🌱 New beginnings, fresh faces! As our pilot phase wraps up, the school is ready to grow and thrive. We’re thrilled to welcome 18 new fellows to the #MatterToLife Faculty 🎉 Each brings exciting perspectives from across interdisciplinary research. mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/355008/new-f...

Quick reminder: Join us tomorrow as our new Fellow Franziska Lautenschläger takes the stage in the MtL Lecture Series! Free to attend, virtual, and open to all 🙌 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 Last chance to apply! Applications for our URO program close tomorrow, October 1st. Don't miss this opportunity: mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/uro-research... 👉 Funded 10-week research internship 👉 Learn from esteemed scientists 👉 No prior research experience required

Our PhD candidate Irene completed her lab rotations with MtL Fellows Wolfram Zimmermann from @uni-goettingen.de and the University Medical Center Göttingen and David Zwicker @zwickergroup.bsky.social from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. Read the full article 🙌

👏 And that's a wrap for Fall Days 2025 @mpip-mainz.mpg.de! We thank all the speakers, presenters, participants, and our hosts @graeterlab.bsky.social @landfesterdept.bsky.social @weilgroup.bsky.social, for making this event lively and the science vibrant. Next stop Spring Days 2026 in Marburg!🥳

⏳ Applications for our Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO) program close soon! Gain hands-on research experience in Germany & explore interdisciplinary science with Matter to Life. Apply now: mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/uro-research...

Meet Franziska Lautenschläger from Saarland University @uni-saarland.de! She is one of our new Fellows joining the Matter to Life faculty in October and will share insights into her research during her talk on “The Cytoskeleton Steering Cells” 👏 👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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 👍😀🙏

Our #mattertolife Fall Days have just started 👏🏻 Thank you @mpip-mainz.mpg.de for hosting us! @graeterlab.bsky.social @landfesterdept.bsky.social @weilgroup.bsky.social

Two weeks in and our new students have been busy! ✨ 🎉 Welcome dinners at each study site 🔬 Interdisciplinary research with @stefanklumpp.bsky.social — mapping themselves across subjects 🤝 Virtual team-building Week 2 brought prep courses in math & chemistry. The welcome course continues… Good luck!

📢 Today’s lecture has been canceled. A new date will be announced soon on our website and social media. We apologize for the short notice and thank you for your understanding 🙏

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Ready for your own scientific adventure? Applications for our Undergraduate Research Opportunities close soon. Join our info session next week to learn more about the program and ask us anything! Register now at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... and join us on 16 September at 9 am CEST!

Quick reminder to register for our lecture next week: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👏 Join us in welcoming the newest #mattertolife PhD candidates who are embarking on the Masters/PhD program with us. From over 10 countries and different disciplines, their strength would be their diversity. All the best 🚀 #maxplanckschools #WelcomeStudents #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Can tiny droplets hold clues to the origin of life? 🙌 The MtL Lecture Series continues with a talk on “Droplets Come to Life” by MtL Fellow David Zwicker @zwickergroup.bsky.social from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization! 🎉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Integrated MSc/PhD Graduate Program applications are now open! mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/application Get an impression about our program and science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ni1.... Apply now and become part of our vibrant student body. Spread the word!

The first info session takes place tomorrow, August 26, at 4 pm CEST! Sign up now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... We look forward to your questions!

Will you be at the #ACSFall2025 today? Want to learn more about Matter to Life, our program and how to get in? Come and check out our booth at the graduate fair. We will be there between 2.30 and 4.30 pm (local time). Hope to see, talk and inspire many of you! @acs.org

Preparing your application for our URO program? Join our info session on 26 August at 4 pm CEST for insights and guidance! Register now at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Applications close on 1 October 2025.

The MtL Lecture Series is taking a summer break in August ☀️ We'll be back on 17 September with a lecture by David Zwicker @zwickergroup.bsky.social. Sign up at mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/news-and-eve... You could watch some of our past lectures in the meantime: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Join one of our free info sessions to learn more about URO directly from coordinators, meet former participants, and ask us anything about the program and your application!

📣 Applications for URO 2026 are now OPEN! 👉 How about a funded research internship in Germany? Spend 10 weeks in the lab of one of our faculty Fellows! Work alongside renowned scientists and gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge methods 🙌 mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/uro-research...

How to build life from non-living components? Or perhaps a blueprint of #MatterToLife! syntheticcell.eu/a-recipe-for... Check out the recent study from @boekhovenlab.bsky.social and @hniederho.bsky.social, @tum.de www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...

What minimalism in a living organism looks like! A newly discovered microbe 'Sukunaarchaeum' blurs the line between virus and bacteria! www.science.org/content/arti...

