- New preprint ‘Phenotyping single-cell motility in microfluidic confinement’ 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
- Symposium on single and collective cell Motility, College de France, June 2022
- Numbers & Nature, MIT Feigenbaum Symposium, June 2022
- 6th Microscale Ocean biophysics meeting 6.0, May 2022
- NorthWest Seminar series in Mathematical Biology, Apr 2022
- DAMTP Fluids Seminar, Mar 2022
- Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary interactions, Gordon Conference (postponed t0 2023)
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
IMPACT & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
- Interviewed for Quanta Magazine about Trichoplax cilia
- Chlamy paper in the university news.
- Recent articles in ScienceNews and in Science et Avenir featured our work on protist gaits.
- New ERC Starting Grant featured in the university news.
- Acted as external consultant for piece in SPIE on swimming microrobots, 1 Oct 2019
- LSI Open Night, 20 June 2019 [see #LSIOpenNight]
- An article in PLUS-magazine about our work: “synchronized swimming”, 22 Mar 2019
- Pint of Science, “Mini-me! Flies, yeast, algae and you.“, 15 May 2018
- IMA seminar (Scottish Branch), University of Glasgow, 2 Nov 2017
- Cambridge Science Festival/DAMTP Open Day (2013, 2015, 2017), in collaboration with François Peaudecerf (see photo on the right).
- Article in Magdalene Matters (Issue 41, May 2015): heart of the flagellum beat.
Kirsty Y. Wan 