The Lemma Journal Club

Dr. Lemma

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biophysics, or maybe Biophysics, or maybe bioPhysics, or maybe ...

3D AGO

Let The Great World Spindle // Annoyed By Our Lack Of Background [20]

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!

47 min
5D AGO

Weekly Update [2]

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!

7 min
FEB 9

Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19]

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.

27 min
FEB 2

Down and Out in Volvox and Algae // I Could Have Just Read This Paper [18]

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.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub/videos

40 min
JAN 26

The Anoxiest Eye // This is Bez's Jam [17]

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 Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! 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 https://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6 Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577

44 min
JAN 19

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

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. Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! 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 https://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6 Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577

38 min
JAN 12

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

“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 Dogic Labs YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DogicLab/videos Have a paper recommendation? Suggest it in the comments! 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 https://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6 Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577

51 min
JAN 5

The Amazing Adventures of Trachea & Esophagus // Experimental bravery [14]

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://www.patreon.com/c/TheLemmaJournalClub Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaypDYWrdPrzD1-3Qh8CYQw RSS: https://media.rss.com/the-lemma-journal-club/feed.xml https://rss.com/podcasts/the-lemma-journal-club/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ICdvRylVqRN5EGzGp5na6 Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-lemma-journal-club/id1845744577

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biophysics, or maybe Biophysics, or maybe bioPhysics, or maybe ...

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Dr. Lemma
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

19
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