It's today at 16:00 CET! Prof. Rumiana Dimova will talk about "Phase separation in biological systems: from membranes to biomolecular condensates". The first 1h of the lecture is open to the public. 👇 More details below: #HorizonEurope #MSCA

Looks like a great @embo.org workshop coming in September: “Lipid Code to Life”, with a who’s who of lipid #biochemistry… (e.g. @dimovalab.bsky.social @holthuislab.bsky.social @sciezgin.bsky.social etc ) More info and registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip... #lipids #biophysics

🧵1/5 ❄️Last week, our lab had the pleasure of attending a wonderful Winter School in the Austrian Alps🏔️⛷️ Huge thanks to the organizers - students and postdocs from three fantastic groups: 🔬Silvia @vignolinilab.bsky.social 🔬Nico @bruns-lab.bsky.social 🔬Ulli Steiner @merkleinstitute.bsky.social

Want to learn more about membrane-condensate interactions? Maybe the lecture series of our @comeincell.bsky.social doctoral network would be of interest to you. 👉 the next lecture is on February 16: www.comeincell.org/2026-02-16-r...

How do biomolecular condensates🫧 interact with membranes? We show that dielectric permittivity contrast between coexisting phases directly governs condensate wetting behavior. 👉 preprint: bit.ly/4qBmVRx Permittivity matters.🧪🫧

Monday blues no more with these online events by @comeincell.bsky.social (coordination: @dimovalab.bsky.social) · 8 Dec, 2pm CET: “Drugging #Condensates & Drug Discovery” Dewpoint workshop · 15 Dec 2pm CET: “Life in #Biotech” Dewpoint workshop tinyurl.com/39rpaf84 #CellBiology #Biophysics

It was a great honor to deliver a plenary lecture at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society! 🇧🇷 eventos.galoa.com.br/sbbf-2025/pa... Loved the friendly atmosphere and the gorgeous surroundings in Campinas @unicampoficial.bsky.social! Huge thanks to the organizers!

It was a pleasure to deliver a course lecture together with Leonel @malacridalab.bsky.social on Phase separation at membrane interphases: Biomolecular condensates in Actions at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society www.sbbf.org.br Thanks to Antonio Costa Filho for organizing!

🎤 Sought-after everywhere! After delivering a great and crystal-clear talk at #BiomembraneDays2025 on asymmetric membranes in ternary mixtures, @markusdeserno.bsky.social also spoke in Barcelona. 🌍

🚀The #BiomembraneDays2025 concluded WE THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS & OUR SPONSORS🙏🙏🙏 @abberior.rocks Critical Insights in Biophysics Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation @dfg.de @jcellsci.bsky.social @lipotype.bsky.social @naniontech.bsky.social @picoquant.bsky.social Refeyn Ltd @biologists.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

Last talk in the #BiomembraneDays25 (before the best poster awards @lipotype.bsky.social ) is given by Thomas Weikl who explains nano-dome membrane deformations by #Piezo2 @mpici.bsky.social

Ilya @leventallab.bsky.social is clarifying the puzzles of biomembrane asymmetries amplifying our knowledge with comprehensive lipidomics #BiomembraneDays25

The last session of the #BiomembraneDays25 starts with Petra Schwille presenting minimal systems for cell division @comeincell.bsky.social @syncelleu.bsky.social

Georg Pabst presented how lipid asymmetry in membranes can modulate the performance of proteins like OmpLA and the importance of ions regulating this #BiomembraneDays25

Helge @ewerslab.bsky.social knows not only how to organize conferences (#BiomembraneDays25) but also how septins organize. Exceptional imaging #ExpansionMicroscopy of cytokinesis

Misha Kozlov presented a pressure/tension propagation model supported by the experiments of the lab of Raya Sorkin @sorkinlab.bsky.social #BiomembraneDauys25 @comeincell.bsky.social

Rainer Böckmann expanded on the (never ending story) about the effect of cholesterol on bending rigidity of membranes #BiomembraneDays25

Kandice @leventallab.bsky.social showed a great construct for resolving membrane organization around transmembrane domains #BiomembraneDays25

Alf Honigman clarified condensation and receptor segregation at cell junctions at the #BiomembraneDays25

Padmini Rangamani enforced the theory talks at the #BiomembraneDays25 focusing on curvature generation by the glycocalyx

Giacomo Fiorin discusses role of cholesterol and asymmetry on membrane stiffness at the #BiomembraneDays25

Jan @steinkuehler.bsky.social is now exciting us with electrically excitable membranes at the #BiomembraneDays25

Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25

Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25

We start off the last day of the #BiomembraneDays25 with a lecture of Jay Groves on protein condensation at membranes.

