The first Discrete Laplacians workshop took place @mpi-cbg.de on June 22nd to 25th, assembling 60 participants, including 9 keynote speakers and 22 contributed speakers. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Otto Hahn Medal for three @mpi-cbg.de researchers: Kristin Böhlig in the group of André Nadler, Alison Kickuth in the group of Jan Brugués @poldresden.bsky.social, Giulio Zucal, from MPI-MiS in Leipzig and now mentored by Türkü Özlüm Çelik and @grill-lab.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

New #preprint: "Nonlinear isotropic odd elasticity" arxiv.org/abs/2605.02476 More from the #PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social: revealing some of the surprising nonlinear mechanical behaviour of active, "odd" solids. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Apply now for this upcoming workshop (June 22-25, 2026) at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social bringing together researchers from a variety of subjects to present and discuss recent advances in the theory and use of discrete Laplacians. plan.events.mpg.de/event/617/

Maximilian Wiesmann from the group of @aidadoesmath.bsky.social talked on the birth of AI at today's Dresden Seniors' Academy. 😮

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced their 2026 Class of SIAM Fellows. One of them is Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, and professor at @ox.ac.uk. Congratulations! 🥳 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Now #published @prxlife.bsky.social: a great Dresden collaboration on lumen mechanics with @chandraniva.bsky.social @markusmukenhirn.bsky.social, Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

New #preprint: "A mechanical bifurcation constrains the evolution of cell sheet folding in the family Volvocaceae" arxiv.org/abs/2603.15171 The next chapter in the #Volvox saga: work done by Valens Tribet during his internship in my group. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

My first manuscript in MPI colours! With @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social, we show that AlphaFold PAE-derived contact probabilities are well calibrated to the fraction of true interface contacts across experimentally determined protein dimers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#proudPI moment: this afternoon, my first student, Maryam Setoudeh, successfully defended her #PhD thesis @tudresden.bsky.social. Picture of happy student and inanely grinning PI provided by @zhaoshh.bsky.social. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

The Division of Biological Physics @mpipks.bsky.social seeks a Research Group Leader in #biophysics, #softmatter physics, or related areas. (Further particulars in the ad.) Apply by the 3rd of April 2026 at pks.mpg.de/bprgl to join us in Dresden!

Our work @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @scadsai.bsky.social fuses representation learning with spatial statistics @iclr-conf.bsky.social enabling #AI for spatial localization patterns: openreview.net/forum?id=09Y...

2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...

Come and join our Discrete Laplacian workshop in Dresden, Germany 🙌! With Karel Devriendt, Otto Sumray, and Giulio Zucal, we are organising the workshop in MPI-CBG, 22-25 Jun 2026. Thanks to the support from Heather Harrington's group at CSBD, MPI! Abstract ddl: 1 Mar 2026 More details follow 🧵

Giulio from the group of Türkü Özlüm Çelik talks on mathematical structures during our current coffee chalk talk series @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social to promote knowledge exchange between disciplines.

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow Program is now open. We look forward to receiving your applications by March 13, 2026! Further information can be found here: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/jobs...

Snowy day @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. ❄️❄️❄️

How does an elastic line buckle within a curved surface? The answer, by @zhaoshh.bsky.social and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social, has now been #published @physrevlett.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s

Watch this video about the work of the research group of @agnestoth.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Agnes and her group work on protein plasticity and evolution. For her work, Agnes recently received the Schering Young Investigator Award 2025! youtu.be/lEpvGu3J63M?...

Modeling spatial point patterns from noisy, incomplete experimental data just got easier! Great work by @domsturm.bsky.social for sparse, noise-robust model inference of point processes 🤩 @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25550

Greeted this morning with the blackboard of math discussion— looks like algebra, topology and data— during tea yesterday @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

With her research group, “Algebraic Topology and Networks in Biology,” Daniela Egas Santander joins @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. Welcome, Daniela! 🎉 @math-mpicbg.bsky.social www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

A new call for the ELBE Visiting faculty program is now open! No matter if you are junior or senior faculty, if you work on math/physics/computer science/ML applied to life sciences, you are welcome to submit an application to come and collaborate with the groups at CSBD! Deadline is November 30th.

