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

New preprint! Non-reciprocal interactions don’t arise from a potential. Yet, we found a way to encode them in a Hamiltonian, which captures the phase transitions of non-reciprocal systems! With Yubo Shi, Roderich Moessner, and @marinbukov.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social.

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.05246

Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

In collaboration with @fakhrilab.bsky.social we show how cell shape can be controlled with light 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint: How do cells measure time? In human development, pluripotent epiblast cells pause for about two weeks before differentiating into more specialised cell types. We show that this timing is controlled by a transcriptional clock that works like an hourglass. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀 The Frey Group is now on Bluesky! 🌐

We explore statistical physics, biophysics, and nonequilibrium systems. From active matter to self-organization in biology, we uncover fundamental principles of complex systems.

#Physics #Biophysics #ActiveMatter #ComplexSystems #TheoreticalPhysics

Had a fantastic time at the CeNS retreat at Lake Spitzingsee! 🚀 Great scientific talks and posters, valuable feedback from Barbara Beege/Sprachraum, insights from@lfmilles.bsky.social, and an unforgettable night sleigh ride! ❄️✨ #CeNSRetreat #Science #Networking

🚨 Job Alert 🚨🔬🧪👩‍💻🖥️ Are you interested in #BioimageAnalysis #ComputerVision #AI #ML methods for the #LifeSciences? Do you want to work on #DigitalPathology of tissues, cells, organelles? Check out this #PostDoc opportunity in a collaboration with Jens Rittscher from @oxengsci.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming conference, “Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems” (ESBS 2025), will be held at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center in the Physics Department of LMU Munich from August 18 to 22, 2025.

New preprint: are deep neural networks just complicated curve fitters or can they show emergent behavior that is independent of the data? We show that training deep neural networks gives rise to emergent weight morphologies independent of the training data.

arxiv.org/abs/2501.05550

Interspecies scaling laws (allometries) are a fascinating phenomenon. Here we investigate allometric scaling relationships of quantitative cardiomyocyte properties across different mammalian species.

doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
(w/ Tanja Kloock and Christian Mühlfeld)

New preprint: Ageing is tightly reflected in longitudinal evolution of DNA methylation marks. We show that ageing also leaves a stereotypic footprint in how DNA methylation is correlated in the genome: positions that are roughly 500bp apart become more correlated. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unfortunately, today in the lecture Boltz-man was brutally beaten up by S-man.

Now that we have recovered from Oktoberfest the Christmas market season begins. #Bavaria

Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks!

go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK

Teaching statistical physics this term. If things get difficult, we get help from super heroes like Mr T (who can relate macroscopic variables) or S-man (who can derive them micrscopically). There is also a villain called Boltz-man who has the habit of creating super-large numbers.

In this collaboration with Ben Simons' and Shosei Yoshida's lab, we propose a minimal mechanism for the intricate spatiotemporal dynamics of the spermatogenic wave.

Congratulations to Toshiyuki Sato (experiment) and Yuting I. Li (theory) for their outstanding work!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...