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Alfredo Sciortino

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Biophysicist / cytoskeleton in vitro 🏙 Paris @CytoMorphoLab

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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well, now that my pipettes have been delivered, I guess I can announce that I am opening my own lab in Rome @UniRomaTre 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🔬 funded by a FIS3 Starting Grant On active cytoskeleton stuff, of course !
A picture of me holding a micropipette
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New preprint out: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01057 Together with JF Joanny and Sudipta, we introduce a "new" kind of active phase separation inspired by experiments with motors and microtubules and based on transport of species along a polar "pump"! @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin. And it was fabulous! Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab
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Ghina BADIH @ghinabadih.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Go right or left? A question that we encounter very often in our daily lives, and while our decision may sometimes be hindered by the fear of making a mistake, cells DO NOT HESITATE!!! They swirl with the confidence of someone who’s always RIGHT… or LEFT!!!
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@ghinabadih.bsky.social 's paper on cell chirality is now out : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🥳
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Contractile forces direct the chiral swirling of minimal cell collectives | PNAS
Chirality is a conserved biological feature with critical implications in tissue morphogenesis and embryonic development. In culture, multicellular...
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Dress like your data like @timonnk.bsky.social does!
Somebody doing a scientific présentation
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thanks to @agudocanalejo.bsky.social and @raovutukuri.bsky.social [amongst the first ones to observe large fluctuations in GUVs!] for today's News and Views about our recent paper on active vesicle deformations - and I agree with the conclusion, it's just a beginning..! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Synthetic cells get into shape - Nature Physics
Shape changes in biological cells are driven by an active network of biopolymers. Now, similar deformations are observed in synthetic cell membranes.
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Grande Gianni!
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The Schaeffer magnum opus is out. 🔥
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
As always with @lauraal.bsky.social , the pleasrue is all mine ☺️ - thanks @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social for the nice hospitality
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Interesting read. Some problems are just weirder than you'd say.
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I am very happy to share that my work on active deformations of lipid vesicles is finally out in Nature Physics. A nicer thread+movies coming soon, in the meantime: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!
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Isabella Graf @isabellagraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are organizing a conference for young researchers at the intersection between physics & biology: www.embl.org/about/info/c... @embl.org @events.embl.org @intcha.bsky.social Please consider applying/registering -- the deadline is already in one week!
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Interdisciplinary challenges in the physics of complexity and life 2025 (IntCha25)
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
81% of Elon Musk thinks Elon Musk is a genius.
A tweet by Elon Musk.
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New preprint out 🔥🔥 on my postdoc work with @manuelthery.bsky.social and @lblanchoin.bsky.social about how we can create sustained dynamic steady states of actin network inside microscopic wells that contract "forever" without collapsing! A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
It's the time of the year when I make a Christmas themed experiment to celebrate another year gone by: this year, a micropatterned branched actin network with myosin, aka a Christmarp(2/3) tree, doing weird stuff. Happy holidays Bluesky! 🥳🥳🥳
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
😯
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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What an end of the week! It is refreshing to catch up with friends and exchange exciting science! Thanks to @asciortino.bsky.social and Sophie Marbach for showing me around your labs #InstitutePierreGillesGennes and @sorbonne-universite.fr respectively! Gotta love Paris with this company!
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I met Taeyoon a long time ago and his simulations are so life-like.. happy I could contribute a very very little bit to this work now on biorxiv, on gliding assays with mobile motors. Kudos to him & Brandon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Cluster Formation and Phase Separation Driven by Mobile Myosin Motors in the Motility Assay
Interactions between F-actin and myosin are critically important for a wide range of biological processes, including cell migration, cytokinesis, and morphogenesis. The motility assay with myosin moto...
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
There you go, the full story by @manuelthery.bsky.social and remember "life is fluid on lipids"! Stay tuned, this system has many more surprises ready for you! 🤗🤗🤗 🙏🙏 thx to @lblanchoin.bsky.social @bhagyanaths.bsky.social and to afaik Bsky-less clo, sudipta, JF, alex and jerem!
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Inaugurating my Bsky experience by sharing my favorite project so far, on which I had the big chance to collaborate, out now on @pnas.org . I am sure @manuelthery.bsky.social has a lot to say about it, so let me just congratulate Clo, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social et al. for it! bit.ly/49aE6Cz More soon!
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am here since 5 minutes and I already miss all the Elon tweets 🙃
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