Alf Honigmann

Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet (@jvveenvliet) @mpicbg @PoLDresden 🤩 We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species ➡️biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Lipid Brain Atlas is out now! If you think lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by Luca Fusar Bassini with Gioele La Manno's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

We made it on the cover of Nature: nature.com/nature/volumes… 🤯

It is out now with some interesting revision results: nature.com/articles/s4158…

🎉Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 🔗biomembrane-days-2025.mpikg.mpg.de @EwersLab T.Weikl @MpiciPotsdam

New graduate school focusing on biomolecular condensates. Apply now and do your PhD to beautiful Dresden.

Exciting application of our programmable #CellCulture matrix #DyNAtrix. By creating a dynamically reconfigurable microenvironment, we can now invert & guide epithelial cell polarity in real time. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #Biophysics #DNAnanotech #TissueEngineering #Biomaterials

🗺️🔬 A first-of-its-kind map of lipid traffic is demystifying an important yet elusive aspect of how cells work. Read the study, out now in @Nature, by ADIs @honigmann_lab, @nadlerlab, and collaborators: nature.com/articles/s4158… #FrontierScience

Collaboration work on the computer modeling and simulations for growing cell/lumen assembly, led by Dr Tanida (UTokyo) @c100percent , with Prof Sano, Prof Nonomura, Dr Fuji and their HFSP teams, @RivelineLab @Honigmann_Lab Prof Grapin-Botton’s lab.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Can we simultaneously achieve deep, high-res, large field-of-view imaging without the usual trade-offs? 🤔 🧬🔬 YES: #DNA_PAINT + Spinning Disk Confocal + Optical Photon Reassignment (#SDC_OPR)! #SuperResolution 📄 nature.com/articles/s4146… @NatureComms 🧵👇

We did it! 😀🎉 🍾🥂 Our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (@PoLDresden) got renewed until 2032! I am so proud of our team and all the great work we did to achieve this. At a personal level, I am really happy that the enormous effort that went into this process was successful, and truly honored to lead such an outstanding team. It took years of hard work to build the team and now we have the opportunity to take our Physics of Life to the next level. Let do this! Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed to this success, including the PoL PIs and administrative team, the TUD Rector and Chancellor, and the university team! Thanks to all 👏 Thanks also to the @dfg_public for appreciating our trajectory and achievements, and also for their trust in our project.

📢Registration is open for the Biomembrane Days 2025! 🔗biomembrane-days-2025.mpikg.mpg.de A top-notch lineup of speakers, 120 posters, 200 scientists 📜Submit an abstract by July 14 🏆3 Poster prizes ⚠️Limited spots - previous events were fully booked! #BiomembraneDays2025 #CellMembranes

Spatial and stoichiometric in situ analysis of biomolecular oligomerization at single-protein resolution We are excited to present our latest work published in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

In @ScienceAdvances, we report how small chemical modifications in the metabolism of ergosterol are needed for yeast membranes to phase seperate into ordered yet fluid domains science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/n)

#PacManoid was so hungry that it ate the original post 🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬. Here’s the thread on our latest in @CellStemCell again! @mpicbg @PoLDresden (Imaging: @VillarongaAlba; Animation: Michael Weber)

Many thanks to the IPF and Friends of IPF for the Innovation Award 2024 and big congrats to the whole team! nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/10/dr-…

Come to #Prague for #Woodstock2025. What is it? A scientific conference unlike any other. Think #BurningMan or #MusicFestival but #science themed. It'll have two parts - decentralised sessions spread in #Prague (sightsee as you move around) & #campsite event to wrap it up (1/7)

📢BIOMEMBRANE DAYS in Berlin Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2025 Find more in 🦋: bsky.app/profile/dimova…

Plasma membrane folding enables constant surface area-to-volume ratio in growing mammalian cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS  🧬🎨🍬 The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy biorxiv.org/content/10.110…