Enrico Carlon
Professor @KU Leuven, Statistical and Computational Physics, Interested in DNA (Statistical)-mechanics, Chromatin Structure, Biomolecular Condensates
Left X-Twitter on Nov. 2024 - building up a new community here!
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- KU Leuven awards an honorary doctorate to physicist Raymond E. Goldstein in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the Physics of Life, a field that uncovers the fundamental physical principles shaping living systems youtu.be/qQXnUPU2iAU
- The 2024 Physics Nobel Prize is often portrayed as a "prize for AI". In this article I explain the connection with Physics. It is a translation of an article appeared in dutch in www.tijdschriftkarakter.be - @karakterasl.bsky.social ecarlon.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/p...
- If you happen to be in Seoul tomorrow Dec. 3 don't miss this seminar at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) "Chromatin structure from high resolution microscopy: Scaling laws and microphase separation" by Midas Segers (KU Leuven) www.kias.re.kr/kias/activit...
- Reposted by Enrico Carlon🎉Our group has been awarded a prestigious #FIS grant! #RNAScale - Exploring RNA Dynamics across Scales: From Base Pairs to Viral Genomes 👉 www.bussilab.org/fis3 We will soon open postdoctoral positions across several components of the project! An expression-of-interest form is already online.
- Congratulations to Giandomenico Vanore on being awarded a PhD Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social He will conduct his doctoral research under my supervision on the project “Understanding the structure of interphase chromosomes.” #statistical_physics #polymers #chromatin #MD_simulations
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- 🧬 Seminar Alert! Join us next Friday 17 Oct. for “Mechanics, Dynamics and Shape in Oocytes” by Dr. Bart Vos — a deep dive into how physical forces and cell mechanics shape early development. Discover the emerging field of mechanobiology, where physics meets life.
- Interest in pursuing a PhD/postdoctoral position in experimental Condensed Matter Physics with applications to biological systems? Don’t miss this opportunity from the "Small Biosystems Lab" felixritortlab.com UBarcelona which combines statistical physics with single-molecule experimental techniques
- New preprint! With Takahiro Sakaue we studied an active polymer dynamics focusing on the mean-square displacement of a monomer. We show that the MSD can be described by a simple compounding formula linking an isolated monomer MSD with tension propagation along the chain - arxiv.org/abs/2510.07949
- Traveling back after an exciting three days meeting of the MeChaNiSM Doctoral Network @mechanism-network.bsky.social - Thanks to all students, PIs and supporting staff for these intense days of scientific discussions about our projects on DNA/RNA mechanics. www.chalmers.se/en/projects/...
- New preprint out! We investigate DNA kinks using biased all-atom MD simulations, in collaboration with Arianna Fassino and Aderik Voorspoels @aderikvoorspoels.bsky.social, as part of the EU-funded Doctoral Network MeChaNiSM @mechanism-network.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Interesting paper by Tony Lemos and Harold Kim. DNA minicircles adopt a specific inside-out orientation. Previously predicted, now this effect has been observed in atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments! arxiv.org/abs/2508.15091
- Enjoying this workshop on the Statistical Mechanics of polymers in Venice these days... Great program and organization! userswww.pd.infn.it/~orlandin/Ve...
- New preprint! Collaboration with Andrea Bonato, Sergey Kitaev, Davide Marenduzzo and Enzo Orlandini arxiv.org/abs/2507.00520
- Very happy that our latest publication "Statistical mechanics of multiplectoneme phases in DNA" doi.org/10.1103/Phys... was selected as Editors' Suggestion. These suggestions list "a small number of papers that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity". (1/4)
- A 3 year ERC-funded post-doc position in the Broedersz group of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Topic: Statistical physics of Chromosomes workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...
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- Welcome to Arianna Fassino who has recently joined our group to start a PhD project on simulations of Nucleic Acids Mechanics. The project is part of a EU-Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network “MeChaNiSM” Mechanical Characterization of Nucleic acids - www.chalmers.se/en/projects/...
- Reposted by Enrico CarlonApply now for our international Master of Science in Physics of Life @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibasel.ch! Scholarships available. More information: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de... #Master #Students #Research #Physics #Mathematics #ComputerScience #Engineering #Basel #Switzerland
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- Reposted by Enrico CarlonYet another preprint from the lab—this one is personal. During my PhD, I ended up working on the cohesin SMC hinge, showing its role in sister chromatid cohesion and proposing it as a DNA entry gate in the SMC ring. But the details have remained mysterious and controversial.
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- Reposted by Enrico CarlonOur new review on how the #chromatin domain is formed in the cell is now available @Curr Opin Struct Biol.📄✨ We critically discuss the domain formation mechanism from a physical perspective, including #phase-separation and #condensation. 📥 Free-download link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1keGn,LqAr...
- Just published in J Chem Phys @aip.bsky.social special issue on "Chromatin Structure and Dynamics". I will tell more on this work in a future post. Collaboration with @lremini.bsky.social, M. Segers and A. Parmeggiani. doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
- Reposted by Enrico CarlonIs chromatin ordered or disordered? It all depends on the linker DNA length. Check our latest work with Mike Rosen and Sy Redding. We explore how changes in linker DNA length (as small as 1 bp) fine-tune chromatin structure, between order and disorder, and the properties of chromatin droplets
- Nucleosome Spacing Can Fine-Tune Higher Order Chromatin Assembly biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Congratulations to Dr. Aderik Voorspoels on earning your PhD at KU Leuven! It was a honor to co-supervise your PhD journey. I am proud of all that you have accomplished and excited to see what the future holds for you. Wishing you every success for your post-doc at the University of Liverpool!
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- Reposted by Enrico CarlonPlease RT: Associate Professor position in my department at the University of Oxford. Broad search in molecular and cellular biology: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- A bit more than two weeks to apply for a PhD position in our group (deadline 1/1/2025) as part of a EU-Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network “MeChaNiSM”. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please repost!
- PhD position available in our group as part of a EU-Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network “MeChaNiSM”. World-leading academic laboratories in single-molecule biophysics, organic synthesis, molecular modeling and industrial partners to train 15 Doctoral Candidates. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
- My first post here on Bluesky (left X-Twitter for good): Happy to be at a meeting on "DNA supercoiling and Liquid-liquid Phase separation" in the beautiful Sète (Montpellier, France). Interesting talks, interesting people!
