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Mattia Serra

@mattiaserra.bsky.social
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Serra Group at UCSD Physics: Nonlinear Dynamics & Physics of Living Systems. www.mattiaserra.com Prev. |@SchmidtFellows @Harvard, PhD @ETH_en

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Preprint📣: Living tissues can exhibit odd mechanics without chirality. Our minimal model shows that orientational order can generate an odd modulus—inferable from experiments—and reproduces flows & stress localization around 1/2 defects. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📢Preprint: Positional information (PI) and information flows in dynamic tissues. Our mathematical framework quantifies, from data, how the coupled stochastic dynamics of cell positions and properties preserve, degrade and generate PI. @alex-plum.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We have postdoc openings for data-driven modeling and information flows in living systems, with a focus on embryonic development. mattiaserra.com Requirements: PhD in Physics, Applied Math, or similar; prior exposure to biological data preferred. Please share with potential candidates. Thank you!
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Honored to receive the 2026 Sloan Fellowship in Physics. I’m grateful to my mentors, my research group, and those who supported my nomination. Thank you! #SloanFellow
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UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences @ucsdphysci.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Congratulations to Mattia Serra on receiving the Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics! 🎉 Mattia has made groundbreaking advances in using #FluidDynamics to better understand developmental biology.
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics? I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We’re recruiting PhD students & postdocs excited about nonlinear dynamics and the physics of living systems. Help us spread the word!
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
📣 New paper out! How do thousands of cells shape the emergent geometry of the avian embryo? We identify distinct, independently controllable mechanisms that contribute to embryo size and shape. @alex-plum.bsky.social @bensteventon.bsky.social @Guillermo Serrano Najera www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Work by the incredibly talented PhD students Saurabh Joshi and Andre Forjaz.
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣 New review! Dynamical systems and low-dimensional geometric structures in phase space help rationalize how embryos develop form and function, from large datasets. We focus on morphogenesis, cell differentiation, and their interconnection. @alex-plum.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Ashley's postdoc work is now posted on bioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Decaying and expanding Erk gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration
Regeneration of an amputated salamander limb or fish fin restores pre-injury size and structure, illustrating the phenomenon of positional memory. Although appreciated for centuries, the identity of p...
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📣Check out our work led by @alex-plum.bsky.social ! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Morphogenetic movements reshape cell-cell interaction ranges, quantified as Embryological Light Cones (ELCs). These ELCs are highly different from the corresponding static tissue patterning ELCs.
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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📣 Excited to receive the 💥 NSF CAREER 💥 Award. Our group is looking for PhD students and postdocs interested in the Nonlinear Dynamics and the Physics of Living Systems, with support from NSF, HFSP, and other sources. We’d appreciate your help in spreading the word! @ucsdphysci.bsky.social
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