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We’re looking for a technician to join our lab in Dresden - help manage the lab and work with us on a cool 'stem cell zoo' comparison projects! 🐁🚶‍♀️🦏🐒 Apply by May 21! tud.link/wbqrwm

Excited to announce our new study (w/ @maxkrummel.bsky.social) published today @nature.com: Macrophages “hold our living identities” by taking tiny bites from living cells and presenting this information to CD8 T cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunology #cellbiology @immunox.bsky.social

1 week to go, send your applications #sciencejobs

A fantastic #postdoc opportunity to join us in Dresden @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social or to join @biohub.org. Apply by the 20th of May!

🤓🔬 Curious about a career at the interface of biology and physics? Check out our new video! Hear from an MSc student, PhD student & postdoc and learn what drew them to PoL and why we are a unique place to do interdisciplinary science. Part 1/2. Watch in full on YouTube 👉 youtu.be/I1n-F1WEn2Y?...

Starting our second phase at Physics of Life Dresden full of energy! ⚡️But who are we, and what is our research about? 🎥We are releasing a series of exciting short films to answer these questions and more 🎬 Curious? Check them out🤓 Full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHm6... Part 1/2

Sign up by 27 May for the EMBO Solutions #training "How to write a scientific paper" delivered by @embopress.org editors at the upcoming meeting: www.embl.org/about/info/c... 🧪 @embolableadership.bsky.social @embl.org #EESMicrotubules #EMBOevents

Neubau für Erforschung der Grundlagen des Lebens: 🧬 @wissenschaftsrat.de hat die Förderung eines neuen Gebäudes für die #TUDresden empfohlen. Das Exzellenzcluster @poldresden.bsky.social bekommt eine herausragende Forschungsinfrastruktur, um die Grundlagen des Lebens zu ergründen. ℹ️ tud.link/vhazar

🎉 A huge milestone for Dresden and the wider biophysics community! 🔬The Center for the Organization of Living Matter (COLM) at TUD will become the new home of PoL, and starts construction in 2027. This new building will be purpose-built for novel and interdisciplinary collaborations!

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

🚨 How do mechanical forces shape a developing organ? Our new #ScienceAdvances @science.org study, led by the amazing @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, reveals a Piezo1-driven hydraulic mechanism, where mechanical cues control cell volume to guide cardiac formation ❤️🐟 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Again, now with official call 🤓 Come join us in #dresden! Happy to have a chat if you need more information! #xenopus #labtech #science #careers #work #TUDresden

☕ @joshifrenster.bsky.social @amartinezarias.bsky.social & co utilize mosaic mouse #gastruloids as a model of cell fitness & competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which #CellCompetition occurs in mammalian #embryogenesis. bit.ly/4cBmfGK

Was just asked to spread the word about this position. Structural biology and Chemical Biology positions in Barcelona, one of the great cities of the world! www.irbbarcelona.org/sites/defaul...

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

Will someone give this man a Faculty job already?! #AskingForAFriend

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Come #work with us!

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🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

I wrote this one up for my newsletter! It is indeed such a fun study. Just in case anyone is paywalled from Sci Am but still wants a fun lil breakdown of the paper:

On April 28, we will come together for the next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #cellpolarity & #cellmigration, organized by Virginie Lecaudey & Markus Engstler. Talks by @srishti-rangarajan.bsky.social, @rocha-lab.bsky.social, @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social, @xaviertrepat.bsky.social. Join us!

