Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL)
@m-pol.bsky.social
Research group of Prof. Dr. Christoph Weber
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/mntf/physik/groups/theo2/
We develop theories using non-equlibrium statistical physics for intracellular organization, the molecular origin of life and bottom-up de novo life.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/mntf/physik/groups/theo2/
We develop theories using non-equlibrium statistical physics for intracellular organization, the molecular origin of life and bottom-up de novo life.
Can prebiotic chemistry harvest energy from cyclic environments?
We explore how oscillating reservoirs can drive chemical systems to extract power. Revealing resonance regimes for optimal harvest.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10266
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social, @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social and Hidde D. Vuijk.
We explore how oscillating reservoirs can drive chemical systems to extract power. Revealing resonance regimes for optimal harvest.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10266
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social, @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social and Hidde D. Vuijk.
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Can prebiotic chemistry harvest energy from cyclic environments?
We explore how oscillating reservoirs can drive chemical systems to extract power. Revealing resonance regimes for optimal harvest.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10266
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social, @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social and Hidde D. Vuijk.
We explore how oscillating reservoirs can drive chemical systems to extract power. Revealing resonance regimes for optimal harvest.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10266
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social, @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social and Hidde D. Vuijk.
The CECAM workshop “Multiscale modeling of chemically active mixtures” was a fruitful and stimulating meeting — combining deep discussions, new collaborations, and inspiring science. Thanks to beautiful Lausanne for providing the perfect backdrop! 🇨🇭🏔️ @cecamevents.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The CECAM workshop “Multiscale modeling of chemically active mixtures” was a fruitful and stimulating meeting — combining deep discussions, new collaborations, and inspiring science. Thanks to beautiful Lausanne for providing the perfect backdrop! 🇨🇭🏔️ @cecamevents.bsky.social
New pre-print with Jacqueline Janssen and Frank Jülicher! We extend the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (LSW) theory by matter supply, and find a novel universal law governing coarsening kinetics, valid for any constant matter supply in the interface-resistance-limited regime.
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21552
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21552
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New pre-print with Jacqueline Janssen and Frank Jülicher! We extend the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (LSW) theory by matter supply, and find a novel universal law governing coarsening kinetics, valid for any constant matter supply in the interface-resistance-limited regime.
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21552
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21552
'Liquid shells: A peculiar state':
Will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation for a Colloquium, discussing the formation of liquid shells using non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Feel free to drop by or join online. 💧🐚
www.ds.mpg.de/events/41316...
Will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation for a Colloquium, discussing the formation of liquid shells using non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Feel free to drop by or join online. 💧🐚
www.ds.mpg.de/events/41316...
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Liquid shells: A peculiar state':
Will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation for a Colloquium, discussing the formation of liquid shells using non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Feel free to drop by or join online. 💧🐚
www.ds.mpg.de/events/41316...
Will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation for a Colloquium, discussing the formation of liquid shells using non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Feel free to drop by or join online. 💧🐚
www.ds.mpg.de/events/41316...
Very much looking forward to the second edition of the ICTP-SAIFR thematic series of schools on biological physics across scales, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
More information and applications: www.ictp-saifr.org/sbpas2026/
More information and applications: www.ictp-saifr.org/sbpas2026/
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Very much looking forward to the second edition of the ICTP-SAIFR thematic series of schools on biological physics across scales, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
More information and applications: www.ictp-saifr.org/sbpas2026/
More information and applications: www.ictp-saifr.org/sbpas2026/
Great days at Frontiers in Nanoscience with @cens-lmu.bsky.social & @crc392molevo.bsky.social! Met new people, reconnected with old collaborators, and enjoyed inspiring talks, posters, and discussions. Hard to beat doing science with a view of Venice from the international university at San Servolo!
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Great days at Frontiers in Nanoscience with @cens-lmu.bsky.social & @crc392molevo.bsky.social! Met new people, reconnected with old collaborators, and enjoyed inspiring talks, posters, and discussions. Hard to beat doing science with a view of Venice from the international university at San Servolo!
Also a big congratulations to @larshubatsch.bsky.social, @daxiaosun.bsky.social and all the other recipients of the Independence Accelerator Award. Wish you'll the best in your next scientific endeavours. 🔬📖🤞
www.spp2191.com/independence...
www.spp2191.com/independence...
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Also a big congratulations to @larshubatsch.bsky.social, @daxiaosun.bsky.social and all the other recipients of the Independence Accelerator Award. Wish you'll the best in your next scientific endeavours. 🔬📖🤞
www.spp2191.com/independence...
www.spp2191.com/independence...
