📆 Join us next Tuesday, June 9 at 12 PM EST for the next klogW seminar featuring Jonas Veenstra (ENS Lyon) and Matthew Leighton (Yale University). Don’t miss this chance to hear from two outstanding early-career researchers! Please sign up and find more details here: engage.aps.org/dsnp/resourc...

Watch all recorded talks from this week's #KITP Conference: Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (#complexsys-c26)

KITP Conference | Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (#complexsys-c26)

Recorded as part of the KITP Conference "Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics" from June 1, 2026 - June 4, 2026. Over the pa...

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Happy to share the viewpoint article on recent work by @jackbinysh @ASouslov @CorentinCoulais about interplay between percolation and oddity in robotic metamaterials!

Physics Magazine@physicsmagazine.aps.org · 4mo ago

Active materials could be used to make devices that spontaneously crawl over a difficult terrain—provided system-spanning networks are formed among the individual constituents of the system. Without the networks, microscopic activity remains local and the macroscopic response disappears.

Happening in 20 mins. We have open positions related to the project, if interested feel free to DM

Tzer Han Tan@tzerhan29.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PhD student Ouyang Xuan is going to present our work using representation learning to map developmental flow in morphological landscape: Mon Mar 16 3:30pm 'Morphogenesis' @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social Check it out! #APSGlobalSummit2026

PhD student Ouyang Xuan is going to present our work using representation learning to map developmental flow in morphological landscape: Mon Mar 16 3:30pm 'Morphogenesis' @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social Check it out! #APSGlobalSummit2026

Looking forward to first day of APS! Going to talk about odd robotic matter and information processing at "Emerging Active Matter" session summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B... Mon Mar 16 12-3pm, @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social @aps-dsnp.bsky.social

Are robotic swarms the next state of matter? Excited to share the very first preprint from the lab! "Three phases of odd robotic matter" arxiv.org/abs/2603.09897

Looking forward to @apsphysics.bsky.social March Meeting next week at Denver to share the lab's ongoing work on emergent dynamics & learning in odd robotic matter + manifold learning in morphogenesis.

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy... 🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 📷: syGlass.io

Our lab has some ongoing data driven/AI/ML in active matter projects that can be supported through postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/schm.... if you are interested, or if you have some ideas of your own, feel free to reach out!

@tzerhan29.bsky.social et al show topological defects in cell traction forces underlie emergent chirality They show pancreas derived organoids rotates as an active solid! bsky.app/profile/epim...

Honored to be selected and join the 2025-26 cohort of UCSD Hellman Fellows! today.ucsd.edu/story/larges...

Largest Cohort in UC San Diego Program’s History Receives Hellman Fellowships

Over 30 years ago, the Society of Hellman Fellows Program was founded at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. The program awarded 10 Hellman Fellowships in 1995 at UC San Diego. This spring, 26 UC San Diego ...

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If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us! www.pew.org/en/projects/...

LIVE sea urchin larvae for #3DThursday! Catch me at the MIT Museum tonight at AfterDark and see it in person. 🔬: @brukercorporation.bsky.social TruLive3D 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum! 🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social #Microscopy #DevBio

Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab! doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

Llegeix l'article sencer de @tzerhan29.bsky.social, Aboutaleb Amiri, Irene Seijo-Barandiaran, Michael F. Staddon, Anne Materne, Sandra Tomas, Charlie Duclut, @mrkppvc.bsky.social, @anne-grapin.bsky.social i Frank Jülicher aquí: 📄https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/PRXLife.2.033006

Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres

Spontaneous rotations of epithelial spheres reveals chiral tissue patterning mechanisms, showing the interplay between geometry, topology, and collective dynamics.

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Always great fun to brainstorm at our UCSD monthly biophysics forum - let's bring the intelligence into active matter

Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD@junlab.bsky.social · last yr.

@tzerhan29.bsky.social is giving our biophysics forum talk on his collaboration with Hongbo Zhao on… “intelligent robots”!

🧪⚛️ Textbooks: cell is a bag of weirdly shaped stuff. Reality: it's all moving & changing shape. Research on the endoplasmic reticulum by my colleagues Zuben Scott, Lena Koslover, Greg Huber and their experimental collaborators Laura Westrate & Samuel Sheen. scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

Scientists Develop Simple Model for an Intricate, Ever-Evolving Cell Structure

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital to cellular life, constantly reshapes and reorganizes itself. As a second-ye...

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When two grids with a twist make a pattern exist, that’s a moiré. Listen to this week's episode of Quanta Science Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Looking for a reading snack? Our work is featured as a @NaturePhysics research briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Optical control of an excitable enzyme circuit for engineering dynamic cell shapes - Nature Physics

Light-switchable enzymes hold great promise for mediating molecular activations in living cells, yet their full potential in realizing versatile controls in nonlinear networks remains unexplored. Now,...

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Glad to see this work finally out. Happy to have played a small part in this project with teams @fakhrilab.bsky.social @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social!

Erwin Frey@physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social · last yr.

In collaboration with @fakhrilab.bsky.social we show how cell shape can be controlled with light 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ramin Golestanian (Oxford & MPI Göttingen) visited us and gave an inspiring informal seminar yesterday. 🙏🏻

Four #SPLASHY talks from the lab for #APSphysics March meeting next week at Anaheim, from starfish embryos to robotic active matter - looking forward! #ApsDsoft #ApsDbio #PRX_Life

#standupforscience at UCSD!

APS March meeting coming up: the fun starts Sun 3/16 with Squishy Science Sunday!

Exciting opportunity at @CZBiohub SF! Join us as an Optical Scientist developing cutting-edge light-sheet microscopy to map vertebrate development. PhD in Optics/EE/Physics preferred. #ScienceJobs #Microscopy #BioImaging 🧪🔬💻 job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...

Stand up for science! Happening this Friday 3/7 - look up for local events near you : standupforscience2025.org most campus nationwide will organize, join if you can, make our voice heard, repost, organize! #standupforscience

It was great visiting UMich Ann Arbor and Wayne State University! Many thanks to @surajshankar.bsky.social and Zhi-feng for hosting. Great interactions and lots of new ideas to try