Seeking a post-doc for the LaJoie lab at the Human Technopole, Milan, Italy!
We are looking for candidates from the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, and proteomics, who are interested in studying protein interactions of the nucleus 🤓
lnkd.in/dTG2CgXF
Where else but #CISM can one lecture in a hall covered in frescoes?
🤔🧫How do cells within a tissue move/differentiate with such remarkable precision, in the right place and right time?
👨🔬The Barriga group @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social explores the biophysical mechanisms that coordinate morphogenesis in development + regeneration
YouTube video👉 youtu.be/vJtpAVkHZzU
Pond vibes at the institute.
✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬
#ModelMonday #DevBio
📸: Clemens Cabernard
Dollie LaJoie
Our paper on a Hamiltonian description of non-reciprocal interactions is out @natphys.nature.com! With Yubo Shi, Roderich Moessner, and @marinbukov.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social
Check it out, and read more in the thread below! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just got to Udine, to lecture in the #CISM Advanced School on "Geometry, Growth, and Instability in Soft and Active Systems". This will be a fun week.
How does a ‘genius without a brain’ make decisions? By trapping #SlimeMold inside polygons made of harmful blue light, a PRX Life study found that these organisms explore nearly the entire boundary before settling on the best escape route.
Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4uXE9LZ
🧰 New tool alert! ⚙️
#MorphoGrad, an open-source toolbox for simulating reaction–diffusion systems in 1D and 2D tissues, with cell-to-cell parameter heterogeneity & graphical user interface.
No heavy coding required. Explore complex morphogen gradient models interactively.
doi.org/10.1016/j.xp...
Video
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
Physics of Life Dresden
Pierre Haas
Pierre Haas
Studying morphogen gradient-based tissue patterning in silico while accounting for
biological variability remains challenging. Here, we present a MATLAB-based protocol
for simulating steady-state morp...
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Society for Developmental Biology
Video
American Physical Society
Dagmar Iber & CoBi
EMBO
Many active and driven systems exhibit non-reciprocal interactions, making them hard to describe with standard methods. Now a constrained Hamiltonian embedding with auxiliary variables reproduces thes...
New preprint! Non-reciprocal interactions don’t arise from a potential. Yet, we found a way to encode them in a Hamiltonian, which captures the phase transitions of non-reciprocal systems! With Yubo Shi, Roderich Moessner, and @marinbukov.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.05246