Welcome to @mpi-cbg.de, @mpipks.bsky.social and @csbdresden.bsky.social, Fridtjof!

🤩👍🏼💪🏼 Meet #TopoSPAM - a high-performance simulation platform for biological morphogenesis with a friendly Python interface. @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Solve both continuous and discrete active mechanics! Released today: arxiv.org/abs/2509.24905

Two years today! Very grateful 🙏 @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 by the Schering Stiftung for Agnes Toth-Petroczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social. She receives the award for her work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

🤩🤩🤩Absolutely thrilled our work is featured in the Magazine of @maxplanck.de ! Big thanks to the writer and editor 🙏🙏🙏 Never saw our work described so well! Curious? @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de - PDF is freely available, article starts p.36: www.mpg.de/25430399/MPR...

Now #published @pnas.org: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis", a great #biophysics #devbio collaboration led by @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122 @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org

🙏 Very honored to speak at #BuildingBridges2025 on #AI for #Biomedicine. What an amazing lineup of panelists 🤩🤩🤩 Politics and Science working together- Germany, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland - together for future #AI 👍🏼 @hzdr.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

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

Cool paper out by mathematicians studying population dynamics with algebraic geometry @georgysch.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

New #preprint: "Strata of Ecological Coexistence via Grassmannians" with Türkü Özlüm Çelik, Georgy Scholten, Kexin Wang, Giulio Zucal - a great, first collaboration with #mathematics @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165 @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

#GenAI meets perception psychology for better super-resolution microscopy 🤩 Fig.1 says it all! 😎 Fantastic collaboration with @casusscience.bsky.social - work of @zuseschoolsecai.bsky.social students @csbdresden.bsky.social - out now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our scientific computing framework #OpenFPM now has multistage and adaptive time integrators that scale to distributed CPU clusters and GPUs! Happy supercomputing! @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.05331

We are looking for a new Max Planck Director in Biomedical #AI here at @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Excited and looking forward!

🐠🦠Why can’t bacteria swim like fish? At microscopic scales, physics changes — viscosity rules! Researchers at our institute study how microbes like E. coli overcome this challenge with clever strategies like run-and-tumble. Watch our new video: youtu.be/drwCRRD7CGY?...

Now #published @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social: "Impossible ecologies: Interaction networks and stability of coexistence in ecological communities" doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2025.101297! With @yumeng0806.bsky.social, @szhorvat.bsky.social, Carl Modes @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social.

Formulas of Life: article of the @maxplanck.de on the research of Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social. Article in German language: www.mpg.de/24841408/ki-...

Ivo Sbalzarini was interviewed by German science radio @detektorfm.bsky.social and explains our research @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @tudresden.bsky.social to a general audience (in German only): detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...

🔥Just out @EGPGV’25: Parallel visualization of distributed volume data for non-convex decompositions! @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de And the best: code is contributed upstream 🤩 diglib.eg.org/items/3aed38...

Now #published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion: "Mechanics of poking a cyst" - the first paper from the PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Funding for Danai Deligeorgaki from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. She will spend her postdoctoral time with @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Heather Harrington @math-mpicbg.bsky.social at the @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Thirty-six institute staff members in nine tems participated in the REWE Team Challenge Dresden on Wednesday evening, May 28. Congratulations to all participants! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Are you looking for homologous sequences but alignments do not seem to work? SHARK is available as a webserver: compare sequences or search against precomputed IDR datasets: bio-shark.org @narjournal.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Aida Maraj @aidadoesmath.bsky.social selected as fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg @maxplanck.de. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Deep learning tools predict variants in disordered regions with lower sensitivity. Just published by FedericaLuppino, @swlenz.bsky.social and WillisChow @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"Unbuckling" in a minimal model of cell monolayers under compression: work by Chandraniva Guha Ray and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social now highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion by Physical Review Letters! doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.118402