Apply by the 15th of November for a Distinguished #postdoc Fellow position MPI-PKS Dresden. This is a great 3-year opportunity for outstanding young researchers to build their research programme independently!

One month left until our Excellence #postdoc Fellowship applications close! We are looking for ambitious, early career scientists with an interest in interdisciplinary research. 🧪👩‍🔬Please share with your network! #wearehiring #sciencejobs Apply here: physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/career-educati…

On the winning team of the scavenger hunt at the MPI-PKS Dresden retreat - this time without abandoning injured members of the institute!

Welcome to MPI-CBG Dresden, Aida!

Eugene Myers, Director Emeritus at the MPI-CBG Dresden, received the Saxon Order of Merit today. Minister President Michael Kretschmer presented Eugene Myers with the award today MPI-CBG Dresden. Eugene Myers Eugene W Myers Jr is one of the pioneers in the field of bioinformatics. Congratulations! 🎊

Fully funded summer #internships in #biophysics MPI-PKS Dresden in Dresden - apply now to join our group (or the groups of Ricard Alert Zenón, Christina Kurzthaler, Marko Popovic, or Frank Jülicher) over the summer of 2025! Deadline: 9th of December, 2024.

Meritxell Huch Huch Lab, Director MPI-CBG Dresden, receives this year's prestigious Otto Bayer Award from the Bayer AG Foundation for her pioneering research on human organoids. Congratulations! 🥳 mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/…

Analytical calculations and numerical sampling reveals the effects of spatially disordered growth on buckling instability of elastic rods, showing how biological systems could trigger or avoid buckling and thereby control a key driver of morphogenesis. 🔗 go.aps.org/4f6C2xr

It's great to see this now published Physical Review E! doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… See below for a thread summarising the preprint - but of course you should read the paper for some solid mechanics...

Congratulations, Libor Šmejkal!

Interested in active matter/biophysics? Our lab tzerhan.com is looking for motivated PhD students to join our nonreciprocal robotics active matter/chiral jamming/morphogenesis projects. Apply by Dec 18: physics.ucsd.edu/students/gradu…

Looking forward to giving the BPPB Seminar on Friday!

We welcome new research group leader Michael Weber, who will build up his group “Nanoscale Optical Bioimaging" MPI-CBG Dresden! mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/…

New research division to combine AI and biomedicine in Dresden: Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, Max Planck Society, TU Dresden and the Free State of Saxony agree on joint financing of EUR 40 million. mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/…

Exciting news! As of today, our group is part of SISSA in Trieste. Big THANK YOU to all current and past group members, collaborators and mentors and to MPI-CBG Dresden for hosting us for 8 amazing years! If you are interested in joining us in Trieste, please get in touch! SISSA

Agnes Toth-Petroczy Agnes Toth-Petroczy, research group leader MPI-CBG Dresden and Center for Systems Biology Dresden becomes a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Congratulations! 🥳mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/…

New preprint out on the properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM): joint work between Benjamin von der Heyde, Eva Laura von der Heyde and Armin Hallmann at the University of Bielefeld and Anand Srinivasan, Sumit Birwa, Steph Höhn and myself in DAMTP. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I haven’t tweeted much lately here, where, when it comes to #science, dog died. But this seems to be in the spirit of the place. Last year, I vouched to “make the beer hour great again” MPI-CBG Dresden and I am doing it. Actually, quite enjoying the process… 🤠

Both #cell shape changes and cell wedging drive cell sheet folding in green algae, this study shows. Stresses from outside the tissue’s plane are associated with changes in the cell’s shape not due to cell wedging, indicating an adaptive response. 🔗 go.aps.org/4hn6fsR