Last Friday, Vivien defended her thesis 🥳 Congrats! She is the first PhD of the group, opening the era of the Soft BioCol PhD generations 🎓 Thank you, Vivien, for the hard work, commitment, and such a bright personality. Wish you the best in the new adventure! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

👏 Let's celebrate women in sciences with a two days delay and focusing on two colleagues from the group ! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Vivien Willems who defended her PhD from @univbordeaux.bsky.social finishing 3 years of her research project in our bio group @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social !

New research in #ScienceSignaling visualizes how plant cells generate different patterns of calcium ion waves to respond to microbes and wounds, helping to answer how plants generate diverse responses through this elementary signaling mechanism. https://scim.ag/49NigY0

Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis

Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.

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Our experiments with giant lipid vesicles from @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social in collab with @dlr-en.bsky.social are ready for lift off! #science #spaceresearch #softmatter @syncelleu.bsky.social Photo credit: @dlr-de.bsky.social

The logos for our #microgravity experiments with lipid vesicles for the MAPHEUS16 campaign are out! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @syncelleu.bsky.social In collab with @dlr-de.bsky.social #swedishspacecoorporation #softmatter #spaceresearch #womeninSTEM #syntheticcells

MAPHEUS16 rocket is almost ready! 🚀 🦠We have 2 experiments #Nymex & #Vesicolos, where we study #lipidvesicles in ugravity. Previous results showed unexpected behavior. Hopefully, we can complete the story in this campaign. @dlr-de.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

We’re back in Kiruna for the #MAPHEUS16 #Microgravity campaign 🚀 #SoftMatter This time we’re flying two experiments on giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). #NyMEx #VESICOLOS @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @dlr-en.bsky.social

Great week at #ISMC2025 in Crete 🇬🇷! First conf for us as @softbiocol.bsky.social group, presenting talks, posters & bringing home 2 #PosterPrizes 🏆. Honored to give a #Keynote on #JanusActiveVesicles 🧫. Thanks to the organizers & great to see friends from #ETHZürich! #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

I take enormous pleasure interacting with this stimulating community and sharing our experimental designs of bioinspired out of equilibrium systems. Many thanks to Rosalba, Matteo and Alessandro for putting together the workshop, and inviting me to present.

CECAM@cecamevents.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Day 2 of the workshop “Statistical physics of living systems”! Felix Ritort (University of Barcelona) opened today’s program with a talk on “Hetaomics for life”, followed by Shigeyuki Komura (Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) who spoke on “Information swimmers”.

An army of crocheted GUVs just joined the group! Emotional support for tough vesicle experiments. We know working with GUVs can be non-trivial. The backup is welcome ;) Thanks, Ana Cazorla, for this thoughtful present! Amazing student ideas! #SoftMatter #LabLife #lipidvesicles

It's a pleasure to formally be part of the lab. For many more years of good science & fun! An amazing place to be!🥳 Congrats also to @auroredupin.bsky.social for the CNRS position. So great to have you with us @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social www.crpp.cnrs.fr/nos-deux-rec...

Nos deux recrues 2025! - CRPP

Laura Alvarez Frances a été recrutée en juin 2025 en tant que Maitre de Conférence Université de Bordeaux. Elle était sur une chaire UB depuis quelques années et a obtenu sa titularisation ! Aurore Du...

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This is fantastic research and even better outreach!!

Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech@bhamlalab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out our comic illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social and @rikworth.bsky.social , colors by @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social . -- find the full comic and more here bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ultrafast elastocapillary fans control agile maneuvering in ripple bugs and robots

Rhagovelia ripple bugs use specialized middle-leg fans with a flat-ribbon architecture to navigate the surfaces of fast-moving streams. We show that the fan’s directional stiffness enables fast, passi...

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Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter.rsc.org has been featured on the cover of the journal. Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!

