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Intracellular protein patterns control cellular functions, this we know. But what controls the patterns in first place? Discover pattern guidance via geometric, chemical, and mechanical cues in our latest Review article Nature Reviews Physics. nature.com/articles/s4225… Tom Burkart Laeschkir Würthner (@lwuerthner.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Jack Holland who successfully passed his viva today! Thanks to the examiners Syma Khalid and Louise Jawerth for evaluating his thesis. Best of luck in your future career but for now, enjoy your holidays in Thailand! Here the proof:

Life science is an open frontier. Clifford Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman discovered an entirely new system of cellular organization via membraneless liquid drops. Congratulations to them on winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Princeton University HHMI MPI-CBG Dresden

Will #ScienceTwitter🐦 -> #ScienceMastodon🐘 work? The response to this was massive & my #Mastodon has gone from a quiet void to a science party in just 3 days! Many are worried about servers, network effects & losing followers Follow these tricks to make it work for you! 🧵

#Postdoc wanted! You are a #biophysicist or a #cell biologist with an outstanding track record and a keen interest in #mechanobiology? Apply to our lab and the cluster of excellence "Physics of Life" @PolDresden. Find details under physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/fileadmin/docu…

We are really excited to announce that Dr. Jan Brugués (Brugués Lab) has joined the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster Physics of Life Dresden of TU Dresden as W3 Professor and Chair of self-organization of subcellular structures. Welcome aboard Jan! 😀🥳 ➡️ physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2023/02/1…

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We discovered a new collective mode in the multicellular migration in spheroids. We argue that this emergent supracellular pattern can be understood from the behavior of an active fluid moving in a curved geometry. Great work from Tom and David Brückner! Read about it👇

Our preprint “Theory of rheology and aging of protein condensates” appeared in arXiv :D This is work with Marko Popovic, Louise Jawerth and Frank Jülicher. We develop a theory to understand Maxwell glass behavior for condensates rheology. Please check it out ! arxiv.org/abs/2303.18028

How do anisotropic objects get engulfed by lipid membranes? The experimental answer comes from Ali Azadbakht @azadbakht.bsky.social, a very productive master project and a fruitful collaboration with Andela Saric: just published in Nanoletters! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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Now out in ACS Nano! Yogesh Shelke showed how directional interactions and controlled flexibility can be added to colloidal molecules. Great collaboration with @fabriziocamerin, Susana Marin-Aguilar, Ruben Verweij and Marjolein Dijkstra #ERC pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

🔥 new story🔥 We revisit a long-standing question regarding the role of entropy in bacterial chromosome segregation. We find that purely entropic forces actually inhibit segregation until late stages of replication, but loop extruded change everything… biorxiv.org/lookup/content…

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper ! :D This is a theoretical investigation on the Maxwell glass rheology observed in biological condensates. I have worked on Maxwell demon in molecular motors and now Maxwell glass in condensates :D go.aps.org/3qkJjFS

This is work with Marko Popovic Louise Jawerth and Frank Jülicher published in PRX Life. Mariona mec made a beautiful video (my voice🙈) to explain aging phenomenon in protein condensates. We tried to explain the bewildering concept plainly in the video. youtu.be/1xbzxK3tv5g

Big congrats to Frank Jülicher, from MPI-PKS Dresden, and John Hopfield from Princeton University for receiving the first Medal for the Physics of Life today in Seoul!

NWO Nieuws Thanks #NWOBiophysics for a great time in Veldhoven these last two days - great keynotes by Nikta Fakhri and Stephan Grill, great plenaries by Gijs Wuite, Andela Saric, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, Rifka Vlijm, Tom Scheenen and Clemens Kaminski, great sessions, and lots of nice conversations.

Excited and happy to share that I was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. We will use this funding to study 4D chromosome 🧬 organization. Looking for PhD students and postdocs to join the group at Physics and Astronomy Amsterdam🔭! #ERCCoG