bsky.social and Zhi-feng for hosting. Great interactions and lots of new ideas to try
March 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social introducing @ucsd-biophysics.bsky.social to UCSD physics open house - welcome prospective students to sunny San Diego!
February 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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florianjug.bsky.social
Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards…
What would you do with this?

Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
Schematic overview on how MicroSpit operates. It can split superimposed structures in fluorescent image channels by using a suitably trained AI. Concrete example for how MicroSplit unmixes four superimposed structures.
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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itaiyanai.bsky.social
The big 4 of grant writing:
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question
December 29, 2024 at 4:01 AM