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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨Event: TLM ECR Satellite Symposium with PLM19 🕰️ 9:30-18:00, 23/09 📍DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🚨Online ECR Seminar TOMORROW- 24.06.26 | 16:00 UK Jan Rombouts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi (Harvard University). Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🚨Online Seminar NEXT WEEK- 10.06.26 | 16:00 UK Alvaro Sanchez: "The latent simplicity of microbial ecological interactions" Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🚨Online Seminar NEXT WEEK- 27.05.26 | 16:00 UK Aleksandra Walczak: "Immune repertoires as self-organised evolving systems" Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🚨 @tlmcambridge Online Seminar TODAY- 13.05.26 | 16:00 UK Jan de Boer: "Biomaterial surface design today: experiments, data and generative AI" Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🚨 @tlmcambridge Online Seminar - 13.05.26 | 16:00 UK Jan de Boer: "Biomaterial surface design today: experiments, data and generative AI" Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨TLM ECR SEMINAR🚨 29/04/2026 (16:00 UK) Dr Ashif Akram from Kansas State University will be presenting: “Spacer-mediated specificity in polymer condensates”. Registre at: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr... to get the Zoom link

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New lineup of exciting speakers for the Easter term. Sign up to our mailing list for updated zoom links 📝📩

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🚨This is happening today (16:00) at Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry (Wolfson Lecture Theater)

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🚨TLM HYBRID SEMINAR🚨 18/03/2026 (16:00 UK) Dr. Karina Pombo from @rosfrankinst.bsky.social will be presenting: “Membrane prewetting by condensates promotes tight-junction belt formation” at Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry (Wolfson Lecture Theater) @pombo-garcialab.bsky.social

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🚨[TLM] Online ECR Seminar - 04.03.26 | 16:00 UK | Dr Jerry Wang: "A cellular solution to a robotics problem" & Dr Suryanarayana Maddu: " Active Liquid Crystal Theory Explains the Collective Organization of Microtubules in Human Mitotic Spindles"RT & register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Julia Maristany @juliamaristany.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New paper alert from the group!! 🚨: DNA flexibility tips the balance between stability and plasticity in nucleosomes One of the works from my PhD, co-led alongside @nachper.bsky.social, is finally out! Work from @rcollepardo.bsky.social & @janhuemar.bsky.social ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬆️

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🚨Reminder for this talk happening in person and online in a few hours time🚨If you haven't signed up to our mailing list do DM us for a link to this talk and all other future talks. Come learn about mechanics regulate chick embryo development.🐣

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We have a cover! Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨[TLM] Hybrid Talk - 17.02.26 | 16:00 UK | Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues will talk about self-organization in developmental systems 🐣. Please RT & to attend in person if you are in Cambridge at the Sainsbury lab. Please register to our 📧 for zoom links: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🚨[TLM] Online ECR Seminar - 04.02.26 | 16:00 UK | Eleni Papafilippou: "Epithelial Junction Dynamics Under Cyclic Loading" & Dr Iago Grobas: " Mechanical Memory in Bacteria" Please RT & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨Looking forward to this joint talk happening today in a few hours!! DM us if you haven't received a link for this talk as yet 📝🚨

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨Do sign up to our mailing list for this very exciting joint talk by Profs Marino Arroyo and Xavier Trepat on active morphogenesis on Wednesday 21st Jan🚨

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Congrats to all authors, & collaborators @hfspo.bsky.social especially #NirGov Also thanks to those that allowed to promote our work, @dgz.bsky.social Here, a webinar I gave @tlmcambridge.bsky.social, in case someone is interested in the other aspects of the story. youtu.be/xorWG5Jh_8o?...

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Pablo Sáez (University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf) "Decision-making during cell migration"

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

New year calls for a new lineup of exciting speakers. Look out for a selection of ECR talks, joint experimentalist, theory talks and a few hybrid talks. Join us in person if you are in Cambridge. Sign up to our mailing list for updated zoom links 📝📩

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Rosana Collepardo @rcollepardo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Our Science paper is out! Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🚨 [TLM] Online Seminar TODAY at 16:00 UK, let’s explore some universal laws in nature together with Prof Ben Fabry!

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨Join us TOMORROW: TLM Cambridge Online Seminar - 03.12.25 | 16:00 UK

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🚨@TLM_Cambridge Online Seminar - 03.12.25 | 16:00 UK Ben Fabry (@ben-fabry.bsky.social): "Universal scaling laws in cell and tissue rheology" Please RT & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🚨 TLM Seminar Series - ECR talks - 26.11.25|16:00 UK Mathieu Dedenon: "An agent-based model for active nematics and beyond" and Prachi Richa: "Role of cell morphology in shaping Notch signalling dynamics during early Neurogenesis" Join the talk at: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88194163775

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🍻TLM Pub Talks are back! 🍻 Join us for an evening of interesting talks to discuss over a drink in a social environment. All those interested in the intersection of biology and theory are welcome!

