CZ Biohub Network’s Physics of Life Symposium 2025
Had a lot of fun discussing our work on neuroepithelial cellular morphodynamics at this year’s PoL symposium in San Francisco.
https://www.czbiohub.org/events/physics-of-life-symposium-2025/
Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar
Had the great pleasure of kicking off the 2024-2025 season of the Society for Developmental Biology’s Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series together with Dr. Sara Light:
https://x.com/SocDevBio/status/1833870787893162039
Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qJWyToqKBg
Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
Santa Cruz, California
Had a great time attending SCDB 24 in beautiful Santa Cruz and presenting our work on neuroectodermal morphogenesis!
New Paper!
Read about modulation of tissue mechanics by E-cadherin levels during Drosophila germband extension in Current Biology; work by Xun Wang:
“E-cadherin tunes tissue mechanical behavior before and during morphogenetic tissue flows”
Journal Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.038.
New Preprint!
Our work on 3D cell rearrangements during Drosophila germband extension is out as preprint:
“Cell rearrangement progression along the apical-basal axis is linked with 3D epithelial tissue structure”
bioRxiv Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.29.59162l
American Physical Society March Meeting 2024
Minneapolis, Minnesota
At the APS March Meeting to talk about 3D cell rearrangements in the Drosophila and mouse embryonic epithelial tissues:
Program Link: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/A38.5
APS March Meeting Tutorial
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Attended the APS March Meeting Tutorial on Topological Soft Matter.
New Paper!
Colaboration with Miho Matsuda & Sergei Sokol on Xenopus neurulation came out in Nature Communications:
“Mechanical control of neural plate folding by apical domain alteration”
Journal Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43973-x
Code Repository: https://github.com/kaszalab/xenopus-protein-localization
SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MECHANOSENSING
New York, NY
Attended the SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MECHANOSENSING in the Silver Center for Arts & Science at NYU.
18th Annual Multicell Virtual-Tissue Modeling Online Summer School and Hackathon
Attended the CompuCell3D 18th User Training Workshop led by Prof. James Glazier.
Workshop Link: https://compucell3d.org/Workshop23
New Book Chapter!
Biofilm Architecture in Opaque Porous Medium
Gallery item in Album of Porous Media: Structure and Dynamics
by Dorthe Wildenschild* & Gabriel Iltis
Featured in GSECARS Science Highlights
American Physical Society’s March Meeting 2023
Presenting our work on cell shape and tissue structure in the mouse neural plate at the APS March Meeting 2023.
APS March Meeting Tutorials
Las Vegas, NY
Attended the APS March Meeting Tutorials on
Machine Learning and Model Inference for Biological Physicists
and
Graph Neural Networks.
New Preprint!
New preprint out! Colab with Mount Sinai on mechanics of Xenopus neurulation:
“Mechanical control of neural plate folding by apical domain alteration“
bioRxiv Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.10.528047
Workshop on Geometry, Topology, and Symmetry in Soft and Living Matter
Stony Brook, NY
Attended the Workshop on Geometry, Topology, and Symmetry in Soft and Living Matter at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook!
Postdoc Start!
New York, NY
Extremely excited to start my postdoc with Karen Kasza in the Kasza Living Materials Lab at Columbia University!