Duco's and Gerhard's work on defect dynamics in developing bacterial colonies (collaboration with Tans lab AMOLF) is finally available as a preprint arxiv.org/abs/2003.10509.

We developed a new computational model to address the amazing plasticity of nonmuscle myosin II minifilaments and in particular the roles of the different isoforms. Great work by Tom Kaufmann now out in PLOS Comp Biol journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

We use the Eden model to simulate the growth of flat clathrin lattices and compare it to EM data. Our new paper together with Ulrich Schwarz (also @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social), Steeve Boulant, @kem_sochacki and @taraskalab is now available in New Journal of Physics . iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108……

Which physical mechanisms can drive membrane bending during clathrin-mediated endocytosis ? From a continuum point of view, there are three of them, which we now analysed in one unifying and analytical theory. New work with Felix Frey out in Soft Matter doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01…

What can be learned about internal cellular processes by modeling membrane shape? Our new review together with Timon Idema is now available in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Tomorrow (23/03) at 4:00 pm I will present a poster at #DPG2021 #BPCPPDYSOE21 on work dating back to my PhD together with Ulrich Schwarz (also @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social). Join BP 24.14 if you like to know why we think that flat clathrin lattices assemble with lattice vacancies.

Very excited that this story is out fresh on bioRxiv! We used superresolution microscopy to understand how the clathrin coat forms during endocytosis - a 🧵 with pretty pictures and a cool mechanism! 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Felix Frey's paper on the relation between membrane area growth and cell division published in Physical Review E: link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Ph…

@istaustria experienced increased #cyberattacks lately, which could initially be repelled. After the attacks intensified today, the Institute took all #servers offline, incl e-mail & homepage. Origin and aim are investigated further together with external support.

The NOMIS foundation and ISTAustria present three exciting new fellowships, raising the count of NOMIS fellows on our campus from four to seven. 🔗 bit.ly/3WdxNa2

Very excited that part of my PhD work is now published in JCB! Together with Markus Mund, we investigated the nanoscale remodeling of clathrin coats during endocytosis using superresolution microscopy.

Now out in Journal of Cell Biology: the geometry of clathrin coats measured with superresolution microscopy as function of pseudotime by Markus Mund, Aline Tschanz and yule from Jonas Ries lab at EMBL Heidelberg. Excellent agreement with cooperative curvature model by Felix Frey

In this study led by Lucia Baldauf we established a robust method to reconstitute vesicles with an actin cortex and – by pairing with theory by Felix Frey and Timon Idema - discovered that branched actin preferentially assembles at membrane necks! doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.…

Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)

📣 Paper alert 📣