Theoretical Biophysics

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria Noise in bacterial stress responses is often dismissed as mere randomness. While true stochasticity exists, much variation reflects hidden variables—cell state, history, and microenvironment—that are ...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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This was a fun generalized modelling project with @janamassing.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @jdyeakel.bsky.social. Bacteria really need generalized models to make the maths fit properly.

This paper has now been published in PRX Life! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

In this work I developed a scaling theory for spiking neural populations using a renormalization group approach -- the 1st, to my knowledge, applied to models of spiking neurons. See the thread for a brief summary.

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Steinwachs, J., Metzner, C., Skodzek, K. et al. Three-dimensional force microscopy of cells in biopolymer networks. Nat Methods 13, 171–176 (2016). #EpithelialMechanics
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The eighth session of YBM is coming up next week. Join us for two exciting talks on Monday (2nd February 2026) at 11am (EST). Mark your calendars🗓️: tinyurl.com/29b7yk47 Zoom Meeting link: sites.google.com/view/theoret...

Three fantastic speakers lined up: Wenhui Tang, Aniruddha N (anirudd98.bsky.social), Vaibhav Anand (vaianand.bsky.social).

TULIP Summer School 2026
Applications are OPEN ✅

“Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems”
will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️

Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology

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Exciting postdoc opportunity in theoretical biology, working on sex differences in immunity as part of a new interdisciplinary consortium. Deadline is at the end of February, so there's still time to apply! #academicjobs #postdoc #theoreticalbiology #immunity #sexdifferences #lifehistorytheory

We have the list of amazing speakers for the Population Dynamics virtual seminars 2026!

Soon the calendar with the dates!

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Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions.

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In this paper, we combined theory and experiments to study how stress can induce cooperation, and how this cooperation can promote tolerance under resource limitation.

* * Stress doesn’t always break systems — sometimes it reorganizes them.

Kudos to @maximelca.bsky.social @lgajo.bsky.social Arsham Ghavasieh & Federico Battiston for this international/cross-labs collaboration.

#NetworkScience #ComplexSystems

Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...