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EU Horizon Europe Funded MSCA Doctoral Network and co-funded by UK Guarantee Scheme.

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🚀 Exciting News! #ComeInCell MSCA Doctoral Network has launched last month and is #hiring 17 #PhDpositions! 🎉 Join us as we embark on a journey to advance cellular research and innovation.
Check the press release: www.mpikg.mpg.de/6845600/laun...
And also our website: www.comeincell.org
ComeInCell Launches:A European Doctoral Network to Train the Next Generation of Cell Scientists
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📢 Don't miss out the "Lipid Membranes"! Monday, November 3rd at 16:00.

More information: www.comeincell.org/interdiscipl...

#ComeInCell #HorizonEurope #MSCA #LipidMembranes
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚀 Our Interdisciplinary Lecture Series begins on Nov 3, 16:00 (Berlin)! Carlos Marques will talk about Lipid Membranes, and the first 45 min are open to all — join us!

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#MSCA #HorizonEurope #Biophysics #ComeInCell #LipidMembranes #MembraneCondensates
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🤩 We are delighted that Sheena Mali has joined #ComeInCell! She will be working in Di Michele’s lab in the UK. Her project will focus on engineering interactions between #syntheticRNA #condensates and #cellmembranes. More details: www.comeincell.org/dc17-sculpti...

Welcome, Sheena! #HorizonEurope
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Starting the week on a great note! 🤗 Here’s a snapshot from our #ComeInCell DC introductory meeting, which took place on 02.10 at the #MPICI in Potsdam, co-hosted by #SigSynCell.

A big thank you to everyone who joined, both in person and online! #MSCA #HorizonEurope
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The last session of the #BiomembraneDays25 starts with Petra Schwille presenting minimal systems for cell division
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October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Rumiana Dimova herself now on stage @dimovalab.bsky.social presenting stunning insights into the biophysical basis of membrane-condensate interaction. #BiomembraneDays2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Javier Montenegro introduced boron superchaotropes as membrane transporters at the #BiomembraneDays25
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September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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@continiclau.bsky.social at the #BiomembtaneDays25 introduced us to a variety of synthetic-cell-like systems showing motility, contraction and deformation

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September 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We are happy that Zain Raef has joined #ComeInCell this week! She will work on the DC16 project in Claudia Contini's lab.

More details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...

Welcome to our DN, Zain! #HorizonEurope #MSCA
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪
Biomembrane Days 2025
Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🤩Aditi Kakkad has joined Bert Poolman’s group to work with intrinsically #disorderedproteindomains and engineered tags such as #PopTag. More details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc06-out-of-...

Welcome to #ComeInCell, Aditi!
#MSCA #HorizonEurope
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Let's also welcome Zahra Akbari to #ComeInCell!

Zahra joined the Saric group to study #molecularcondensates in contact with fluid #deformablemembrane systems. More details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc12-in-sili...

Welcome to ComeInCell, Zahra! #MSCA #HorizonEurope
September 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Check out this community comment in Nature Communications on biomolecular condensates! 🧪🔬 💧

The piece shows how condensates fundamentally change the study of biology, offering insights into cellular processes.
A great resource for anyone in the field, especially newcomers.

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Current practices in the study of biomolecular condensates: a community comment
Nature Communications - The realization that the cell is abundantly compartmentalized into biomolecular condensates has opened new opportunities for understanding the physics and chemistry...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy to have Youngseo Lee join #ComeInCell to work in Montenegro's lab.
She will explore how self-assembling #peptide amphiphiles form #protofilaments under confinement its interaction with #membranes. More details here: www.comeincell.org/dc09-synthet...

Welcome, Youngseo! #HorizonEurope #MSCA
September 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Let's also welcome Debasish Rout who recently joined @sorkinlab.bsky.social!
He will study the effects of #membrane composition and tension on #biomolecularcondensate formation. More details here: www.comeincell.org/dc14-how-can...

Welcome to #ComeInCell, Debasish! #MSCA #HorizonEurope
September 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
👏 Shiloh has joined the #MontenegroLab last month to study self-assembling #peptide scaffolds and their interactions with #membranes on the #drugdelivery. More details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc10-peptide...

🤗 Welcome to #ComeInCell, Shiloh! #MSCA #HorizonEurope
August 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Welcome, Ladida, to our #ComeInCell MSCA-DN! She has joined Evan #Spruijt's group and will be working on the DC07 project. Here are more details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc07-condens...

We are happy to have you as part of our team, Ladida!
#MSCA #HorizonEurope
August 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🎉 Congrats to Raya Sorkin on receiving #tenure and #promotion to Associate Professor! 👏

We’re proud to have you in our #ComeInCell doctoral network and are sure that even greater things lie ahead.
#MSCA #HorizonEurope
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Congrats to our #ComeInCell coordinator Rumiana Dimova @dimovalab.bsky.social, on receiving the Avanti / EBSA Award at the #EBSA2025 last week!
The award was given "for her pioneering development work on giant unilamellar vesicles". Well deserved!
#MSCA #HorizonEurope
July 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Our doctoral candidate Matilde presented a poster on "Light-responsive asymmetric membranes" at the #EBSA2025 conference in Rome!
We're proud to see her contributing to the forefront of biophysical research! 🌟🧬🇮🇹
#MSCA #HorizonEurope #ComeInCell #DimovaLab
July 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🤩 Sakshi Barhai has just joined #ComeInCell.
She will work on DC02 at @dimovalab.bsky.social and explore the stability and mechanical behavior of membranes in contact with biomolecular condensates using #GUVs. More details: www.comeincell.org/dc02-explori...

Welcome, Sakshi!
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Samrat has just joined our #MSCA DN to work in the Federico Rossi's lab. More details: www.comeincell.org/dc15-light-c...

The DC15 project aims to develop light-controlled catalytic pockets in #SyntheticMembranes to link their dynamics with nucleic acid condensate #transphosphorylation.
June 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Luciano has joined our #MSCA Doctoral Network this month and will work on the DC08 project in Rivas' lab: www.comeincell.org/dc08-phase-s...

The project explores how #crowding, surfaces, and #PhaseSeparation affect minimal #divisome function and organization.
Welcome to #ComeInCell, Luciano!
May 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🤩 Ted Lindström has joined #ComeInCell! He will work on the DC-03 project in Schwille’s lab. www.comeincell.org/dc03-active-...

The goal of the project is to engineer spatially controllable #ProteinCondensates that can nucleate #cytoskeletal filaments using #GUVs. Welcome, Ted! #HorizonEurope #MSCA
May 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sifre has joined our #ComeInCell MSCA-DN this month and will work in Carlos Marques' lab at the #ENS in Lyon! 🤩

Her project will explore how lipid oxidation influences the interplay between membranes. For more details: www.comeincell.org/dc13-photo-r...

🚀Welcome Sifre! #HorizonEurope
May 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM