Interfacial Cell Biology

Biology mixed with physics & curiosity @UniCologne. Membranes, wetting, LLPS & condensates. Autophagy. Grow, microscope, eat plants. Harassment-free science.

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Thanks for everyone contributing!

[Aland Lab @aland_lab]

Condensates can not only bend biomembranes, but also cut them (fission). Check out the first evidence in our @nature paper: https://t.co/ZUBpp3tKuJ
Great collaboration between maths, physics and biology @AgudoCanalejo @XiaofengFangLab @KnorrLab @csbdresden

[Robinson Lab @LabRobinson]

We are hiring a PhD @EdinburghUni @SchoolOfEng_UoE to work on the bottom-up design and construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes. Lab is based at the Institute for Bioengineering. #synbio https://t.co/dGtdjz8HF0
Please RT!

[Natalia Kononenko @KononenkoLab]

We have a PhD position available to study neuronal functions of autophagy and endocytosis.

[Gabriele Zaffagnini @zaffagg3]

#Job alert! A #postdoc position in my lab @CECAD_ @UniCologne is open until December 1st.

We look for: enthusiasm, curiosity, scientific rigour, and a background in protein quality control, lysosome signalling, or the cell cycle.

We offer: fully funded position, top European research campus, state-of-the-art facilities, collaborative working environment, interdisciplinary approach, fascinating and understudied cell model.

Details: https://t.co/oZCRFMt0ZY

Applications *ONLY* here: https://t.co/SU6rmT2eZp

Interviews of shortlisted candidates will be scheduled after December 1st.

Please spread the voice, share & RT. Thanks!

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Thanks to the team and for funds: @SPP2191 @dfg_public!

Cell membranes shaped and cut by phase-separated liquid protein condensates https://t.co/y6dBw3ggYO
@Pha_Tran_Papers

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Gratuliere, Suze!!

[Yuji Sakai (境祐二) @yj_sakai]

We simulated the formation of OPTN droplets on the membrane in mitophagy.
The droplets could lead to the membrane connection.

Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates | The EMBO Journal https://t.co/45fTEIfgJp

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Exciting news: 2D condensates at mitochondria!
Thanks to @yj_sakai, @ChinoHaruka, @MizLabUT.
Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates | The EMBO Journal https://t.co/HpuyxEKfsX
@Pha_Tran_Papers

[Universität zu Köln @UniCologne]

💧✂️Liquid droplets cut membranes without protein scissors🌱
A study led by @knorrlab and team shows that tiny liquid droplets, known as biomolecular condensates, cut membranes of plant cells without the need for specialized protein✂️
Read more 🔗 https://t.co/J4F9NDKNg0

[Jaime Agudo-Canalejo @AgudoCanalejo]

✂️A *liquid* pair of scissors? This is DALL-E's representation... But biology has built the real deal, as our new work w/ @XiaofengFangLab @KnorrLab @aland_lab just out @Nature shows https://t.co/dpftNibSEA (1/6)

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

@Ella_Maru @aland_lab @Nature @AgudoCanalejo @XiaofengFangLab @csbdresden I think that cells harness this alternative membrane fission process and sure, this process should be manipulable

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Not exactly X-less

[Matthew L. Kraushar @MatthewKraushar]

more from Knorr! congrats twitterless Roland and @XiaofengFangLab
condensates 🤝 membranes 🤝 plants
https://t.co/Ht9rFGnohn

[Sadaf Shadan @sshadan]

In intracellular trafficking, the ESCRT machinery mediates membrane scission of the multivesicular bodies (MVBs). Work @nature proposes that, in plant cells, this is mediated by biomolecular condensates, and depends on the condensates' physical properties.
https://t.co/QFmazk5p4r

[Biochemistry Center Cologne @BCCologne]

We are thrilled to welcome our new colleague Roland Knorr with his team @KnorrLab who just was appointed as W2 professor @BCCologne @UniCologne @UKKoeln We are looking forward to exciting research on phase separation & shaping of biological membranes https://t.co/ASrUJfmoz4

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Exciting news: our lab expands and moves @UniCologne next to @CECAD_ ; thrilling papers will be out soon...

[Interfacial Cell Biology @KnorrLab]

Looking to join our lab in #berlin? We're hiring!

#microscopy #imaging #biology #physics #biophysics #biochemistry #cellBiology #Bioengineering
#phdstudent #studentships #PhDposition #postdoctoral #Postdocposition #sciencejobs #postdoc
@BioCondensates @dfg_public @HumboldtUni

[Jaime Agudo-Canalejo @AgudoCanalejo]

❗️just out @PhysRevLett ❗️a surprising nonequilibrium effect hidden in a classic theory of phase separation...

[Mizushima Lab (UTokyo) @MizLabUT]

Our new preprint is out! The standard shapes of phagophores during autophagosome formation are statistically determined by 3d-EM and are quantitatively explained by a physical model. Congratulations, Yuji!!https://t.co/i5LW9DyjIg

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

"We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!"
#Vienna: 'hold my #Weisswein🥂*'

- Königsegggasse

(*or 16er-Blech🥫 if you prefer)

[Atsushi_Tanaka_PhD @ATP_1976]

みとこんどりゃ旨し　#紅芋タルト