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![Let The Great World Spindle // Annoyed By Our Lack Of Background [20]](https://s3.castbox.fm/5a/29/1c/2db08624a4b6e210229ae910219ce8f87d_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Let The Great World Spindle // Annoyed By Our Lack Of Background [20]")
This week's paper is "Long-range repulsion between chromosomes in mammalian oocyte spindles" by Colm P. Kelleher, Yash P. Rana, and Daniel J. Needleman.Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq7540We made it to episode 20! Have a correction? Paper suggestion? Just reach out to us!
![Weekly Update [2]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20260215_110249_6402a549fe4774b1cb026cdc483e7bcd.png "Weekly Update [2]")
Weekly Update of Biophysics Papers for the Week of February 9th, 2026. View the list of papers at: https://bezialemma.com/LemmaJournalClub/PapersOfFeb09_2026.html Full Journal Club episodes have been moved to Wednesday!
![Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19]](https://s3.castbox.fm/5d/6f/64/1b86908399288dcda87588f931ddf5685e_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19]")
Our old format isn't going away, but this week we are covering all the papers that came out in Biophysics in the week of February 2nd, 2026! Let us know what you think of this. If people like it, we will either rotate this in every other episode (and cover two weeks), or rotate it in every Monday as it's own thing and move the weekly full Journal Club to Friday.
![Down and Out in Volvox and Algae // I Could Have Just Read This Paper [18]](https://s3.castbox.fm/25/4b/43/561e423ec2149300ae169f7d9d5078e722_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Down and Out in Volvox and Algae // I Could Have Just Read This Paper [18]")
This week's paper is "Dynamics of a Volvox Embryo Turning Itself Inside Out” by Stephanie Höhn, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pierre A. Haas, Philipp Khuc Trong, and Raymond E. GoldsteinPaper link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.178101Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClubYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos
![The Anoxiest Eye // This is Bez's Jam [17]](https://s3.castbox.fm/b5/18/da/c75f9bc123826d37d816c3082697239267_scaled_v1_400.jpg "The Anoxiest Eye // This is Bez's Jam [17]")
The paper is “Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten” by Christian Damsgaard, Mia Viuf Skøtt, Catherine J. A. Williams, Hans Malte, Camilla Kruse Kidmose, Morten Busk, Karin Dedek, Andreas H. Konradsen, Anne Sofie Stengel Rasmussen, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, Anna V. G. T. Mikkelsen, Katrine S. Johannsen, Mikkel Vendelbo, Niels Peter Revsbech, Coen P. H. Elemans, Henrik Mouritsen, Joanna Kalucka, Lin Lin, Nina Kerting Iversen, Tobias Wang, Henrik Lauridsen & Jens Randel NyengaardPaper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09978-wHave a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClubYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videosRSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xmlhttps://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577
![A Map of the Rubisco Kinetics // The Worst Episode We've Done [16]](https://s3.castbox.fm/f6/db/3c/4fcc59e363a620d088b23502ae70c2a061_scaled_v1_400.jpg "A Map of the Rubisco Kinetics // The Worst Episode We've Done [16]")
The paper is “A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape” by Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo & David F. SavagePaper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08455-0Episode titles are usually puns off songs or books, but in this case the paper title was already very close to a book! So it just changed a tiny bit.Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClubYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videosRSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xmlhttps://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577
![The Viral Chiral Twist // Our Scientific Aesthetics [15]](https://s3.castbox.fm/bb/cc/e4/1777d1e217eabea0c29002b9c83b71279b_scaled_v1_400.jpg "The Viral Chiral Twist // Our Scientific Aesthetics [15]")
“Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension” by Thomas Gibaud, Edward Barry, Mark J. Zakhary, Mir Henglin, Andrew Ward, Yasheng Yang, Cristina Berciu, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Michael F. Hagan, Daniela Nicastro, Robert B. Meyer & our PhD advisor: Zvonimir Dogic A community voted paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10769 selected from our 2025 Paper Draft.The Dogic Labs YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DogicLab/videosHave a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClubYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videosRSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xmlhttps://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577
![The Amazing Adventures of Trachea & Esophagus // Experimental bravery [14]](https://s3.castbox.fm/47/e9/95/9139eef4b98411b92611f53ef644b13415_scaled_v1_400.jpg "The Amazing Adventures of Trachea & Esophagus // Experimental bravery [14]")
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65644-9“Convergent flow-mediated mesenchymal force drives embryonic foregut constriction and splitting” by Rui Yan, Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Deng Li, ChangHee Lee, Hasreet K. Gill, Alessandro Mongera, Nandan L. Nerurkar, L. Mahadevan, and Clifford J. Tabin.Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClubYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaypDYWrdPrzD1-3Qh8CYQwRSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xmlhttps://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577
![Looking through a glass algae // Ghost-written by diatoms [13]](https://s3.castbox.fm/c1/bb/79/7f93f1c408652d3bc3e50bf994becf41c9_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Looking through a glass algae // Ghost-written by diatoms [13]")
Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01332-6“Diatom ultrastructural diversity across controlled and natural environments” by Serena Flori, Felix Mikus, Eliott Flaum, Kevin Moog, Sarah Guessoum, Thomas Beavis, Soraya M. Zwahlen, Inés Romero-Brey, Viola Oorshot, Marine Olivetta, Melissa Steele-Ogus, Ellen Yeh, the whole Mobile Labs Team, Omaya Dudin, Yannick Schwab, Gautam Dey, and Flora VincentLast call to vote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226
![The Cells My Destination // Our Understanding Is Limited [12]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251221_051228_dfec0885d040425634039ce78a1a2f20.png "The Cells My Destination // Our Understanding Is Limited [12]")
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1495“Quantum imaging of biological organisms through spatial and polarization entanglement” by Yide Zhang, Zhe He, Xin Tong, David C. Garrett, Rui Ca , and Lihong V. Wang Vote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226
![A Cycle of One’s Own // A Necessary and Sufficient Podcast [11]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251215_121203_648a3d3ea80fa3168596bbe1ddf21dd0.png "A Cycle of One’s Own // A Necessary and Sufficient Podcast [11]")
Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01031-0“Cytoplasmic division cycles without the nucleus and mitotic CDK/cyclin complexes” by Anand Bakshi, Fabio Echegaray Iturra, Andrew Alamban, Miquel Rosas-Salvans, Sophie Dumont, and Mustafa G. AydoganVote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226Check out Preprints in Motion's interview with the authors of this paper: https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/2022/10/05/divide-and-conquer-cytoplasmic-divisions-without-nuclei/
![How The Flytrap Snap // Saturday Night Fever Pizza [10]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251206_081247_a0ebe4b583482d844004904da19861e8.png "How The Flytrap Snap // Saturday Night Fever Pizza [10]")
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03185“How the Venus flytrap snaps” by Yoël Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais & L. MahadevanNew episodes Mondays!
