We welcome 🇩🇪Henri Schmidt to our group! 🎉 Henri will work on multicomponent phase separation and graduate with a PhD in a few years. Welcome aboard!
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Zwicker Group
@ZwickerGroup
Theoretical biophysics group @mpids. We study how soft and fluid-like materials are organized in biological organisms and cells. @zwickergroup.bsky.social
Göttingen, Germany Katılım Temmuz 2019
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@Ariel_4321 @EMBO Congratulations and welcome to the EMBO family!
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Stimulating week, first a Munich conference "Frontiers in Physics", covering topics from black holes to biophysics, then the EMBO meeting in Heidelberg, with lots of great biology. Very grateful to @EMBO for electing me as a new member (image: Asaph Aharoni talking about plants)
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Honored to be inducted into American Academy of Sciences & Letters - beautiful ceremony @ Library of Congress. A treat to celebrate w scholars I admire including @sapinker @HenryLouisGates Jeffrey Eugenides & Princeton's Torquato Kulkarni Poor Jordan Haykel Ionescu Macedo & Lee
American Academy of Sciences and Letters@AASL_Academy
What a night! During our 2024 investiture ceremony at the Library of Congress last night, a total of 60 people became members of the Academy.
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Thanks to @Raph_Mercier and @MarcelErnst91 for the inspiring interdisciplinary endeavor! 🙏
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Our analysis of crossover interference in meiosis is now online: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… 🎉 We introduce the interference distance L_int as a new scalar quantification (Online tool at zwicker-group.github.io/crossover-inte…). L_int allows us to compare data across species, mutants, and sexes!
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My lab is recruiting several Ph.D.s and Postdocs excited to build synthetic cells that undergo Darwinian evolution.
The backgrounds that we need for include biochemistry, synthetic biology, and systems chemistry.
Details: boekhovenlab.com/openings/
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4-year PhD and post-doctoral positions @goehring_lab @TheCrick combining advanced cell biological, biophysical, and theoretical approaches to uncover the design principles of cell polarity and fate specification in C. elegans. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/L… crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…
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Filipe Thewes 🇧🇷 joined our group this week! After a successful PhD with @psollich at @uniGoettingen, he moved up the hill to help us understand multicomponent phase separation. Welcome aboard! 🥳
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@ShuLab2010 @WallaceUcsf Our generic reply to this question is that it’s not the right question to ask. Certainly, biology does not care whether we call a cluster a „condensate“. Instead we find it helpful to ask whether describing a cluster as a condensate makes useful predictions!
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What is a biomolecular condensate? Is a 100-macromolecule cluster a condensate? How about 50 or even 10? What's the smallest size, the lowest # to form a condensate? How biochemical activity is enhanced in cluster vs condensate? LMK U r interested, share your answers before mine.
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⏰Do you have a minute?⏰
Chengjie Lou is a postdoctoral researcher in the @ZwickerGroup at MPI-DS. Let's spend a minute with him and join his work on patterns created by phase separation!
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The full article at arxiv.org/abs/2409.15599 has many more details and we will explorer the role of charges further.
This work started from a short discussion after a Zoom talk by @jerelleaj and was driven by @luochengjie58, Nate Hess, Dilimulati Aierken, and Yicheng Qiang!
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Interestingly, the strength of phase separation has only a weak effect on droplet size, which we confirmed with more simulations. Our work shows how charge can control droplet size, e.g., to regulate #condensates inside biological cells.
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Happy to announce a preprint by @jerellea’s and our group. 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2409.15599 shows that #droplet growth is arrested at finite sizes when the phase separating material evokes a net #charge of the droplet. The attached molecular dynamics simulation visualizes this effect
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We welcome 🇳🇱 Guido Kusters as a new postdoc in our group! Guido did his PhD in Eindhoven and will work on various topics involving phase separation with us. Welcome aboard! 🎊🎉
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That’s an excellent opportunity, which cannot be recommended enough :)
Max Planck Society@maxplanckpress
Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-pla…
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@carlacolloids @snsf_ch @eth_mat @Complex_Mat Congratulations! This will start an exciting chapter in your career! Looking forward to more phenomenal science out of Zurich.
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Exited to share that I’ve been awarded the @snsf_ch Ambizione Grant to start my independent research at @ETH_mat!! 🤩🤩 Many thanks to @Complex_mat and my past mentors for all the support. Stay tuned for a #PhDposition opening in sustainable materials soon!🌱🔬 #NewGroupLeader
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We are accepting applications again to our fantastic fully funded program with excellent faculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities! APPLY NOW!!! cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #maxplanckschools #passionforscience 👌💪🏻🧠🍀
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@jerelleaj @NIGMS Congratulations - that‘s amazing and very well deserved! 🎉
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It’s amazing to see experimental evidence for a mechanism we conceived about a decade ago! Congratulations to @BoekhovenLab and @WebersGroup – this is surely just the beginning of an exciting scientific journey! 🎉
Job Boekhoven@BoekhovenLab
Frank Jülicher, @ZwickerGroup, Rabea Seyboldt, @HymanLab, @WebersGroup predicted such a size control in a theoretical framework. We have now verified that mechanism for the first time in an experimental system! nature.com/articles/nphys…
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