New paper out! In this project, we focused on the question how tissue mechanics is spatially controlled during development. We show that the GPCR ligand Fog acts as a “mechanogen” during Drosophila gastrulation, driving a self-organized wave of tissue invagination:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just a few days left for this application deadline!
24.02.2026 09:32 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
C’EST CRIÉ. « Azadi (Liberté ) ! Azadi ! Azadi ! », scandent ce mardi 24 février 2026 des étudiants de l’université Sooreh de Téhéran, au quatrième jour de mobilisation étudiante en #Iran.
Source : @mamlekate.bsky.social
Tissue mechanics and synth morphogenesis folks, bump on this:
Would you or someone in your lab be up for a video of a protocol you use getting recorded? The tips and tricks, the hard-to-explain-without-seeing-it-done?
In the name of standardization and reproducibility in the field: get in touch! 🫀
Congratulations @ivaskalab.bsky.social team for this study on the role of vibration in vocal cord cancer! Was a fun collaboration 🎤🎤
20.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Lecture de Les irresponsables, un livre saisissant sur la montée du fascisme. C’est éclairant, inquiétant, et surtout d’une actualité frappante.
17.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My PhD work showed that vimentin is not only a passive marker of EMT, but plays an active role in collective migration, controlling the mechanics of epithelial leader cells. I am grateful to my supervisors, Rene-Marc & Benoit Ladoux, as well as to all the co-authors.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dr. Viola Introini wearing a lab coat, sitting in her lab and smiling at the camera.
Congratulations to Dr. Viola Introini (@vascularinfection.bsky.social)👏
She receives the Hector #Research Career Development Award. It honors young researchers on their way to becoming professors. Her group at MPZPM investigates how #malaria affects the human body.
👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-de...
Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones?
www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...
My lab @cri-utsw.bsky.social is looking for a highly motivated postdoct interested in mechanobiology!
We are building a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team working on how mechanical forces shape immune and cancer cell behavior.
Come do cool science with me!
lnkd.in/gKEXWUGy
Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
10.02.2026 06:14 — 👍 84 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 1
Pour comprendre la discussion budgétaire qui se clôt il faut objectiver, avec lucidité et sérénité, une réalité désormais structurante : l’emprise inédite des milliardaires sur la vie démocratique de la nation.
gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/lemprise-d...
IL S’APPELAIT Taha Hoshyar et avait 12 ans. Le corps sans vie de cet enfant a été retrouvé jeudi 8 janvier 2026 à Boumehen, ville à l’est de Téhéran, le visage touché par une balle, en plein pic de manifestations - et de répression - en #Iran.
Source : @vahid.online
✍️The Konstantinides Lab ( @nkonst4.bsky.social ) published a new article
📖 @devbiol.bsky.social
📃 Gene expression cartography of a developing neuronal structure
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
INDISPENSABLE de voir le documentaire de Julie Dungelhoeff, Mariam Pirzadeh, Bahar Makooi et Ershad Alijani ce samedi 7 février à 22h03 sur @france24.com pour comprendre pourquoi la révolte a éclaté en #Iran, et comment la population a été littéralement massacrée par la République islamique⬇️.
07.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 34 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 3« JE SUIS L’IRAN », le nouveau titre de l’artiste iranien Shervin Hajjipour, diffusé vendredi 6 février 2026 en hommage aux « personnes tombées et aux cœurs endeuillés des proches des victimes du mois sanglant de Dey (janvier) »
07.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 77 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 2
"But this €30M investment (see below) is way too low for this effort to have a significant impact."
For sure!
⚡👩🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study!
Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social
Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz
Video:©️ Mateus group
IL S’APPELAIT Mobin Ghanbari et avait 20 ans. Cet espoir de l’équipe de football du Paykan Téhéran a été tué par balle après avoir essuyé un tir des forces de sécurité jeudi 8 janvier 2026 dans la capitale.
Source : @iranhumanrights.bsky.social
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
04.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ELLE S’APPELAIT Hadisseh Akbarzadeh et avait 18 ans. Cette adolescente iranienne a été tuée le jeudi 8 janvier 2026 par un tir des forces de sécurité lors d’une manifestation à Karaj, ville à l’ouest de Téhéran.
Source : @iranhumanrights.bsky.social
Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
03.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 70 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 7
Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
New preprint! We show how mesoscopic nonequilibrium fluctuations in active gels emerge from the breaking of detailed balance at the molecular scale. Warning: Long technical paper ahead! Enjoy! @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @ubics.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2601.20483
Abysmal rate of funding.
Many outstanding ideas were not funded.
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
📅 February 5th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
Next week, Jennifer Young ( @mbisg.bsky.social ) will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar «Biomaterial design for extracellular matrix mechanobiology »
➡️ buff.ly/ZP4syew
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Good to see and exchange with friends and colleagues at the Conference in memoriam of MP Sheetz. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
28.01.2026 15:35 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Viola Introini in her laboratory at MPZPM, smiling at the camera.
Early Career Scientist Prize by the International Union of Pure and Applied #Physics (IUPAP) for Viola Introini (@vascularinfection.bsky.social)!
🏆 Application of physical methods to unravel the mechanisms of #malaria parasite–host interactions.
👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-de...
#science #research
The ski holidays… no, the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen!
28.01.2026 08:42 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