Do not miss out the online lecture by MtL Fellow @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social, happening in a few hours. There is still time to register!

The recent publication from MtL fellow @hymanlab.bsky.social has described a quantitative framework for condensate stability and dissolution, in the context of RNA binding protein MEX-5 and P-granules. Congratulations to MtL Student Silja Zedlitz for being a co-author! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our lecture series with Andrea Musacchio is happening this Wednesday! Please share 😊

Next in the MtL Lecture Series: MtL Fellow Andrea Musacchio from @mpi-dortmund.bsky.social and @unidue.bsky.social on: "Building up from scratch the large and very complex molecular machine required for chromosome segregation". Register now at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

MtL Fellow Andrea Musacchio from MPI Dortmund will be giving a talk on 'Feedback control of cell division' on 01.07, Tuesday hosted by BZH. The talk will be in SR 25, INF 328, ground floor. All interested are welcome

Congratulations to MtL ALumni Jonas Wilhelm for being awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medals by the Max Planck Society for his doctoral thesis 🙌 🎖️ www.mr.mpg.de/14648335/ott...

From the Human Genome Project to now the Synthetic Genome Project! From reading what is written in our genome to us becoming the authors. The Welcome trust has kickstarted this ambitious project to develop the tools and expertise to synthesise a chromosome. wellcome.org/news/researc... ‪

Why do things stick? The physics of adhesion and adsorption in biological systems as explained by #MatterToLife Fellow Prof. Karin Jacobs from ‪@uni-saarland.de‬ av.tib.eu/media/67581

🥳 We celebrated the first-ever graduation ceremony of the #maxplanckschools at Bildungscampus in Heilbronn– Congratulations to all MPS graduates, and especially to our very own Brianda Santini, Kevin Kaub, Leila Abbaspour, and Oliver Drozdowski! Read more: www.maxplanckschools.org/551712/gradu...

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Next up in the MtL Lecture Series: Marcus Müller from @uni-goettingen.de explores how modeling membrane dynamics reveals key mechanisms behind vesicle fusion and fission in neurotransmission: "From Fusion to Fission: Insights from Modeling" Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The MtL Lecture Series continues with talks by Marcus Müller from @uni-goettingen.de‬, Andrea Musacchio from @mpi-dortmund.bsky.social & @unidue.bsky.social‬, and David Zwicker from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. Register now on our website!

Congratulations to Matter to Life fellows, Christine Selhuber-Unkel and @kgoepfrich.bsky.social for their successful application to the cluster of Excellence! 👏🎆 www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

This year’s MtL Spring Days in Heilbronn brought our network together to share ideas, research, and inspiration. We thank the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung for their support and for sharing their vision for the future of science. Read the full recap:

If you are a female scientist conducting research in the field of (inter)active materials or know colleagues who do so? Then check out www.dwi.rwth-aachen.de/seite/applic... and spread the word! Application deadline: June 8, 2025

A unique publication indeed! What started as an assignment for a course turned to a publication. Congratulations to the all the authors. We are proud to have @heikeboehm.bsky.social as part of our #MattertoLife faculty, who has empowered and guided the students. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Who adjusts to what? Physics to Life or Life to Physics?? An interesting panel discussion as part of the lecture series 'The Fine Tuned Universe'. Register now (write to [email protected]) for this online event. @caslmu.bsky.social

You missed our last lecture? Watch it now on YouTube: youtu.be/qVl3Vl0eQoY

Wanted to learn more on "Nonequlibrium Field Theories and Stochastic Dynamics". Now you can from the expert himself! @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social. Prof Erwin Frey's lecture series is now available! www.youtube.com/@physicsofli...

Reminder: Our next MtL lecture is just around the corner. Don’t miss Andreas Janshoff’s talk tomorrow! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In this latest work from #MatterToLife PhD candidate, Florian Auberman, in the group of Joachim Spatz, they have developed a microfluidc platform to better understand the heterogeneity of NK cells, which in turn will help immunotherapy. maint.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The 50th anniversary of German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ)! Speakers include Matter to Life fellows stefanhelllabs.bsky.social, hymanlab.bsky.social, Petra Schwille. Registrations open. www.zellbiologie.de/dgz-internat...

Next week, it is time for another Matter to Life lecture! MtL Fellow Andreas Janshoff from the University of Göttingen will speak about “The role of polarity in tissue mechanics”. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This work was my main PhD project @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @mattertolife.bsky.social. I am proud that we can present it now! If you are interested, please check out our preprint on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out this great conference! Learn more about the speakers and program at 👉esbs2025.physik.uni-muenchen.de. The registration is free!