Simon Stitzinger

@simonstitzinger.bsky.social

Doctoral candidate in the Cissé lab @mpi-ie.bsky.social | Combining experiment and computation | Passion for the mountains and music

Rainbows should be reserved for flags 🏳️‍🌈 and the sky 🌈 Think twice before using them to represent quantitative data.

Helena Klara Jambor@helenajambor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What a week! My first Points of View was published @natmethods.nature.com Happy to start the series in 🏳️‍🌈 month with "On Color scales and the birth of Viridis" - looks good, allows naming of regions, AND is perceptually uniform 🎁 rdcu.be/fnPhk www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dataviz

A mountain ridge shown in different color sclales. Picture: 
Andres Passwirth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17166331

Wow, this looks like a really valuable resource, which will keep me busy for a while exploring all the details. I appreciate all the complexity that is taken into account, going way beyond simple LLPS of a binary mixture.

Zwicker Group@zwickergroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

We wrote a review on the "Physics of droplet regulation in biological cells": arxiv.org/abs/2501.13639 Beside the basic #physics of phase separation, we discuss three aspects that separate cellular from traditional droplets:

A schematic picture of a cell, showing condensates, a nucleus and the cytoskeleton.

What is LiTEC? A brand new method which targets arbitrary cargo or enzyme into condensates using blue light 🔵. LiTEC provides new insights into the composition and behavior of condensates without disturbing their natural state. Now in CELL. Congrats to @choongman.bsky.social & Cissé lab team

Bringing Cellular Condensates to Light

Researchers at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics have developed LiTEC, a method for studying biomolecular condensates—membraneless compartments in cells that regulate key processes such as gene...

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