Freddy Frischknecht

and here the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbI...

✨ One year on, we honor Spencer Shorte.

On Jan 28, 2026, Institut Pasteur paid tribute to a visionary scientist and human leader.

His legacy lives on through the PPU–Research & Technology track, uniting research & innovation as he envisioned.

Inspiring future generations.

One of the toughest talks to give knowing that no matter what you say will not be enough. Spence was a friend, mentor, colleague and role model and is sourly missed. And it was beautiful (in a way) to see just how many lives and souls he touched and formed.

Screw it. It's weekend. My daughters new song: open.spotify.com/intl-de/trac...
placed just below mighty Bruce Springsteens Streets of Minneapolis on the German Friday music stream list.

Chirality of malaria parasites determines their motion patterns - Nature Physics Malaria parasites move on helical trajectories when infecting their hosts. Now it is shown that they use right-handed chirality to control their motion patterns, and that this chirality is linked to t...

(1/2) Our work with @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social on the chirality of malaria parasites has found its home in the January issue of @natphys.nature.com:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moreover, we are very happy that it comes with a news and views article 👍❤️😀

Next time you're here Pavel

All of them. Respected Sir and respected Madam.

Certainly watch out for the guy at C10

The force is strong within you young Gautam. Hope you made a lab pic in the snow.

Makes malaria parasites move very very fast (and Toxoplasma too)

Happy New Year from Heidelberg and looking forward to SingMalNet in Singapore in February, BioMalPar in sunny Heidelberg in May and other adventures.

What's next then in 2027??

In the late 16th century

This might well become your best summer experience

Join us (again) for another fantastic BioMalPar meeting @embl.org and also a great pre-meeting @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social

📢 Paper alert 📢

Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

He is as brave as handsome. Just like his dad 🙂

Drawing of an anthropomorphised Mole in a robe next to a figure with robes and a crown. ‘Beings’ in a ditch are holding out sheets of paper to Mole. The location looks creepy. The text below the image says, ‘We land, and I see hundreds of like souls. Holding manuscripts in clenched hands… “It is nearly ready” he say…’

Mole's Comedia III. Purgatorio. Canto I–XXIV.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Is there a Monthy Python sketch on Immunology? Maybe something like the German-Greek philosopher football game. Michael could play Franz Beckenbauer. Obviously something of a surprise in the lineup

Beautiful beasts (2): Thanks Ian for allowing us to help a little to help you figuring out how B-cells help T-cells. What a spectacular cover coloured by #micronaut Martin Oeggerli.

Now recruiting several PhD students and postdocs for different projects of our excellence cluster SynthImmune: application.synthimmune.de
For more info see perspective article below and synthimmune.de

Congrats Felix et al. Always a pleasure and treat to see lab alumni doing spectacular work :-)

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

Beautiful work, congratulations again.

Nice move but key question is: Just how badly did you screw up their experiments?

What a way to start the week. Quick morning run at Les Embiez for the #EMBO /#ParaFRAP workshop Host-Parasite Interactions, where parasites truly rule.

Beware of artifacts during low pressure fixation of mushroom samples.

As a model cell we investigated Plasmodium ookinetes (final developmental stage is pictured), revealing a number of interesting new morphological features. Congrats to all involved (Dr Ned, MSc Marco, MSc Lilian and BSc Kolja).

The project started during the corona pandemic aiming to give students a chance to do practical work without access to the lab. Teaming up with Nedal and Yannick within our research network SFB 1129 turbocharged the project and we now present a new approach to investigate developmental transitions.