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How can one deal with systems that exhibit patterns across multiple scales? In our recent paper pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… in collaboration with cees dekker - also at @ceesdekker.bsky.social, we show how one can reconstruct and predict multiscale patterns from a reduced dynamics at large scales. Laeschkir Würthner (@lwuerthner.bsky.social)

They are vital for many biological processes: A team led by LMU physicist Erwin Frey has developed a new theory that allows the prediction of complex pattern formation from the large-scale dynamics. PhysicsOfLifeLMU tinyurl.com/yj5h7m4p

What an honour and what a pleasure! 🥳 Meeting Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz Scholz and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA, and discussing about AI for biomedicine and German-Canadian collaborations! 😍 Thanks Marsico Lab @[email protected], Jian Tang, @causal_cell and Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich!

My group’s recent work on chiral & nonreciprocal active matter is featured in September issue of Physics Today. Thanks to Sloan Foundation Matter to Life & U.S. National Science Foundation Physics of Living Systems for funding our research. physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT…

It was a great honour to receive the Gustav-Hertz-Prize of the #DPG last night from the DPG president Prof. Joachim Ullrich. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way, especially Chase Broedersz, @RaedlerLab, Alex Fink and PhysicsOfLifeLMU!

Through a mechanochemical feedback loop involving Min proteins of Escherichia coli, liposomes start to move, which may help to design motile artificial cells. go.nature.com/44VZCbs

Exciting news: proteins set vesicles in motion! Simulation of persistent vesicle motion driven by a mechanochemical feedback loop between pattern-forming Min proteins and the lipid membrane. #Biophysics #SyntheticCell. Full story Nature Physics: doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

Synthetic cells are on the move - quite literally: The Schwille Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) and Frey groups Universität München recently showed how mechanochemical feedback loops drive the persistent motion of liposomes. Here is my News & Views Nature Physics: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Physicists, theorists, apply! @IsabellaRGraf and I have lots of exciting projects!

Editors' suggestion: Dimensionality reduction in bulk-boundary reaction-diffusion systems, Tom Burkart, Benedikt J. Müller, and Erwin Frey #BiologicalPhysics Tom Burkart PhysicsOfLifeLMU go.aps.org/3Y4dfUE

Fresh from the press with Nature Physics: How do we leverage a cell's self-organization to make it change its shape into a square? Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4156… PhysicsOfLifeLMU Nikta Fakhri

Optogenetically induced chemo-mechanical excitations are used to drive and study shape deformations in starfish oocytes. Understanding and eventually controlling such waves is important for the development of synthetic cells. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Very excited this work is out in Nature Physics. A wonderful collaboration between my group Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PhysicsOfLifeLMU.

We may not have really squared the circle — but came close! 😉 In our Nature Physics paper with Nikta Fakhri light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. nature.com/articles/s4156… #biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

Looking for a reading snack? Our work is featured as a Nature Physics research briefing: nature.com/articles/s4156… Full story of how we politely ask round cells to assume a square shape: nature.com/articles/s4156… Nikta Fakhri PhysicsOfLifeLMU #ScienceTwitter #Optogenetics

How do some organs regenerate fast? It turns out bioelectricity comes to aid— by coupling sub-seconds injury signals to proliferative regeneration! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Honored to share a preprint from my postdoc work Rita Mateus MPI-CBG Dresden Physics of Life Dresden Elisa Nerli in close

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

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…

💧🌀 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