Because #gastruloids allow measurements, they can teach us about quantitative traits. Exploring #CellCompetiion @joshifrenster.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... Biology as a matter of #Genes #Cells and #Numbers but of much that is #NotInTheGenes

New paper! Self-generated gradients in macrophage chemotaxis. Just published, by the esteemed Abhi Kiran and many collaborators. A short skytorial follows. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

👨‍🔬🧬Are you a bachelor student curious about the physics behind biological systems and living matter? The international 'Physics of Life' MSc @cmcb-tud.bsky.social is taught entirely in English, tuition-free, and trains the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists! Learn more: tud.link/ak1hjt

🥳 Excited to share our #diatom work out in @pnas.org. In a great collaboration with @nic-poulsen.bsky.social and @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social we show that diatoms modulate the curvature of their paths by dynamic switching of their cell–substrate contact sites. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506122123

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

New preprint from the lab! How do tissue shapes influence cell fate decisions? By manipulating brain organoid geometry, we show that lumen rounding directs apical progenitor division mode and promotes the emergence of basal progenitors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

👇👇👇 If are you excited about helping us recruit and train the next generation of scientists, don't hesitate to apply! The @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is a great place to work. 🙂

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

Since #durotaxis was described >25 years ago, most studies report cells migrating from soft → stiff New work from my team at @ub.edu (in collaboration with D. Odde's lab) suggests we may have been missing the point all along... 🔥 Check out our new preprint here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us 😊

New piece on the mechanics of squamous epithelial shape transition highlighting the role of tensile forces, force transmission by Dumpy & elastic resistance by the ECM in the developing wing. Terrific work from Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social with Alex Erlich🍾👏: tinyurl.com/2p58b3w3

Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More info here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/ #LifeSciences #research #funding

This is a great opportunity drop us a line if you are interested

🚨Attention #postdocs! Applications for our Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program open on April 1. 👩‍🔬Are you an early career researcher interested in working at the interface of biology & physics? We offer a 3+ year position, generous resources, and mentoring opportunities! Apply: tud.link/y3djda

Grateful to have been awarded an #HFSPResearchGrants by @hfspo.bsky.social With @jrmarmor.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social Charlie Duclut @institutcurie.bsky.social & @djcohen.bsky.social @princeton.edu we will explore hidden roles of organs as electrochemical organizers of #morphogenesis 🤓

What happens when scientific debate turns into personal attacks?​ 🧪 A new EMBO Reports Science & Society article explores how hype, #ethics and “dark PR”​ can collide in public #science debates: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00579-2#ethics#science#LifeSciences #research

🎉 And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who visited our #conference booth at the DPG Spring meeting @dpgphysik.bsky.social, hosted this year at none other than @tudresden.bsky.social! 🧑‍🔬We greeted researchers and industry experts alike, showcasing our new flyers, booklets, and microscopy data in VR!

#DBfeature Revisiting three 1950s studies where Abercrombie and colleagues introduced timelapse microscopy and quantitative measurements, leading to key discoveries in cell motility By Alan Love and Yoshinari Yoshida tinyurl.com/mtfdvc35

Join us for a wonderful interaction with the virologist MJ Amorim at the CBR. Virus are helping us to uncover fascinating cell biology of centrosomes and cilia, and at the same time better understand host-pathogen interactions and how those can be targeted. Please spread to those interested!

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

Fantastic news! 🥳 @tudresden.bsky.social continues as University of Excellence!

PoL is at the DPG @dpgphysik.bsky.social spring meeting in Dresden. Visit us in Tent C until Thursday afternoon! Special thanks to the @brugueslab.bsky.social for the cool data on our Apple Vision Pro devices! Come check it out 🤓🎉

the deadline is coming soon👇 don't miss it, we are looking forward to welcoming all teleost (not just zebrafish 😉) afficionados in Vienna! 🙂🐟🐠🤓

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

Apply now: Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium 2026 in São Paulo (Aug 25–27). For early/mid-career researchers across the Americas. Travel fully funded. Apply by Apr 15: https://ow.ly/ZzMy50Yqb4i #NASEMCapacity #LatinAmerica #LAConnections

Sheep and pig #gastruloids, @IftachN: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The accumulating knowledge of the relationship between #SCBEMs and #Embryos, allow us to learn about species similarities and differences in gastrulation and body plan elaboration.

Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!