The Lemma Journal Club
Field of Cilia // 100 Lives [23]
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/77701
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The Anoxiest Condensate // People From Our House [22]
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/s41467-026-69376-2
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Introduction to Active Nematic Solid Physics// Hydra hydra hydra [21]
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-xpz2
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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.adq7540
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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]
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]
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. Goldstein
Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.178101
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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 Nyengaard
Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09978-w
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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. Savage
Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08455-0
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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.
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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.
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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 Vincent
Last 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]
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
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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. Aydogan
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Check 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]
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03185
“How the Venus flytrap snaps” by Yoël Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais & L. Mahadevan
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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 Prum
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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. Weijer
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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.
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Check out the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja905900h
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.
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Check out the paper here: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00413-0
Something Polarized This Way Comes // PolSheet Swan Song? [5]
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.
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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
Mitochondria with a Pearling // What does the laser do? [3]
Episode #3. The paper is "The biophysical mechanism of mitochondrial pearling" by Gabriel Sturm1, Kayley Hake , Austin Lefebvre , Caleb Rux , Daria Ivanova , Alfred Millett-Sikking, Kevin Tharp, Beiduo Rao, Michael Closser, Adam Waite, Magdalena Precido-Lopez, Sophie Dumont, Wen Lu, Suliana Manley, Juan Landoni, and Wallace Marshall.
Check out the full terrific paper here: https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-06-0302
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
