📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MtL Fellow @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social is part of a consortium which has been awarded a €10 million grant from the @novo-nordisk.bsky.social to unravel the Physics of tissue formation. Congratulations! @lmu.de www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Decoding the Arrow of Time in Living Tissue

The international research consortium ALIVE, involving LMU physicist Erwin Frey, has secured 10 million euros in funding.

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An inspiring morning on the mathematics of Turing-like patterns in biological systems at the conference on „Patterning principles in biophysics“ at beautiful Beg Rohu. Great talks by Robert Endres and @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social biopatterning.sciencesconf.org

Three is more, and different. 2-component mass-conserving reaction-diffusion: coarsens forever. 3-component: maps onto a new active field theory (Active Model B−), and coarsening arrests into dots, stripes, foams. arxiv.org/abs/2605.15903 #activematter #patternformation #softmatter

Two physically very different systems. The same patterns in space. A coincidence? No — a duality. New paper with my PhD student Daniel Zhou: arxiv.org/abs/2605.15158 #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter #PatternFormation

🏛️ 200 Years of LMU in Munich 🎓 Founded in 1472, relocated from Landshut to Munich in 1826 — today LMU celebrates 200 years in Munich and inaugurates Prof. Dr. Matthias H. Tschöp as President.

Mehran Kardar’s Sommerfeld Lectures at LMU Munich are now available online. Watch the full series here: lnkd.in/dnuF2Rg6 (Click on a talk to access the video link.) Many thanks again to Mehran for an outstanding set of lectures, and to everyone who joined us in Munich.

Applications open: Biopatterning—Patterning principles in biophysics (school). Beg Rohu, Quiberon (Brittany, FR), 25–29 May 2026. For PhD students/postdocs/ECR. Deadline: 15 Mar 2026. Fee 300€ incl lodging+meals. biopatterning.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Please RT/share!

Thrilled to attend the meeting—looking forward to the talks and discussions with colleagues. berkeleystatmech.org/index.html

Next week at LMU Munich: the 32nd Arnold Sommerfeld Lecture Series with Mehran Kardar (MIT)—from KPZ and nonequilibrium physics to active matter, disorder, and soft matter. Programme: www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/activities/l...

Still time to apply until January, 19th!

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We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

Excited to announce that our Econophysiology workshop has been accepted at the BIRS in 2027 🇨🇦 Co-organized with Hidde de Jong, Edda Klipp, & Matt Scott, we will bring economists, biologists, and physicists together to build a shared conceptual language across disciplines. Stay tuned! www.birs.ca

Join us for #MECO51 (51st Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics), 18–22 May 2026 in Pont-à-Mousson, France (Abbaye des Prémontrés). Invited & contributed talks, posters & best-poster prize. meco51.sciencesconf.org

New review out: "Pattern Formation Beyond Turing: Physical Principles of Mass-Conserving Reaction–Diffusion Systems". A unifying framework for protein pattern formation, from Min oscillations to Turing foams. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12558

🚀 Transfer, der Wirkung zeigt: Die LMU-Ausgründung #Amplifold sichert sich 5 Mio. Euro Seed-Finanzierung, um ultrasensitive Schnelltests auf Basis von #DNA-Origami-Nanotechnologie auf den Markt zu bringen.

Transfer: LMU-Ausgründung Amplifold erzielt Neufinanzierung für die Entwicklung besserer Schnelltests

Das Start-up verbindet DNA-Origami-Nanotechnologie mit günstigen Schnelltests – die neue Finanzierung in Höhe von fünf Millionen Euro soll helfen, die ultrasensitiven Tests auf den Markt zu bringen.

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📢 New extended abstract submission deadline: 6 January 2026! Outstanding speaker list, plus many slots for short talks by students, postdocs, and junior PIs. Join us in March in Barcelona! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...

How can we ensure that #SyntheticCell/ #SynCell research is conducted responsibly? The EVOLF research programme is developing guidelines for the responsible creation and control of synthetic cells. Discover how EVOLF intends to shape the future of this research: edu.nl/8yxax #Bioethics

Engineering Synthetic Cells Responsibly: Insights from EVOLF

How can we ensure that synthetic cells are engineered responsibly? Learn from Lotte Asveld, who, within the EVOLF research programme, is developing guidelines for the responsible creation and control ...

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Arrived in Stellenbosch and ready for a week of deep discussions on the physics of living systems with colleagues and friends. www.greenbuildingafrica.co.za/wp-content/u...

Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Generative epigenetic landscapes map the topology and topography of cell fates | PNAS

Epigenetic landscapes were proposed by Waddington as the central concept to describe cell fate dynamics in a locally low-dimensional space. In mode...

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🧪⚛️ “Turing foams” in the Min system—now seen in experiment. Non-equilibrium protein currents create foam-like interfaces obeying Plateau laws and even splitting like tiny dividing cells. Stunning video from Petra Schwille’s lab; the whole story is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪⚛️ Surface tension—driven by non-equilibrium currents not forces—in pattern formation leads to the same type of interface laws as in liquid foams: Plateau laws, von Neumann evolution; and a new emergent phenomenon: domain splitting akin to cell division. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Liquid gears and conveyor belts: We show how the interplay between phase-separation and chemotactic interactions gives rise to persistent capillary waves that drive the formation of active “gears” and “conveyor belts”. link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

🧪 Geometry beats chemistry: we show that self-assembly can be controlled by tuning large-scale geometric parameters rather than molecular binding energies. PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FS3... #SelfAssembly #Biophysics #PhysicsOfLife

Was great fun to give the physics colloquium at the University of Padova. indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/1570/

Colloquium October 23 - Emergence and Self-Organisation in Biological Systems

Speaker: Prof. Erwin Frey Affiliation: Chair for Statistical and Biological Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Date: October 23rd, 2025, 3 p.m. Where: Aula Rostagni Abstract: Isolat...

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📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems". Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

WORK! I currently have 5 (!) open positions for postdocs/PhD students in our CDlab for projects: - Nanopore protein sequencing - Archaeal CDV cell division - Microfluidics for synthetic cells - Nuclear Pore Complex - Origami mimics of peroxisomes Please apply! ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=👍

do not think twice. Apply. 👇🏼

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WORK! I currently have 5 (!) open positions for postdocs/PhD students in our CDlab for projects: - Nanopore protein sequencing - Archaeal CDV cell division - Microfluidics for synthetic cells - Nuclear Pore Complex - Origami mimics of peroxisomes Please apply! ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=👍

Interested in learning about #intelligent #active #matter? We have three open spots for presenting a poster at an international conference close to Munich. Please send an email to frey@lmu.de before Friday noon (25.7) iam.physik.lmu.de

📣Book alert📣 Finally out with Cambridge University Press: the book by Udo Seifert on "Stochastic thermodynamics". It comprehensively covers many topics, from an introduction to statistical physics to many special subjects such as reaction networks and active particles. Highly recommended 👍👍👍

We present a theory explaining how the thymic medulla acquires its morphology. Our model shows that key interactions—thymocyte chemotaxis, selection, and signaling to epithelial cells—are sufficient to generate the observed spatial organization. | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Basic interactions responsible for thymus function explain the convoluted medulla shape | PNAS

The thymus is one of the most important organs of the immune system. It is responsible for both the production of T cells and the prevention of the...

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