Wow, researchers from our #SFB1129 are implicated in the Science 2024 Breakthrough of the Year, because they showed that HIV-capsids are flexible and go through nuclear pores. The latest paper on Lenacapavir-induced capsid damage just came out in @embojournal.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great news also for the Heidelberg life science community 👍

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

I am happy to announce that my group has an opening for a funded PhD position to explore the intersection between mechanobiology and inflammation in the intestine. Please see the attached advertisement below. Thanks for circulating and forwarding! www.srcsb.uni-stuttgart.de/news/New-ope...

Finally out in #PRXLife: our theory on the effect of temperature on the completion time of large networks. Using graph theory, one can show that the Arrhenius plot is quadratic, in excellent agreement with experimental data from fly development. Read the open access paper here: go.aps.org/48brig2

Beautiful work, congrats to Moritz, Petr and team🙌

📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...

Now out in @biophysj.bsky.social with open access and for the special issue dedicated to Erich Sackmann: our model for mechanochemical signal propagation in cell layers. Led by Dennis Wörthmüller from @institutcurie.bsky.social and implemented with discontinuous Galerkin FEM. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

The WEH-workshop on „Emergent trends in physics of the cell“ in honor of the late Erich Sackmann is now in full swing at TU Munich. Great talks and an amazing line-up for poster flash talks.

Jochen Guck from MPI Erlangen has passed away on October 4 2025. He has left us far too soon. RIP, Jochen

Congrats Nedal @ndarif.bsky.social, Yannick, Freddy and coworkers to this beautiful project. Another great work from #SFB1129. Special congrats to first author Nedal who very recently defended his PhD at #EMBL.

A very inspiring day with great 45 min talks at the Ulm Biophysics Summer Symposium 2025, by Joachim Spatz, Jovica Ninkovic, Max Bi, @streichan.bsky.social, Sabrina Leslie and Joachim Rädler. Many thanks @serwanelab.bsky.social for the invitation and congratulations for the new position👍😀🚀

The #mattertolife fall days are a wonderful opportunity to connect to this vibrant community. This time at the @mpip-mainz.mpg.de with talks by the local hosts @graeterlab.bsky.social, @landfesterdept.bsky.social and @weilgroup.bsky.social. Thanks @mattertolife.bsky.social for bringing us here 👍😀🙏

Very attractive position at EMBL Heidelberg

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

Great session with flash talks at #25EngLife. Here @lettermann.bsky.social presenting his work on malaria parasite motility.

📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.

📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.

Now out in ACS Infectious Diseases @pubs.acs.org: joint work from the Lanzer, Tanaka, Schwarz and Cavalcanti-Adam labs within #SFB1129 on the adhesion footprint of malaria-infected infected red blood cells. Read the open access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Few spots left on our @bcube-tud.bsky.social organised hashtag #Symposium: Engineering Life 2025: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬 📆 September 1-3, 2025 📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden Register now (Deadline 31 July 2025): engineering-life-dresden.de

Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s

I love the concept and the design of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA. For the new edition on ACTIVE & PASSIVE, I contributed a piece on "active matter physics" (main text in German, but with a summary in English). Here you can download the PDF: heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/rup...

Very inspiring, but also sort of sad: last of the annual retreats of our wonderful #SFB1129 on pathogens, which just entered its 12th and last year. But there is also some good news: it will end in one year from now with an international conference that everyone will be able to attend👍😀

📣Book alert📣 Finally out with Cambridge University Press: the book by Udo Seifert on "Stochastic thermodynamics". It comprehensively covers many topics, from an introduction to statistical physics to many special subjects such as reaction networks and active particles. Highly recommended 👍👍👍

📢Conference alert📢 Only one week left to register for the Engineering Life 2025 Symposium at Dresden September 1-3. This year's edition focuses on the function of mechanical forces in biology. engineering-life-dresden.de

Upcoming interdisciplinary meeting: Cell Physics 2025 When? October 7-9, 2025 Where? Saarbruecken, Germany Relevant dates? Early-bird deadline: June 30, regular registration by August 31 Several opportunities for short-talks selected from abstracts More info at: cell-physics.uni-saarland.de

