Looks like a great @embo.org workshop coming in September: “Lipid Code to Life”, with a who’s who of lipid #biochemistry… (e.g. @dimovalab.bsky.social @holthuislab.bsky.social @sciezgin.bsky.social etc ) More info and registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip... #lipids #biophysics
It was exciting to step outside our own research bubble on membranes & vesicles 👀 and engage with sustainable & responsive materials design, soft matter under confinement & AI.
Exactly the kind of event that reminds you why being part of a broader scientific community matters. 🔬
@mpici.bsky.social
🧵1/5 ❄️Last week, our lab had the pleasure of attending a wonderful Winter School in the Austrian Alps🏔️⛷️
Huge thanks to the organizers - students and postdocs from three fantastic groups:
🔬Silvia @vignolinilab.bsky.social
🔬Nico @bruns-lab.bsky.social
🔬Ulli Steiner @merkleinstitute.bsky.social
Want to learn more about membrane-condensate interactions? Maybe the lecture series of our @comeincell.bsky.social doctoral network would be of interest to you.
👉 the next lecture is on February 16: www.comeincell.org/2026-02-16-r...
Using hyperspectral imaging with ACDAN and phasor plotting, we map phase-specific dielectric properties.
Condensates can exhibit a wide range of permittivities from water- to oil-like.
Thanks to Elias Sabri and Agu @mangiarotti.bsky.social !
@mpici.bsky.social @comeincell.bsky.social
How do biomolecular condensates🫧 interact with membranes? We show that dielectric permittivity contrast between coexisting phases directly governs condensate wetting behavior.
👉 preprint: bit.ly/4qBmVRx
Permittivity matters.🧪🫧
Monday blues no more with these online events by @comeincell.bsky.social (coordination: @dimovalab.bsky.social)
· 8 Dec, 2pm CET: “Drugging #Condensates & Drug Discovery” Dewpoint workshop
· 15 Dec 2pm CET: “Life in #Biotech” Dewpoint workshop
tinyurl.com/39rpaf84
#CellBiology #Biophysics
It was a great honor to deliver a plenary lecture at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society! 🇧🇷
eventos.galoa.com.br/sbbf-2025/pa...
Loved the friendly atmosphere and the gorgeous surroundings in Campinas @unicampoficial.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to the organizers!
It was a pleasure to deliver a course lecture together with Leonel @malacridalab.bsky.social on Phase separation at membrane interphases: Biomolecular condensates in Actions at
the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society
www.sbbf.org.br
Thanks to Antonio Costa Filho for organizing!
🎤 Sought-after everywhere! After delivering a great and crystal-clear talk at #BiomembraneDays2025 on asymmetric membranes in ternary mixtures, @markusdeserno.bsky.social also spoke in Barcelona. 🌍
🚀The #BiomembraneDays2025 concluded
WE THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS & OUR SPONSORS🙏🙏🙏
@abberior.rocks
Critical Insights in Biophysics
Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation
@dfg.de
@jcellsci.bsky.social
@lipotype.bsky.social
@naniontech.bsky.social
@picoquant.bsky.social
Refeyn Ltd
@biologists.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social
🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel)
🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social)
🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social)
🚀Science rocks!
Last talk in the #BiomembraneDays25 (before the best poster awards @lipotype.bsky.social ) is given by Thomas Weikl who explains nano-dome membrane deformations by #Piezo2
@mpici.bsky.social
Ilya @leventallab.bsky.social is clarifying the puzzles of biomembrane asymmetries amplifying our knowledge with comprehensive lipidomics
#BiomembraneDays25
The last session of the #BiomembraneDays25 starts with Petra Schwille presenting minimal systems for cell division
@comeincell.bsky.social
@syncelleu.bsky.social
Georg Pabst presented how lipid asymmetry in membranes can modulate the performance of proteins like OmpLA and the importance of ions regulating this
#BiomembraneDays25
Helge @ewerslab.bsky.social knows not only how to organize conferences (#BiomembraneDays25) but also how septins organize. Exceptional imaging #ExpansionMicroscopy of cytokinesis
Misha Kozlov presented a pressure/tension propagation model supported by the experiments of the lab of Raya Sorkin @sorkinlab.bsky.social
#BiomembraneDauys25
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Rainer Böckmann expanded on the (never ending story) about the effect of cholesterol on bending rigidity of membranes
#BiomembraneDays25
Kandice @leventallab.bsky.social showed a great construct for resolving membrane organization around transmembrane domains
#BiomembraneDays25
Alf Honigman clarified condensation and receptor segregation at cell junctions at the #BiomembraneDays25
Padmini Rangamani enforced the theory talks at the #BiomembraneDays25 focusing on curvature generation by the glycocalyx
Giacomo Fiorin discusses role of cholesterol and asymmetry on membrane stiffness at the #BiomembraneDays25
Jan @steinkuehler.bsky.social is now exciting us with electrically excitable membranes at the #BiomembraneDays25
Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25
Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25
We start off the last day of the #BiomembraneDays25 with a lecture of Jay Groves on protein condensation at membranes.
Another welcome distraction from the dissertation awaits right next to the office: #BioMembraneDays25 are such a great gathering, spanning membrane and lipid #biophysics to physiology. The food is outstanding too 🤗. Thanks to organizers @ewerslab.bsky.social @dimovalab.bsky.social and Thomas Weikl!
Petia Vlahovska explained the contributions of viscous dissipation to membrane fluctuations and their increasing importance in analyzing data from small vesicles and interpretation of #NSE data
#BiomembraneDays25
Check her paper
Faizi et al PNAS 2024