Another welcome distraction from the dissertation awaits right next to the office: #BioMembraneDays25 are such a great gathering, spanning membrane and lipid #biophysics to physiology. The food is outstanding too 🤗. Thanks to organizers @ewerslab.bsky.social @dimovalab.bsky.social and Thomas Weikl!

Petia Vlahovska explained the contributions of viscous dissipation to membrane fluctuations and their increasing importance in analyzing data from small vesicles and interpretation of #NSE data #BiomembraneDays25 Check her paper Faizi et al PNAS 2024

Seraphine Wegner showed how to make membranes talk - light-based communication at the #BiomembraneDays25 @sigsyncell.bsky.social @comeincell.bsky.social

Omer Dushek @tcell.bsky.social starts the afternoon session of the #BiomembraneDays25 with a talk on CAR-T cell sensitivity and optimization

Puzzling temperature-responsive membrane rods in cells now presented by Oliver Rocks with work by @pm-mueller.bsky.social at the #BiomembraneDays25

The stunning results have to be credited to my great former and current group members! @mpici.bsky.social @mangiarotti.bsky.social

Second morning session starts with Ewa Paluch sharing her insight in the control of cell shape. #BiomembraneDays2025

Lu Tiemei just presented her work from the @spruijtlab.bsky.social showing coacervate wetting and penetrating membranes #BiomembraneDays25

Frederic Heberle now presents his work on modulated phases in bilayers at #BiomembraneDays2025

Claudia Steinem now with her newest observations in pore-spanning membrane systems. #BiomembraneDays2025

We start the second day of the #BiomembraneDays25 with impressive results on phase separation in the yeast plasma membrane by Roland Wedlich-Söldner

Charu Sharma from the group of Gijsje Koenderink and @ceesdekker.bsky.social is now showing how to drive dynaminA-assisted division of minimal cells #BiomembraneDays25

Bert Poolman drawing our focus to a fundamental fact before examining the consequences of in vibo phase separation of membrane proteins in E. coli. #BiomembraneDays2025

The great Patricia Bassereau continues with ESCRTIII-mediated membrane fission involved in HIV viral budding #BiomembraneDays25

Javier Montenegro introduced boron superchaotropes as membrane transporters at the #BiomembraneDays25 @montenegrolabo.bsky.social @comeincell.bsky.social

Tension rules ... and is a main player at the #BiomembraneDays25 as shown by @agatawitkowska.bsky.social for neurotransmission

We continue the #BiomembraneDays25 with Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social who presented nice work on mechanosensors and membrane tension.

Eva Sevcsik now presents her work on the investigation of protein-lipid interactions through micropatterned surfaces. #BiomembraneDays2025

Berlin native Oxfordian Carla Kirschbaum now presents exciting mass spectrometry data in lipid transport proteins. #BiomembraneDays2025

Great talk from @sciezgin.bsky.social (aka komsu) at the #BiomembraneDays25 on correlating biophysical properties like packing and hydration to biomatkers for disease

Now Yifan Ge from the Chinese Academy of Science will present her work on three-phase prewetting in mitochodrial nucleoid assembly. #BiomembraneDays25

@continiclau.bsky.social at the #BiomembtaneDays25 introduced us to a variety of synthetic-cell-like systems showing motility, contraction and deformation @comeincell.bsky.social

The #BiomembraneDays25 started off with a talk by Reinhard Lipowsky @mpici.bsky.social discussing, among others the role of tension in membrane remodeling and wetting.

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10