Amazing Seminar alert🥳! This fall we organize an amazing meeting on cytoskeleton as an active material in the beautiful location of Bad Honnef. We have 28 outstanding speakers (check here: we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veranstaltunge…), and 80 slots for participants. Please retweet 😎.

Welcome to a new cohort of PhD students🥳. Jannis, Dorian and Noémie focus on intracellular mechanics, while Tim is about to combine AFM, Spinning Disk microscopy and micropipette aspiration in a single setup to disentangle the contributions of membrane and cortical tension. 🤩

What a great PhD defense by Till, who earned highest distictions🤩. He developped a mechanical fingerprint that can be used to classify intracellular viscoelasticity and activity. On top he established a new way to get activity and mechanics from passive observation. SO PROUD🤓

… the nucleus is not as dense as the cytoplasm - true for all eukaryotic cells - and the ratio is always 0.8. Go figure... Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is such a nice story. What you show here will surely end up textbooks🤩. Good luck for the next steps!

Amazing week in the Alps during the combined lab retreat with the Gunawan and Raz lab. Not only top science and great hikes, but we all also made many new friends and create hopefully new collaborations🤩.

What a surprise goodbye from my group, showing up at the station. Best farewell ever 🥹🥰. Now they will have a productive 8 months, as I will not bother them with meetings, journal clubs and updates 🤔. And I look forward learning about Active Droplets and Tweezers NYU CSMR.🤓

Paper alert: nature.com/articles/s4156… Nature Materials introduces the “Mean Back Relaxation” which quantifies non-equilibrium from simple passive particle trajectories. Amazing theory (M. Krüger, G.Knotz) and experiments @MunkerTill to obtain cell mechanics by simple observation🧐

Congrats Leon and Ulrich! This is very well deserved. The paper is a beauty!

The 818th WE-Heraeus seminar #weh818 on „The cytoskeleton as active matter“ has started at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, with an introduction by BetzLab and many great speakers, including BauschLab, Murrell Lab and Laurent Blanchoin we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veranstaltunge…

Amazing first day of the #WEH818 Seminar on the 'Cytoskeleton as Active Matter'. Besides the cool talks and fun discussions, we had an impressive lineup of Poster-Presenter Flash talks.

The schedule of the #weh818 seminar on the cytoskeleton as active matter is as dense as the cytoskeleton itself, but we do not want to miss any of its great talks. Here a few pictures, from the talks by Francois Nedelec, Erwin Frey PhysicsOfLifeLMU, Martin Lenz Lenz Lab and Gijsje

Happy and exhausted after an amazing week of active cytoskeleton talks at the #WEH818 seminar in Bad Honnef. We had a whopping 44 talks, 33 posters, a 13km hike, and lots of incredible discussions. Congrats to the poster prize winners👇 and thanks to all for an amazing seminar🤩

What a day! Perfect weather for the beautiful Göttingen tradition to give a kiss to the famous 'Gänseliesel'.🥳 Till was pulled to the fountain in a special cart and stepped in the footprints of many famous scholars by offering some flowers and a kiss to the statue 🤩.

Congrats to all the authors, especially Wolfram and Malte for an amazing work. The paper is a beautiful icing on the amazing achivement of the heart muscle patches! It's such a gamechanger!!

You are a biologist and want to get an idea why looking at intracellular active mechanics is important for cellular function? Check out our recent review preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.14538 We try to give an intuitive access, but also provide details in extensive toolboxes.

I am so proud. Dorian's poster was selected for the posterprize at this years spring meeting of the German Physical Society🥳. Well deserved 🫠. Three prizes by my students in three years. I am so lucky that I can call this talented crowd of passionate researchers the BetzLab 🤩

After 8 amazing months at the NYU/Center for Soft Matter Research I had to say goodbye😭to a wonderful group of colleagues and students. Thanks for the hospitality and patience in teaching me active swimmers and holographic tweezers🤩. Next thing to do: Setting it up in Germany💪