This July, graduate student Julia Giannini attended the 2022 Boulder summer school for condensed matter and materials physics, ‘Hydrodynamics cross scales.’ Our poster, entitled ‘Defects and deformation in disordered solids with pressure gradients,’ made it to the top of Flagstaff mountain!

Lab Data Management Specialist at Syracuse University The Manning research lab (https://mmanning.expressions.syr.edu/ ) at Syracuse University is looking to hire a full-time Data Management Specialist.  We’re looking for an individual with a bachelor’s degree in library & information science, information management technology, or a related field to help us manage the data our research lab…

Well, the pandemic put quite a damper on us publishing group news on our website. Despite appearances, since the last post we’ve published a lot of exciting work. Congratulations to all of our students, postdocs, and collaborators on making progress in difficult times! Here’s the 8 papers that we’ve published in the last year or…

Congratulations to Dr. Preeti Sahu, who successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Fluidization and Segregation in Confluent Models for Biological Tissues” on August 4th!  

Congratulations to Dr. Ethan Stanifer, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Investigating the relationships between disorder, structure, and dynamics in amorphous systems” on June 25th!

As a research lab, we have taken time away from work for #shutdownSTEM and Juneteenth reflect on how we can actively promote anti-racism. We must start by acknowledging that BlackLivesMatter and that systemic racism negatively impacts people of color in many ways, including raising significant barriers that impede them as they perform scientific research and progress…

A great collaboration with Karen Kasza’s group at Columbia has led to a paper we’re excited about that just appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our former REU (research experiences for undergraduates) student Leo Sutter is a co-author, as are former postdocs Matthias Merkel and Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan. Here’s a link to a…

Former postdoctoral associate Peter Morse, former graduate student Sven Wijtmans, and Lisa Manning worked with Martin Van Hecke’s lab to understand how contact changes correlate with plasticity in jammed soft spheres.  We found that contact changes are not one-to-one with plastic events, even in the limit of zero pressure. This is interesting because in hard…

Former postdoctoral associate Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan and Lisa Manning worked with Heidi Hehnly’s lab (SU Biology) and Jeff Amack’s lab (SUNY Upstate Cell and Developmental Biology) to understand cytokinetic bridges that occur during formation of Kupffer’s vesicle, the organ responsible for left-right symmetry breaking in zebrafish. The manuscript recently appeared in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15002-8

Our paper, “Glassy dynamics in models of confluent tissue with mitosis and apoptosis” just appeared in Soft Matter. Michael Czajkowski,   Daniel M. Sussman,  M. Cristina Marchetti   and  M. Lisa Manning Recent work on particle-based models of tissues has suggested that any finite rate of cell division and cell death is sufficient to fluidize an epithelial…