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Really happy and proud to share my PhD work! This has been a fun and collaborative project that led to the discovery of a unique biophysical mechanism of axial elongation in mouse gastruloids and human gastruloids, and confirmed our key findings in vivo with mouse embryos. Check it out down below!

New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains
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doi.org/10.1101/2025...

With painted cows and a perfect pasta sauce, ‘Ig Nobel’ winners claim glory Some of the world’s most imaginative scientific minds have been celebrated at the Ig Nobel awards, which recognize discoveries that make people “laugh, then think.”

Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

✨ That's a wrap on #EMBODevMet after four inspiring days of cutting-edge science, new ideas, and reconnections.

👏 A huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and organisers who made this event so special.

We can't wait to welcome you back to another EMBL event 👉 embl.org/events

🚨Attention image analysts, with expertise in programming and image/data science software!

We are #hiring another scientific role at PoL to support our interdisciplinary research team. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬

🗓Deadline: September 19th
Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

#imageanalysis #jobad

We are #hiring for two scientific support roles at PoL - in light microscopy and biophysics instrumentation. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬

Are you an expert in either of these areas? We would love to hear from you! The deadline for both roles is September 18th. 🗓️

Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

🧵1/5 Excited to share our new paper:

"Active Liquid Crystal Theory Explains the Collective Organization of Microtubules in Human Mitotic Spindles". Joint work with Colm Kelleher (now at Syracuse, previously Harvard) @flatironinstitute.org

arxiv.org/abs/2507.22273

We're thrilled to announce that our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) has been renewed for a second funding phase (2026-2032) by @dfg.de ! Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🎉👏

We'll continue our cutting-edge research towards understanding what brings matter to life!
#biophysics #dfg

I am very happy to share that my work on active deformations of lipid vesicles is finally out in Nature Physics. A nicer thread+movies coming soon, in the meantime:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!

🎉Exciting announcement about our new exhibition!🎉

Curious about the world of biophysics? Our "Physics of Life" exhibition opens every Tues, Weds, and Thurs from 1-6pm.
Entry is free!

📍Find us at Cosmo Wissenschaftsforum, at the Kulturpalast, Dresden until May 8th.

#Biophysics #Dresden #Science

📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis...

Read on to learn more... 👇

Physics of the Early Embryonic Divisions Workshop – Microtubules, energy and cell fate decisions in early embryogenesis - the Node Text written by Olga Afonso, Helena Cantwell, and Shuzo Kato This is one of three reports about the "Physics of the Early Embryonic Divisions" Workshop,

3️⃣"Physics of the Early Embryonic Divisions Workshop – Microtubules, energy and cell fate decisions in early embryogenesis" by @olgaafonso.bsky.social, @shuzokato.bsky.social & Helena Cantwell

thenode.biologists.com/physics-of-t...

Thank you to everyone who wrote these reports!

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New paper alert! ‼️‼️
Super happy to share that my postdoc paper is finally out!

1/3 We looked at scaling of chromosome separation during anaphase in zebrafish embryos.

Happy to share link to pdf/video of lecture at College de France on « Encoding, decoding & representations of space». I present how length scales are defined in biology, Shannon information theory, positional information & patterning in guided + self-organised systems. Enjoy!

tinyurl.com/y85ft5nj

And our new preprint! "Gene-scale in vitro reconstitution reveals histone acetylation directly controls chromatin architecture", biorxiv (2024). Led by Yohsuke T Fukai, in collaboration with Kurumizaka lab (U Tokyo) and Umehara lab (RIKEN BDR).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was very lucky to be there. Thank you so much for organizing such a wonderful workshop!

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