Sam Foley

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Physics of membranes and self-assembly || Biophysics postdoc at Johns Hopkins || Previously Penn State -> Carnegie Mellon || for I perplex others not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself || www.samuelfoley.com

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Cover of "Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous"
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The walls will ooze green slime!?
Part of a classic "Calvin and Hobbes" comic: "How do they know the load limit on bridges, dad?" "They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it breaks."
Richard Stallman performs the free software song
Overview of analytical model for self-assembly of a protein coat on the membrane
Plots of simulation results for equilibrium assembly sizes as well as assembly timescales.
Plot of loop formation time vs receptor copy number.
Schematic of our simplified coarse-grained self-assembly model for CME, along with a snapshot of an assembled clathrin coat after 60 seconds of simulation time.
Assembly phase diagram figure from the paper, along with plots of how the phase boundary changes with variation of the underlying parameters
Plot of fractional response vs receptor concentration, comparing three different "passive sensing mechanisms": direct binding from solution, membrane-assisted binding, and membrane self-assembly.
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Squirrel tries to cool off on the cement pedestal of a cat statue on the Johns Hopkins campus
A squirrel fully splooted on a shaded brick pathway, trying to stay cool in the heat
Diagram of six different lipid head groups, including PC, PE, PS, PG, PI, and PIP2
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A 2D matplotlib imshow plot that looks a lot like some kind of phase-separation kinetic coarsening simulation. Unfortunately, the subject matter has absolutely nothing to do with these topics, and the similarity is purely accidental in nature.
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a screenshot from VMD showing a scramble of random lines halfway outside the simulation box.
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Photo of a positive covid test.
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Lenny the tuxedo cat sits on a winter themed blanket on the floor
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"What is temperature at the microscopic level?" A person answers, "Molecular kinetic energy!" His irate, glowing-eyed boss then throws him out the window of a tall building.
My source is that I made it the fuck up
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Discovering a single unified tofu model
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Lenny cat looking devious
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Most likely between 6 and 15 inches of snow this weekend in Baltimore!
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Seymour Skinner: Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
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