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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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December 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
Congratulations and merry christmas!
Nice Xmas gift from and for the lab 🎁 🎄
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...
December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Congratulations and merry christmas!
Congratulations from Dresden!!!
Congratulations, Julia Mahamid!
Julia Mahamid receives the @dfg.de Leibniz Prize for her work on structural cell biology!
#LeibnizPreis
Julia Mahamid receives the @dfg.de Leibniz Prize for her work on structural cell biology!
#LeibnizPreis
Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏
Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin.
Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1
Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin.
Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Congratulations from Dresden!!!
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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! 🤩
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?...
Protein plasticity and evolution: The research group of Agnes Toth-Petroczy at MPI-CBG
YouTube video by MPI-CBG
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December 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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! 🤩
Congratulations Theresia!!!
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.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Congratulations Theresia!!!
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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/...
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/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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/...
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/...
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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.
Check it out.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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.
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!
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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!
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!
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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!
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!
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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...
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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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
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.
nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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!
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
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
Transport kinetics across interfaces between coexisting liquid phases
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September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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!
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
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
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
September 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
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
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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!
@mpi-cbg.de going on a streak of @nature.com papers!
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...
Mechanical forces drive evolutionary change
A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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!
@mpi-cbg.de going on a streak of @nature.com papers!
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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/...
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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July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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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June 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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...
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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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June 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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...
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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...
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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!!!
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!!!
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
June 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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!!!
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!!!
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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 🤓⤵️
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...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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 🤓⤵️
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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...
June 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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We're excited to welcome Dresden's scientific community to the GBM Compact Meeting in Frankfurt! #CodensateBiology
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June 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We're excited to welcome Dresden's scientific community to the GBM Compact Meeting in Frankfurt! #CodensateBiology
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The german research foundation DFG will fund the new graduate school for
"Biomolecular Condensates: from physics to biological function" here in Dresden
This new graduate school is part of 18 new graduate schools funded by the DFG in germany!
"Biomolecular Condensates: from physics to biological function" here in Dresden
This new graduate school is part of 18 new graduate schools funded by the DFG in germany!
Förderentscheidung für 18 neue #Graduiertenkollegs, darunter 4 internationale Verbünde mit Partnern in den USA, Italien, Kanada und Frankreich. Themen reichen von klimaneutralem Stahl bis zur Erforschung von Infektionserkrankungen . ➡️ www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
June 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The german research foundation DFG will fund the new graduate school for
"Biomolecular Condensates: from physics to biological function" here in Dresden
This new graduate school is part of 18 new graduate schools funded by the DFG in germany!
"Biomolecular Condensates: from physics to biological function" here in Dresden
This new graduate school is part of 18 new graduate schools funded by the DFG in germany!