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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Jochen Guck from MPI Erlangen has passed away on October 4 2025. He has left us far too soon. RIP, Jochen

Jacky Goetz @goetzjacky.bsky.social · 3d

My very dear Jochen Guck, has just passed away and yet I cannot believe it 🥹
Jochen is one of the most brilliant scientist I had ever met, a human being with unlimited qualities, brave and caring, positive (always) and full of ressources, helpful and with - always - the best advices.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats Nedal @ndarif.bsky.social, Yannick, Freddy and coworkers to this beautiful project. Another great work from #SFB1129. Special congrats to first author Nedal who very recently defended his PhD at #EMBL.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 11d

A very inspiring day with great 45 min talks at the Ulm Biophysics Summer Symposium 2025, by Joachim Spatz, Jovica Ninkovic, Max Bi, @streichan.bsky.social, Sabrina Leslie and Joachim Rädler. Many thanks @serwanelab.bsky.social for the invitation and congratulations for the new position👍😀🚀

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 16d

The #mattertolife fall days are a wonderful opportunity to connect to this vibrant community. This time at the @mpip-mainz.mpg.de with talks by the local hosts @graeterlab.bsky.social, @landfesterdept.bsky.social and @weilgroup.bsky.social. Thanks @mattertolife.bsky.social for bringing us here 👍😀🙏

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing work, Daniel. Congrats 👍👍👍

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 29d

Very attractive position at EMBL Heidelberg

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 29d

Join EMBL as a research group leader in AI in biology. EMBL AI is our new initiative aiming to exploit the full potential of ML/AI-based approaches to advance our understanding of the most complex system in the known universe - life on Earth.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Huge congrats, David👍

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great session with flash talks at #25EngLife. Here @lettermann.bsky.social presenting his work on malaria parasite motility.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

This work is also available as preprint arxiv.org/abs/2502.11833. The final version is here: doi.org/10.1103/8h9z...

Active gel theory for cell migration with two myosin isoforms

Using a one-dimensional active gel model of cell migration with two myosin II isoforms, A and B, this study reproduces the experimentally observed polarization of the isoforms and identifies a pitchfo...

doi.org

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Huge congrats to first author Nils Winkler, who had presented this beautiful work also at #DPG2025 at Regensburg. And to second author @omdrozdowski.bsky.social, who closely worked together with him.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

This work is also available as preprint arxiv.org/abs/2502.11833. The final version is here: doi.org/10.1103/8h9z...

Active gel theory for cell migration with two myosin isoforms

Using a one-dimensional active gel model of cell migration with two myosin II isoforms, A and B, this study reproduces the experimentally observed polarization of the isoforms and identifies a pitchfo...

doi.org

Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Huge congrats to first author Nils Winkler, who had presented this beautiful work also at #DPG2025 at Regensburg. And to second author @omdrozdowski.bsky.social, who closely worked together with him.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 10

Now out in ACS Infectious Diseases @pubs.acs.org: joint work from the Lanzer, Tanaka, Schwarz and Cavalcanti-Adam labs within #SFB1129 on the adhesion footprint of malaria-infected infected red blood cells. Read the open access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Contact Dynamics of Cytoadhering Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes in Flow

The virulence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is linked to the altered mechanical and adhesive properties of infected erythrocytes, which adhere to the microvascular endothelium to...

pubs.acs.org

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Reposted by Ulrich Schwarz

Diez Lab @ TU Dresden @stefandiezlab.bsky.social · Jul 28

Few spots left on our @bcube-tud.bsky.social organised hashtag #Symposium:
Engineering Life 2025: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬

📆 September 1-3, 2025
📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden

Register now (Deadline 31 July 2025): engineering-life-dresden.de

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jul 28

Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jul 25

I love the concept and the design of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA. For the new edition on ACTIVE & PASSIVE, I contributed a piece on "active matter physics" (main text in German, but with a summary in English). Here you can download the PDF: heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/rup...

Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very inspiring, but also sort of sad: last of the annual retreats of our wonderful #SFB1129 on pathogens, which just entered its 12th and last year. But there is also some good news: it will end in one year from now with an international conference that everyone will be able to attend👍😀

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣Book alert📣

Finally out with Cambridge University Press: the book by Udo Seifert on "Stochastic thermodynamics". It comprehensively covers many topics, from an introduction to statistical physics to many special subjects such as reaction networks and active particles. Highly recommended 👍👍👍

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jun 22

📢Conference alert📢

Only one week left to register for the Engineering Life 2025 Symposium at Dresden September 1-3. This year's edition focuses on the function of mechanical forces in biology.

engineering-life-dresden.de

Engineering Life 2025: ORIGIN AND FUNCTION OF MECHANICAL FORCES IN BIOLOGY

Engineering Life 2025, biological forces, force spectroscopy, measuring forces, developmental forces, molecular motors, forces in morphogenesis, cytoskeleton, DNA mechanics, bionanotechnology

engineering-life-dresden.de

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Sandra Iden @sandraiden.bsky.social · Jun 21

Upcoming interdisciplinary meeting: Cell Physics 2025
When? October 7-9, 2025
Where? Saarbruecken, Germany
Relevant dates? Early-bird deadline: June 30, regular registration by August 31
Several opportunities for short-talks selected from abstracts
More info at: cell-physics.uni-saarland.de

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Amazing, five of the new ERC Advanced Grants go to Heidelberg, and four of them are physics-related. I also note the strong connections to our clusters of excellence @structures-hd.bsky.social (Michaela Mapelli, Wolfram Pernice) and @cluster3dmm2o.bsky.social (Jana Zaumseil, Wolfram Pernice)👍👍👍

Universität Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hochdotierte Förderung für fünf Forscherinnen und Forscher der Universität Heidelberg – Der Europäische Forschungsrat fördert mit ERC Advanced Grants bahnbrechende Projekte
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #förderung #ercadvancedgrant #erc

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Inspiring talk by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social sky.social‬ in the Heidelberg physics colloquium yesterday. And a great introduction to their latest paper on Min oscillations in @natphys.nature.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02878-w

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