Proud of our institute, its staff and scientific discoveries in the last 25 years. Excited about the next 25 years 🤩

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · 23h ago

25 years of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster! 🎉 At the ceremony, guests from science, politics and the city looked back on 25 years of basic research on how cells form tissues and communicate. #MPIMuenster #BasicResearch #Mechanobiology #VascularBiology #TissueBiology

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

#Mechanobiology rules! Today, it's not only Chile's independence day🇨🇱😋 ...but also Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social is getting the Körber Prize 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for being a "curiosity's junkie" 😂 Of note, Kate photobombing is top @katemiro.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @koerber-ip.bsky.social

Interested in nuclear mechanobiology and want to know what some of the big open questions are in the field? Read our recent editorial with input from >15 leading experts in the field, along with a list of review articles on nuclear mechanobiology: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nuclear mechanobiology: a brief history and five unresolved questions

Published in Nucleus (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2026)

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Nice perspective piece synthesizing ideas across the developmental mechanobiology and physics fields

Rashmi Priya@rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A perspective in @natmethods.nature.com on Why forces are fundamental to understanding how life comes into being - by us, @campaslab.bsky.social @yanlanmao.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Miguel Concha, Alba Diz-Muñoz and @streichan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a wonderful short film for @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Sara Wickström's Körber Prize for European Science 2026! Our director explains how cells sense physical forces and translate them into gene activity. Thanks, @koerber-stiftung.de and Wagnervision GmbH 🎥 koerber-stiftung.de/en/media/sar...

Sara Wickström – Körber Prize Winner 2026: The hidden senses of cells

Wickström discovered how cells sense the physical world around them. Her research showed that cells can “feel” forces such as pressure and stretching and relay these signals all the way to their DNA. ...

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Great thread by @marija-matejcic.bsky.social explaining the state-of-the art in the cell extrusion field 👇

epithelial mechanics fan club@epimechfc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16

What determines how epithelial cells divide when shape cues disappear? Our new work shows that division follows the axis of maximal stress anisotropy. This “principal-stress rule” links mechanics, proliferation, and homeostasis. Amazing work from @luanger.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🏆Congratulations to @sarawickstrom.bsky.social director at the @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and PI in our #SFB1748 who has been awarded the prestigious Körber Prize for discovering a mechanism by which cells sense the physical world around them. www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...

The hidden senses of cells: Sara Wickström awarded Körber Prize

Sara Wickström receives the Körber Prize for groundbreaking discoveries in cell biology The Finnish medical doctor and cell biologist Sara Wickström, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular...

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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌟 Congratulations to Sara Wickström! 🌟 Our Director Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social receives the Körber Prize for her groundbreaking research on how cells sense physical forces, influencing genes and potentially leading to new disease treatments. s.academiccloud.de/ouQdRQ

Huge congratulations to Sara Wickström! 🎉Our director @mpi-muenster.bsky.social has been awarded the #KörberPrize 2026. The scientist discovered that genes respond not only to chemical signals but also to the physical properties of their surroundings. @koerber-stiftung.de @sarawickstrom.bsky.social

Truly honored to recieve this recognition-a testament to the dedication, hard work and creativity of past and current lab members, I am grateful to be able to do science with them. Also want to thank all our wonderful collaborators that facilitate interdisciplinary work essential for new discoveries

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌟 Congratulations to Sara Wickström! 🌟 Our Director Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social receives the Körber Prize for her groundbreaking research on how cells sense physical forces, influencing genes and potentially leading to new disease treatments. s.academiccloud.de/ouQdRQ

Fibroblast depletion reveals mammalian epithelial resilience across neonatal and adult stages. From Isabella M. Gaeta @isabella-gaeta.bsky.social, Shuangshuang Du @shuangshuangdu.bsky.social, @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, Valentina Greco @valentatormenta.bsky.social et al. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Join us for the Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Neural Genetics & Epigenetics. Application deadline 21 June 2026.

Want a sneak-peak at the Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting? Check it ⬇️! >20 slots for talks chosen from abstracts! New PI Keynote to be selected from abstracts! Dedicated new PI Session! Scott Fraser workshop! Career Workshop! Plenty of time for co-lab building! 🔥😱😍🔥 🐟🪰🪱🐭🔬🧬 scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

1 week to start🔥 New @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series focused on #CellMigration, register & join us▶️, it will be fun! pls spread the word, in the next one, ECRs could apply to show their work ;) ▶️ to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/29/n... @dgz.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology

McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific diff...

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Check out 2 papers and a related Perspective on tissue regeneration in @science.org this week Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out this exciting new study on the role of oyxygen in determining regeneration competence through epigenetics and cell mechanics👇Congratulations Can & team and thank you for including us in this cool project 🤩

@canaztekin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

Cool discovery how cancer modifies its own niche from the very beginning 🤩 Congratulations Maria and team 🔥

Maria Alcolea@mariapalcolea.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone ✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social

Congratulations @ivaskalab.bsky.social team for this study on the role of vibration in vocal cord cancer! Was a fun collaboration 🎤🎤

Johanna Ivaska@johannaivaska.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What music should we play to our cells? This was the start of an amazing journey from @ivaskalab.bsky.social at @turkubioscience.bsky.social with Jasmin Kaivola and collaborators @sarawickstrom.bsky.social and others to explore larynx cancer mechanosensitivity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glutamine metabolism gives the immune system precision—quieting inflammation while rebuilding tissue! Proud of my lab team for this exciting work as we venture into immunometabolism to learn how wound cells are fed! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Glutamine metabolism tunes myeloid responses to drive resolution of inflammation during skin repair

Xu et al. uncover how metabolites regulate cellular communication during inflammatory resolution and tissue repair in vivo. They find that glutamine metabolism alters chromatin accessibility and suppr...

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New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh @sfb1348.bsky.social

Tread -1- EpiSci - I am very proud to share with you our new study that you can access on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (see link below) "The Interaction with Nanotopographical Environment regulates nuclear mechanoresponse in mESCs via Histone Demethylase KDM3A. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dynamic Cellular #Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026. Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w @uni-muenster.de

Exciting and important preprint from @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen Labs on the role of mechanical forces and cell mechanical properties on skin epidermis stratification👇! Congratulations @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social and to all authors 👏😀!

Sara Wickstrom@sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Manning Research Group@manningresearch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to highlight a new preprint about mechanical contributions to tissue homeostasis, from the Manning group in collaboration with the amazing Carien Niessen and Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social labs, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@sarawickstrom.bsky.social we are looking forward to your presentation at our #FusionEpigenetics meeting in Portugal this October! Please share this with your followers to let them know you will speaking, and to register & submit today to join us 🔗 bit.ly/4rC6B45

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

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