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.
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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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RT @MIT: 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….
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RT @PhysRevE: Congratulations to Mehran Kardar of @MIT and Yoshiki Kuramoto of @kyotou_news on receiving the @IUPAP_physics Boltzmann Medal….
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RT @DavidASivak: Check out the @GC_CUNY/@phybiofunc symposium tomorrow on Information and Irreversibility featuring….
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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.
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RT @PhysOfLifeLMU: We may not have really squared the circle — but came close! 😉.In our @NaturePhysics paper with @FakhriLab light-triggere….
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RT @ScienceinBoston: ⭐🐟 When you think of #ModelOrganisms, do you think of starfish?. They're a classic model to understand #CellGrowth use….
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RT @SynBioBeta: Researchers led by Erwin Frey (@LMU_Muenchen) and Nikta Fakhri (@MIT) discovered how to reshape living cells with light, re….
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RT @t_burkart: Fresh from the press with @NaturePhysics: How do we leverage a cell's self-organization to make it change its shape into a s….
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RT @QuantaMagazine: Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are really just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later,….
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There’s science, and then there’s science @KITP_UCSB. Great to be back! Last time I was here, we were the first group post-pandemic with @Shankar_Lab, @RicardAlert, @cris_marchetti_, @BowickM.
Welcome to The Many Faces of Active Mechanics (#activesolids-c24) conference at #KITP!. Learn more at: Stay tuned for recorded talks at:
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RT @KITP_UCSB: Welcome to The Many Faces of Active Mechanics (#activesolids-c24) conference at #KITP!. Learn more at: .
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In Paris, celebrating the life and work of Maurice Kleman. Thank you to Elie Raphael & other organizers for inviting me to give a talk.
La science des défauts, une journée scientifique en hommage au physicien Maurice Kleman, se tient demain à l'école. ➡️ Pour en savoir plus :
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfiel….
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Congratulations to Erwin Frey, Aparna Baskaran, Kinneret Keren, Gijsje Koenderink, Rohit Pappu, Pascal Silberzan & others!!.@ApsDsoft @ApsDbio @ApsGsnp .@PhysOfLifeLMU @gijsjekoenderi1 @PappulabWashU.@APSphysics.
🎉 Congrats to the incoming 2024 APS Fellows! They’ve been recognized by their peers for exceptional contributions to #research, #education, #leadership, and #PublicService. Learn more about them:
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To stand at the edge of the sea … to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents …is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. - Rachel Carson . Excited for @MIT 10th Biophysics Retreat!
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