Just published in @science.org 🚀 By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes. A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials! 🫆 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My personal high point of #APSSummit2026

New publication alert! We use theory and experiment to demonstrate that glassy adhesion dynamics can predict anomalous migration on viscoelastic substrates. Grateful to have worked with Vivek Sharma, Ze Gong, Ovijit Chaudhuri, and Vivek B Shenoy 🙏 ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💡 Have you ever wondered how #circulating #tumor cells squeeze through narrow #capillaries during hashtag#metastasis ? 💥 We did, check out our latest publication just out #NatureMaterials: rdcu.be/eZHxJ

Our review article is now available in Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics: “Full-Integer Topological Defects in Polar Active Matter.” @luizaangheluta.bsky.social @emmalaang.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Best paper title?: “How to make a new nose for someone when it is off entirely and the dog has eaten it”—c.1460 von Pfalzpaint. I talk noses: @npr.org Shortwave (Regina Barber) tinyurl.com/23dvwzmv Video of my nightclub version @oddsalon.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4snnacs3 #storiesmatter (my art)

Saraswathibhatla lab is open for business!!

Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧵 with pressure control, multiscale buckling, controlled wrinkling

Thank you for highlighting our preprint, Sharvari!! @prelights.bsky.social

Preprint alert! Excited to share this manuscript from my PhD which aims to answer an age-old question. Does size matter? For fat cells, or adipocytes, the answer seems to be yes. We found that larger adipocytes promote aggressive behavior in breast cancer cells. 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

REPOSTING this here just to officially leave "the other place" Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration during #morphogenesis is out @naturematerials.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding the physics of our foods can inform the design of future foods - plant-based or otherwise! Check out the article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Someone awesome in my circle shared some terrific news with me today but was hesitant to do so because of all that is going on in the science world. It may appear insensitive that you are celebrating when other colleagues are struggling but I entreat you to celebrate & share good news. 1/

Despite the current uncertainty of being a scientist, I am excited to share our manuscript demonstrating an interesting mechanism of how swirling motion of breast cancer cells align collagen fibers radially at the tumor-stroma interface to enable their invasion (1/11) @thechaudhurilab.bsky.social

Our latest paper providing a biophysical mechanism of collagen fiber alignment that enables collective invasion in breast cancer!