News

  • Preprint ‘Methods and measures for investigating microscale motility’ available on arXiv.
  • Preprint ‘Ciliary propulsion and metachronal coordination in reef coral larvae’ available on BioRxiv.
  • Our paper ‘Phenotyping single-cell motility in microfluidic confinement’ is out in eLife.
  • Preprint ‘Distinct gaits of self-propelled quadriflagellate microswimmers’, available on biorxiv.
  • Our paper ‘Control of helical navigation by three-dimensional flagellar beating‘ is out in PRL as an Editors’ Suggestion!
  • New ERC project to study motility in brainless organisms!
  • 2021 Early career research award from the Biochemical Society
  • Special issue: On the Unity & Diversity of Cilia published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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UPCOMING INVITED TALKS/WORKSHOPS

  • Physics of Living Matter 17, Sept 2023
  • EMBO-EMBL Symposium, Theory and concepts in biology, July 2023
  • EMBO-EMBL Symposium, Life at the periphery: mechanobiology of the cell surface, June 2023
  • UCSD qBio seminar (virtual), May 2023
  • Seminar, MPI-PKS, Dresden, May 2023
  • Mathematical Biology Seminar, University of Bath, Mar 2023
  • Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary interactions, Gordon Conference, Feb 2023
  • Motility and mechanics, University of Bristol, Dec 2022
  • Cell biology seminar, University of Leeds, Nov 2022
  • Phymot workshop, Paris, Nov 2022
  • Conference on ethological dynamics in a diorama environment, Kyoto, Oct 2022
  • Workshop on microbial communities, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Oct 2022
  • Fluid Dynamics seminar, Imperial College London, July 2022
  • Symposium on single and collective cell Motility, College de France, June 2022, [recording]
  • Numbers & Nature, MIT Feigenbaum Symposium, June 2022, [recording]
  • 6th Microscale Ocean biophysics meeting 6.0, May 2022
  • B-CUBE hour, TU Dresden, May 2022
  • NorthWest Seminar series in Mathematical Biology, University of Liverpool, Apr 2022
  • DAMTP Fluids Seminar, Mar 2022

RECENT

  • Motility in microbes, molecules and matter (IoP conference), Dec 2021
  • Physics seminar, Fudan University, Dec 2021
  • Guest lecturer, MSCA-ITA ActiveMatter, Sept 2021, virtual
  • Mechanics in physiological systems, 4D cellular physiology workshop, Janelia, June 2021, [recording]
  • Symposium, SMB 2021 Annual Meeting, June 2021, virtual
  • Mathematical biology seminar, Melbourne University, May 2021, virtual
  • Colloquium, Macquarie university, May 2021, virtual
  • SynthSys seminar, University of Edinburgh, Apr 2021, virtual
  • Dynamic Cell IV (Biochemical Society/BSCB): Award Lecture, virtual, Mar 2021
  • University of Western Ontario, Departmental seminar, virtual, Mar 2021
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich, theoretical physics of living matter seminar, virtual, 28 Jan 2021
  • Hong Kong University, Departmental seminar, virtual, 14 Dec 2020
  • APS DFD, Virtual 22-24 Nov 2020, [conference][abstract]
  • Cell Biology Journal Club, University of Denver, virtual seminar, Oct 2020
  • MIT Physical Maths seminar, virtual seminar, Oct 2020
  • Bioactive fluids seminar series, Virtual Meeting, Sept 2020
  • Choanoflagellates and friends, Virtual Meeting, May 2020
  • BSCB Cilia Meeting, e-Symposia series 1, Apr 2020
  • Marine Biological Association seminar, 15 Jan 2020
  • CPLC Colloquium, University of Illinois, 10 Jan, 2020
  • SICB 2020, 3-7 Jan 2020, [conference] [abstract]
  • MPI-CBG, Dresden, 22 Nov 2019
  • Fluids & Materials seminar, University of Bristol, 14 Nov 2019
  • 3rd UKFN Biofluids meeting, University of Warwick, 12-13 Sept 2019
  • Microswimmers Seminar, TU Dresden, 22 May 2019
  • 2nd International ICMM Workshop on Mathematical Modelling, University of Loughborough
  • Interdisciplinary Challenges in Non-Equilibrium Physics, Higgs Centre, Edinburgh, 10-13 Apr 2019
  • Co-organiser, Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transport, Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, 18-19 Mar 2019, [meeting website] [special issue]
  • APS March Meeting, Boston, 3-8 May 2019, [conference][abstract]
  • Physics seminar, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 28 Dec 2018
  • Frontiers in Cytoskeleton seminar, Tsinghua University, China, 26 Dec 2018
  • GAFD Seminar, University of Exeter, 10 Dec 2018
  • Biophysics Seminar, University of Massachusettes Medical School, 1 Aug 2018
  • Physics Seminar, Brown University, 30-July 2018
  • 1st Symposium of the GW4 community: “Microfluidics and modelling for investigating cellular heterogeneity”, 7-8 June 2018, [conference]
  • Mathematical biology and ecology, University of Oxford, 11 May 2018
  • Stanford university, 12-Mar 2018
  • Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, 2 Mar 2018
  • Princeton University, 1 Mar 2018
  • Condensed Soft Matter Research, New York University, 28 Feb 2018
  • MPI-DS, Göttingen, 16 Feb 2018
  • Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 19 Feb 2018
  • KNAW biophysics seminar, Amsterdam, 30 Jan 2018
  • LadHyX-École polytechnique, Paris, 7 Dec 2017

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