Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

The VBC PhD Program is organizing the Doctoral Insights #Symposium — a free, online event with 20 top PhD programs across #Europe! 🎓

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Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d) – Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik We are looking for: Mathematical Research & Collaborations Manager (m/f/d), Full Time, Dresden

We’re looking for a mathematical research and collaboration manager to join our new initiative of mathematics in a biology institute in Dresden, Germany! @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

Please share widely: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/5734151...

🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility!

🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11

More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8

@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Integrating Odeint Time Stepping into OpenFPM for Distributed and GPU Accelerated Numerical Solvers We present a software implementation integrating the time-integration library Odeint from Boost with the OpenFPM framework for scalable scientific computing. This enables compact and scalable codes fo...

Our scientific computing framework #OpenFPM now has multistage and adaptive time integrators that scale to distributed CPU clusters and GPUs! Happy supercomputing! @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.05331

Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissue Summary: Image-based 3D modeling of pore-scale extracellular space geometries of the developing zebrafish embryo reveals that the Fgf8a morphogen gradient is regulated by the porous media characterist...

⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

On the Computational Power of Particle Methods We investigate the computational power of particle methods, a well-established class of algorit hms with applications in scientific computing and computer simulation. The computational power of a comp...

🚨Fundamental computer science result! 🤩🤩🤩 Particle Methods, a class of algorithms, can compute anything that is computable, even when severely resource restricted ‼️‼️Formally proven result @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de now out: fi.episciences.org/16055

What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.

HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship for Augusto Ortega Granillo Fellowship for investigating the role of osmotic and hydrostatic pressure during pancreas lumen formation.

Augusto Ortega Granillo, postdoc in the groups of @anne-grapin.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @campaslab.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social, received a postdoctoral fellowship from the @hfspo.bsky.social! Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence.

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

How to spy on condensates - Nature Methods Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks.

How to spy on condensates: technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on self-organization and collective properties of condensates with quotes from Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de, @brangwynnelab.bsky.social, and many more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents cGAS–DNA recognition through competitive binding | PNAS A hallmark of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is the delayed interferon response. Interferons are typically ...

Original Publication: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dresden scientists @thegutmann.bsky.social and @rnadavid.bsky.social from the @hymanlab.bsky.social discover a new strategy used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to hide from the body’s DNA immune detection system. Now published in @pnas.org. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Tremendously grateful to my mentor Tony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social for his generous support and trust & to our exceptional PhD student David Kuster @rnadavid.bsky.social‬ @mpi-cbg.de‬! Many thanks to @dfg.de, the NOMIS Foundation, @volkswagenstiftung.de, and @maxplanck.de for supporting this work.

We had a great time at the Dresden Science Night in the Faculty of Physics @tudresden.bsky.social, presenting our research on physics of living organisms. Thank you everyone and see you next year!

We are taking part in the Dresden Science Night today and are guest in the faculty of physics @tudresden.bsky.social! Explore physics of life with us tonight!

We are ready for the Dresden Science Night today! We will be in Faculty of Physics @tudresden.bsky.social (Herrmann-Krone Bau) from 5-11 pm! Come and visit us tonight!

Visit us during the Dresden Science Night on June 20th in the Faculty of Physics @tudresden.bsky.social (Hermann-Krone-Bau, Nöthnitzer Straße 61) and explore the physics of life! Looking forward to see you! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

YouTube video by MPIPKS Tiny swimmers

🐠🦠Why can’t bacteria swim like fish?
At microscopic scales, physics changes — viscosity rules! Researchers at our institute study how microbes like E. coli overcome this challenge with clever strategies like run-and-tumble.

Watch our new video:

youtu.be/drwCRRD7CGY?...

Numerical study by researchers @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social of small ecological communities reveals the importance of the full network structure of ecological interactions for ecosystem stability. News article: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Facade of the institute

Bird’s-eye view of the institute this morning.

Congratulations @tudresden.bsky.social! We are proud to be part of the new research training group with Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and next to the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research (IPF) and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).

I successfully defended my PhD thesis this week! Thank you @brugueslab.bsky.social, @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de for the great time over the last years!

Formeln des Lebens Künstliche Intelligenz mit physikalischem Vorwissen soll biologische Vorgänge berechenbar machen

Formulas of Life: article of the @maxplanck.de on the research of Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social. Article in German language: www.mpg.de/24841408/ki-...

Wie kann Künstliche Intelligenz in der Biomedizin helfen? Biologie und Medizin sind eng verknüpft. Künstliche Intelligenz kann dabei in vielen Fragen helfen. Was ist zu beachten?

Interview with Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social, group leader @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social & professor @tudresden.bsky.social for @detektorfm.bsky.social on the topic "How can artificial intelligence help in biomedicine?" Podcast in German language: detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...

Thanks to @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Max Wiesmann for organising this Dresden-Leipzig meetup! And for the MTO at @mpi-cbg.de for this beautiful picture of all the attendees.

Regularized Gradient Statistics Improve Generative Deep Learning Models of Super Resolution Microscopy A generative AI model for super-resolution microscopy images is presented. Super-resolution microscopy provides high spatial detail at the expense of lower time resolution. Using it for live samples ...

It never ceases to amaze me how much information we can get just by looking at the gradients in #BioImageAnalysis #AI #GenAI Kudos Ivo F. Sbalzarini and the group! 🧪 @mosaicgroup.bsky.social @hzdr.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @casusscience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm happy to share that last week I defended my PhD thesis work that I carried out with @paveltomancak.bsky.social and Jonathan Rodenfels at @mpi-cbg.de 😊🎓

☀️summer is here -
and so is CD-CODE v1.10 release!🤩

💡CD-CODE has now 719 manually curated #condensates (and ~40% are #human associated!)

💡Check out new #condensates and updated #protein - condensate connections at cd-code.org

#Bioinformatics #DatabaseUpdate #IDR #RNP #RBP #cdcode

Wie kann Künstliche Intelligenz in der Biomedizin helfen? Biologie und Medizin sind eng verknüpft. Künstliche Intelligenz kann dabei in vielen Fragen helfen. Was ist zu beachten?

Ivo Sbalzarini was interviewed by German science radio @detektorfm.bsky.social and explains our research @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @tudresden.bsky.social to a general audience (in German only):

detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...