We love our science and its artistic side! Check our group website to see the various pictures taken in our group @softbiocol.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art! ✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team: www.softbiocoll.com #SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter

A new chapter begins as Associate Professor! Thanks to all the people involved, my local mentors (@baretjc.bsky.social ‬and H.Kellay), former supervisors (special mention to Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces w/ to Lucio Isa), collaborators, my colleagues at CRPP and friends

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

Last weekend, we gathered to beat the heat with a lovely picnic, and to celebrate the recent tenure of our group leader @lauraal.bsky.social Here’s to many more exciting years of science and friendship with you and those yet to join! #softmatter @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social

New prepint w/ @demianlevis.bsky.social @natxopago.bsky.social L. Isa and E.Sesé-Sansa. We study active binary mixtures to unveil how two populations of active colloids with different motilities interact with each other. Thanks for the great work!🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2506.15188

Thank you so much to the @cpjfrance.bsky.social for this Portrait! Very happy to be part of this program as a Chair Junior MdC! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social

CPJ Network France 🌐@cpjfrance.bsky.social · last yr.

#CPJ Portrait: Laura ALVAREZ✨ Want to know more about Laura? Check out here 👇 wp.me/PgdKM0-7k 🔍 @lauraal.bsky.social @softbiocol.bsky.social 😍

Discover more about our group members!

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

SoftBioColloids group portraits! 🗒️ We will be posting portraits of our group members, so you get to know a bit more about the people driving the science in the group. We start with the portrait of Vivien Willems👇 More info softbiocoll.com

New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social led by Vivien Willems. Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇 A step forward on active soft microsystems Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

Publication Alert!🎉 🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior. 👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art

What a great evening together! A small family inside and outside the lab! Thanks to all the group members for making my PI experience so amazing :) 🥳

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

The active softies of the group met some weeks ago to spend a nice evening together and enjoy some international delicacies!🧀🍷 What a blessing being surrounded by these amazing humans! If you want to know more about us, check the news on our website :) softbiocoll.com/general-5

New group article led by J. Fojo in @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org on 2D percolated networks of colloidal rods! This article forms part of the collection in honour of our collegue Stefan Egelhaaf. Thank to eveyone who made it possible! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

SoftBio Colloids Lab@softbiocol.bsky.social · last yr.

Publication Alert!📢 Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez. We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #SoftMatter #Colloids @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

It was a pleasrue to have @asciortino.bsky.social with us last week at @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Thanks for showing us the beauty of soft interface driven out-of-equilibrium :) - and the best explanation on nematic defects ever!

JCB@baretjc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we have a seminar by Alfredo Scortino from the CytoMorpholab, invited by @lauraal.bsky.social Minimal cytoskeleton for Syn Cell ! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social

In our latest preprint, we introduce GAUDI! GAUDI is an unsupervised geometric deep learning framework for analyzing complex graph-structured data. Work by Mirja Granfors, Jesús Pineda, @cmanzo.bsky.social @joana-b-pereira.bsky.social Blanca Zufiria Gerbolés 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2503.05560

Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social group in Heidelberg! If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records! More info goepfrichgroup.de & sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

When you look at the audience trying to guess who your reviewer might be

Happy to share our Nature Reviews Physics roadmap on how machine learning is transforming our understanding of glassy dynamics! ✨ 👉Shout out to Gerhard Jung for his fantastic job on this project! www.linkedin.com/posts/gvolpe...

Giovanni Volpe on LinkedIn: Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics - Nature Reviews Physics

Our latest publication, "Roadmap on Machine Learning Glassy Dynamics," published in Nature Reviews Physics! 🎉 In this work, we explore how machine…

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Moitas grazas por o apoio e por dar visibilidade ó noso traballo. A labor que facedes é parte da loita! Thanks a lot for the support! Hopefully many more girls will get motivated to pursue their curiosity into a scientific career! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

SXGQuímica@sxgquimica.bsky.social · last yr.

Con motivo do #11F, falamos con varias científicas galegas, que se atopan tanto en Galicia como no estranxeiro 🌍 Hoxe queremos presentarvos a @lauraal.bsky.social. Esta viguesa é química-física da materia branda e investiga en Burdeos 👩‍🔬 Segue lendo para saber máis sobre Laura Álvarez! ⬇️

It is a honour to work around these brilliant and inspiring women! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Let’s make this day an everyday matter! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #11F

@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social · last yr.

International Day of Women & Girls in Science ! Here are the Women and Girls in Science working @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social 😀 @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

Check out my wonderful colleagues at the Faculty of Physics of @univie.ac.at, featured here for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/wome...