Rita Mateus

This will be a really cool meeting!👇

Obrigada Rafa! :)

Thanks Katja!!

Thanks a lot!!

Obrigada Diana ❤️

Thanks Anna :)

Thanks Natalie!!! :)

Thank you Andre :)

Thank you Pavel!!! :)

Thank you Joaquin!!

This was a wonderful collaboration at the interface of physics and biology with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social :) We are grateful to our funders and all the facilities at @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social

But how do cells relay the electrical signal to trigger proliferation? it's all about a Voltage Sensing Phosphatase! This protein changes conformation upon membrane depolarization effectively bridging timescales, and coupling electric and biochemical signals in the cell.

Briefly, after organ injury, 100 milliseconds, we detected collective changes in membrane potential at the tissue level. This is so far the earliest detected wound-response!! This electric signal sparks the formation of a tissue-wide calcium wave👇

Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth Organ repair and growth rely on coupling tissue-wide membrane depolarization with intracellular proliferative signaling.

New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

Many small photos taken from the symposium organised to reveal Spemann and Mangold in the background.

We're in love with this cover image! 🧡
Part II of our Special Collection celebrating the Centennial of the Discovery of The Organiser is here. This issue focuses on the work presented at the Centennial Symposium at the University of Freiburg in September 2024:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...

This is super cool Yamuna! Big congrats!!! We see pH gradients too inside iridosomes (a type of LRO)! People told me 'not possible' over and over for the reason above. Time to measure accurately and rethink ❤️

zSwim, the zebrafish lab management software we’ve been developing is now officially listed in Duke OT&C’s technology portfolio! We’re launching an official Duke pilot in March 2026 at the new Ze-Core facility! If you’re in the zebrafish community, check it out!

otc.duke.edu/technologies...

#Researchers !

If you have doubts and fears about how to become a group leader, you should not miss this podcast.

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🎧 : Listen to what Jonathan Weitzman and I experienced : thelonelypipette.buzzsprout.com/1356877/epis...

Super exciting to be part of of this Research Training Group to train the next generation of material biologists :) We are already actively recruiting PhD students! Join our joint project with @jamessaenz.bsky.social !!!

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI

(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

When you arrive to the lab and have flowers waiting for you, you know you have the best lab team ever!!!☺ so grateful!!! #big40 #bestTeam

Last week it was a week of much needed celebration 🍾🥳 how best to do it than a pizza party with shark piñatas!! #somuchfun #proudPI #papersparty

Big congratulations to Vinita Kini, our most recent MSc graduate!!! What a great job, I'm a #proudPI

We will be taking phD students this round!! Apply to our @mpi-cbg.de phD programme and #growwithus

The Secret to a Smooth Pasta Sauce Wins Ig Nobel Prize Italian researchers studied how the ingredients of the traditional Roman dish cacio e pepe emulsify into a creamy sauce, winning the 2025 Physics Ig Nobel Prize.

Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋

We have a fully funded 3y postdoc position open!!!! Come join us @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social to understand the role of Membranes in Controlling Biogenic Crystallization :) this is part of our #HFSP funded project with @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social and @vmonje.bsky.social! Applications👇