Benedikt Sabass

@sabass-lab.bsky.social

Interested in methane, mechanobiology, physics of microbes, mathematics, statistical mechanics, and most magical ideas. Professor at LMU Munich.

Just attended a fantastic talk by Jiří Friml (IST Austria) on the plant hormone auxin, which acts similar to a morphogen and is a major regulator for growth in response to light, gravity, and chemical stimuli. Plants make up ~80% of all biomass and there are so many open questions… fascinating.

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How do epithelial tissues develop their diverse, beautiful shapes? Some researchers have been controlling their forces with light to understand it. I’m Guillermo Martínez Ara and today I’ll tell you about how we can use optogenetics to study morphogenesis!

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