What interaction mechanisms determine the behavior of motile colliding cells? And how do such interaction mechanisms vary across different cell types? 🤔In our new preprint, we address these questions!

📢Paper alert📢 Now out in New Journal of Physics in final form: a minimal active gel model that demonstrates that gradients and steps in adhesiveness are sufficient to initiate and steer cell migration doi.org/10.1088/1367-2…

A general mechanism of left-right symmetry breaking is observed in epithelial spheres, highlighting the subtle interplay between geometry, topology, and collective dynamics in living #tissue. Read the paper: go.aps.org/3ysH3Ar

Check out our new paper on what it takes for a leader cell to drive collective cell migration! Hint: Spatial asymmetries of the traction field are key! nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢 Applications for ELBE postdoc fellowships are open! If you're up for a biophysics theory-experiment collaboration in the Dresden environment, please apply! Center for Systems Biology Dresden, MPI-PKS Dresden, MPI-CBG Dresden, TU Dresden

This is a stunning opportunity for an interdisciplinary #postdoc Center for Systems Biology Dresden MPI-CBG Dresden MPI-PKS Dresden. Apply now - deadline 19th September!

We are hiring! You are great with people from all over the world, well-organized, and fluent in English and German? Then join our dynamic visitors program team! Application deadline is 30. September. mpg.de/22505977/fremd…

😸La història d' F. D. C. Willard, el primer gat en publicar un article científic! D'això en vaig parlar amb la noemi polls a la La Primera Pedra RAC1!!

Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-pla…

🐜Ho pots saber tot d'una formiga, però això no t'ajuda a saber com és un formiguer. 🚘Entendre un motor no t'ajuda a entendre els embussos de trànsit. 📖Llegeix-me a Núvol i t'explico per què “el tot és molt més que la suma de les parts”. Neurones Fregides 🍳

📢 IgNobel prize for active matter! The physics of drunk worms! 🪱

🪇Nou vídeo! Aquest cop faig ressò d'una notícia científica: Han trobat com fer la pell transparent amb el pigment dels Doritos! 🫥😱 youtu.be/G7slf5lm6Kw?si… Neurones Fregides 🍳

#RecercaUB | 🦠 Un estudi demostra que en el moviment col·lectiu cel·lular hi participen totes les cèl·lules, sense cèl·lules guia, com es pensava fins ara. 🔬 Lidera Xavier Trepat, de la #UniBarcelona i IBEC. 👉web.ub.edu/web/actualitat…

Cells move in groups often led by specialised leader cells. Work Nature Physics by Ricard Alert Zenón MPI-PKS Dresden & collaborators shows that leader cells cannot autonomously guide groups: followers must contribute to build a global force asymmetry for group motion. doi.org/10.1038/s41567…