Paper alert!🧪
We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4

A C. elegans model for a human disease

Thanks as well to everyone who helped start this new part of the Grill lab, @stephangrill.bsky.social Adrian Lahola-Chomiak @arjun-narayanan.bsky.social Teije Middelkoop, Patrick Breier and all the support from our Veterinarian Katrin Reppe at the @mpi-cbg.de.

And in case you wonder... the eggs came from @jeromegros.bsky.social together with great knowledge from him and his lab especially @aurelienvilledieu.bsky.social. Thank you very very much!

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.

And thanks for everyone involved, especially @aurelienvilledieu.bsky.social and @jeromegros.bsky.social for sharing their expertise as well as @neipel.bsky.social Adrian Lahola Chomiak and the rest of the Quail Team who joined me in this adventure.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.

🚨New preprint
Glad to share my postdoc work on the role of the hypoblast in primitive streak induction! Discover how live imaging observations led us to revisit the molecular mechanisms governing embryonic axis induction
Thanks to @jeromegros.bsky.social and all co-authors!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We took part in the Girls’ Day, April 3 to encourage discussions with girls on female careers in science. A big thank you to Sandra Schwaraw, @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social, Émeline Bonsergent, @mihailsarov.bsky.social, & @geertsmalab.bsky.social for participating! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Hi - I draw along talks for a hobby - making #sketchnotes, mainly #science, sometimes #politics that I publish on my blog:
bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com

Had a wonderful time at the Physics of Life Conference in Harrogate, UK with lots of great science and insightful talks like the one from @nerlielisa.bsky.social
Thanks @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social for organizing and the poster price :-)

How are single-molecule dynamics influenced by phase separation? What happens if these molecules undergo chemical reactions as they often do in biomolecular condensates? What if they are driven out of equilibrium?
arxiv.org/abs/2503.19517
@larshubatsch.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social

It's only a temporary place until we renovate your max plack department

Announcing this upcoming conference:

GASTRULATION RELOADED:
Developing, engineering, and evolving the body plan

Join us as we explore the latest research on gastrulation and axis formation/elongation, featuring common, exotic, and synthetic embryos!

📅 14–17 October 2025
📍 Paris, France

Getting out of the microscope room

Interesting work on transport across phase boundaries; for example important for chemical reactions that are happening inside droplets, how do reactants and products get imported/exported...

Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!

go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science

May I also join please :-)

I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.

Self-identify and I will add you...

See you at APS-DFD!

go.bsky.app/8Njfprh

Thanks for the effort. I would also like to join and I'll try to convince Stephan Grill to also come to the blue side.

Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks!

go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK