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The paper is "Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg5332Host Linnea and Guest Host Megan!Paper by Sree Rohit Raj Kolora, Gregory L. Owens, Juan Manuel Vazquez, Alexander Stubbs, Conner Jainese, Katelin Seeto, Merit McCrea, Michael W. Sandel, Juliana A. Vianna, Katherine Maslenikov, Doris Bachtrog, James W. Orr, Milton Love, Peter H. SudmantCatch us on: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
Paper is: "Combining sophisticated fast FLIM, confocal microscopy, and STED nanoscopy for live-cell imaging of tunneling nanotubes" by Magalie Bénard, Christophe Chamot, Damien Schapman, Aurélien Debonne, Alexis Lebon, Fatéméh Dubois,Guénaëlle Levallet, Hitoshi Komuro, and Ludovic Galas Paper link: https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/7/7/e202302398Catch us on: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 paper is "Life cycle of a cyanobacterial carboxysome" by Nicholas Hill, Jian Wei Tay, Sabina Altus, David Bortz, and Jeffrey Cameron. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba1269#supplementary-materialsCatch us on: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 paper is Novel analytical tools reveal that local synchronization of cilia coincides with tissue-scale metachronal waves in zebrafish multiciliated epithelia by Christa Ringers, Stephan Bialonski, Mert Ege, Anton Solovev, Jan Niklas Hansen, Inyoung Jeong, Benjamin M Friedrich, and Nathalie Jurisch- Yaksi. https://elifesciences.org/articles/77701Do you have a way to copy the author list without having to delete all these stupid little numbers and stars?Catch us on: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 paper is Oxygen depletion in biomolecular condensates is dominated by macromolecular density by Ankush Garg, Christopher Brasnett, Siewert J. Marrink, Klaus Koren & Magnus Kjaergaard. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69376-2Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments!Catch us on: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
This week's paper is "Active Solids: Topological Defect Self-Propulsion Without Flow" by Fridtjof Brauns, Myles O’Leary, Arthur Hernandez, Mark J. Bowick, and M. Cristina Marchetti.Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/xv94-xpz2Have a correction? Paper suggestion? Just reach out to us!
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 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!
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.
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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/
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03185“How the Venus flytrap snaps” by Yoël Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais & L. MahadevanNew episodes Mondays!
Book Link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo207283773.html“Performance All The Way Down” by Richard PrumNew episodes Mondays!
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!


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