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Michael Chung

@michaelcchung.bsky.social
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Lover of all things creative, especially science 🧬 ! Passionate about dynamics and using machine learning to extract interpretable info from data 📊 (especially biological data). Postdoc in the Dixit group at Yale. MBL Physiology 25 Alum 🦑💙

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Michael Chung @michaelcchung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A visualization of our recently published algorithm learning the low-dimensional dynamics of Smoluchowski aggregation! 70 coupled, nonlinear ODEs get compressed to the dynamics of a single variable! Work done with the great @pdixit.bsky.social. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 2027! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social I’ll be launching the Deep Lab for Microbial Biomechanics. 🧵 1/8
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Michael Chung @michaelcchung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Purushottam Dixit @pdixit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/ Our new paper is out in PRX Life. Physicists' often treat microbiomes as disordered systems with coexistence in very high-dimensional niche spaces. We asked whether empirical data supports this picture, and found the data point somewhere else: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Low-Dimensional Coexistence in Complex Microbial Ecosystems
Analysis of nearly 200 human gut microbiome datasets shows that microbial coexistence is governed by a few effective ecological dimensions, rather than the high-dimensional niches assumed by prevailing theory.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hip hip hurray - we have a new doctor in the house. Congratulations Dr @cbrannon.bsky.social that was a spectacular defense; so many fun stories all tied together in an hour. Also, the same week Charlotte’s big paper on information bottlenecks in ciliary flocks got accepted in Nature Physics.
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 30/03/2026
Postdoctoral researcher @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social in the @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de is 2026 Grass Fellow @grassfoundation.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social. 🎉 He will pursue his project “Dancing diatoms as a proto-neural model” at MBL for 14 weeks. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
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Isaac Siu-Shing Wong is MBL 2026 Grass Fellow
MPI-CBG postdoctoral researcher joins Marine Biological Laboratory, working in the Grass Laboratory for research project.
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Gladfelter Lab @gladfelterlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth - Nature Cell Biology
Geisterfer, Jalihal et al. show spatially distinct effects of Whi3 condensates on target translation in Ashbya syncytia. In vitro, translation is enriched at condensate–solute interfaces but repressed...
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Nate @nathanieldhess.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am very excited to share our pre-print that was just released on the bioRxiv entitled "Biomolecular Condensates Dictate the Folding Landscape of Proteins" doi.org/10.64898/202... Very grateful for @jerelleaj.bsky.social and the members of the Joseph Group for their support on this project! (1/4)
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David Kuster @rnadavid.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Very happy to announce that a small part of my bird data, collected on a transect along the Elbe river, got successfully 'published' online.:) hymanlab.org/blog/2025/-c...
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David Kuster @rnadavid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Welcome Safal!!, now the most amazing @safalfold.bsky.social is on bluesky🐙🦀🌊
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Michael Chung @michaelcchung.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Huge congrats to DOCTOR @rnadavid.bsky.social for successfully defending! Amazing presentation 💙
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
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Michael Chung @michaelcchung.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
ufhealth.org/news/2025/st... Again, amazing work from Sayour Lab! Congrats to @adamgrippin.bsky.social and all others involved!
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Study finds COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks immune response to fight cancer - UF Health
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived…
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Isaac Wong @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Our new preprint reveals that 🪰's Cnn and 🪱's SPD-5 both form condensates in vitro, but assemble via divergent mechanisms in vivo. We show how phosphorylation unlocks Cnn’s autoinhibited scaffold and identify conserved features in 🚶‍♂️'s CDK5RAP2.
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Qing (Andie) Zhang @zqing.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social
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Michael Chung @michaelcchung.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My first research project in grad school was working on understanding the self assembly dynamics of the Sayour Lab’s vaccine. Elias is genuinely one of the nicest, most enthusiastic individuals I have ever worked with. Hector (the first author) is also absolutely amazing!
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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
#StressBreak Lotus flowers are blooming again in Kashmir’s historically largest lake, having been freed from the grasp of underwater silt that strangled them for 3 decades. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lotus-flower...
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Joy and Relief as Lotus Flowers Bloom Again in Kashmiri Lake After Three Decades
"Lotus stem connects our food to the land … now that it’s back, we’re preparing dishes the way our grandmothers did: slow, simple,
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Dear MBL alumni (that's you!), What's your favorite MBL memory? Share with #MyMBLMoment to enter our giveaway. A winner will be randomly chosen at the end of the month! #MyMBLMoment
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
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MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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Isaac Wong @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Exciting news! Our latest paper reveals that Spd-2 (CEP192) recruits Polo & Aurora A to build two scaffolds—Polo-dependent Cnn (for strength) & Aurora A–dependent TACC (for protein concentration)—crucial for centrosome assembly in Drosophila. #CellBiology #Centrosome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Centrioles generate two scaffolds with distinct biophysical properties to build mitotic centrosomes
Spd-2 organizes the assembly of two distinct centriole-scaffolds to build mitotic centrosomes in Drosophila.
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