![Nothing Is Simple and Alone // Julia is a Performative Language [9]](https://s3.castbox.fm/fb/c6/1e/27886e932cb07b4ed6639c40f20d2f2f5b_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Nothing Is Simple and Alone // Julia is a Performative Language [9]")
Book Link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo207283773.html“Performance All The Way Down” by Richard PrumNew episodes Mondays!
![Experimental Chicken Attractors // Non-AI Podcasters [8]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251123_101121_fb5c21b7dc80c98456da80dee6bd43c9.png "Experimental Chicken Attractors // Non-AI Podcasters [8]")
Journal Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn5429 "Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviors in the chick embryo" by Manli Chuai, Guillermo Serrano Nájera, Mattia Serra, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Cornelis J. WeijerNew episodes Mondays!
![The (in vitro) Pearl // No-Uh Dinners [7]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251116_071138_98bbc79824bc839b4131f6585df3a436.png "The (in vitro) Pearl // No-Uh Dinners [7]")
Episode #7. The paper is "Pearling of Lipid Vesicles Induced by Nanoparticles" by Yan Yu and Steve Granick.New episodes Mondays! Journal Pubs uploaded every other Friday on Patreon. You can give us feedback at bezia.lemma@gmail.com or in person or in the comments section of our Patreon/Youtube channel.Check out the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja905900h
![The Pictures of Vascular Aging in Gray // Plasmalemmal Journal Club [6]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251108_031150_189535176cea43254efb739e81b55027.png "The Pictures of Vascular Aging in Gray // Plasmalemmal Journal Club [6]")
Episode #6. The paper is "Mechanisms of skin vascular maturation and maintenance captured by longitudinal imaging of live mice" by Chen Yuan Kam, Ishani D. Singh, David G. Gonzalez, Catherine Matte-Martone, Paloma Solá, Guiomar Solanas, Júlia Bonjoch, Edward Marsh, Karen K. Hirschi and Valentina Greco.New episodes Mondays! You can give us feedback at bezia.lemma@gmail.com or in the comments section of our (free!) Patreon or Youtube upload. Journal Pubs uploaded every other Friday on the Youtube/Patreon.Check out the paper here: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00413-0
Episode #5. The paper is "Volumetric imaging of the 3D orientation of cellular structures with a polarized fluorescence light-sheet microscope" by Talon Chandler, Min Guo, Yijun Su, Jiji Chen, Yicong Wu, Junyu Liu, Atharva Agashe, Robert S. Fischer, Shalin B. Mehta, Abhishek Kumar, Tobias I. Baskin, Valentin Jaumouillé, Huafeng Liu, Vinay Swaminathan, Amrinder S. Nain, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Patrick J. La Riviere, and Hari Shroff.Alt title we considered was "The Anisotropic Shining" . New episodes Mondays! You can give us feedback at bezia.lemma@gmail.com or in the comments section of our (free!) Patreon or Youtube upload. Journal Pubs uploaded every other Friday on the (free!!) Patreon.Check out the paper here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406679122
![When algal CO2 goes low, mitochondria go bye // Sparging [4]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251025_021008_c9d55d6037fccb4705616e372ae084b4.png "When algal CO2 goes low, mitochondria go bye // Sparging [4]")
Episode #4. The paper is "Dramatic changes in mitochondrial subcellular location and morphology accompany activation of the CO2 concentrating mechanism" by Justin Findinier, Lydia-Marie Joubert, Neda Fakhimi, Michael F. Schmid, Andrey V. Malkovskiy, Wah Chiu, Adrien Burlacot, and Arthur R. Grossman.Check out the paper here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407548121
![Of Apicoplasts and Mitochondria in Malaria // Ball attached to a Banana [2]](https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/ep_cover_20251012_111022_a6b0511435a9e7127e6f57ffbbfbc408.png "Of Apicoplasts and Mitochondria in Malaria // Ball attached to a Banana [2]")
Episode 2. The paper is "Cellular Hallmarks From Volume Electron Microscopy Reveal Developmental Progression of Plasmodium Ookinetes" by Nedal Darif, Marco Rheinnecker, Kolja Hildenbrand, Thanat Chookajorn, Lilian P. Dorner, Jean-Karim Hériché, Sara Henriksson, Charlotta Funaya, Franziska Hentzschel, Linda Sandblad, Oliver Billker, Yannick Schwab, and Friedrich Frischknecht.Check out the full paper here: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202508250
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