Dr. Lemma

The Lemma Journal Club

Science EN ↓ 31 episodes

Two physicists discuss biophysics papers, or maybe Biophysics, or maybe bioPhysics, or maybe...

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Bubbly Vertex Model // Where the Podcast Ends [32] 27.05.2026 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! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/video...

The Brief History Of The Ribosome // The Aging Journal Club [31] 06.05.2026 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 t...

Change It Up // Back to The First Episode [30] 29.04.2026 23:56

Paper Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.276.5321.2039 Paper is "Exchange of Protein Molecules Through Connections Between Higher Plant Plastids" by Rainer Kohler, Jun Cao, Warren Zipfel, Watt Webb, and Maureen Hanson. Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos RSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-...

We Need to Talk About Entropy // In The Actomyosin Dialect [29] 22.04.2026 43:49

Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/z3hx-5znt Paper is "When a Bath Is Not Enough: State-Dependent Energy Injection and Nonmonotonic Dissipation in Cytoskeletal Matter" by Michael Murrell. Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos RSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.x...

The Two Cytoskeletal Problem // Asynchronous Defense [28] 15.04.2026 1:02:41

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. Stick around for the end, where John, Sattvic, Itamar, and Fridtjof respond to the episode!!! Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03215-5 Catch us...

The Kinesin That Knew Too Much // Szilard's Dæmon [27] 08.04.2026 49:02

Paper is: "Hunting for Maxwell’s Demon in the Wild" by Johan du Buisson, Jannik Ehrich, Matthew Leighton, Avijit Kundu, Tusha Saha, John Bechhoefer, and David Sivak Paper link: https://arxiv.org/html/2504.11329v1 Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos RSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xml...

Moby Rockfish // The Hypothesis Generator [26] 01.04.2026 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, Milt...

The Path Between the Cells // Leica's Name in Lights [25] 25.03.2026 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 Paper link: https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/7/7/e202302398 Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patre...

The Cyanobacteria Cycle // @ APS March Meeting [24] 18.03.2026 20:11

The paper is "Life cycle of a cyanobacterial carboxysome" by Nicholas Hill, Jian Wei Tay, Sabina Altus, David Bortz, and Jeffrey Cameron. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba1269#supplementary-materials Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos RSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xml...

Field of Cilia // 100 Lives [23] 11.03.2026 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 withou...

The Anoxiest Condensate // People From Our House [22] 04.03.2026 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 Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! Catch us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com...

Introduction to Active Nematic Solid Physics// Hydra hydra hydra [21] 25.02.2026 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 Have a correction? Paper suggestion? Just reach out to us!

Let The Great World Spindle // Annoyed By Our Lack Of Background [20] 18.02.2026 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 [2] 16.02.2026 6:56

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!

Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19] 09.02.2026 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] 02.02.2026 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 Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.y...

The Anoxiest Eye // This is Bez's Jam [17] 26.01.2026 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, Henr...

A Map of the Rubisco Kinetics // The Worst Episode We've Done [16] 19.01.2026 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. Sh...

The Viral Chiral Twist // Our Scientific Aesthetics [15] 12.01.2026 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. The...

The Amazing Adventures of Trachea & Esophagus // Experimental bravery [14] 05.01.2026 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. Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! Patreon: https://...

Looking through a glass algae // Ghost-written by diatoms [13] 29.12.2025 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, Ga...

The Cells My Destination // Our Understanding Is Limited [12] 22.12.2025 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 Vote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226

A Cycle of One’s Own // A Necessary and Sufficient Podcast [11] 15.12.2025 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 Vote for which paper we cover in Episode 15!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-15-vote-145692226 Check out Preprints in Motion's in...

How The Flytrap Snap // Saturday Night Fever Pizza [10] 08.12.2025 36:50

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03185 “How the Venus flytrap snaps” by Yoël Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais & L. Mahadevan New episodes Mondays!

Nothing Is Simple and Alone // Julia is a Performative Language [9] 01.12.2025 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!