How do active processes affect polymer conformations? I first began studying this question using linear response theory, and long thought that more general models could only be tackled with simulations. Turns out I was wrong: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... (1/8) #active #chromatin #folding #biophysics

Do different regions in the cell nucleus find each other by random motion or is there a directed component? In short: likely both. Below, I summarize a few predictions from a recently updated preprint from last June: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... (1/9) #biophysics #theory #active #chromatin #condensates

(1/3) I am setting up shop and will be hiring #PostDocs & #PhD students to join my independent theory group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social‬) and the Lower Saxony Center for AI and Causal Methods in Medicine.