Simone Reber

Scientist. Interested in complexity, organisational principles, quantitative biology, frogs & coffee. Tweets here are my own. @simonereber.bsky.social

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✨Thanks to amazing students @TobiasKletter @MrEnkapsis, postdocs @bis_was_here
& collaborators @Omar136661 @VasilyZaburdaev ALMF @EMBLHeidelberg ✨
👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉out today @NatureCellBio https://t.co/GJ3TAqkRmy

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Not all nuclei are the same. We went to biology’s most extreme nuclei
👉 dinoflagellates, genomes 80× ours
👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei
👉 ciliates: two nuclei, one cytoplasm
& asked: what sets nuclear density?
🧵 Preprint: https://t.co/p9hfnmPfsS

[BensenHsu @BensenHsu]

Congratulations! Their most renowned work:

1. Georg Nagel & Peter Hegemann's work:
Title: Channelrhodopsin-1: A Light-Gated Proton Channel in Green Algae

2. Georg Nagel & Karl Deisseroth's work:
Title: Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity

3. Georg Nagel & Peter Hegemann's work:
Title: Channelrhodopsin-2, a directly light-gated
cation-selective membrane channel

[Tim Stearns @StearnsLab]

Congratulations to Karl, Peter, and Georg! Another great example of how basic research - in this case, understanding how an algal cell responds to light - can have an enormous impact on our understanding of something as complex as the brain.

[Simone Reber @SimoneReber]

@WallaceUcsf Congrats to you! 🍾🍾🍾

[Wissenschaftskolleg @wiko_berlin]

Schützt die Verfassung die freie Wissenschaft? @ChristophMllers, der kommende Rektor des Wissenschaftskollegs, hat untersucht, was die Unis bedroht. Er sagt: Das Problem ist größer als die AfD. https://t.co/MLYg4frYg4

[Wissenschaftskolleg @wiko_berlin]

CFA: Apply by November 1st! Wiko Early Career Call for fellowships 2027/2028 in the #NaturalSciences and #LifeSciences. Gain time to think during a 3–5 month #fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study: https://t.co/LxiXocEj6h

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💫Thanks to @KateMiro1 @MPI_Muenster for visiting us and discussing the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin! 💫

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@Toliclab @nenad_pavin Sad to have missed this! Next time 💃

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@Alushin_Lab @Nature Congrats!

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

Come #work in lab as #labtech #labmanager

🚨 #JobAlert Join an international team at Physics of Life, working at the interface of biology and physics 🧬

👨‍🔬The Barriga Lab #science is seeking an experienced lab technician.

Please share with your colleagues! Learn more here: https://t.co/LLC3IWLsy6 🗓️Application deadline: May 6. #Xenopus #Biomechanics #Bioelectricity

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@PardiZoltan Welcome back ❤️🤍💚

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[the Node @the_Node]

#SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr

In this profile, we meet Brittany Carr, an Assistant Professor at @UAlberta. Brittany uses acrylic, watercolour, gouache & ink to create pictures of the natural world & she is a fan of using microscopy for ‘science’ art.

https://t.co/fMMBLqYaFD

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@DeepaHRajan @LilacMess42 @WallaceUcsf @UCSF Nice! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.

- Richard Feynman

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Ich glaube ich fahre zum nächsten Oktoberfest, einfach nur um neben Markus Söder zu stehen, wenn er einem Grünen zuschaut, wie er das Fest eröffnet.

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

A periodic reminder to leave behind simplistic & naive notions.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Despite his teacher’s opinion that he couldn’t learn simple biology, John Gurdon went on to receive a #NobelPrize, for his classic frog experiment, which showed that the DNA of mature frog cells has all the information needed to develop all cells in its body.

#WorldFrogDay

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@Toliclab @NatureComms 🍾🍾🍾

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@SchuhLab @Leopoldina 🍾🍾🍾

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In vitro reconstitution is powerful: we rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components & recapitulate what cells actually do🤩

Thanks to the team that made this possible🙌 in particular Carolyn Moores @BirkbeckScience

Out today: https://t.co/Hv2VpBkqBS