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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Amazing colloquium talk by Christa Schleper from @univie.ac.at @archaea-vienna.bsky.social on how archaea use protrusion to crawl on surfaces! #archaea #loki @istaresearch.bsky.social

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Grateful for this opportunity of taking part in the 9th International Soft Matter Conference in beautiful Crete and presenting my research! It's been a great week of science, stimulating discussions and great food in a beautiful scenery 😊🏖️

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It has been a great workshop! Thanks to @romanstano.bsky.social, Peter, Emanuela and Christos for giving me the opportunity to present my work :)

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The Dolomites really are a special place. Very lucky to have had so many days of great weather! ⛰️🥾

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A stambecco (ibex) with her baby 🐐

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sass dla Crusc in the Dolomites 😊

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

First time it happens to me: the book I'm reading (Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman) is missing 49 pages 😅

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The workshop on polymers and biomolecular condensates in Meißen was great! I've learnt a lot and met some great people, and got to visit the beautiful Meißen and Dresden! Thanks to the organizers @albertilab-tud.bsky.social, Arash and Jens!

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Very engaging talk by Daniel Bonn on rheology and phase separation of active (and in some cases drunk) worms! 🪱🪱🪱

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Made Mapo Tofu (vegetarian version, with shiittake mushrooms instead of meat) for the first time yesterday. Pretty happy with the results! 😋

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The New Year's Eve fireworks in Naples 🎇🎆

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

View of Naples from Castel Sant'Elmo 🏰

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We also discover that, while the RNA dynamics remains diffusive for the uniformly charged brush, the charged patch leads to dynamic caging of the RNA molecules and to entangled-like dynamics. This makes the bridges more long-lived. 6/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We find that with the charged patch, RNA bridges form between the chromosomes, generating attractive force. But in the uniform charge case, little to no bridging is observed. Redistributing the charge significantly changes the exerted force! 🔋➡️💪 5/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We study the RNA-mediated interaction between two chromosome surfaces with coarse-grained simulations and theory. We compare two charge distributions for the brush: brush with charged patches vs uniformly charged brush. 4/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Clustering is due to the condensation of RNA and Ki-67, a charged protein that coats chromosomes as a brush. Interestingly, Ki-67 has an evolutionarily conserved charged patch at one end: if the patch is removed (ΔCP below), clustering is suppressed. But why? 3/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Biomolecular condensates are everywhere in cells, but there is still much to learn on how they exert forces on cellular structures. Recently, Sara Cuylen-Haering and @aharmendariz.bsky.social showed that condensation drives chromosome clustering during eukaryotic mitosis. tinyurl.com/y9zkwwch 2/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How does protein charge distribution influence the force exerted by biomolecular condensates? We tried to answer this question in our first Bluesky 🦋 #preprint! tinyurl.com/3fzuufy3 1/8

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Got myself a very cool Christmas present 🤩🍄

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Just started reading this, and already found some extremely inspiring questions that I had never thought about!

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Today I got to fanboy a little bit

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Valerio Sorichetti @vsorichetti.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Saw this beautiful short movie on the Palestinian climbing community today at Reel Rock. Strongly recommend!

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