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Theoretical biophysics group at MPI-DS, Göttingen. We study the spatiotemporal organization of soft matter in cells, tissues, and synthetic systems; see www.zwickergroup.org
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We are so looking forward to the discussions (at the beach?) in Santa Barbara!

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The four days of "Theory and concepts in biology" finish with a round table discussion on biology's biggest challenges. Some common themes emerged: how to deal with biological complexity? How to understand levels of organization? Which features make life unique? #EESTCBio @events.embl.org

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Looking forward to an exciting meeting on "Theory and Concepts in Biology" at EMBL this week! #EESTCBio

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Join our interdisciplinary team developing computational approaches to understand and engineer biomolecular condensates. We’re looking for a postdoc—please apply or share with interested persons! 👩🏽‍💻💧🧬 puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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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...

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Yong Han Phee joined our group today! He's a #mattertolife student and will do an internship for this semester. Welcome aboard 🎉

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Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

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We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

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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

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There's one week left to submit an application to be a #postdoc in our group! The project is very flexible, so there is room for own ideas. The advertisement lists more details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_...

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I am looking forward to tell you about my research at #DPG. Come by my poster on wednesday to learn how coarsening of active droplets can be controlled by active reactions!

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Excited for the #DPG meeting in Regensburg this week! Our group has a number of contributions across various sections. We look forward to discuss our science with you!

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This summer in beautiful Santa Barbara we will run a 3-day conference on “Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment” June 16 to 18th. Register now: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/b...

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We published a paper on our #opensource `flory` python package @joss-openjournals.bsky.social: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... The package allows us to detect coexisting phases in multicomponent mixtures in various relevant cases; see documentation at flory.readthedocs.io.

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We have an open postdoc position in our group! We seek motivated and fun people with a background in theoretical biological physics to work on projects revolving around pattern formation, cell biology, and particularly #condensates. Details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_... #TheoBiophysicsPosition

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"We often fail, which is why it's so important to keep going" - The essence of scientific research got me on the cover of GEO.

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We published a one-page article in Nat. Chem. Eng. on phase separation in multicomponent mixtures: rdcu.be/ea4Ts The article exposes our latest results, which indicate such mixtures are generically multistable and imply that states with various different droplets (or none at all) are all stable.

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We released the first version of our Python package `py-pde` five years ago. We heavily use this package to investigate partial differential equations numerically. The documentation at py-pde.readthedocs.io shows how to use the package, e.g., to solve the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation:

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We wrote a review on the "Physics of droplet regulation in biological cells": arxiv.org/abs/2501.13639 Beside the basic #physics of phase separation, we discuss three aspects that separate cellular from traditional droplets:

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"Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works" Exciting times ahead! www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...

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We just updated our preprint on size-control of condensates by electrostatic effects: arxiv.org/abs/2409.15599 This joint work with the group of @jerelleaj.bsky.social shows that electrostatic effects matter, even when one would naively expect that screening by salt is strong.

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Please share! There are two postdoc opportunities at the Molecular and Statistical Biophysics group at SISSA. Join us in beautiful Trieste! More information at msb.sissa.it/join-us/

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1/6 🧪 Preprint-Alert! We looked at how molecules move across phase boundaries, e.g., in liquid droplets, taking into account that chemical potentials inside and outside the boundary can be different! This unites recent work with stuff from the 60s and has cool consequences 👇 shorturl.at/j0U6i

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Saw this story at a conference - it’s a very neat idea!

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