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Lars Hubatsch @larshubatsch.bsky.social · 20d

Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 29d

One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !

Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

www.embl.org

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Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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EMBL @embl.org · Sep 4

Congratulations, Michael Dorrity and Anna Erzberger!

The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively.

Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jun 18

🧩 Day 5! Agent-based modeling took center stage today with Alexandria Volkening 🐟🌀

From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize.

✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jun 17

🧠 Day 4 was all about 🧬 noise in biology — from master equations to stochastic simulations, led by Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo!

🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jun 16

🧬 Day 3! From spatial models and Turing patterns to the interplay of gradients and self-organisation, today was packed with insights and hands-on work.

Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jun 15

🧪 Day 2 of the EMBO Practical Course at the Collaboratorium!
From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jun 14

🔬 Day 1 of the EMBO Practical Course on Computational Modelling of Multicellular Systems kicks off at the Collaboratorium!

Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬

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Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Amazing defense by @alisonkickuth.bsky.social! Congratulations on the beautiful thesis!

Alison Kickuth @alisonkickuth.bsky.social · Jun 13

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!

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · May 28

After its renewal last week, our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life will be taking on new challenges! In the upcoming weeks, we will be explaining here our new scientific directions, represented by 7 interwoven Research Avenues🔬👩‍🔬
Stay tuned!

Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72

#biophysics #research #dfg

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · May 28

50+% cut to the US National Science Foundation budget is staggering. These include cuts for research in Chemistry. Physics, Geology, Math, Engineering, Computer Science.

Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved.

How is that helping the US?

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · May 28

Nucleoli as biomolecular bubble tea! Congrats to former Princeton ugrad Holly Cheng (now GS @MIT) ->Holly's senior thesis work, a close collab w Roggeveen Wang & @zs-biophys.bsky.social‬ &Stone. Come for the cool movies & stay for the viscoelasticity! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407423122

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Apr 18

This could be one of the coolest meetings of the year!!

Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Apr 18

Sign ups for the fall Barcelona multicellularity meeting are now up- come join us!

meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life

The study of the origins and evolution of multicellularity in different lineages has recently captured the attention of many research groups and is fueling the generation of numerous innovative resea…

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Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.nature.com/articles/d42...

Why biotech is booming in Barcelona

World-class research institutes and university hospitals, a culture of groundbreaking science and a thriving investment ecosystem make Barcelona a rising star in the life sciences industry, as these t...

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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · Apr 19

Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Apr 20

How does metabolism drive early development in the embryo? Well done to @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
(a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below!

Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · Feb 24

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Feb 26

Reconstructing gene expression patterns gives mouse studies a leg up

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · Jan 21

Extending a warm welcome to Bluesky for the @barcelonacollaboratorium.com, our joint initiative with @embl.org Barcelona.

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · Jan 22

🚀 Ready to be inspired? Check out our Fellows' and Alumni Starter Pack! 💡✨ Dive into their groundbreaking work and join us on this journey of discovery. 🌍🔬

Follow us to explore more! 🌟 👉 go.bsky.app/DTMWAHX

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mehmet can uçar @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social · Dec 2

📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning!

Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)!

Please repost / share 🙂

PhD positions available at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology (contact: m.c.ucar@sheffield.ac.uk )

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Alexandre Mayran @alexandremayran.bsky.social · Dec 24

And because it really is Christmas, another study by @davidoriola.bsky.social and @viktri08.bsky.social lab showing how cell-cell communication can drive the timing of symmetry breaking!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell-cell communication controls the timing of gastruloid symmetry-breaking

In the embryo, morphogenetic signals instruct regional patterning thereby defining the body axes of the future animal. Remarkably, in the absence of such signals, collections of pluripotent stem cells...

www.biorxiv.org

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David Oriola @davidoriola.bsky.social · Dec 21

Special thanks to the EMBL Barcelona family for a fantastic time there. Best place to do science by the beach!

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David Oriola @davidoriola.bsky.social · Dec 21

Really happy to share with you my last work from my time in @embl.org with the @viktri08.bsky.social group. We studied the dynamics of cell fate transition in gastruloids and found that cells communicate with each other to control the timing of symmetry breaking. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell-cell communication controls the timing of gastruloid symmetry-breaking

In the embryo, morphogenetic signals instruct regional patterning thereby defining the body axes of the future animal. Remarkably, in the absence of such signals, collections of pluripotent stem cells...

www.biorxiv.org

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