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🚨 TLM Seminar Series - TOMORROW|16:00 UK Eric Libby (@elibbyscience.bsky.social): "Informational constraints on the regulation of early multicellular life cycles" Join the talk at: www.cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89289153062 Join our mailing list here: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/sub... Please repost!

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🚨 TLM Seminar Series - 19.11.25 | 16:00 UK Eric Libby ( @elibbyscience.bsky.social ): "Informational constraints on the regulation of early multicellular life cycles" Join the talk at: www.cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89289153062 Join our mailing list here: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/sub... Please repost!

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 Join us TODAY for two really exciting talks on the emergence of the fractal bronchial tree and tortoise/ crocodile head scale patterning!🚨 @rorylcooper.bsky.social @maltemederacke.bsky.social

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨 Join us tomorrow for two really exciting talks on the emergence of the fractal bronchial tree and tortoise/ crocodile head scale patterning!🚨 @rorylcooper.bsky.social @maltemederacke.bsky.social

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Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I’ll be speaking about the mechanical development of crocodile and tortoise head scales next Wednesday at 4pm for the @tlmcambridge.bsky.social seminar series. Subscribe to the mailing list to hear more about my work, and that of @maltemederacke.bsky.social! lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 05.11.25 | 16:00 UK Malte Mederacke: "The emergence of the fractal bronchial tree" Rory Cooper: " The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Jan Huertas @janhuemar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🚨 🚨 🚨 New preprint alert!!! 🚨 🚨 🚨 In the past, we have learnt that Oct4 can induce nucleosome breathing on the mono-nucleosome level. But what happens when you have a fibre of multiple nucleosomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @rcollepardo.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social

A rendering of multiple Oct4 molecules bound to a chromatin fibre

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨Happening today in a few hours🕝! DM us if you need a zoom link. If you are in Cambridge area, do join us in person for this talk 🚨

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Carlos Pérez-González @cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social : "Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated? A thread👇

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Fantastic summary on offsetting - still pervasive in application across many regions of the world and all too easily subject to manipulation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🚨Reminder that this is happening on Monday afternoon🚨. Do join us in person if you are in the Cambridge area. The talk will be followed by drinks and nibbles🍵🍷🍪

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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Next Monday 20th October, we’re delighted to welcome @pflenne.bsky.social for a talk co-hosted with @tlmcambridge.bsky.social. For further information and updates, please visit our website! ucammorphogenesisseries.com

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🚨TLM Seminar Series in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social will host @pflenne.bsky.social from IBDM for a hybrid seminar on Monday 20th October at 14:30 UK Time🚨Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - TODAY 16:00 UK Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

Poster with a picture of the speaker, Pablo Saez, advertising his talk: Decision Making during cell migrations. Abstract: Moving cells navigate inside living tissues often encountering obstacles and junctions, where their path branches into alternative directions of migration. This is the case of cells moving on top or within blood vessels, which often bifurcate into branches. Cells have diverse migratory strategies that differentially rely on the adhesion to the substrate. Cells that undergo mesenchymal migration are highly dependent on the adhesion to the substrate, and when facing bifurcations are forced to coordinate the adhesion and detachment of the competing branches. Recent studies showed how the decision is made -to keep or retract a branch and choose a new direction- when there is bias: open versus dead-end, differences in pressure, presence/absence of a chemoattractant. However, much less is know about how cells decide a new direction when the decision is unbiased. Similarly, it is poorly understood how migrating cells coordinate membrane dynamics during branching to maintain a good trade-off between microenvironmental exploration and migratory efficiency. Here, we use in vitro live-cell imaging using different levels of complexity, and advanced image analysis to analyze the response of migrating cells when facing symmetric junctions, and extreme branching when cells simultaneously face several bifurcations. We found that actin and membrane dynamics play a key role to choose a new direction path in both cases i) when cells face a single junction (Ron et al. 2024), and ii) when cells exhibit high levels of branching because they face several junctions at the same time (Liu et al.). In addition, we found that migrating immune cells have a fine tune regulation of branching in order to coordinate surveillance and migration. These results shed light on the mechanisms by which cells resolve unbiased junctions and branching during cell migration.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨New academic year calls for a new lineup of speakers. ✍️Sign up to our mailing list to hear these wonderful array of speakers this term. Please reshare among your networks 📩 lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Opportunity for senior lecturer (associate professor) in School of Chemistry at University of Bristol (UK) ref: ACAD108220 | closing: 30-Sep-2025 #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...

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