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Advait Thatte

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Physics PhD student at Universität Augsburg

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Given the heat these past weeks, we've recently been moving our group meetings outside to profit from nature's natural cooling systems. 🌬️💨
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@advait-thatte.bsky.social recently got back from the International Soft Matter Conference 2026 (25th -29th May) in Goa, India where he presented a poster on 'Gravitationally induced oscillations of active droplets'. 💧🧪 Many thanks to the organisers! @ismc2026.bsky.social
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social @advait-thatte.bsky.social Back from @apsphysics.bsky.social this year. Was a super dynamic and fruitful conference, APS Global Physics Summit being the largest physics research conference in the world, meeting former collaborates and discussing potential collaborations. 👨‍🔬
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SpruijtLab @spruijtlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We’re pleased to announce that our JACS paper with our collaborators @m-pol.bsky.social 'Controlling Multiphase Coacervate Wetting and Self‑Organization by Interfacial Proteins' is now online! Read here: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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Controlling Multiphase Coacervate Wetting and Self-Organization by Interfacial Proteins
Biomolecular condensates help organize biochemical processes in cells and synthetic cell analogues. Many condensates exhibit multiphase architectures, yielding compartments with distinct functions. However, how cells regulate the transformation between different multiphase architectures remains poorly understood. Here, we use multiphase coacervates as model condensates and present a new approach to control wetting and self-organization in multiphase coacervates by introducing a surface-active protein, α-synuclein (αSyn). αSyn can localize at the interface of uridine 5′-triphosphate (UTP)/poly-l-lysine (pLL)/oligo-l-arginine (R10) multiphase coacervates and induce the transformation from nested droplets into partially wetted droplets. The exposed UTP/R10 core coacervate droplets adhered to neighboring (shell) coacervates, forming structures similar to polymers and leading to a dynamic yet stable self-organized network of connected coacervates, which we call coacervate polymers. A theoretical model demonstrates that multiphase coacervates transition to partial wetting upon increasing the interfacial protein, consistent with experimental observations. When three neighboring coacervates are not aligned, surface tension straightens their arrangement, similar to semiflexible polymers. This mechanism likely extends to larger structures, promoting chain formation while preventing fusion. Interestingly, diverse proteins were found to be surface active in multiphase coacervates: BSA, mCherry, and FtsZ all exhibited the same effect on multiphase coacervates’ partial wetting and organization. These findings suggest that interfacial proteins could be used by cells not only to stabilize condensates, but also to control multiphase organization and to regulate the interaction between condensates.
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Chemically Active Wetting" is now published! 📖 We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Was a great week at the #DPG Spring Meeting in #Regensburg this year! With a lots of great talks and posters from the community. @advait-thatte.bsky.social, Susanne Liese and Christoph spoke about some of the research done in our group. Looking forward to next year's meeting! 🧪🔬
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Active droplets far from equilibrium can become excitable, enabling excited trajectories upon perturbations and self-sustained cycles of formation and dissolution 🌀 @hiddevuijk.bsky.social @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604
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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Retreat of growing Biophysics Theory Groups at the University of Augsburg in Sion (Switzerland) 2024. Hiking, discussing, and cooking!
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