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Abin Biswas
@biswashere.bsky.social
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Postdoc w/ @GuckLab & @SimoneReber
@MPI_Light + @mpiib_berlin
Investigating the intersection of biology & physics by day,
dreaming of butter chicken by night.
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biswashere.bsky.social
The world has lost a true great. 😞
mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social · Oct 8
With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.

mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
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📸 Stephan Spangenberg
Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), He headed the division “Cell Physics” at MPL and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social
Researchers from #MPZPM and @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de have now compared the ratio of nuclear and cytoplasmic density in different organisms and come to a surprising conclusion: the cell nucleus in eukaryotes is less dense than the rest of the cell.

👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-de...

#Physics #Medicine
A cell nucleus reconstituted in vitro in Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) egg extract. Left image shows a fluorescence image where DNA has been stained and right image shows a density map of the same nucleus aquired using Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT).
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
📃 New paper alert!
The Zychlinsky Lab and @raunser-lab.bsky.social identified the first protein that converts chromatin into an immune effector: Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps. Now published in @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps - Nature
Myeloperoxidase, a highly expressed neutrophil protein, disassembles nucleosomes, facilitating neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation, and binds stably to NETs extracellularly.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
📢 Voices in Infection Biology
☀️ We're back from summer break with a talk by Jan Skotheim from @stanford.edu, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 10
🕓 4 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/42144...
September 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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brugueslab.bsky.social
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
🚨 Paper alert!
Check out the latest work from the Reber Lab 📌 New research by @simonereber.bsky.social and @biswashere.bsky.social, now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🥳
August 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
biswashere.bsky.social
It's here! It's out! AND It's become better 🐸

Our fundamental work on intracellular density distributions, how it influences cellular organisation & how deviations occur during pathophysiological states like senescence is out in @natcomms.nature.com

Congratulations & thank you to the entire team!
August 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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natcellbio.nature.com
🍹Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a determinant in #organelle size control.
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Cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling - Nature Cell Biology
Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a det...
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August 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
🚨 New paper alert: cytoplasm density controls spindle architecture and size. This shows for the first time that a physical property of the cytoplasm regulates the spindle. Congrats to @simonereber.bsky.social, @tobiaskletter.bsky.social and everyone who contributed.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling - Nature Cell Biology
Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a det...
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
biswashere.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone involved!!!🎉🍾🤩

Fortunate to have contributed to this beautiful work demonstrating how cytoplasmic density tunes mitotic spindle architecture 🔬📈🐸
June 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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simonereber.bsky.social
✨We are looking for a PhD student interested in physical cell bio, imaging 🔬, biochemistry, #Xenopus 🐸 & #microtubules ✨

Join us @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de!
May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
biswashere.bsky.social
Beautiful work by @mctwo.bsky.social investigating the spatio-temporal dynamics of the cytoplasm using label-free tools and 🐸 extracts!

🐸 + 🔬 + 📈 = ✨

w. @gucklab.bsky.social , @simonereber.bsky.social , @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
May 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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febsletters.bsky.social
Congrats to Mirko Pleitner for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Award! Mirko from the lab of @simonereber.bsky.social at @humboldtuni.bsky.social presented an excellent poster at the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium "Wild frontiers of model organisms". Thanks for the fantastic insights! #EESWildModels
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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simonereber.bsky.social
Congrats Mirko! Proud lab colleagues & 🐸
febsletters.bsky.social FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social · Apr 11
Congrats to Mirko Pleitner for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Award! Mirko from the lab of @simonereber.bsky.social at @humboldtuni.bsky.social presented an excellent poster at the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium "Wild frontiers of model organisms". Thanks for the fantastic insights! #EESWildModels
April 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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wehnerlab.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest work from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biphasic inflammation control by dedifferentiated fibroblasts enables axon regeneration after spinal cord injury in zebrafish
Fibrosis and persistent inflammation are interconnected processes that inhibit axon regeneration in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). In zebrafish, by contrast, fibroblast-derived extracellu...
www.biorxiv.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
📰 For a quick summary, read our website article: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2176621/news...
Some frogs like it hot, others like it cold
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology show, how clawed frog species inhabit different climate zones thanks to small molecular adaptations
www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
January 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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gabrielneurohr.bsky.social
Did you ever wonder how cytoplasmic properties influence mitotic spindle architecture? Come join us for an exciting seminar next Wednesday by @simonereber.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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simonereber.bsky.social
Two positions in our lab 🐸🐛🔬 #malaria #xenopus #microtubules #biophysics #imaging #PhDlife
mpiib-berlin.mpg.de Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Nov 15
🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research or #immunology? Do you want to be part of an excellent research environment?
👉 The 2025 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 7 PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/en/imprs-idi...
Are you looking for a PhD project? We are offering seven PhD projects in infectious disease research and immunology in Berlin. Apply by January 3
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM