@softbiocol.bsky.social
Soft BioColloids Lab @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social Led by @lauraal.bsky.social Out-of-equilibrium soft matter, synthetic cells and microgravity https://softbiocoll.com
👉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
02.12.2025 08:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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 :)
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👇
🎨🔬 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
Congratulations!!! 🥳
08.07.2025 06:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not a promise, tho, a fact! :D
02.07.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are working on it!
02.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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!👇
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
📄 Run-and-tumble dynamics of active giant vesicles
Vivien Willem, Daniel Matoz-Fernandez, Gianna Wolifsberg, Eric R. Dufresne, @baretjc.bsky.social
@lauraal.bsky.social
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social
🧵 Thanks for reading!
#SoftMatter #ActiveMatter #Biophysics
Why it’s exciting:
- First time showing tunable run-and-tumble behavior in synthetic, soft lipid vesicles systems
- Reorientation is membrane-driven
- Behavior is encoded in lipid composition and electric field
During "tumbles", the membrane reconfigures, disrupting the Janus asymmetry.
The vesicle stops, loses directionality, then resumes motion in a new direction after phase structure recovers.
This is driven by field-induced membrane fluidity and tension.
These giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) have coexisting liquid-ordered and disordered lipid domains.
Under AC fields, asymmetric EHD flows along the membrane generate propulsion—as long as the Janus structure is intact.
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
Frequency acts as a selector:
🔻Low freq → dipolar-driven networks
🔺High freq → standing rods, disconnection
Voltage tunes “stickiness.” Electric fields as on-demand glue.
#Percolation #Electrokinetics
🧲🧪 Field-tunable networks of colloidal rods!
AC fields induce reversible 2D percolated networks at area fractions below theoretical thresholds—dipolar attraction beats excluded volume. #SoftMatter #Colloids #SelfAssembly
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!
📻 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...
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
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!
09.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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...
