Joshua Shaevitz
@shaevitz
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Physics professor; Instagram @shaevitz
Princeton, NJ
Joined January 2008
This was a fun piece to write. Thanks to the Aspen Center for Physics for inviting me.
In Opinion | On Physics: Nature’s symphony needs no conductor
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RT @AspenDailyNews: In Opinion | On Physics: Nature’s symphony needs no conductor
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Aspen’s Fourth of July celebrations this year included a shimmering ballet of hundreds of drones lighting up the night sky in a “Symphony of...
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Check out our new paper which describes large scale 3D simulations of M xanthus colonies. We recapitulate many features from experiments and learn some new things as well!
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Myxococcus xanthus is a soil-dwelling bacterium that lives in dense populations of millions of cells and displays an array of collective behaviors and macroscopic patterns in response to environmen...
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So happy to see this out. What a great collaboration!.
Paper now out in PNAS! Our colloidal whole-cell simulations + in vivo 3D particle tracking reveal how macromolecular interactions and confinement determine dynamics/localization in E. coli. Congrats @AlpSunol & @dsvalverdem!
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The Princeton Brass Band is off to the National Championships again, but we need your help! Running a world-class band, from music and instruments to rehearsal space and free concerts to our education and outreach, is not cheap. Please consider donating!.
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Support Princeton Brass Band and help us raise $11000
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Excited to see this fantastic study in print. The Physics of Zebrafish fighting in gory detail. In time for Halloween. @greg_stephens.
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Advanced analysis of 3D fish trajectories reveals key behavioral patterns---rapid maneuvers and subtle orientation shifts---in male zebrafish contests that predict winner-loser dynamics, with losers...
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Interested in helping us making big things happen here at Princeton? The Office of the Dean for Research is looking to hire at a senior level in research development. This is a great opportunity to work with fantastic faculty to drive important projects!
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RT @MoffittLab: So excited to announce our new method for multiplexed RNA imaging in bacterial cells: bacterial-MERFISH! A huge congratulat….
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Come join the PRX Life team!.
🚨 New #science job! 🚨. We're #hiring a full-time editor with expertise in #BiologicalPhysics, #neuroscience, and/or #biophysics. The candidate will also be part of the @PhysRevE editorial team. For more information and to apply:
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RT @C__Ellison: Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! We found that increasing DNA binding by type IV pili in an Acinetobacter pathogen….
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Bacteria take up environmental DNA using dynamic appendages called type IV pili (T4P) to elicit horizontal gene transfer in a process called natural transformation. Natural transformation is widesp...
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How do bacteria grow and move in large groups where cells appear adhered to each other but can move freely? Using capillary forces from thin layers of water! Check out our new preprint with Matt Black, Chenyi Fei, @RicardAlert and Ned Wingreen:
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I’m excited to be joining PRX Life, which has the potential to be an outstanding journal in the field of biological physics. Experimentalists (!) and theorists alike, send us your most exciting work. I look forward to working with you through the review process.
Meet our newest editor, Josh Sheavitz! 👋. @shaevitz is a professor of #physics and #genomics at @Princeton, studying cell and animal behavior. He will manage manuscripts and leverage his broad expertise to improve the #PeerReview process for #interdisciplinary papers.
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RT @TrackingActions: 🎉 new preprint posted of potential interest, lead by talented masters student @AChRD4: . 🔥fully unsupervised 3D cell s….
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RT @DominiqueLimoli: Check out our newest preprint: . P. aeruginosa uses pilus-mediated motility to invade and disperse S. aureus biofilms,….
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RT @MatthiasDKoch1: Phages snap TFP to prevent further infection!.Cool collab with labs of Lanying Zeng and Junjie Zhang @TAMUBCBP, Yiruo L….
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The retractile type IV pilus (T4P) is important for virulence of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) phage PP7 binds to T4P and is brought to the...
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RT @AlpSunol: Thrilled to share our preprint from my Ph.D work! A big shoutout to @shaevitz and @TheZiaLab for the amazing collaboration….
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What does diffusion look like in the crowded bacterial cytoplasm? Is it as weird as people say? Check out our new preprint on 3D tracking of GEMs in live E. coli from @dsvalverdem and @AlpSunol! A fantastic experiment-theory collaboration with @TheZiaLab.
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The crowded bacterial cytoplasm is comprised of biomolecules that span several orders of magnitude in size and electrical charge. This complexity has been proposed as the source of the rich spatial...
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