(1/n) Super excited to share that our preprint is out today in @natsmb.nature.com with a new name "Integrated MINFLUX tracking reveals two distinct chromatin dynamics classes across cell types" and more than 2x more data: www.nature.com/articles/s41... See also MIT News news.mit.edu/2026/how-chr...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... An insighful study, leveraging MINFLUX to study chromatin dynamics by the @andersshansen.bsky.social lab @natsmb.nature.com . I am left wondering what if how we model chromatin with polymer simualtions needs rethinking, but surely many interesting findings here.

Join us at the LS2 #Theory #across #Biology chalk talk symposium! 12 June 2026 in Bern, CH. @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social No movies that fail, no Mac to PC issues. Only the best ideas and exchange across biology from evolution and ecology to physics of life. meetings.ls2.ch/theory-acros...

Kinetic proofreading as a mechanism for transcriptional specificity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Very nice follow up to their review from last year genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/1... Non-equilibrium models may be key to understanding specificity in transcriptional regulation!

Postdoc opening with us at EPFL! Experimental project on how ATP driven chaperone cycles keep proteins out of equilibrium. We will quantify energy use, kinetics, and functional outcomes, including clients whose native-like functional state is stable only by sustained chaperone action.

Our work on the interplay between loop extrusion and chromatin mechanics is finally out in @physrevresearch.bsky.social . Congrats @hosseinsalari.bsky.social for the hard work ! 👏 journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

Come on join us! We are searching for the next technical associate to join our lab ~Summer 2026. This could be a great position for someone who is graduating this spring and is looking for 2 more years of research experience before starting their PhD: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

The EMBO Young Investigator Network consists of young investigators, installation grantees and global investigators. 🧪 Find more information on the individual programmes here: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/embo-young-investigator-network/ #LifeSciences #research #funding

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

See this recent paper by @andersshansen.bsky.social that discovers similar microcompartmentalization during mitotic exit: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An incredible ICTP initiative is our Postgraduate Diploma Programme. Rigorous one-year pre-PhD training for students from the Global South. I have personally seen this program transform the lives of those in the quant life sciences. Due Feb. 28 2026. Please share widely. www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...

Since more than a decade, our group has been exploring chemically active droplets, which are exciting since their size can be controlled. Yet, we still do not fully understand this control even in the simplest models. Until a new preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2512.02542) spearheaded by postdoc Guido...

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

I am honored and proud to work with my amazing group @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social 🥰 🧬. Thanks to all my colleagues for the wonderful scientific environment. And thank you @kboes.bsky.social for preparing this superb video! 🤩

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I’m very excited to start this project — it brings together ideas that matured over many years and opens a long-term path for innovation in RNA modelling. 🍾 🧬

One of our founding directors Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social will become @embl.org Director General: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Wonderful to see the beautiful preprint from Sabate et al now published - TADs are also dynamic structures in human cells, with remarkably similar parameters between mESCs and HCT116 cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two 2-year postdoc positions in my theory group — for studying the interplay between metabolism and morphogenesis at the edge of the Calanques and the Mediterranean. More information can be found on: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/381176 #biophysics

Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A🧵👇

Thanks a lot to @elisecutts.bsky.social for nicely highlighting and putting in context our article! It was very interesting to discuss together, notably about the analogies between the emergence of order in Hydra and other physical phenomena.

Great work! Congratulations you all & especially to @carldmodes.bsky.social who joined today after a lot of arm twisting by Caren...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our beautiful Hydra made the cover!!! 😍😍😍 An experiment performed by Pavel Mejstrik with a HCR protocol by @giuliaserafini.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social lab @mpi-cbg.de Actin fibers in blue, nuclei in orange.

Our first #Hydra paper. @anaisbailles.bsky.social all the way, with crucial theory contributions from Carl Modes and @zechnerlab.bsky.social Hydra maintenance by Heino Andreas and HCR by Giulia Serafini. Teamwork. Many thanks to the generous Hydra research community.

Stretching the immortal Hydra. Publication by @paveltomancak.bsky.social group with Carl Modes @mpi-cbg.de & @zechnerlab.bsky.social shows how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties. @anaisbailles.bsky.social @pnas.org www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

We are searching for an AI researcher in lab automation, statistical ML and (theoretical) physics AI for bio/med. Expression of interest and nominations welcome!!!

We are looking for a research assistant to join our lab and support ongoing projects with genome engineering in mouse embryonic stem cells! Please get in touch if you are interested. www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

(1/n) Thread @matteomazzocca.bsky.social @domenicnarducci.bsky.social Simon Grosse-Holz @jessematthias.bsky.social preprint Q: how does chromatin move? Using MINFLUX, SPT & SRLCI, we track chromatin dynamics across 7 orders of magnitude in time to provide answers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many congratulations to Anne for defending her PhD this week…excellent results and presentation! We wish you all the best for your future career!

We are finalizing the program of the @cecamevents.bsky.social RNA modelling across scales www.cecam.org/workshop-det... at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, May 19-22. Please note that we still have a few slots for in person attendance. We will accept applications for the next few weeks, until fully booked!

Come to #Prague for #Woodstock2025. What is it? A scientific conference unlike any other. Think #BurningMan or #MusicFestival but #science themed. It'll have two parts - decentralised sessions spread in #Prague (sightsee as you move around) & #campsite event to wrap it up (1/7)

"Cacio e pepe" physics: In arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536v1, eight Italian scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems explain the physics behind a perfect dish of "cacio e pepe" and how to eschew the dreaded "mozzarella phase" - work featured @nytimes.com.

Congratulations Tommaso for an excellent PhD defense! Very well done!

Excited to share our new work with Frank Jülicher on noise control & concentration buffering in intracellular condensates! There has been confusion about these concepts, which we aim to address in this paper. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Starting the new season of seminars in Molecular and Statistical Biophysics at SISSA! Gareth Tribello today gave a talk with title “Reconnaissance Metadynamics Rides Again”

Please share! There are two postdoc opportunities at the Molecular and Statistical Biophysics group at SISSA. Join us in beautiful Trieste! More information at msb.sissa.it/join-us/

Excited to share James Jusuf's preprint: By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%) We quantify mESC 36k loops: <loops> are generally rare (2.3%) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Post-doc opportunity alert! Join the Molecular and Statistical Biophysics group at SISSA. Choose your mentor from Giovanni Bussi, Cristian Micheletti, or Angelo Rosa, or collaborate across these groups. www.bussilab.org/joinus#postd... #joinus Please reshare!

Exciting news! As of today, our group is part of SISSA in Trieste. Time to say THANK YOU to all current and past group members, collaborators and mentors and to @mpicbg.bsky.social for hosting us for 8 amazing years! If you are interested in working with us in Trieste, please get in touch!