PoLS at Georgia Tech
@gtpols.bsky.social
This is the official Bluesky profile for the Physics of Living Systems node at Georgia Tech. https://pols.gatech.edu
Actively-driven #robots can produce a rich variety of emergent phenomena, including behaviors that appear counterintuitive at first. In a recent preprint from the Goldman Lab at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social, undulating robots form long-lived pairs mediated solely by repulsive interactions.
Excited to share our new work in @science.org #Robotics that shows how reversible kinks can help nematodes perform jumps 1000 times faster than you can blink! scim.ag/4iDIa1i 🧵: Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots
A soft jumping robot inspired by nematodes demonstrates ultrafast jumping using reversible kink instability and stiffness.
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Check out these birds, courtesy of Nami Ha! Nami and the @bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.
Today! Please come see Dr. Shucong Li give an excellent talk!
PoLS at Georgia Tech@gtpols.bsky.social · last yr.Please join us on April 15 for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Shucong Li! Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
Please join us this Thursday for the final PoLS Lunch & Learn of the semester! This week's speaker will be @sacrozhangt.bsky.social from the Hammer and @wcratcliff.bsky.social labs.
Please join us today for another Lunch & Learn seminar! This week's speaker is Maryam Hejri from the Yunker Lab. Lunch will be served at 12:00, with a talk beginning at 12:30!
Animals at many length scales move through undulation. In a new paper, Chris Pierce and the Goldman Lab use the nematode 🪱 C. elegans to show how interactions with the environment cause undulating body movements to become desynchronized to the phase of muscle contractions.
This week's Lunch & Learn speaker is @doshna.bsky.social from the Sponberg Lab! Please come see his talk tomorrow!
Today! Join us for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Abdul Malmi-Kakkada, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augusta University! Dr. Malmi-Kakkada is a computational biophysicist with expertise in cell-cell signaling and cell-substrate mechanical interactions. We will begin at 3:00 in Howey N201!
Please join us on April 15 for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Shucong Li! Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
PoLS faculty Dan Goldman has been named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of #Science (@aaas.org)! Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!
Can wriggling #worms inspire new principles in robot design? A new preprint from the @bhamlalab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and @sorbonne-universite.fr, describes how active filaments—like living worms—can efficiently gather tiny particles in confined spaces.
Lunch & Learn is back this week! Please join us this Thursday for a talk from @pbravo.bsky.social from the Yunker Lab!
Congratulations to the whole PoLS community on another successful @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Summit! We look forward to seeing all of you again in Denver next year!
Just a reminder, PoLS folks—there will be no Lunch & Learn meeting today! We will see all of you again next week on the 27th!
I hope the PoLS community is enjoying the @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit! For those of you who signed up, please remember that we have a PoLS meetup dinner tonight at 6:00!
This year's @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit is well underway in lovely Anaheim, California! Our illustrious Dan Goldman was invited to give the opening talk at this morning's Robophysics session: A Decade of Robophysics at the APS March Meeting!
Please join us tomorrow for another PoLS Lunch & Learn! This week's speaker is Aradhya Rajanala from the Goldman Lab!
The application deadline for this wonderful (fully funded!) opportunity is this Saturday! Please apply now for a chance to study the amazing biodiversity of the #Amazon!
PoLS at Georgia Tech@gtpols.bsky.social · 2y agoApplications are open for the Jungle Biomechanics Lab—a fully funded program at Finca Las Piedras in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, from August 3-17. Undergrads, grads, and postdocs should visit the @bhamlalab.bsky.social website for more information! bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...
It's #Biomechanics Day at @zooatl.bsky.social! GT PoLS is always happy to reach out to the community. A big thanks to Tianyu Wang and all of the other students who helped make today happen!
How does the complex environment of #cell membranes affect transport into and out of the cell? PoLS Faculty JC Gumbart is out with a new collaboration, combining MD simulations with magic-angle spinning NMR to probe this challenging subject!
How do #cancer cells invade healthy tissues? PoLS faculty @shilabanerjee.bsky.social uses advanced simulations to study competition between healthy cells (green) and growing cancers (magenta).
Please join us this Thursday for another Lunch & Learn! This week's speaker is Evan Rheaume from the Fenton Lab. Please note that we're in the Interaction Zone on the first floor this week!
How do #fish navigate while swimming, and how does the underwater environment shape their locomotion? Come see Dr. James Liao at tomorrow's Faculty Search Seminar to find out! 🐟🌊
