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A The Scientist news piece on our recent Nature Physics paper with PhysicsOfLifeLMU. the-scientist.com/round-cells-sq…

Congratulations to Mehran Kardar of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yoshiki Kuramoto of @kyotou_news on receiving the IUPAP Boltzmann Medal — the highest honor in #StatisticalPhysics 🏅 🔗 go.aps.org/4jCqbsR

"Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority." - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/Complain421t

New in Nature Physics: In a great collaboration with the Jun Lab at UC San Diego, we demonstrate how Min proteins in E. coli form robust, resource-optimal dynamic patterns, ensuring precise cell division even under varying physiological conditions. 📄 nature.com/articles/s4156…

My lecture “Nonequilibrium Field Theories and Stochastic Dynamics” is now on YouTube! Here a short film on my teaching philosophy. Watch lectures here: m.youtube.com/@PhysicsOfLife…

📢Registration is open for the Biomembrane Days 2025! 🔗biomembrane-days-2025.mpikg.mpg.de A top-notch lineup of speakers, 120 posters, 200 scientists 📜Submit an abstract by July 14 🏆3 Poster prizes ⚠️Limited spots - previous events were fully booked! #BiomembraneDays2025 #CellMembranes

Our university receives funding by the DFG public | @[email protected] for four renewed and three newly approved #ClustersofExcellence!👏Research areas include #energy, #quantumtech, #health, and #societaltransformation. Congrats to all researchers involved! go.tum.de/844846 🎉 📷ProLehre

You can find the cluster overview here: tum.de/clusters-of-ex… Learn more about our university's excellence strategy here: tum.de/university-of-… 📷TUM

🎉 Großer Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie für die #LMU: Alle sieben beantragten Exzellenzcluster haben sich im Begutachtungsverfahren durchgesetzt und werden ab 2026 für sieben Jahre gefördert! Ein herausragendes Ergebnis! 🎉lmu.de/de/newsroom/ne…

📣 New preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in active nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just out in Nature Physics: Research Briefing (with Suckjoon Jun) on how Min protein oscillations in E. coli remain robust. The secret? A conformational switch that buffers change — and a fresh look at an old system through a physicist’s lens. 📘 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Nice to see the Physics of Aging gaining momentum.

💧🌀 Active matter meets interface physics! We show how conserved active emulsions form traveling interfacial waves and self-propelling liquid gears, powered by non-reciprocal chemical interactions. 🎥 Watch the dynamics: gears & belts in motion👇 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.20028

What’s it like to live & do research in Berlin? Find out in the summer edition of "Meet Your Future You" on 9 July, 4 PM (CEST) - with 2 international researchers sharing their stories. 🔗 Register here: sohub.io/emg9

📣 New review! Dynamical systems and low-dimensional geometric structures in phase space help rationalize how embryos develop form and function, from large datasets. We focus on morphogenesis, cell differentiation, and their interconnection. Alex Plum sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Physics works! Beautiful day in the Bavarian Alps.

We present a theory explaining how the thymic medulla acquires its morphology. Our model shows that key interactions—thymocyte chemotaxis, selection, and signaling to epithelial cells—are sufficient to generate the observed spatial organization. | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Here's a new, very exciting paper from our #CDlab: cell.com/cell-reports/f… Here, Brian Analikwu, Alice Deshayes et al show that dense linear protein arrays (such as telomeres) stop loop-extruding SMC motors! Great collaboration with Marcand lab. see bsky.app/profile/ceesde…

conference on Intelligent Active Matter. We still have some open slots for attending this small scale workshop and presenting posters. Please send an email to [email protected] iam.physik.lmu.de

Self-organized criticality can occur in cellular systems, but its origins remain unclear. Now it is shown that cytoskeletal criticality is influenced by the F-actin architecture and myosin active stress. nature.com/articles/s4156…