Spring PhD recruitment round @crick.ac.uk is now open and we have a project on offer: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud.... If you have a background in maths or physics and are curious about patterning and growth in biology this could be the project for you! Please help us spread the word 💥

Arittri's amazing finding that our old friend Lifeact can make actomyosin flow in the opposite direction, change chirality and flip left and right in the C.elegans worm. Check out here for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In our latest preprint we show that Lifeact::mKate2 can reverse the chirality of active torques in the actomyosin cortex. This results in cortical flows with opposite handedness during left-right symmetry breaking, leading to the formation of situs inversus worms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org Check it out.

We had a good line up of speakers at the 50 years anniversary meeting of the german society of cell biology @dgz.bsky.social in Heidelberg. Tony gave the plenary, Koichiro talked about spatial control of P granules and Silja received a price for her Master thesis and gave a talk. Congratulations!

Paper alert!🧪 We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4

A C. elegans model for a human disease

What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.

Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others. Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.

🚨New preprint Glad to share my postdoc work on the role of the hypoblast in primitive streak induction! Discover how live imaging observations led us to revisit the molecular mechanisms governing embryonic axis induction Thanks to @jeromegros.bsky.social and all co-authors! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We took part in the Girls’ Day, April 3 to encourage discussions with girls on female careers in science. A big thank you to Sandra Schwaraw, @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social, Émeline Bonsergent, @mihailsarov.bsky.social, & @geertsmalab.bsky.social for participating! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Hi - I draw along talks for a hobby - making #sketchnotes, mainly #science, sometimes #politics that I publish on my blog: bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com

Had a wonderful time at the Physics of Life Conference in Harrogate, UK with lots of great science and insightful talks like the one from @nerlielisa.bsky.social Thanks @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social for organizing and the poster price :-)

How are single-molecule dynamics influenced by phase separation? What happens if these molecules undergo chemical reactions as they often do in biomolecular condensates? What if they are driven out of equilibrium? arxiv.org/abs/2503.19517 @larshubatsch.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social

It's only a temporary place until we renovate your max plack department

Announcing this upcoming conference: GASTRULATION RELOADED: Developing, engineering, and evolving the body plan Join us as we explore the latest research on gastrulation and axis formation/elongation, featuring common, exotic, and synthetic embryos! 📅 14–17 October 2025 📍 Paris, France

Getting out of the microscope room

Interesting work on transport across phase boundaries; for example important for chemical reactions that are happening inside droplets, how do reactants and products get imported/exported...

Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc! go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3 #cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science

I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing. Self-identify and I will add you... See you at APS-DFD! go.bsky.app/8Njfprh

Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks! go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK