Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.

Dynamic Gene Regulatory Network Inference with Interpretable, Biophysically-Motivated Neural ODEs doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Deciphering Global Patterns of Marine Microbial Community Assembly and Network Stability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677047v1

🚨Starting in 30 minutes (Friday 12/09 15:30 EU), Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 PopDyn is back! Tomorrow, Friday 12/09 15:30 EU, Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

The 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships applications are open, offering early-career scholars intellectual freedom, transdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers, and a competitive salary with research and collaboration funds. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Ilya Nemenman, Pankaj Mehta: Randomness with constraints: constructing minimal models for high-dimensional biology https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03765 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03765 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.03765

Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org! #phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬 Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

Disentangling the cost of gene expression doi.org/10.21203/rs....

🚨 Friday 12/09 15:30 EU, Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110 This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

closing at the end of this week!

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products. Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!

Nonlinear memory in cell-division dynamics across species #PNAS by Shijie Zhang, Chenyi Fei, and Jörn Dunkel www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How did differentiation evolve to allow for complex multicellular systems? In this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social‬ paper, Boolean networks are used to answer long-standing questions in the evolution of cell type diversity. @wcratcliff.bsky.social d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/115269531/j....

Höllring, K., Nuić, L., Rogić, L., ..., Hubert, M., & Smith, A. S. (2024). Capturing the mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation in models of epithelium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(45), e2308126121. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/cCmDwwk

#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7

Structuring complexity by mapping the possible in microbial ecosystems -in Current Opinion in Microbiology from @dbajic.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

PMMH seminar. Friday 05/09 at 11:00 in the meeting room You may also watch on Zoom (link upon request). Irène Nagle of TU Delft, Netherlands Mechanics of collagen networks with active cellular inclusions

Quantification and Determination of Compatible Bacterial Consortia in #MicrobialBiotech enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

Link to her first first-author paper, Bayesian Parameter Inference for Epithelial Mechanics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bayesian Force Inference is now on GitHub! Together with GetVertex, an ImageJ/Fiji plugin for extracting input data from skeletonized images, this enables code-free quantification of forces during epithelial development. github.com/Sugimuralab/...

Fun collaborative project with Istvan Z. Kiss (London) and Peter Simon to understand how higher-order interactions affect the dynamics of contagion processes now out in J Math Bio: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

This paper in J Neuroscience provides evidence that some of the heterogeneity in dopamine signals in the striatum is related to value decay - interesting idea, I hadn't encountered this before: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

#MeetTheSpeakers and their #GloMiNe2025 talks: Manuel Fankhauser (Atlantic event) on philanthropic role in preserving "invisible biodiversity" Safarina Malik (Pacific event) on mapping Indonesia's social microbiome from rural to urban areas 2/n

Luciano, M., Tomba, C., Roux, A., & Gabriele, S. (2024). How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions. Nature Reviews Physics, #EpithelialMechanicsReview www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available! Please RT!

An exciting new paper from the lab! Check it out:

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

Excited to see this published with additional data following our preprint a while back. Cool combination (in our biased view) of controlled TF expression and machine learning to decode chromatin sensitivity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change? Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels. With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Genetic “expiry-date” circuits control lifespan of synthetic scavenger bacteria for safe bioremediation doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

The what, when, where, and why of wrinkly morphology in biofilms -in Biophysics Rev pubs.aip.org/aip/bpr/arti...

Time-resolved experiments are powerful and information rich, but are difficult to integrate with MD simulations Carl and Simone developed a version of Bayesian-Maximum Entropy reweighting that generates time-dependent priors from low-dim representations of MD sims www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Babu, N. K., Sreepadmanabh, M., Dutta, S., & Bhattacharjee, T. (2024). Interplay of geometry and mechanics in epithelial wound healing. Physical Review E, 110(5), 054411. #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

A Fitness Entropy Compensation effect set the trade-off between growth and gene expression in cell populations doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Krishna, S., Gopinath, A., & Bhattacharjee, S. M. (2022). Ordering and topological defects in social wasps' nests. Scientific reports, 12(1), 12901. #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maroudas-Sacks, Y., Garion, L., Shani-Zerbib, L., Livshits, A., Braun, E., & Keren, K. (2021). Topological defects in the nematic order of actin fibres as organization centres of Hydra morphogenesis. Nature Physics, 17(2), Article 2. #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BugSigDB-ing from Scratch by Anne-Marie Sharp #outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social annemariesharp.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/b...

One last chance, course is not fully subscribed yet! #biophysics #patchclamp #TIRF

Guillamat, P., Blanch-Mercader, C., Pernollet, G., Kruse, K., & Roux, A. (2022). Integer topological defects organize stresses driving tissue morphogenesis. Nature materials, 21(5), 588–597. #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...