Happy to share our DNA microbeads as a tool for #organoid research Nature Nanotechnology - hope the community finds it useful to create light-controlled morphogen gradients in organoids rdcu.be/dTpfA Congrats Cassian Afting @ToWalther and thanks WittbrodtLab!

check out the new paper from our lab with Kerstin Göpfrich and Ulrich Schwarz (also @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social) groups where we put DNA microbeads for precise signal control in #organoids. doi.org/10.1038/s41565… Cassian Afting Christina Schlagheck 3D Matter Made to Order

Great news📢! A new technique that can precisely influence the development of organoids has been developed by an interdisciplinary team, including Kerstin Göpfrich💪 DNA microbeads are the crucial tool. Check out more: mr.mpg.de/14602068/compl… and of course nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Leon Lettermann for winning this year‘s Klaus Arnold publication prize by the German Biophysical Society #DGfB #DGfB24 for his recent paper in PNASNews on a geometrical theory for gliding motility 👍🎉🥇

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Congrats to newly minted Dr. Oliver Drozdowski Oliver Drozdowski for a very successful defense of his PhD-thesis. And thanks to Tristan Bereau for being chair of the committee and to the whole group for the lovely hat.

O. M. Drozdowski, U. S. Schwarz, Cell bulging and extrusion in a three-dimensional bubbly vertex model for curved epithelial sheets. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2024). arxiv.org/abs/2411.07141

Great theory work by Oliver Drozdowski who compared the classical with the bubbly vertex model and found that the latter naturally leads to cell bulging and extrusion at topological (pentagonal) defects. He then developed an analytical theory for the corresponding energy landscapes.

📢Paper alert📢 Our joint work with the group of Peter Bastian on the positioning of stress fibers in mechanically challenged cells is now out in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. This work was challenging, so it deserves a 🧵 for explanations ... (1/n)

Spring brings new beginnings.. Happy to start my new position ISTAustria as a post doc with Edouard Hannezo. Looking forward to learn new things and study new problems in the realm of multicellular structures. Also: Vienna is beautiful.

📢 Preprint alert 📢 (1/6) Our work on 3D force inference for intestinal organoids is now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Stunning collaboration between Oliver Drozdowski and Kim Boonekamp from the lab of Michael Boutros and with Ulrike Engel. A short🧵...