Next week, the Biomembrane Days 2025 conference will begin. Many thanks to the organizers @dimovalab.bsky.social, Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl for their great effort in bringing the community together in Berlin. I look forward to seeing everyone there! events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

Interested in doing a PhD in my group? I have an opening for a PhD student to work on understanding and designing nanomedicine-membrane interactions! Apply here: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

A new twist for DNA and reservoir computing? Our new work: Directed evolution effectively selects for DNA based physical reservoir computing networks capable of multiple tasks arxiv.org/abs/2509.04000 Led by @tanmaypandey.bsky.social

To a great group retreat, science and lab organization.

Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻 I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️ #research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau

In my lab we combine semiconductor technology with synthetic cells and today we came our goal a bit closer. In addition I always thought that membrane experiments should be done in a cleanroom because ultimately it's a surface science.

White text on white background instructing LLMs to give positive reviews is apparently now common enough to show up in searches for boilerplate text.

Just spoke with PhD student Olga Rook. She did a survey on public attitudes to synthetic cells, see journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Overall she finds great support, with only ~10% of people objecting to synthetic cell research and applications.

Our groundbreaking Dark Sectioning technique is now published in Nature Methods! 🎉 It supercharges existing imaging systems: 🔬 Widefield → Confocal 🔬 Single-photon → Multiphoton 🔬 2D-SIM → 3D-SIM Now integrated in Airy PolarSIM and #FlexSIM! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Microscopy #Fluorescence

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

First pre-print for my lab’s new direction: Synthetic Biology meets Neuromorphic Computing Here we investigate the potential of synthetic cells to interface with neuromorphic circuits to mimic the sense of smell. Thanks @volkswagenstiftung.de for funding and @uni-kiel.de arxiv.org/abs/2504.10053

Labeling your axes and then explaining them slowly is perhaps the biggest bang for the buck you can get for making your slides more understandable.

I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.

Our work about a dynamic tissue mimetic is finally out: Remodeling of lipid-foam prototissues by network-wide tension fluctuations induced by active particles @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 SAVE THE DATE: Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2025 and come to Berlin to the BIOMEMBRANE DAYS Excellent line of speakers and slots for contributed talks. Registration will open in Spring. biomembrane-days-2025.mpikg.mpg.de Organized by [email protected] Thomas Weikl and myself @mpici.bsky.social

Last lecture for this semester done💯

Coiling instabilities in the kitchen - a very fun paper. www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.08307

Still looking 👀 for a suitable candidate. Please repost.

Excited to be part of the growing community on bluesky. The Bio-Inspired Computation group is growing too and I welcome Christina Hopf, @mehdi-ravandeh.bsky.social and Alena Starikova as postdocs and phd student.

📢 We are still #hiring! Interested in investigating how #membranes can control #membranecondensate formation and location? Check out our #PhDposition 👇 www.comeincell.org/dc14-how-can... #MSCA #PhD #LipidChemistry #MembraneBiophysics