Mark your calendars: “How do you feel” – Symposium in memory of Jochen Guck, late director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light 🗓️ September 21-22, 2026 📍 MPZPM, Erlangen Find out more and register here 👉 indico.mpl.mpg.de/event/26/ #science #biophysics #research

I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

Off to Glasgow for #SynSci26 this week! Looking forward to some exciting talks and meeting the mechanobiology community. I’ll be giving a flash talk on Thursday about how mechanical signals help coordinate retina development. If you’re around, come say hi! 🐟🐸⚙️ #Mechanobiology #DevBio #Glasgow

Very excited to share our latest work on the interplay between chemical and mechanical signals orchestrating brain development 🧠⚙️! This was a great team effort and I am grateful to have been a part of it!! @evapillai.bsky.social @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social

Franze Lab@franzelab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity. My main postdoc paper is finally online! Thanks to all the co-authors, the entire Franze lab and the Káradóttir lab. @franzelab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity - Nature Communications

How the environment regulates neuronal maturation during brain development is poorly understood. Here, Kreysing et al. identify brain stiffness as a key factor and determine a mechanotransduction path...

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