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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I’m deeply honored and humbled to have been elected to the APS Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) Chair Line. DBIO has been my chosen family and professional home for many years, and I’m grateful and excited for the opportunity to serve our wonderfully thoughtful, vibrant community in this role!

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Dear colleagues, if you are at the Cell Bio 2025, come check out posters by Sam Silliman (board B347) and Ulises Diaz (board B359)-- presenting work with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social and me -- in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm session in Exhibit Hall DE today from 2-3.45 pm.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It was such a pleasure hosting Anne Meyer from UR for today’s Physics Colloquium. Her talk was fantastic, and I learned so much. The Q&A that followed—including the many thoughtful questions from students —was great too. Anne and me chatting over ginger tea afterwards + the talk announcement

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This weekend was peak fall at Letchworth State Park, and the weather couldn’t have been better on Sunday — perfect for our annual Lab (+ friends) hike.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Last night we celebrated my postdoc mentee Jonathan’s send-off! 🎉 An amazing colleague and friend to our lab, his research in the Lab spanned cartilage mechanics, cytoskeletal composites & rigidity transitions, with papers in Science Advances, PNAS Nexus, Soft Matter, Phys Rev Res. We will miss him!

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Just back from the 2025 Soft Matter GRC = soft matter summer camp. Talks, discussions & power hour were 🔥! Huge congrats and thanks to Jenny Ross & Meredith Betterton for co-chairing and making it a big success. In 2 yrs I’ll co-chair w/ Eric Dufresne — can't wait! Photo: with GRC and GRS chairs

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Low key lab dinner last night to celebrate Keegan’s successful MS thesis defense and Youssof’s successuful PhD 2nd year presentation. Action shots from Youssof’s talk earlier in the day.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My Physics MS mentee Keegan Tonry defended their thesis today with a clear, thorough talk on spatiotemporal restructuring in active cytoskeletal composites. It’s been great to see them grow and thrive as a researcher and bring this work to fruition. Congrats, Keegan!

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

At the Hactive Matter 2025 Workshop (Hackathon) at UCSB, with my collaborators Rae Robertson-Anderson, Megan Valentine, Ryan McGorty and student/postdoc participants

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Envious that colleagues at the TSRC workshop “Self-assembly in non-equilibrium systems” are hiking Bridal Veil Falls—but with my talk this afternoon, I stayed back to edit slides, + make a Broader Impacts highlight for NSF. I did hike Sunday, so just missing the “talking science while hiking” part!

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

End-of-semester Das Lab dinner tonight. I asked what we should toast to, and one of my mentees said, ‘To science.’ Couldn’t have picked a better one."

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Physics and AST spring semester picnic -- collective excitations at low T :)

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Das Lab action shots from days 4 and 5 at the #APSSummit25. I (invited) and Keegan spoke in the Biological Active Matter IV session, Jonathan in the Non-Equilibrium Self Assembly and Self Organization II session, and Sam in the Macromolecular Assembly in Cells III: Agency session.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Das Lab action shots from days 1 and 2 at the #APSSummit25. Aravind giving his talk yesterday; Alberto and Soumik giving their talks today; me, Alberto, and Keegan grabbing a quick lunch at the food trucks between sessions (my lunch consisted of churros and boba tea 🙂)

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Those of you @ the #APSSummit25 in Anaheim this week, please come check out talks by my mentees and me below. They are all at the Hilton.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

2/2 With Hao Shi ('13), one of our standout undergraduates (and an informal mentee of mine), who was visiting RIT yesterday to receive an RIT Emerging Leader award! Photos include our provost in an unexpected photobomb and some of my current mentees who joined to celebrate Hao's felicitation :)

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

1/2 For a few hours, I set aside all worries to celebrate the achievements of my incredible mentees! With Sam Silliman who has been accepted into several of his top-choice Physics PhD programs (Princeton, UCLA, UT Austin, and Georgia tech), and one of Sam's other mentors.

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Moumita (Mo) Das @physbee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Excited to welcome two new undergraduate members, Tristan Khiar and Aeden Amatulli, to the Das Lab this semester! Here's a throwback to our Lab dinner last semester—looking forward to many more moments like this!

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