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Thomas Day

@thomas_day_

Forever a student. Always seeking to learn more about the world.

 Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2021
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We have a new preprint, showing that living systems can entangle in ways non-living systems can’t. In non-living systems, entanglement only occurs under specific geometric regimes. Not so for growing systems! Given time, most geometries can entangle. doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.13.5…
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Check out this beautiful gif of a snowflake yeast growing on the TomoCube taken by Andrea Herman. Dot in the upper left is a 10um bead, used to make a thin chamber. @tomocubeinc @MBLScience #Physio23
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Peer-reviewed version in @NatureComms of our (@yashraj_chavhan @SutirthDey) paper on experimental evolution of bacterial multicellularity by genetic assimilation of phenotypically plastic cell clustering nature.com/articles/s41467-0… Don't miss the new supplementary movies!
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Hi folks, we have a new preprint out on the #MuLTEE, examining the molecular basis of multicellular evolution. We found that an ancient protein folding system, Hsp90, can be tuned to drive rapid convergent multicellular evolution. 1/24 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Very excited our recent work with Daniel Fisher and @BhayaDevaki on long-term coevolution of natural cyanobacteria is up on bioRxiv. Instead of diverging into specialist strains, we find different species slowly merge on timescales of 100k years. (1/n) doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.06.5…
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Wow, this is a pretty incredible find! Looking forward to hearing more about if the interpretations of these discoveries holds up as more work is done. newscientist.com/article/237…
Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead | New Scientist

Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead | New Scientist

New discoveries suggest that Homo naledi, an ancient and primitive hominin, may have displayed complex behaviour despite its small brain

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Perspective: Proliferating active matter By @ohallats, Sujit S. Datta @TheSquishyLab, @knutdrescher, Jörn Dunkel, Jens Elgeti, Bartek Waclaw & Ned S. Wingreen rdcu.be/ddqwS
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The flock dynamics of sheep being guided through a gate with the assistance of sheep dogs. 📹 rural.riley via TikTok
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A journey of a lot of collaboration, hard work and microscope time has just been published in Nature! Congrats to these folks, I am incredibly lucky to be a part of this project. @wc_ratcliff @ozan_g_b @YunkerLab @dahaj1897 and others I missed. Article: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

Nature - After 600 rounds of selection, anaerobic snowflake yeast evolved to be macroscopic, becoming around 20,000 times larger (approximately mm scale) and about 10,000-fold more biophysically...

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Please join us on Friday August 12 at 11 Eastern US time for a tutorial and research talk by Prof. Peter Yunker of Georgia Tech on the evolution of multicellularity. Please send us a direct message if you are not on the mailing list for the Zoom info and would like to be added.
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New Featured Review from BPR: @wc_ratcliff, @GTPhysics aippub.org/3zSJ2vx
Varied solutions to multicellularity: The biophysical and evolutionary consequences of diverse...

Varied solutions to multicellularity: The biophysical and evolutionary consequences of diverse...

The diversity of multicellular organisms is, in large part, due to the fact that multicellularity has independently evolved many times. Nonetheless, multicellul

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🌍 February's most-read Physics of Living Systems paper draws on ideas from granular physics to offer new insight into universal rules of multicellular geometry: elifesciences.org/articles/7… Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: elifesciences.org/about/aims…
Cross-section of a multicellular yeast organism showing branching connections between nodes

ALT Cross-section of a multicellular yeast organism showing branching connections between nodes

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New paper out in @eLife today, led by grad student @thomas_day_ and @YunkerLab, in collaboration with Ray Goldstein, Stephanie Hohn, and a number of others from our three groups. elifesciences.org/articles/7…
Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law

Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law

The distributions of cellular neighborhood volumes in two very different multicellular species - snowflake yeast and Volvox carteri - are found to obey a common functional form arising from maximum...

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Frank Rosenzweig and I are co-organizing sessions on experimental evolution and the evolution of multicellularity for the 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference #AbSciCon If you work on either of these topics, please submit an abstract by Jan. 19, 2022! 🦠🔬🌍🔭
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Science Community Alert: Abstract submissions for the 2021 Astrobiology Science Conference (#AbSciCon) is now open! Join @NASA and @theAGU as we facilitate a gathering of scientists in Atlanta, Georgia & online May 15-20, 2022. astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/s…
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New preprint up with @ozan_g_b and @kai_tong_mc25, examining the selective drivers of simple multicellularity. As might be expected, there are many reasons to be multicellular. This figure does a pretty good job of summarizing what we know! preprints.org/manuscript/202…
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Well, this has been a long-awaited day- the first paper on our multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) is on the BioRxiv. Ever wonder how simple multicellular organisms evolve to become larger and more complex over thousands of gens? 1/35 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Yunker Lab@YunkerLab30 Jul 2021
We (@thomas_day_, @dahaj1897, @dayan1406, @TonyBurnetti, @wc_ratcliff, Stephanie Hohn, and Ray Goldstein) have a new preprint on universal packing statistics in multicellularity. We also explain what multicellularity shares with piles of sand! (1/N) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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