Amazing, five of the new ERC Advanced Grants go to Heidelberg, and four of them are physics-related. I also note the strong connections to our clusters of excellence @structures-hd.bsky.social (Michaela Mapelli, Wolfram Pernice) and @cluster3dmm2o.bsky.social (Jana Zaumseil, Wolfram Pernice)👍👍👍

Inspiring talk by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social sky.social‬ in the Heidelberg physics colloquium yesterday. And a great introduction to their latest paper on Min oscillations in @natphys.nature.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02878-w

For both #actin and #Plasmodium aficionados, an amazing discovery by Franziska Hentzschel and @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social: the Arp2/3-complex also exists in Plasmodium and is essential for genome segregation during gametogenesis. Now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com

Many thanks to the organizers for including some biophysics at the Gordon Research Conference on #Malaria at beautiful Barcelona. Many great talks, including the one by Filipa ​Rijo-Ferreira on circadian rhythms in Plasmodium sporozoites. Here the corresponding paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a real pleasure to explore the past and present of fever(s) together with my colleague Ulrich Schwarz from Biophysics yesterday! Thanks to the organisers from InterdisciPlenary Heidelberg for making this event happen!

Pre-announcing the EMBO/EMBL symposium "Mechanobiology Across the Tree of Life", Heidelberg, 9-12 June 2026. It is still very very far away, but save the date 🗓️. With Alba Diz-Munoz, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social, Enrique Rojas. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

If you should happen to be at Heidelberg next Monday (April 28, 7.15 pm in the Old City): Stefanie Gänger @feverprojecthd.bsky.social and myself will speak on fever from the perspectives of history and physics, respectively. Looking forward to interdisciplinary and lively discussions!

📢 Preprint alert 📢 (1/6) Our work on 3D force inference for intestinal organoids is now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Stunning collaboration between @omdrozdowski.bsky.social and @kimboonekamp.bsky.social from the lab of @michaelboutros.bsky.social and with Ulrike Engel. A short🧵...

Lovely start into our new #SFB1638 on cellular membrane remodeling with a two-day kick-off meeting at the International Academic Forum Heidelberg (IWH). Many thanks to our speaker @meineckelab.bsky.social and team for the great organization.

New paper in @biophysj.bsky.social led by @pintupatra.bsky.social on the analysis of two-color superresolution microscopy data, with an application to malaria-infected red blood cells. Collaboration with Lanzer lab in #SFB1129

Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

The German Physical Society #DPG just published a book on "Physics - insights and perspectives" (in German, title translated). It summarizes the current states of all fields of physics, including a section on "Physics and life". The PDF can now be downloaded here: physik-erkenntnisse-perspektiven.de

Awesome talk by @petrsulc.bsky.social today at #BioQuant on self-assembly of DNA- and RNA-origami. Check out e.g. their design of a crystal that avoids kinetic traps while growing doi.org/10.1126/scie...

In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Here some impressions from the many great talks at #DPG2025 at beautiful Regensburg: @lendertgelens.bsky.social, Petra Schwille, Felix Ritort and Martin Lenz

Great work by the group of @cppape.bsky.social on segmenting any kind of biological structure

Great talk by @dimovalab.bsky.social at #BPS2025 on asymmetric membranes. Closing with some advertisement for the upcoming Biomembrane Days 29.9.-1.10.2025 at Berlin

Big shout out to Jian Liu, @shilabanerjee.bsky.social and @simonereber.bsky.social for organizing a great subgroup meeting on Physical Cell Biology at #BPS2025 at Los Angeles. And afterwards a very enjoyable lunch for the speakers😁

So nice to have enthusiastic colleagues like @joergenderlein.bsky.social. Thank you Jörg 👍🙏🏻

There has been much theory work on competition for limited pools, in particular for F-actin network growth, but quantitative experimental data was rare. This new assay now demonstrates the decisive role of turnover. Also instructive comment by Cristian Suarez and David Kovar doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Delighted that our review on modeling of #endothelial and #epithelial #cell monolayer #biomechanics is now published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...! Thanks to all contributors and to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for the support!

Great work from #sfb1129

We are very excited that our in-situ structural analysis of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid assembly cascade is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social!

The 2025 calendar of the German Research Foundation (DFG) is out dfg.de/de/aktuelles... Congrats to @lettermann.bsky.social, whose picture of malaria parasites was selected for November. Imaging data from @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social, funding from DFG priority programme 2332.