👉New preprint on avalanches in active glasses with finite persistence time. Universal behaviour of avalanches triggered by activity vs. triggered by shear: self-propulsion modulates the size of plastic events. With @ezeferrero.bsky.social #RWiese @demianlevis.bsky.social @ubics.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

Great week at #ISMC2025 in Crete! Sarika Chelur & Cristian Villalobos gave two great contributed talks, and our group leader, Laura, gave a #Keynote on our #JanusActiveVesicles Huge thanks to the organizers & to everyone for inspiring discussions and fun moments! #SoftBioColloids #SoftMatter

We are so proud of our @softbiocol.bsky.social group at #ISMC2025 🇬🇷! Fantastic posters by Benjamín Oliva, José Fojo, Vivien Willems and Laura (PIs can also bring posters!) 🏆 Congrats to Vivien & Benjamín for winning #PosterPrizes! 🎉 #SoftMatter #Colloids #ActiveMatter

Our people keep surprising us! Thanks for this amazing present to all group members, Ana! We will need the support for the year to come :)

Laura Alvarez@lauraal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

The work of Willems et al., has been featured on the cover of @softmatter.rsc.org Congrats to everyone for the nice job! Do not miss the article👇

Laura Alvarez@lauraal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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!

🎨🔬 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

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

Our group leader Laura's portrait is on the @cpjfrance.bsky.social website. She holds a Chair Junior Maitre de Conference @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Discover more about her in the link below!👇

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 😍

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

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

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

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

📻 Les cellules souches offrent à la recherche une nouvelle voie d’exploration thérapeutique pour de nombreuses maladies. Comment les exploiter ? Le point dans @sciencecqfd.bsky.social @franceculture.fr avec notamment Pierre Nassoy du LP2N* et fondateur de Treefrog : www.radiofrance.fr/f...

Thérapie cellulaire : ça coule de souche

Les cellules souches utilisées en recherche sont soit directement issues de l’embryon soit induites à la pluripotence à partir de cellules adultes différenciées. Ces dernières offrent à la recherche une nouvelle voie d’exploration thérapeutique pour de nombreuses maladies. Comment les exploiter ?

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We have an open postdoc position in our group! We seek motivated and fun people with a background in theoretical biological physics to work on projects revolving around pattern formation, cell biology, and particularly #condensates. Details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_... #TheoBiophysicsPosition

Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) | Biological Physics

For the independent research group “Theory of Biological Fluids” headed by Dr. David Zwicker we seek to fill a Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) in Biological Physics.

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Scientists have designed an “ingenious” side-view device that lets them observe the structural changes of 3D tumour spheroids more comprehensively. https://elifesciences.org/articles/101886?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

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

Esta semana temos unha programación especial polo Día da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia. Estade atentas!

Friday 07 February 2025, 1:30pm, at ENS Physics Department, room L378 or zoom Jérémie Palacci (ISTA). Can synthetic active matter inspire biophysicsts? www.phys.ens.fr/biophysics_s...

Don't miss this great opportunity in @giovannivolpe.bsky.social Lab! 👇

Giovanni Volpe@giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now hiring 2 PhD students at the Soft Matter Lab at the University of Gothenburg for the EU project SPM4.0 project! Please, spread! 🔍 Focus: AI-driven smart microscopy, machine learning, image analysis 📍 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪 🗓Apply by: 24 Feb 2025 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Always good to be back at @cecamevents.bsky.social in Lausanne! By the way, check out the new program at www.cecam.org/program

Excited to share the new preprint on reconfigurable colloidal molecules, led by S. Ketzetzi, in collab. with H. Löwen and L. Isa. Congrats to Vivien (first article from her Master’s) & @lauraal.bsky.social for their contribution, and to all for the great work! arxiv.org/abs/2501.00672

We are thrilled to be part of the #SigSynCell European DN We will focus on the fabrication and manipulation of giant lipid vesicles with diverse architectures for motility, reconfiguration and signalling. @univbordeaux.bsky.social More information in the link below👇 sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

The SoftBio Colloids group has grown in the past months, and we want to share with you our science and curiosity! Visit our website to learn more about us! 👇 softbiocoll.com #CRPP_Bx @univbordeaux.bsky.social eaux @cnrs.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social

Research | Soft Biocolloids

Soft BioColloids research group website, based at the University of Bordeaux and the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS, France). We focus on the design and assembly of bioinspired materials to fab...

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