Interview with @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social, and @gavagesylvie.bsky.social in @euromathsoc.bsky.social magazine on their research and passions. ems.press/content/seri...

European Mathematical Society@euromathsoc.bsky.social · 2w ago

📖 EMS Magazine No. 140 is now online! Featuring big mathematics 📚, Michèle Audin 🕊️, Side by side interviews 🎙️, a carbon footprint calculator 🌍, scientific authority 🔍, the Lie–Størmer Center 🏛️, zbMATH Open digitisation 💻, and mathematics education 🎓. euromathsoc.org/magazine/iss...

The first Discrete Laplacians workshop took place @mpi-cbg.de on June 22nd to 25th, assembling 60 participants, including 9 keynote speakers and 22 contributed speakers. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

First workshop for Laplace equations

MPI-CBG hosts 60 mathematicians for event on Discrete Laplacians

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Otto Hahn Medal for three @mpi-cbg.de researchers: Kristin Böhlig in the group of André Nadler, Alison Kickuth in the group of Jan Brugués @poldresden.bsky.social, Giulio Zucal, from MPI-MiS in Leipzig and now mentored by Türkü Özlüm Çelik and @grill-lab.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

New #preprint: "Nonlinear isotropic odd elasticity" arxiv.org/abs/2605.02476 More from the #PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social: revealing some of the surprising nonlinear mechanical behaviour of active, "odd" solids. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Apply now for this upcoming workshop (June 22-25, 2026) at @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social bringing together researchers from a variety of subjects to present and discuss recent advances in the theory and use of discrete Laplacians. plan.events.mpg.de/event/617/

Maximilian Wiesmann from the group of @aidadoesmath.bsky.social talked on the birth of AI at today's Dresden Seniors' Academy. 😮

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...

Heather Harrington is new 2026 SIAM Fellow

Recognition for mathematicians for outstanding research and service to community

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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! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Pierre Haas@lepuslapis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New #preprint: "Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces", a great #biophysics collaboration with Chandraniva Guha Ray, @markusmukenhirn.bsky.social, Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social. arxiv.org/abs/2509.04316 @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

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. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

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. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

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...

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 6mo ago

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

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?...

Protein plasticity and evolution: The research group of Agnes Toth-Petroczy at MPI-CBG

YouTube video by MPI-CBG

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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

Robust variable selection for spatial point processes observed with noise

We propose a method for variable selection in the intensity function of spatial point processes that combines sparsity-promoting estimation with noise-robust model selection. As high-resolution spatia...

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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!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 10mo ago

We welcome Fridtjof Brauns as new group leader for "Living and Morphing Matter Theory" @mpipks.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de! He is interested in self-organization in living systems. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

🤩👍🏼💪🏼 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

TopoSPAM: Topology grounded Simulation Platform for morphogenesis and biological Active Matter

We present a topology grounded, multiscale simulation platform for morphogenesis and biological active matter. Morphogenesis and biological active matter represent keystone problems in biology with ad...

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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...

New Perspectives on the Hidden World of Proteins

 Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 goes to Agnes Toth-Petroczy

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🤩🤩🤩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 @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org

Pierre Haas@lepuslapis.bsky.social · last yr.

New #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688. A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman. @flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social