A very hot and long night packed with science! A big thank you to our 100 amazing volunteers and 700 guests! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

A very hot and long night packed with science

MPI-CBG part of Dresden Science Night

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Today, we remembered Marwa El-Sherbini at the institute and in front of the regional court, where a new stele commemorates Marwa. Marwa, the wife of former MPI-CBG PhD student Elwy, was stabbed to death and Elwy got injured at an appeal hearing in the Court. Our thoughts are with her family.

Watch the science behind the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Anthony Hyman @mpi-cbg.de & @embl.org and Clifford Brangwynne @princetonupress.bsky.social & @hhmi-science.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Exd...

BEYOND THE WALLS: Cliff Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman Discover a New Cellular Process

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Delighted to welcome our new PI, Daxiao Sun who is starting her lab at SMART after a postdoc with @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social Daxiao’s group will investigate how biomolecular condensates regulate cell junctions and tissue morphogenesis. Welcome!

Alexey Amunts@amunts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wei Yang joins SMART after a postdoc with David Baker @uwproteindesign.bsky.social. He designs next generation binders for immune checkpoint receptors. At SMART, Wei's team will integrate algorithm development with high-throughput experimental validation to deliver selective protein therapeutics.

Anthony Hyman @embl.org & @mpi-cbg.de @hymanlab.bsky.social & Clifford Brangwynne @princetonupress.bsky.social & @hhmi-science.bsky.social receive their 2023 Breakthrough Prize at the Awards Ceremony in Santa Monica,LA, April 18, by Eileen Gu & @mrgatoasdf.bsky.social! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony

Antony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne receive their 2023 Breakthrough Prize

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Heartfelt congratulations to our new PhD student Silja Zedlitz on receiving the Rainer Rudolph Award 2025 for her MSc thesis in the lab of @kjohnsson.bsky.social on minimal rhodamine probes for protein labeling in cells. @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @gbmev.bsky.social @mpi-mr.bsky.social

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers from @merihuchlab.bsky.social, together with colleagues from @labshevchenko.bsky.social and clinicians from Dresden and Leipzig developed a patient-specific human periportal liver assembloid. Publication in @nature.com. Full news: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Patient-specific human liver model to understand disease mechanisms

Dresden research team develops human modular “LEGO-like” model that lays foundation for a new era in liver research.

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Congratulations and merry christmas!

Meri Huch Lab@merihuchlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nice Xmas gift from and for the lab 🎁 🎄

Congratulations from Dresden!!!

EMBL@embl.org · 8mo ago

Congratulations, Julia Mahamid! Julia Mahamid receives the @dfg.de Leibniz Prize for her work on structural cell biology! #LeibnizPreis

I am honored and proud to work with my amazing group @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social 🥰 🧬. Thanks to all my colleagues for the wonderful scientific environment. And thank you @kboes.bsky.social for preparing this superb video! 🤩

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 8mo ago

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?...

Congratulations Theresia!!!

Theresia Gutmann@thegutmann.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Truly honored to receive the STS Science Award as recognition from the Signal Transduction Society! I am grateful for the support of my mentor Tony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social, institutional support @mpi-cbg.de, and funding by the @dfg.de and the NOMIS Foundation.

CD-CODE 2.0 is now published in @narjournal.bsky.social 🤩 CD-CODE 2.0 stores #biomolecular #condensates and their #protein and nucleic acid components and now includes repository of 🦠 infectious condensates, 💊 condensate-modulating compounds, and 🩺 condensatopathies 👀 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org Check it out.

We had a good line up of speakers at the 50 years anniversary meeting of the german society of cell biology @dgz.bsky.social in Heidelberg. Tony gave the plenary, Koichiro talked about spatial control of P granules and Silja received a price for her Master thesis and gave a talk. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our PhD student David @rnadavid.bsky.social for his successful defense of his PhD thesis! @mpi-cbg.de imprs.mpi-cbg.de As you see the lab was very creative with his hat! David gave his insights on the nucleocapsid protein and even better arranged a great buffet for celebrations!

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems@mpipks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems! nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0

Very good news in the local press! The Ig Nobel goes to Dresden 😎 www.saechsische.de/lokales/dres...

Dresdner Forscher gewinnen besonderen Nobelpreis für Pastasauce

Kuriose wissenschaftliche Studien sind mit den Ig-Nobelpreisen in den USA geehrt worden. Auch Forscher vom Max-Planck-Institut in Dresden wurden ausgezeichnet.

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Have a look at Lars @larshubatsch.bsky.social reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social and learn about the kinetics of molecule transport across interfaces of condensates!

Lars Hubatsch@larshubatsch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Paper alert!🧪 We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4

Congratulations to Patrick and his team! Tremendous work carried out over the last years @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social as collaboration between Hyman lab, Brugues lab and Andrei Shevchenko

Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

This is an amazing piece of work! It was a true pleasure seeing this story come together. @mpi-cbg.de going on a streak of @nature.com papers!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 11mo ago

Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The recent publication from MtL fellow @hymanlab.bsky.social has described a quantitative framework for condensate stability and dissolution, in the context of RNA binding protein MEX-5 and P-granules. Congratulations to MtL Student Silja Zedlitz for being a co-author! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A mechanism for MEX-5-driven disassembly of PGL-3/RNA condensates in vitro | PNAS

MEX-5 regulates the formation and dissolution of P granules in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos, yet the thermodynamic basis of its activity remains ...

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Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence

Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence.

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How to spy on condensates: technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on self-organization and collective properties of condensates with quotes from Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de, @brangwynnelab.bsky.social, and many more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to spy on condensates - Nature Methods

Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks.

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Dresden scientists @thegutmann.bsky.social and @rnadavid.bsky.social from the @hymanlab.bsky.social discover a new strategy used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to hide from the body’s DNA immune detection system. Now published in @pnas.org. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

How could SARS-COV-2 evade detection by host cells? Read the new paper from Theresia @thegutmann.bsky.social and David @rnadavid.bsky.social discussing how the nucleocapsid protein prevents recognition of the innate immunity sensor cGAS Congratulations!!! ‬

Theresia Gutmann@thegutmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity

Big news 🎉 We are excited to announce the new TUD graduate school "Biomolecular Condensates: From Physics to Biological Functions", with 12 members from PoL! Through this school, we will train a new generation of scientists working on #condensates at the interphase between theory and experiments 🤓⤵️

TU Dresden@tudresden.bsky.social · last yr.

Hochaktuelles Themenfeld an der Schnittstelle von Physik, Biologie und Polymerforschung: Die @dfg.de fördert ab 2026 mit rund 7 Millionen Euro ein neues Graduiertenkol­leg zur Erforschung biomolekularer Kondensate in #Dresden. 🔬 ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Visit us during the Dresden Science Night on June 20th in the Faculty of Physics @tudresden.bsky.social (Hermann-Krone-Bau, Nöthnitzer Straße 61) and explore the physics of life! Looking forward to see you! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...