After 8 amazing months at the NYU/Center for Soft Matter Research I had to say goodbye😭to a wonderful group of colleagues and students. Thanks for the hospitality and patience in teaching me active swimmers and holographic tweezers🤩. Next thing to do: Setting it up in Germany💪

I am so proud. Dorian's poster was selected for the posterprize at this years spring meeting of the German Physical Society🥳. Well deserved💪. Three prizes by my students in three years. I am so lucky that I can call this talented crowd of passionate researchers the BetzLab 🤩

3D dynamic multiscale force and shape analysis of in-vivo elastic stress sensors The measurement of stresses and forces at the tissue level has proven to be an indispensable tool for the understanding of complex biological phenomena such as cancer invasion, embryo development or w...

Check out the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_publ... implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.

You are a biologist and want to get an idea why looking at intracellular active mechanics is important for cellular function? Check out our recent review preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.14538. We try to give an intuitive access, but also provide details in extensive toolboxes.