Brugues Lab
@brugueslab.bsky.social
We combine soft matter physics, biophysics and cell biology to uncover physical principles of cellular organization @ Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Dresden
Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congratulations Agnes!
Toth-Petroczy lab@tothpetroczylab.bsky.social · last mo.I am honored and deeply grateful for the opportunity to continue being part of Dresden’s vibrant and collaborative scientific community as a joint Professor between @casusscience.bsky.social and @biotec-tud.bsky.social. My dream of doing science for life has come true.
Welcome Prof. Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy! New Professor of Systems Biology and Protein Evolution & joint group leader at BIOTEC @tudresden.bsky.social & CASUS. She focuses on disordered proteins - ones that lack a fixed 3D structure - yet play essential roles. Read more ➡️ tud.link/784yv9 #CMCBnews
Sachsen bindet Spitzenforscherin im Bereich der Bioinformatik: Prof. Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy verstärkt das BIOTEC und CASUS
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🏆 Introducing the inaugural Suzanne Eaton Awards for Physics of Life! We're thrilled to announce the 2026 recipients: L. Mahadevan @harvard.edu and Anna Erzberger @embl.org. 👨🔬Both scientists will give award lectures on 20. November, more info to follow ➡️Read our announcement here: tud.link/cjm8t2
It was an honor to introduce @alisonkickuth.bsky.social during the Otto Hahn medal ceremony from the @maxplanck.de in recognition for her amazing PhD, where she discovered a new mechanism for unilateral cytokinesis (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Congratulations Simon!
TUD | Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC)@biotec-tud.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to Prof. Simon Alberti @albertilab-tud.bsky.social for being elected to German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina @leopoldina.org! 🥳 Read more ➡️ tud.link/bc82ng #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social
I deleted the previous post because it had a typo. If you could share, that would be great!
MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm very happy to announce that the "From Postdoc to PI Session" will be sponsored by the @biologists.bsky.social and we will be offering a $$ Prize to the best talk, so now a twofer reason to apply! www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-... Let me know if you have any question/s! 🐟
🚨One week left! Applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program will close on 20. May! We offer numerous benefits: ✅ 3-year funded position ✅ Core research funding to cover travel, publishing, and project costs ✅Mentorship from 2+ PoL PIs ..and much more! Apply now: tud.link/y3djda
Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer course at Institut Curie is now open! Explore how biological forms emerge across scales, from intracellular organization to tissues. 📅 November 16th-20th, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Deadline: September 10th, 2026 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/cours/biolog...
Congratulations Pau!!
Pau Guillamat@pauguillamat.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust published in @science.org 🚀 By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes. A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very proud of Joana Vidigueira from the lab, who won one of the DIGS-ILS Fellow Awards 2026! www.digs-ils.phd/news/2025/06...
DIGS-ILS Fellow Awards 2026
Awards given to five DIGS-ILS PhD candidates
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🚀 Are you planning to secure funding to start your own research group? (e.g. ERC, Emmy Noether, etc). 👨🔬Physics of Life can host you, and offers numerous benefits! We are launching a new Program to host and support third-party funded junior groups. Check out the details here: tud.link/xayd8s
Check out my newest Research highlight on work by @brugueslab.bsky.social on how the cytoplasm of early embryos retains its partitioning prior to cellularisation - and what workarounds different species have developed against an inherent cytoskeletal instability!
Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoReally nice highlight of our recent paper on cytoplasmic partitioning by physical instabilities!
Congrats!!
Simone Reber@simonereber.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn vitro reconstitution is powerful: we can rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components and recapitulate what cells actually do 🤩 Thanks to an incredible team that made this possible 🙌 @carolynmoores1.bsky.social in particular rdcu.be/e7eM2
Really nice highlight of our recent paper on cytoplasmic partitioning by physical instabilities!
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 5mo agoNew Online! Overcoming cytoskeleton instability in the early embryo
We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here! physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro... Drop a line if you are interested to know more details! #labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol
Our latest ‘Imaging spotlight’ is from Jan Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social & Alison Kickuth @alisonkickuth.bsky.social where they discuss the microscopy & microrheology techniques that they used in their research dissecting the mechanics of cytokinesis. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/10/i...
Imaging spotlight - How to divide without a ring: a mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis - FocalPlane
Imaging spotlight - How to divide without a ring: a mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis - News
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We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
🎉Exciting findings out today in Nature @nature.com from the PoL group of Jan Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social! The authors describe a new mechanism driving cell division during early development in #zebrafish, fundamentally altering our view of the process. Read the press release: tud.link/2s3bxj
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Today was Alison Kickuth's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social last day in the lab. We are very sad to see her go but very excited about what is coming next for her at Cambridge LMB. Alison is amazing and we will miss her a lot! We also celebrated her accepted paper which should come out really soon.
#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
🙌 Hello from #EESNucleus. The organisers Simone Köhler, Patrick Lusk, Thomas Quail, @sarawickstrom.bsky.social and Karo Wolkersdorfer are welcoming all participants to the four day symposium in Heidelberg.
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
