Zwicker Group

Theoretical biophysics group @mpids. We study how soft and fluid-like materials are organized in biological organisms and cells. @zwickergroup.bsky.social

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We welcome 🇩🇪Henri Schmidt to our group! 🎉 Henri will work on multicomponent phase separation and graduate with a PhD in a few years. Welcome aboard!

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@Ariel_4321 @EMBO Congratulations and welcome to the EMBO family!

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@brangwynnelab @sapinker @HenryLouisGates Congratulations!

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Thanks to @Raph_Mercier and @MarcelErnst91 for the inspiring interdisciplinary endeavor! 🙏

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Our analysis of crossover interference in meiosis is now online: https://t.co/k4Yv72kpcS 🎉 We introduce the interference distance L_int as a new scalar quantification (Online tool at https://t.co/aIHI1AoAmD). L_int allows us to compare data across species, mutants, and sexes!

[Job Boekhoven @BoekhovenLab]

RT appreciated:
My lab is recruiting several Ph.D.s and Postdocs excited to build synthetic cells that undergo Darwinian evolution.

The backgrounds that we need for include biochemistry, synthetic biology, and systems chemistry.

Details: https://t.co/wnL58oCjol

[Goehring Lab @goehring_lab]

4-year PhD and post-doctoral positions @goehring_lab @TheCrick combining advanced cell biological, biophysical, and theoretical approaches to uncover the design principles of cell polarity and fate specification in C. elegans. https://t.co/N04dUcHuMS https://t.co/3wyvnK5OHR

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Filipe Thewes 🇧🇷 joined our group this week! After a successful PhD with @psollich at @uniGoettingen, he moved up the hill to help us understand multicomponent phase separation. Welcome aboard! 🥳

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@ShuLab2010 @WallaceUcsf Our generic reply to this question is that it’s not the right question to ask. Certainly, biology does not care whether we call a cluster a „condensate“. Instead we find it helpful to ask whether describing a cluster as a condensate makes useful predictions!

[MPI-DS Göttingen @mpids]

⏰Do you have a minute?⏰
Chengjie Lou is a postdoctoral researcher in the @ZwickerGroup at MPI-DS. Let's spend a minute with him and join his work on patterns created by phase separation!
https://t.co/zDIQ6VXFi3
@luochengjie58
#DYHAM

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The full article at https://t.co/n3ROQHjAht has many more details and we will explorer the role of charges further.

This work started from a short discussion after a Zoom talk by @jerelleaj and was driven by @luochengjie58, Nate Hess, Dilimulati Aierken, and Yicheng Qiang!

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Happy to announce a preprint by @jerellea’s and our group. 🎉 https://t.co/n3ROQHjAht shows that #droplet growth is arrested at finite sizes when the phase separating material evokes a net #charge of the droplet. The attached molecular dynamics simulation visualizes this effect

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Interestingly, the strength of phase separation has only a weak effect on droplet size, which we confirmed with more simulations. Our work shows how charge can control droplet size, e.g., to regulate #condensates inside biological cells.

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We welcome 🇳🇱 Guido Kusters as a new postdoc in our group! Guido did his PhD in Eindhoven and will work on various topics involving phase separation with us. Welcome aboard! 🎊🎉

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That’s an excellent opportunity, which cannot be recommended enough :)

[Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress]

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@carlacolloids @snsf_ch @eth_mat @Complex_Mat Congratulations! This will start an exciting chapter in your career! Looking forward to more phenomenal science out of Zurich.

[Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog]

We are accepting applications again to our fantastic fully funded program with excellent faculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities! APPLY NOW!!! https://t.co/bC6lOvgHFJ #maxplanckschools #passionforscience 👌💪🏻🧠🍀

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@jerelleaj @NIGMS Congratulations - that‘s amazing and very well deserved! 🎉

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It’s amazing to see experimental evidence for a mechanism we conceived about a decade ago! Congratulations to @BoekhovenLab and @WebersGroup – this is surely just the beginning of an exciting scientific journey! 🎉

[Job Boekhoven @BoekhovenLab]

Frank Jülicher, @ZwickerGroup, Rabea Seyboldt, @HymanLab, @WebersGroup predicted such a size control in a theoretical framework.

We have now verified that mechanism for the first time in an experimental system!

https://t.co/sCldZUoO0p