Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Biophysicist who loves Actin & Stentor. Prof. Shashank Shekhar @EmoryUniversity🇺🇸 Prev:@BrandeisU🇺🇸, @MblScience🇺🇸, @CNRS🇫🇷,@UTwente🇳🇱, Loyola 🇮🇳
📢Excited to share our new paper in @NaturePhysics : Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s4156…?
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Happy to share my recent clipboard article link.springer.com/article/10.100… Thanks to @Kavita_Babu_ and @WormlockHolmes for giving me this wonderful opportunity! #germline #mechanics #cellmorphogenesis #Organleveldynamics
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The Microtubule Network meeting at CDFD Hyderabad on 15th July 2025 #shwetatyagi #cdfd #iithyderabad #bt_iith
Presenting our lab's first PhD graduate, Dr. Heidi Ulrichs! 🎉🎓 Congratulations @Heidis_Cells! @EmoryUniversity @emorycollege

We're looking for creating engineers/tinkerers/tool builders that want to engage with cutting-edge research questions. Please help me share the word!
A must read for young scientists! A career in science requires a thick skin. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
A vital and very enjoyable component of my academic work is teaching students at all levels how to extend the frontiers of knowledge. So I’m pleased to announce a set of Jupyter notebook tutorials organized around our ideas for “physics of behavior”: github.com/oist/Physics-o…
Do you work on myofibrils? If so, we have a new #specialissue in #CYTOSKELETON that we are putting together! "Assembly and Maintenance of Myofibrils" Submission deadline is Nov. 1, 2025. It is #Free to publish in CYTOSKELETON.
Actin ❤️ @iiscbangalore Physics, biochemistry and cell biology of actin!! From my friends @syncellbiolab @SumantraSarkar @Sudha__Kumari
Actin's role in muscle contraction is well-known. But this protein also has lesser-known roles in immune cell activation, neuron signalling & cancer cell growth. IISc scientists are using a variety of approaches to understand these processes. kernel.iisc.ac.in/build-break-an… #IIScresearch
Super excited to share our latest work on visualising actin networks through ultrastructure expansion microscopy. A major leap towards high-resolution visualisation of the actin cytoskeleton. Grateful to @syncellbiolab and @anubhav_dhar for giving me this opportunity!
Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhav_dhar in collab with @Sudiya14 @deepak_iisc #actin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Actin ❤️
Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhav_dhar in collab with @Sudiya14 @deepak_iisc #actin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🎉🎉We’re on the cover of @NaturePhysics!! Here is the original paper nature.com/articles/s4156…

Ritika and Narendar presented their work on condensates and DNA phase transitions, respectively, at the Clemson University 2025 postdoctoral Symposium. A rich opportunity to learn about all kinds of cool science and exchange ideas!
We are excited to announce the Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting on Spatial Organizations of Biological Functions to be held in Bangalore, India, October 20 – 25, 2025. buff.ly/viYkGGe
✨Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes Fantastic piece by @jack_tamisiea on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wc_ratcliff! Read the feature ✨🔗 nytimes.com/2025/03/31/sci…
Another fantastic study on multicellularity, this time from my buddy @Archaeon_Alex! Congratulations Alex! Bravo 👏👏
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea @Archaeon_Alex @BrandeisLS | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…