The proposed new government rules for politics-based decision making on federal scientific grants will materially impact my ability to due science in the US: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Please reach out to your congress representatives on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/lisa-m...

Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Wanted to highlight this interesting article collection at PRX Life that emerged from a fun workshop at the @nitmb.bsky.social a little over a year ago: journals.aps.org/prxlife/coll...

Excited about this new paper from our research group on cell division in stratified epithelia, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote and @dr-rajendra-s-negi.bsky.social. See the great tutorial from Rajendra!

Rajendra Singh Negi@dr-rajendra-s-negi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(1/n) Does basal stem cell division orientation regulate skin stratification and tissue mechanics? And can tissue mechanics feed back to control division orientation? In our new preprint, we use a 3D vertex model to explore this @manningresearch.bsky.social @somiealo.bsky.social

Big day for the Manning Research Lab: Tyler Hain is defending his Ph.D. thesis, “Mapping the Rigid Landscapes of Disordered Networks and Active Solids.” Yay, Tyler! events.syracuse.edu/event/disser....

Thanks to all the students, postdocs, and collaborators over the past 15 years that really did the work that this AAAS Fellowship celebrates. Happy to share it with all of you! news.syr.edu/2026/03/26/3...

3 Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows

Duncan Brown, Kevin Crowston and Lisa Manning are the first trio from Syracuse to earn the prestigious science honor in a single year.

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Manning research group represents at the APS March meeting (aka Global Summit)! I am so proud of all the great work that will be presented by current students and postdocs from our research group. Here's a time-ordered list of talks, please check them out if you're in Denver this week!

Excited to highlight a new preprint about mechanical contributions to tissue homeostasis, from the Manning group in collaboration with the amazing Carien Niessen and Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social labs, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited about this new paper out on bioRxiv, spearheaded by the fantastic Dr. Grigas in collaboration with @mongeralab.bsky.social and Galea labs.

Alex Grigas@agrigas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dynamic forces drive cell and organ morphology changes during embryonic development

A free platform for explaining your research in plain language, and managing how you communicate around it – so you can understand how best to increase its impact.

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Yay! New paper out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development? Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.

Why do vertex models work so well to predict tissue fluidity/rigidity, even though they are simple and possibly even wrong? A new paper in PRX Life @prxlife.bsky.social, spearheaded by @sadjadarzash.bsky.social and Ojan Damavandi, suggests universality may explain: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Universality in the Mechanical Behavior of Vertex Models for Biological Tissues

A systematic comparison of diverse cell packing models reveals shared mechanical rules that govern how tissues stiffen, yield, and reorganize---shedding light on the physical logic behind morphogenesi...

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Excited to have a discussion on this topic with outstanding colleagues!

Cell Press@cellpress.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens when physics meets biology? Dive into active matter, the driving force behind cytoskeletal organization, tissue morphogenesis & more. July 11 @ 9 a.m. ET. http://dlvr.it/TLZGBg

Congratulations to graduate student Tyler Hain for his paper accepted to Phys. Rev. E. Here's a link to the tweetorial (on x until we finish migration to bluesky): x.com/ManningResea...

Fun article in Washington post for kids about Bio-inspired science and engineering at Syracuse University! x.com/SUBioInspired/…

Thanks EPL for the highlight for the nice work spearheaded by former Manning group postdoc Ojan Damavandi. x.com/epl_journal/st…

Working hard and very interested in promoting "bio-inspired design" funding opportunities in the United States. x.com/EngineeringSU/…

A fun and fruitful collaboration with the @WickstromLab with a new preprint and hopefully more fun science in the works. Thanks, team! x.com/WickstromLab/s…

Congratulations to Liz Lawson-Keister for a fantastic article and lovely cover art in collaboration with artist Melanie Oventhal. See this blog post for more details: x.com/syracusephysic… biophysics.org/blog/moving-to…

Loving this workshop from company of biologists from Physics to function. Thanks @XavierTrepat and @johannaivaska for organizing! x.com/XavierTrepat/s…

So proud of our organizing team at Syracuse University and co-organizers at Wyss +Princeton+UCSF. Such a fun event to make the case for BioInspired Design as a great track for translational research at NSF! x.com/SUBioInspired/…

Excited to be talking about modeling the mechanics of glasses at MMM10 in Baltimore todayhighlighting work by current and former trainees David Richard, Ethan Stanifer, and Julia Giannini! mmm10.jhu.edu

Congratulations to grad student Julia Giannini who is an invited speaker at the "Defects in disordered systems" workshop at UPenn tomorrow : sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/…

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Defects in disordered systems A Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem workshop LRSM Reading Room, University of Pennsylvania 30th of September and 1st of October 2022

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We're hiring: come work (and have fun) with us! The Physics Department and BioInspired Institute at Syracuse University have a tenure-track faculty position open in soft matter and/or biological physics:@phycuse @SUBioInspired sujobopps.com/postings/95696

I feel very impostor-y about developing a Q&A article in a biology journal. Am I biology-y enough? Is this even interesting to people? doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Come work (and have fun) with us! x.com/ZhenMa2046/sta…

So well-deserved, brilliant scientist and @SUBioInspired advisory board member Dr. Tanner! t.co/xbj09MqGNP

So excited we're finally able to hold our big Annual Symposium for the BioInspired Institute we've been working so hard to build over the past 3 years (despite the pandemic! x.com/SUBioInspired/…

Looking forward to this conference! x.com/IntSocDevBiol/…

Thank you @khoribe3 for kindly tweeting about this talk! Due to a family emergency I had to switch my talk at the last second from in person to virtual, and everyone (audience, organizers) was so kind and thoughtful. But I was so busy I forgot to tweet about it. : x.com/khoribe3/statu…

So excited to share that former lab postdoc Dr. Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan will soon be Professor Erdemci-Tandogan. So well-deserved!!!!❤️ x.com/gonca_erdemci/…