Simone Reber
@simonereber.bsky.social
Scientist. Interested in complexity, organisational principles, quantitative biology, infographics, frogs & coffee. Opinions here are my own.
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Simone Reber
@simonereber.bsky.social
· Jun 13
Cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling
Nature Cell Biology - Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties...
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✨Thanks to amazing students @tobiaskletter.bsky.social, postdocs @biswashere.bsky.social & collaborators @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social & ALMF @embl.org ✨
👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8
👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8
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PhD position in my lab!
January 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM
PhD position in my lab!
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CLOSING SOON: Applications for Group Leader roles at our Janelia Research Campus close Feb. 3! Have original, transformative ideas for experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & beyond? Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪
January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
CLOSING SOON: Applications for Group Leader roles at our Janelia Research Campus close Feb. 3! Have original, transformative ideas for experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & beyond? Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪
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Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing.
We explore this link in our new preprint.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We explore this link in our new preprint.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing.
We explore this link in our new preprint.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We explore this link in our new preprint.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Chirality shapes life & infection! 😍
Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾
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Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾
rdcu.be/e0rGu
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...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Chirality shapes life & infection! 😍
Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾
rdcu.be/e0rGu
Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾
rdcu.be/e0rGu
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We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!
January 23, 2026 at 1:40 PM
We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!
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#HappyBirthday Ernst Abbe 💐 Auf den Gründer der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung!
Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.
Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.
January 23, 2026 at 7:08 AM
#HappyBirthday Ernst Abbe 💐 Auf den Gründer der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung!
Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.
Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.
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📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
January 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
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New research in Nature Physics from #FlatironCCB's Henry Mattingly and Yuhai Tu proposes a different mechanism for how swimming bacteria change direction: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/01/08/a-tug-of-war-explains-a-decades-old-question-about-how-bacteria-swim/ #science #biology
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
New research in Nature Physics from #FlatironCCB's Henry Mattingly and Yuhai Tu proposes a different mechanism for how swimming bacteria change direction: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/01/08/a-tug-of-war-explains-a-decades-old-question-about-how-bacteria-swim/ #science #biology
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We are hiring! Join the Gerlich lab as a scientific programmer/bioinformatician and join an interdisciplinary team studying fundamental mechanisms of chromosome organization, DNA repair, and cell division.
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
We are hiring! Join the Gerlich lab as a scientific programmer/bioinformatician and join an interdisciplinary team studying fundamental mechanisms of chromosome organization, DNA repair, and cell division.
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Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026.
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
January 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026.
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028
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January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
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PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
meetings.cshl.edu
January 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
We spend way too much time manually analyzing #microtubules 🔬
Together with Mario, Justus, Dominik, Felix & Erik we used synthetic data and foundation models to build a fully automated segmentation pipeline.
#microscopy, #imageanalysis & #AI
Check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with Mario, Justus, Dominik, Felix & Erik we used synthetic data and foundation models to build a fully automated segmentation pipeline.
#microscopy, #imageanalysis & #AI
Check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
We spend way too much time manually analyzing #microtubules 🔬
Together with Mario, Justus, Dominik, Felix & Erik we used synthetic data and foundation models to build a fully automated segmentation pipeline.
#microscopy, #imageanalysis & #AI
Check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with Mario, Justus, Dominik, Felix & Erik we used synthetic data and foundation models to build a fully automated segmentation pipeline.
#microscopy, #imageanalysis & #AI
Check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb.
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
Work for us
Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...
www.biologists.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb.
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
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For decades, scientists have designed drugs to slow down or block enzymes, but Tarun Kapoor wondered if tackling some diseases requires the opposite approach.
We spoke with Kapoor about why speeding up an enzyme is so difficult, and how his team is cracking this problem.
See the full Q&A here:
We spoke with Kapoor about why speeding up an enzyme is so difficult, and how his team is cracking this problem.
See the full Q&A here:
Scientists have gotten good at blocking enzymes to treat disease. Now can they speed them up? - News
Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive virtually every chemical reaction in our cells. For decades, scientists have d...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For decades, scientists have designed drugs to slow down or block enzymes, but Tarun Kapoor wondered if tackling some diseases requires the opposite approach.
We spoke with Kapoor about why speeding up an enzyme is so difficult, and how his team is cracking this problem.
See the full Q&A here:
We spoke with Kapoor about why speeding up an enzyme is so difficult, and how his team is cracking this problem.
See the full Q&A here:
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Please apply for the @cshlxeno course:
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Frogs: A biologist’s best friend
YouTube video by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Please apply for the @cshlxeno course:
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
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Apply for a PhD in Singapore at NUS! Deadline Jan 12. I'm recruiting:
Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
and
Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/
Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
and
Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/
www.mbi.nus.edu.sg
January 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Apply for a PhD in Singapore at NUS! Deadline Jan 12. I'm recruiting:
Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
and
Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/
Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
and
Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/
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📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
December 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
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Apps are open for our Idea Scholar program! The program invites distinguished scientists with an interest in developing scientific talent in the workforce for extended visits at the Flatiron Institute. Deadline is 1/13/2026: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/idea_scholar_program/ #science
Idea Scholar Program
The Flatiron Institute’s Idea Scholar program invites distinguished scientists for extended visits to develop scientific talent and foster collaboration.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Apps are open for our Idea Scholar program! The program invites distinguished scientists with an interest in developing scientific talent in the workforce for extended visits at the Flatiron Institute. Deadline is 1/13/2026: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/idea_scholar_program/ #science
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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
For more info see perspective article below and synthimmune.de
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
For more info see perspective article below and synthimmune.de
Very much looking forward to Marino's visit! Everyone is welcome!
@humantechnopole.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
@humantechnopole.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
📢 Voices in Infection Biology
Join us next week Wednesday for a talk by Marino Zerial, director at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.
🗓️ November 12
🕓 2 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)
Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43768...
Join us next week Wednesday for a talk by Marino Zerial, director at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.
🗓️ November 12
🕓 2 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)
Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43768...
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Very much looking forward to Marino's visit! Everyone is welcome!
@humantechnopole.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
@humantechnopole.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
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🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research and #immunology?
🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment?
👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment?
👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research and #immunology?
🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment?
👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment?
👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
Congratulations to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social for receiving the Nikon Young Scientist Award! Thanks to DGZ.bsky.social and @healthcare.nikon.com for the award ceremony 🍾🍾🍾
#ProudPI
#ProudPI
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Congratulations to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social for receiving the Nikon Young Scientist Award! Thanks to DGZ.bsky.social and @healthcare.nikon.com for the award ceremony 🍾🍾🍾
#ProudPI
#ProudPI
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#Nikon Young Scientist Award goes to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social. Very grateful to our long-standing NYSA partner @healthcare.nikon.com!
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#Nikon Young Scientist Award goes to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social. Very grateful to our long-standing NYSA partner @healthcare.nikon.com!