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How The Flytrap Snap // Saturday Night Fever Pizza [10]08 Dec 202500:36:50

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]01 Dec 202500:41:16

Book Link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo207283773.html

“Performance All The Way Down” by Richard Prum

New episodes Mondays!

The (in vitro) Pearl // No-Uh Dinners [7]17 Nov 202500:33:59

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]10 Nov 202500:44:38

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

Something Polarized This Way Comes // PolSheet Swan Song? [5]03 Nov 202500:39:13

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]27 Oct 202500:39:56

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]12 Oct 202500:32:53

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

Experimental Chicken Attractors // Non-AI Podcasters [8]24 Nov 202500:40:47

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

New episodes Mondays!

Bubbly Vertex Model // Where the Podcast Ends [32]27 May 202600:40:20

Paper Link: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/x82g-cq7n

Paper: Cell Bulging and Extrusion in a Three-Dimensional Bubbly Vertex Model for Curved Epithelial Sheets

By: Oliver M. Drozdowski, Büşra Kocameşe-Tamgac𝚤, Kim E. Boonekamp, Michael Boutros, Ulrich S. Schwarz

Byeeeee!

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The Brief History Of The Ribosome // The Aging Journal Club [31]06 May 202600:53:30

Paper Link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710403v1

Paper: Ribosome Molecular Aging Shapes Translation Dynamics

By: Jordy F. Botello, Lifei Jiang, Peter J. Metzger, Troy J. Comi, Aya A. Abu-Alfa, Qiwei Yu, Margaret S. Ebert, Minkyu Lee, Lennard W. Wiesner, Maya Butani, Claire J. Weaver, Andrej Košmrlj, Ileana M. Cristea, and Clifford P. Brangwynne

What do you think about the terminology and concept of molecular aging?

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The Anoxiest Condensate // People From Our House [22]04 Mar 202600:48:08

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]25 Feb 202600:36:09

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]18 Feb 202600:46:44

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

We made it to episode 20! Have a correction? Paper suggestion? Just reach out to us!

Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19]09 Feb 202600:26:35

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]02 Feb 202600:40:08

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]26 Jan 202600:44:26

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]19 Jan 202600:37:59

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

Episode 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.

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The Viral Chiral Twist // Our Scientific Aesthetics [15]12 Jan 202600:50:39

“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]05 Jan 202600:53:59

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]29 Dec 202500:44:05

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

Change It Up // Back to The First Episode [30]29 Apr 202600:23:56
The Cells My Destination // Our Understanding Is Limited [12]22 Dec 202500:44:30

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]15 Dec 202500:58:21

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/

Weekly Update [2]16 Feb 202600:06:56

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!

We Need to Talk About Entropy // In The Actomyosin Dialect [29]22 Apr 202600:43:49
The Two Cytoskeletal Problem // Asynchronous Defense [28]15 Apr 202601:02:41

Paper is "Active assembly and non-reciprocal dynamics of elastic membranes" by John Berezney, Sattvic Ray, Itamar Kolvin as coauthors, and Fridtjof Brauns, Sihan Chen, Mark Bowick , Seth Fraden, Vincenzo Vitelli & Zvonimir Dogic.

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Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03215-5

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The Kinesin That Knew Too Much // Szilard's Dæmon [27]08 Apr 202600:49:02
Moby Rockfish // The Hypothesis Generator [26]01 Apr 202600:52:34

The paper is "Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg5332

Host 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. Sudmant

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The Path Between the Cells // Leica's Name in Lights [25]25 Mar 202600:58:23

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

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The Cyanobacteria Cycle // @ APS March Meeting [24]18 Mar 202600:20:11
Field of Cilia // 100 Lives [23]11 Mar 202600:44:58

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

Do you have a way to copy the author list without having to delete all these stupid little numbers and stars?

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