Nikta Fakhri
@FakhriLab
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Associate Professor @MIT_Physics @MIT
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2015
Very excited this work is out in @NaturePhysics. A wonderful collaboration between my group @MIT and @PhysOfLifeLMU.
Optogenetically induced chemo-mechanical excitations are used to drive and study shape deformations in starfish oocytes. Understanding and eventually controlling such waves is important for the development of synthetic cells. https://t.co/F6DKoijE3k
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Congratulations to my colleague, Mehran Kardar, who is the recipient of 2026 Lars Onsager Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to statistical physics. @MIT @ScienceMIT @APSphysics
Congratulations to our spring 2026 prizes and awards recipients. The winners were chosen by a panel of their peers for their outstanding contributions in #research, #education, and #PublicService. Learn more about their award-winning work: https://t.co/6g1fFuCweY
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Life moves forward — never backward. Living systems consume energy, breaking time’s symmetry and staying far from equilibrium. That’s the hidden physics behind every heartbeat, every cell in motion, every act of becoming. @TEDxNewEngland
https://t.co/aQrkJWJ1yM
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Truly inspiring… “I set out to build beautiful things…” Happy @NobelPrize week!
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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Truly honored to celebrate Erwin Frey’s inspiring career at the Emergence & Self-Organization in Biological Systems conference this week. Happy 65th, Erwin! @PhysOfLifeLMU
https://t.co/4yWrisjzLA
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Excited to be at the beautiful Kloster Abbey for the Intelligent Active Matter conference! Looking forward to three days of talks & discussions. Thanks to @PhysOfLifeLMU & Igor Aronson, for organizing & @templeton_fdn for supporting the meeting. https://t.co/eXSHtsbmfN
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Such a privilege to meet Governor @maura_healey at @MIT OneMIT Commencement! Huge thanks to @ErinAstro for the photo! #MIT2025
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Today (5-29-25) marks the last in a string of palindrome dates that began on May 20 (5-20-25) in the US. To mark the occasion, and in honor of the OneMIT Commencement ceremony, the Institute’s own Barry Duncan, a renowned palindrome poet and bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore,
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Congratulations to Mehran Kardar of @MIT and Yoshiki Kuramoto of @kyotou_news on receiving the @IUPAP_physics Boltzmann Medal — the highest honor in #StatisticalPhysics 🏅 🔗 https://t.co/17eQ5oRmvQ
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Check out the @GC_CUNY/@phybiofunc symposium tomorrow on Information and Irreversibility https://t.co/Guf6kZe7Or featuring @FakhriLab, my colleague John Bechhoefer, and yours truly!
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A @TheScientistLLC news piece on our recent @NaturePhysics paper with @PhysOfLifeLMU. https://t.co/SneQ2iqTVg
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The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry with Nikta Fakhri @FakhriLab
https://t.co/3GTEsoL8L1
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It was a great honor to deliver the Christine Mona Khademi public lecture, sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies @Stanford — with my family and friends in the audience. https://t.co/G2IdEoLfLy
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We may not have really squared the circle — but came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper with @FakhriLab light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. https://t.co/NbUlWZRlm6
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
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⭐🐟 When you think of #ModelOrganisms, do you think of starfish? They're a classic model to understand #CellGrowth used by the @FakhriLab at @MIT! The lab used light to control how a single cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development: https://t.co/0ZInbAQvH3
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Researchers led by Erwin Frey (@LMU_Muenchen) and Nikta Fakhri (@MIT) discovered how to reshape living cells with light, revealing key mechanisms behind cell morphogenesis. read article: https://t.co/y9Bewkz6Bj
#SyntheticBiology #Optogenetics #ScienceNews
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Fresh from the press with @NaturePhysics: How do we leverage a cell's self-organization to make it change its shape into a square? Check it out here: https://t.co/Ni9gpBqYDx
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Nature Physics - Optogenetically induced chemo-mechanical excitations are used to drive and study shape deformations in starfish oocytes. Understanding and eventually controlling such waves is...
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Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are really just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. @shalmawegs reports:
quantamagazine.org
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.
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