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JCB @baretjc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nuit de la Recherche à Capscience avec @lauraal.bsky.social ! Cellules Synthétiques 😀 @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thanks to the jury members: Laura Rodríguez Arriaga, Christophe Ybert, Anke Filndler and Cécile Zakri. Also, many thanks to Jean-Christophe Baret for all the support and mentoring for the first PhD supervision! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I'm sure that the original results from Vivien's PhD will have a significant impact on the group's future and the field.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Last Friday, Vivien defended her thesis 🥳 Congrats! She is the first PhD of the group, opening the era of the Soft BioCol PhD generations 🎓 Thank you, Vivien, for the hard work, commitment, and such a bright personality. Wish you the best in the new adventure! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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JCB @baretjc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

👏 Let's celebrate women in sciences with a two days delay and focusing on two colleagues from the group ! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Vivien Willems who defended her PhD from @univbordeaux.bsky.social finishing 3 years of her research project in our bio group @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social !

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/12/2025

New research in #ScienceSignaling visualizes how plant cells generate different patterns of calcium ion waves to respond to microbes and wounds, helping to answer how plants generate diverse responses through this elementary signaling mechanism. scim.ag/49NigY0

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Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis

Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

After this, the experiments will wait for a good time window where the rocket can be launched. Hopefully, somewhere between Monday and Tuesday next week, so keep an eye out, we will publish the link to follow the launch!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🚨We are blessed to work amongst this incredible group of people, supporting each other, helping each other, and pushing science and technology further. This is the result of an amazing team effort!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For more MAPHEUS campaigns with you all! Thomas Voigtmann Jens Hauslage Indira Keserovic Paulina Blair

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

What at amazing time to spend in Esrange in Kiruna! #swedishspacecooporation

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

MAPHEUS16 rocket is almost ready! 🚀 🦠We have 2 experiments #Nymex & #Vesicolos, where we study #lipidvesicles in ugravity. Previous results showed unexpected behavior. Hopefully, we can complete the story in this campaign. @dlr-de.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

More updates soon—stay tuned. #Kiruna #GUVs #Vesicles #DLR #MORABA #SpaceBiophysics #SoftMatter #Colloids #ActiveMatter CRPP – Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Université de Bordeaux

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Thanks as well to George, Vivien Willems, José Fojo, and Cristian Villalobos for backup vesicle fabrication; and to Ivo Buttinoni—integral to the project even off-site.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Huge thanks to the rocket engineering team at MORABA (DLR). They make this possible. Also I am so grateful to colleagues handling complex planning and engineering: Thomas Voigtmann (project manager and experiment lead), Jens Hauslage, Jorg Drescher, and Paulina Blair.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

#NyMEx, first flown two years ago, now on its third flight. Goal: reproduce and extend our previous results on vesicle dynamics. #VESICOLOS, a miniature microscope to monitor vesicles during flight. A first for us; excited to capture real-time GUV pictures in microgravity.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We’re back in Kiruna for the #MAPHEUS16 #Microgravity campaign 🚀 #SoftMatter This time we’re flying two experiments on giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). #NyMEx #VESICOLOS @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @dlr-en.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Great week at #ISMC2025 in Crete 🇬🇷! First conf for us as @softbiocol.bsky.social group, presenting talks, posters & bringing home 2 #PosterPrizes 🏆. Honored to give a #Keynote on #JanusActiveVesicles 🧫. Thanks to the organizers & great to see friends from #ETHZürich! #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I take enormous pleasure interacting with this stimulating community and sharing our experimental designs of bioinspired out of equilibrium systems. Many thanks to Rosalba, Matteo and Alessandro for putting together the workshop, and inviting me to present.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

An army of crocheted GUVs just joined the group! Emotional support for tough vesicle experiments. We know working with GUVs can be non-trivial. The backup is welcome ;) Thanks, Ana Cazorla, for this thoughtful present! Amazing student ideas! #SoftMatter #LabLife #lipidvesicles

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This is fantastic research and even better outreach!!

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ultrafast elastocapillary fans control agile maneuvering in ripple bugs and robots

Rhagovelia ripple bugs use specialized middle-leg fans with a flat-ribbon architecture to navigate the surfaces of fast-moving streams. We show that the fan’s directional stiffness enables fast, passi...

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter.rsc.org has been featured on the cover of the journal. Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We love our science and its artistic side! Check our group website to see the various pictures taken in our group @softbiocol.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A new chapter begins as Associate Professor! Thanks to all the people involved, my local mentors (@baretjc.bsky.social ‬and H.Kellay), former supervisors (special mention to Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces w/ to Lucio Isa), collaborators, my colleagues at CRPP and friends

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New prepint w/ @demianlevis.bsky.social @natxopago.bsky.social L. Isa and E.Sesé-Sansa. We study active binary mixtures to unveil how two populations of active colloids with different motilities interact with each other. Thanks for the great work!🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2506.15188

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thank you so much to the @cpjfrance.bsky.social for this Portrait! Very happy to be part of this program as a Chair Junior MdC! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Discover more about our group members!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social led by Vivien Willems. Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇 A step forward on active soft microsystems Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What a great evening together! A small family inside and outside the lab! Thanks to all the group members for making my PI experience so amazing :) 🥳

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New group article led by J. Fojo in @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org on 2D percolated networks of colloidal rods! This article forms part of the collection in honour of our collegue Stefan Egelhaaf. Thank to eveyone who made it possible! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It was a pleasrue to have @asciortino.bsky.social with us last week at @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Thanks for showing us the beauty of soft interface driven out-of-equilibrium :) - and the best explanation on nematic defects ever!

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Giovanni Volpe @giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In our latest preprint, we introduce GAUDI! GAUDI is an unsupervised geometric deep learning framework for analyzing complex graph-structured data. Work by Mirja Granfors, Jesús Pineda, @cmanzo.bsky.social @joana-b-pereira.bsky.social Blanca Zufiria Gerbolés 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2503.05560

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social group in Heidelberg! If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records! More info goepfrichgroup.de & sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

When you look at the audience trying to guess who your reviewer might be

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Giovanni Volpe @giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy to share our Nature Reviews Physics roadmap on how machine learning is transforming our understanding of glassy dynamics! ✨ 👉Shout out to Gerhard Jung for his fantastic job on this project! www.linkedin.com/posts/gvolpe...

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Giovanni Volpe on LinkedIn: Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics - Nature Reviews Physics

Our latest publication, "Roadmap on Machine Learning Glassy Dynamics," published in Nature Reviews Physics! 🎉 In this work, we explore how machine…

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Moitísimas grazas por este post tan bonito!!! Os mantendrei ao tanto do que pasa cos nósos foguetes;)

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Moitas grazas por o apoio e por dar visibilidade ó noso traballo. A labor que facedes é parte da loita! Thanks a lot for the support! Hopefully many more girls will get motivated to pursue their curiosity into a scientific career! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It is a honour to work around these brilliant and inspiring women! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Let’s make this day an everyday matter! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #11F

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