Lars Hubatsch

In our latest preprint we show that Lifeact::mKate2 can reverse the chirality of active torques in the actomyosin cortex. This results in cortical flows with opposite handedness during left-right symmetry breaking, leading to the formation of situs inversus worms.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arittri's amazing finding that our old friend Lifeact can make actomyosin flow in the opposite direction, change chirality and flip left and right in the C.elegans worm.
Check out here for more details:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wow.

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

Ein Moment des stillen Gedenkens an den Dolmetscher von Trumps Davos-Rede, der sich danach sein Gehirn auf den Ausgangszustand zurücksetzen lassen muss.

Just got back from the traditional post-prandial constitutional at the @mpipks.bsky.social #biophysics retreat. Photo illustrates visibility on the slopes of the Fichtelberg and @larshubatsch.bsky.social trying to figure out whether we were still on a path...

Fantastic and snowy two-hour “evening constitutional” at the @mpipks.bsky.social Biological Physics retreat in Oberwiesenthal! Great chatting with Pierre @lepuslapis.bsky.social and Christina Kurzthaler

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

how did this guy run an investment bank?

Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Madalena Reimão Pinto is new research group leader at MPI-CBG New research group for “Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis” established.

Since November, @mpi-cbg.de has a new research group for “Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis,” led by cell and molecular biologist @madalenamrp.bsky.social. Madalena will focus on RNA biology in the context of development. Welcome! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Lab meetings in Max Planck institutes

Omaya Dudin Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

#Microbial #Eukaryotes in #UExM on the cover of @natgenet.nature.com ! Unbelievable !!!

Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!

New research group leader for functional genomics Molecular biologist Matthias Muhar becomes part of the MPI-CBG faculty

New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

The poor grad student who’s going to manage their replies…

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.

He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.

www.embl.org/news/people-...

It was an honor to present the laudation for the 2025 STS Honorary Medal Awardee, Hao Wu (@harvardmed.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social), at the 28th Signal Transduction Meeting. Her groundbreaking work has transformed our understanding of innate immune signaling.
@sigtrans.bsky.social #STS

The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org
Check it out.

Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

1/ We’re delighted to hear that our Reviewing Editor, Shimon Sakaguchi, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine today alongside colleagues Fred Ramsdell and Mary Brunkell: www.nobelprize.org

Thanks a lot and thanks for being such an important part of the journey 😊

Thanks Sam, looking forward to visiting you guys in Augsburg again!

Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert!

Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Warm goodbye to Dresden's @mpipks.bsky.social, my scientific home for the past 4 years. It's been amazing to start my group here! Thanks to the Max Planck Society, group members and everyone at the institute! Looking forward to the new chapter in Barcelona @ub.edu

With painted cows and a perfect pasta sauce, ‘Ig Nobel’ winners claim glory Some of the world’s most imaginative scientific minds have been celebrated at the Ig Nobel awards, which recognize discoveries that make people “laugh, then think.”

Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.