As part of @sfb1638.bsky.social in 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, we are committed to developing computational tools that make complex membrane simulations more accessible, reproducible, and scalable for the scientific community. Today, we are happy to share the public release of 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 v1.2.1

Come join our institute as a Full Professor! We are looking for outstanding scientists to join a highly collaborative and internationally recognized research environment in the beautiful city of Heidelberg! @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @sfb1638.bsky.social #TRR186 #TRR319

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The Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) is seeking to fill a   Full Professorship (W3) for “Biochemistry” (f/m/d)     as soon as possib...

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🚨 Lipid Time 🚨 New preprint out! Using high-throughput Martini 2 simulations, we studied ~5,000 transmembrane helices in a phase-separating membrane. Most helices preferred disordered environments, some localized at domain interfaces, but none in the liquid-ordered phase! doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 First lipid paper of the year! 🚨 Combining neutron reflectometry and MD simulations, we show how α-fetoprotein interacts with lipid membranes, depending on composition, with implications for biomarker detection and biosensing! Great start to 2026! Congrats to the team! 🎉 @sfb1638.bsky.social

Hi all!! At some point I passed 1K followers! Time for a re-intro! My name is Fiona! I am originally from Florida, did my postdoc at UCSD now I am a Junior Professor at the University of Freiburg in the Institute for Physical Chemistry, lets connect! I also love the ocean and halloween costumes!

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

🚨We are hiring🚨 We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026. You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment. 👉 More information below 📩 Apply until 4 January 2026

🎄 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞! 🎄 Thrilled to share a special pre-holiday gift to 𝗟𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼 & 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀! 𝐏𝐈(𝟒,𝟓)𝐏𝟐 𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 is essential for the unconventional secretion of 𝐅𝐆𝐅𝟐, driving rapid formation of a lipidic membrane pore, enabling membrane translocation ⏩⏩ 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share that Dr. Jirka Peschek, one of our BZH group leaders, is receiving the Chica & Heinz Schaller Award for his RNA biology research 🧬 🏆 €100,000 research funding. Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1). Congrats, Jirka! 🎉

@cnehls.bsky.social, Ilpo Vattulainen, and I are organizing the next Membrane Biophysics Section Meeting of @dgfb.bsky.social The meeting brings together diverse views on the roles of membranes and lipids in biology. It’ll be an exciting, interdisciplinary event — registration is now open! 👇

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik e.V. (DGfB)@dgfb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎉 Registration open! 🎉 International Membrane Biophysics Meeting 📅 March 23–26, 2026 📍 Drübeck, Germany 🔗 lnkd.in/eD3PmrgY Early-bird deadline: Dec 16, 2025 Fee includes all meals + 3 nights on the beautiful monastery campus. Organisers: @cnehls.bsky.social, @fabiololicato.com and Ilpo vattulainen

Excited to share our new @narjournal.bsky.social paper! Using ReLo and AlphaFold, we described a network of interactions between Drosophila piRNA pathway factors suggesting new links how they coordinate to ensure transposon silencing and genome integrity. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

❗Hello Bluesky World❗ 🚀 Excited to share that the German Biophysics Society (DGfB) is now on social! We bring together scientists at the interface of physics, chemistry & biology! Stay tuned for news, events & meetings! ✨

Now @bzh-hd.bsky.social Jonathan Friedman is talking in #mitochondria organization

🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨 #LipidTime Excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 We propose a hypothesis for how FGF2 crosses the plasma membrane — a mechanism that may reflect a general principle of membrane remodeling. 🔑 Key idea: Non-bilayer lipid accumulation alters membrane properties, driving remodeling.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Nanoscale PI(4,5)P2 partitioning driven by FGF2 oligomerization triggers membrane pore formation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675533v1

Thrilled to have contributed to this amazing work! Thanks for having us on board 🙌 Huge shoutout to our super-talented postdoc #MelanieKönig for her outstanding efforts 💫. And big congratulations to everyone involved in this terrific team effort! 🎉 @sfb1638.bsky.social @bzh-hd.bsky.social

PfefferCryoLab@pfeffercryolab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are excited to share our latest work elucidating the structural basis for how augmin binds to microtubules. Out just now @natcomms.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A bit late—but better late than never! Honored to present my work at #EBSA2025 in Rome a few weeks ago. I first attended EBSA in 2017 in Edinburgh and haven’t missed one since. This year in Rome—my first home—was especially meaningful. 🇮🇹 Already looking forward to Berlin 2027—my new home! 🇩🇪

Looking for a PhD position? The Schuck lab has an opening for a student interested in finding out how human cells control the size of their endoplasmic reticulum. Please visit www.bzh.uni-heidelberg.de/schuck and navigate to 'Open Positions'.

