📢 Open PhD position as part of #MSCA network of 17 students ComeInCell Interested in exploring membrane stability/repair & #condensates ? Check out & apply: 👉bit.ly/4fd8HRU The project will include secondments at Andela Saric, Carlos Marques & Nature Communications

🥳A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life: nature.com/articles/s4146…. We chemically minimized the membrane of the Minimal Cell...they survived, but with some interesting shapes, like this 'Death Star' phenotype Isaac J. Craig Venter Institute

Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from transgene expression and real-time

First paper of our lab today nature by Nussi! We provide a real-time movie on how #transcription and #translation cooperate using multi-color #single-molecule FM: we find long-range #ribosome-#polymerase communication mediated by #RNA looping! EMBL doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Congrats to Daxiao (Honigmann Lab) and Nagaraja (Alberti lab) for winning Independence Accelarator Award!🥳 SPP2129 will support them in developing their own research program that can become the basis for a starting grant, e.g., ERC, Emmy Noether, or others. Read more ⤵️

The tools we build today will define tomorrow’s discoveries. Apply to access our high-performance GPUs + accelerate the entire field of life sciences. Details: czi.co/4f24AHm

Check out the new webpage for the Honigmann Lab: honigman.github.io/honigmann_lab.…

ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS  🧬🎨🍬 The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just out: "Programmable viscoelastic #hydrogels uncover #mechanosensing timescales and direct cell polarity" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We used a #DNA-based nanomaterial—#DyNAtrix—to study and guide the polarization of epithelial cells. 🧬 #nanotechnology #materials #cell_culture

Plasma membrane folding enables constant surface area-to-volume ratio in growing mammalian cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢BIOMEMBRANE DAYS in Berlin Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2025 Find more in 🦋: bsky.app/profile/dimova…

Come to #Prague for #Woodstock2025. What is it? A scientific conference unlike any other. Think #BurningMan or #MusicFestival but #science themed. It'll have two parts - decentralised sessions spread in #Prague (sightsee as you move around) & #campsite event to wrap it up (1/7)

Many thanks to the IPF and Friends of IPF for the Innovation Award 2024 and big congrats to the whole team! nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/10/dr-…

#PacManoid was so hungry that it ate the original post 🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬. Here’s the thread on our latest in Cell Stem Cell again! MPI-CBG Dresden Physics of Life Dresden (Imaging: Alba Villaronga; Animation: Michael Weber)

In Science Advances, we report how small chemical modifications in the metabolism of ergosterol are needed for yeast membranes to phase seperate into ordered yet fluid domains science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/n)

Spatial and stoichiometric in situ analysis of biomolecular oligomerization at single-protein resolution We are excited to present our latest work published in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢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

We did it! 😀🎉 🍾🥂 Our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (Physics of Life Dresden) got renewed until 2032! I am so proud of our team and all the great work we did to achieve this. At a personal level, I am really happy that the enormous effort that went into this process was successful,

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Can we simultaneously achieve deep, high-res, large field-of-view imaging without the usual trade-offs? 🤔 🧬🔬 YES: #DNA_PAINT + Spinning Disk Confocal + Optical Photon Reassignment (#SDC_OPR)! #SuperResolution 📄 nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications 🧵👇

It is out now with some interesting revision results: nature.com/articles/s4158…