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Simone Reber

@simonereber.bsky.social

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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

✨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

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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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you @djdavid.bsky.social‬ 🤩
1/5 in 4 years is not too shabby!

Daryl Jason Verzosa David @djdavid.bsky.social · 7d

Fourth paper to higlight!

@tobiaskletter.bsky.social , @biswashere.bsky.social, @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social, @simonereber.bsky.social & colleagues propose that physical properties of the cell’s cytoplasm is a determinant in organelle size control.

(Open Access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 8d

Happening today at noon!

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next Tuesday (30/09) for talks by @gautamdey.bsky.social @embl.org & Andreas Heim @uni-konstanz.de & Simonetta Piatti @crbm-montpellier.bsky.social

DGZ.bsky.social @dgz.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to our next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #Mitosis & #Meiosis on Sept. 30 at noon, organized by simonereber.bsky.social & Thomas Mayer - join us!

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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 9d

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next Tuesday (30/09) for talks by @gautamdey.bsky.social @embl.org & Andreas Heim @uni-konstanz.de & Simonetta Piatti @crbm-montpellier.bsky.social

DGZ.bsky.social @dgz.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to our next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #Mitosis & #Meiosis on Sept. 30 at noon, organized by simonereber.bsky.social & Thomas Mayer - join us!

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 23d

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 15d

Wonderful collaboration with the labs of @carolynmoores1.bsky.social & Gregory Voth @uchichemistry.bsky.social 🤩 Still amazed how well the in vitro structure fits into the in vivo structure!  Congrats to Mamata Bangera et al.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microtubules #Malaria

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DGZ.bsky.social @dgz.bsky.social · Apr 8

We are excited to announce the details for this year’s #DGZ International Meeting, a very special one as we are celebrating 50 years of DGZ! Join us in October in Heidelberg, where the DGZ was founded in 1975. Check the speakers line-up etc. at the poster. Registration: shorturl.at/EHUzb #DGZ50

Poster with DGZ 2025 Meeting details (speakers list, organizers, sponsors)

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 17d

Congrats 🍾🍾🍾

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 19d

😢 but looking forward to having Rainer in Mitte 🙂

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to reading this! Congrats 🍾

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John Lees @bacpop.org · 21d

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026):
www.embl.org/about/info/e...

We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

EMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you!

www.embl.org

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Yuping Chen @yuping.bsky.social · 27d

Next week, we have Ulises Diaz from UCSF giving us a talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org. Join us.

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations! 🍾🍾🍾

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 27d

Huge congratulations to Dirk Görlich, our director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & Steven McKnight @ UT Southwestern Medical Center – winners of the 2025 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research!🎉🫠😊
www.mpg.de/25367852/091... | @laskerfdn.bsky.social

Order through disorder

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in proteins.

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 26d

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very much looking forward to Jan's talk!

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Sep 8

📢 Voices in Infection Biology
☀️ We're back from summer break with a talk by Jan Skotheim from @stanford.edu, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 10
🕓 4 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/42144...

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 4

Of course they have! Red is the best!

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are #hiring for two scientific support roles at PoL - in light microscopy and biophysics instrumentation. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬

Are you an expert in either of these areas? We would love to hear from you! The deadline for both roles is September 18th. 🗓️

Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 3

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#Reproducibility

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nice to see this out! Congrats everyone!

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 3

Resonates...

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

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Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are looking for a Master’s student to join a project on in vitro reconstitution of signaling networks in pathogen–host interactions: combine protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy & image analysis. Deadline: September 15.
Find out more and apply here: ist.ac.at/en/job/maste...

Master Thesis Position – Loose Research Group

Our Group The Loose lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is looking for a highly motivated Master student to join our research on the in vitro reconstitution of signaling n...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Sep 1

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry.

Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬

Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you!