Do you want to become our colleague? We are looking to fill a part-time (50%) permanent position for a Technical Laboratory Assistant, starting September 15, 2025. See below for further details on the role and responsibilities 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

It was an honor and a real pleasure to be the first speaker at the inaugural @bitsinbio.bsky.social meetup in Berlin!A fantastic opportunity to share my past work and future research directions with such an inspiring and engaged audience! Huge thanks to @instadeep.bsky.social for making it happen!

Just back from the Jacques Monod Conference on Membrane Remodeling in Roscoff—an inspiring trip for Sebastian Schuck and Michael Meinecke (@meineckelab)! We had exciting science, engaged in inspiring discussions, and enjoyed the stunning setting. There’s nothing quite like membrane research.

If you’re in vibrant Berlin next Friday, May 16, come to visit me! I’ll be giving a talk on how computer simulations help us understand lipid-driven membrane remodeling events! Plus, word has it there will be pizza and drinks after the talks! 🍕🍻 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 lu.ma/gcrpy5fg

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Join us for the inaugural Bits in Bio meetup in Berlin! ✨ We’re bringing together curious minds at the intersection of biology, software, and big data —…

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The Schuck lab is looking for a PhD student or postdoc who is keen to understand how cells control organelle size and shape. For more information, please visit www.bzh.uni-heidelberg.de/schuck and have a look at 'open positions’.

🚨 Lipid Time! 🚨 Excited to share our latest story now on @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social ! Our brilliant PhD student @manpreet0700.bsky.social , together with @walter-nickel-bzh.bsky.social and myself, shows how PI(4,5)P₂ asymmetry in the plasma membrane drives the unconventional secretion of FGF2! 👇👇👇

Plasma membrane transbilayer asymmetry of PI(4,5)P2 drives unconventional secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2

Unconventional secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 (FGF2) is based upon direct self-translocation across the plasma membrane, a process that involves the transient formation of a lipidic membrane ...

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Our lab is hiring 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc to study the mechanism of lipid transport using computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, AI). Fully funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social for 4 years, with amazing collaborators and excellent life and working conditions. Apply by email. Please share and repost!

Hello Science World, Our SFB1638 is now on bluesky. We study cellular membrane remodelling pathways.

🚨Lipid Time🚨 Proud to be part of this amazing consortium focus on membrane remodeling!! 🔬Excited to contribute as a key computer simulations hub 🧑‍💻 connecting and supporting all the projects in this collaborative effort! 💪 #SFB1638 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bzh-hd.bsky.social

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Wrapped up our first Spring School — such a fun and inspiring event! Amazing science, great people, perfect weather and lots of good vibes all around. Already looking forward to the next one.

Wrapped up our first Spring School — such a fun and inspiring event! Amazing science, great people, perfect weather and lots of good vibes all around. Already looking forward to the next one.

Lovely start into our new #SFB1638 on cellular membrane remodeling with a two-day kick-off meeting at the International Academic Forum Heidelberg (IWH). Many thanks to our speaker @meineckelab.bsky.social and team for the great organization.

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity #2 🚨 We are looking for candidates with a strong background in molecular dynamics simulations of membrane protein interactions to unravel the role of lipids in CD95 oligomerization and signaling! Please apply by March 28! #LipidTime @bzh-hd.bsky.social

Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim @hlsalliance.bsky.social · last yr.

#PostDocCalls Project #85: ˚⋆🔬Lipid-Mediated Regulation of CD95 #Oligomerization and Signaling🧪🥽🧠⋆˚ Applications on the Alliance website: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... @dkfz.bsky.social @fabiololicato.com @bzh-hd.bsky.social @hlsalliance.bsky.social #LipidTime #ProteinDesign