The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced their 2026 Class of SIAM Fellows. One of them is Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, and professor at @ox.ac.uk. Congratulations! 🥳 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Now #published @prxlife.bsky.social: a great Dresden collaboration on lumen mechanics with @chandraniva.bsky.social @markusmukenhirn.bsky.social, Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social!
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New #preprint: "A mechanical bifurcation constrains the evolution of cell sheet folding in the family Volvocaceae"
arxiv.org/abs/2603.15171
The next chapter in the #Volvox saga: work done by Valens Tribet during his internship in my group.
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Two-panel calibration plot (two benchmark dimer datasets) comparing predicted interchain contact-probability bins (x-axis) with the observed fraction of native interfacial contacts (y-axis). Points follow the diagonal, indicating close agreement between predicted probabilities and true interface-contact fractions.
My first manuscript in MPI colours! With @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social, we show that AlphaFold PAE-derived contact probabilities are well calibrated to the fraction of true interface contacts across experimentally determined protein dimers.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#proudPI moment: this afternoon, my first student, Maryam Setoudeh, successfully defended her #PhD thesis @tudresden.bsky.social.
Picture of happy student and inanely grinning PI provided by @zhaoshh.bsky.social.
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The Division of Biological Physics @mpipks.bsky.social seeks a Research Group Leader in #biophysics, #softmatter physics, or related areas. (Further particulars in the ad.)
Apply by the 3rd of April 2026 at pks.mpg.de/bprgl to join us in Dresden!
Our work @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @scadsai.bsky.social fuses representation learning with spatial statistics @iclr-conf.bsky.social enabling #AI for spatial localization patterns: openreview.net/forum?id=09Y...
2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...
Come and join our Discrete Laplacian workshop in Dresden, Germany 🙌!
With Karel Devriendt, Otto Sumray, and Giulio Zucal, we are organising the workshop in MPI-CBG, 22-25 Jun 2026.
Thanks to the support from Heather Harrington's group at CSBD, MPI!
Abstract ddl: 1 Mar 2026
More details follow 🧵
Giulio from the group of Türkü Özlüm Çelik talks on mathematical structures during our current coffee chalk talk series @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social to promote knowledge exchange between disciplines.
The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow Program is now open. We look forward to receiving your applications by March 13, 2026!
Further information can be found here:
www.csbdresden.de/join-us/jobs...
Snowy day @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. ❄️❄️❄️
How does an elastic line buckle within a curved surface? The answer, by @zhaoshh.bsky.social and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social, has now been #published @physrevlett.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s
Watch this video about the work of the research group of @agnestoth.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Agnes and her group work on protein plasticity and evolution. For her work, Agnes recently received the Schering Young Investigator Award 2025! youtu.be/lEpvGu3J63M?...
Modeling spatial point patterns from noisy, incomplete experimental data just got easier! Great work by @domsturm.bsky.social for sparse, noise-robust model inference of point processes 🤩 @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25550
Greeted this morning with the blackboard of math discussion— looks like algebra, topology and data— during tea yesterday @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
With her research group, “Algebraic Topology and Networks in Biology,” Daniela Egas Santander joins @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. Welcome, Daniela! 🎉 @math-mpicbg.bsky.social www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
A new call for the ELBE Visiting faculty program is now open! No matter if you are junior or senior faculty, if you work on math/physics/computer science/ML applied to life sciences, you are welcome to submit an application to come and collaborate with the groups at CSBD! Deadline is November 30th.
Welcome to @mpi-cbg.de, @mpipks.bsky.social and @csbdresden.bsky.social, Fridtjof!
🤩👍🏼💪🏼 Meet #TopoSPAM - a high-performance simulation platform for biological morphogenesis with a friendly Python interface. @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Solve both continuous and discrete active mechanics! Released today: arxiv.org/abs/2509.24905
Two years today! Very grateful 🙏 @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 by the Schering Stiftung for Agnes Toth-Petroczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social. She receives the award for her work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
🤩🤩🤩Absolutely thrilled our work is featured in the Magazine of @maxplanck.de ! Big thanks to the writer and editor 🙏🙏🙏 Never saw our work described so well! Curious? @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de - PDF is freely available, article starts p.36: www.mpg.de/25430399/MPR...
Now #published @pnas.org: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis", a great #biophysics #devbio collaboration led by @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
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🙏 Very honored to speak at #BuildingBridges2025 on #AI for #Biomedicine. What an amazing lineup of panelists 🤩🤩🤩 Politics and Science working together- Germany, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland - together for future #AI 👍🏼 @hzdr.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social
Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110
This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics!
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Cool paper out by mathematicians studying population dynamics with algebraic geometry @georgysch.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
New #preprint: "Strata of Ecological Coexistence via Grassmannians" with Türkü Özlüm Çelik, Georgy Scholten, Kexin Wang, Giulio Zucal - a great, first collaboration with #mathematics @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165
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#GenAI meets perception psychology for better super-resolution microscopy 🤩 Fig.1 says it all! 😎 Fantastic collaboration with @casusscience.bsky.social - work of @zuseschoolsecai.bsky.social students @csbdresden.bsky.social - out now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