Thanks to the @spp2191.bsky.social and @gbmev.bsky.social for the amazing organisation of the "GBM Compact: Focus on Condensate Biology" Conference and the SPP2191 Satellite Meeting. 🧬💧
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thanks to the @spp2191.bsky.social and @gbmev.bsky.social for the amazing organisation of the "GBM Compact: Focus on Condensate Biology" Conference and the SPP2191 Satellite Meeting. 🧬💧
Great to see the role of phase separation in the culinary world being recognised. 🧀🍝 A huge congratulations to @gbart.bsky.social and collaborators!
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Great to see the role of phase separation in the culinary world being recognised. 🧀🍝 A huge congratulations to @gbart.bsky.social and collaborators!
Looking back on the "Emergence and Self-organisation in Biological Systems" conference last month @esbs2025.bsky.social, celebrating the contributions of Prof. Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social to the field (and his birthday 🎂). Was a great conference, catching up with lots of familiar faces.
September 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Looking back on the "Emergence and Self-organisation in Biological Systems" conference last month @esbs2025.bsky.social, celebrating the contributions of Prof. Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social to the field (and his birthday 🎂). Was a great conference, catching up with lots of familiar faces.
Was super fun to host the Michaels Group from ETH for a collaborative visit last week. 🤝 As a coincidental bonus, we celebrated the Autumn Augsburg Plärrer Folkfestival together with lots of laughs, drinks and great discussions. 🍻
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Was super fun to host the Michaels Group from ETH for a collaborative visit last week. 🤝 As a coincidental bonus, we celebrated the Autumn Augsburg Plärrer Folkfestival together with lots of laughs, drinks and great discussions. 🍻
A sneak peak into our yearly summer group retreat with the Comp. Bio Group of Prof. Nadine Schwierz and the Stat. Physics of Life Group of Prof. Abhinav Sharma in Sion, Switzerland. Was a great chance to spend time in nature, and to share and discuss exciting new collaborations. ☀️⛰️🫕
August 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
A sneak peak into our yearly summer group retreat with the Comp. Bio Group of Prof. Nadine Schwierz and the Stat. Physics of Life Group of Prof. Abhinav Sharma in Sion, Switzerland. Was a great chance to spend time in nature, and to share and discuss exciting new collaborations. ☀️⛰️🫕
"Chemically Active Wetting" is now published! 📖
We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"Chemically Active Wetting" is now published! 📖
We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social just got back from presenting a poster at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference in Harrogate, with some great conversations and feedback (and even great weather this time round ☀️). A big thank you to the organisers.
April 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social just got back from presenting a poster at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference in Harrogate, with some great conversations and feedback (and even great weather this time round ☀️). A big thank you to the organisers.
Was a super fun and competitive day in the Physics Faculty at the University of Augsburg, with the yearly Futsal Institute Cup taking place again. Thanks to everyone who played, contributed and cheerlead. 🎉 👏 Looking forward to next years event! ⚽
April 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Was a super fun and competitive day in the Physics Faculty at the University of Augsburg, with the yearly Futsal Institute Cup taking place again. Thanks to everyone who played, contributed and cheerlead. 🎉 👏 Looking forward to next years event! ⚽
Was a great week at the #DPG Spring Meeting in #Regensburg this year! With a lots of great talks and posters from the community. @advait-thatte.bsky.social, Susanne Liese and Christoph spoke about some of the research done in our group. Looking forward to next year's meeting! 🧪🔬
March 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Was a great week at the #DPG Spring Meeting in #Regensburg this year! With a lots of great talks and posters from the community. @advait-thatte.bsky.social, Susanne Liese and Christoph spoke about some of the research done in our group. Looking forward to next year's meeting! 🧪🔬
Active droplets far from equilibrium can become excitable, enabling excited trajectories upon perturbations and self-sustained cycles of formation and dissolution 🌀
@hiddevuijk.bsky.social
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604
@hiddevuijk.bsky.social
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604
March 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Active droplets far from equilibrium can become excitable, enabling excited trajectories upon perturbations and self-sustained cycles of formation and dissolution 🌀
@hiddevuijk.bsky.social
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604
@hiddevuijk.bsky.social
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604
Was a great poster session at DPG during the BP 14 session in Regensburg. Lots of great projects on bacterial biophysics, computational biophysics, membranes and vesicles, synthetic life-like systems and origin of life, systems and networks biophysics! #DPG
March 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Was a great poster session at DPG during the BP 14 session in Regensburg. Lots of great projects on bacterial biophysics, computational biophysics, membranes and vesicles, synthetic life-like systems and origin of life, systems and networks biophysics! #DPG
Sequence selection via phase separation, see our recent preprint. Great collaboration with the #DieterBraun's group at LMU. arxiv.org/abs/2410.08778
March 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sequence selection via phase separation, see our recent preprint. Great collaboration with the #DieterBraun's group at LMU. arxiv.org/abs/2410.08778
Retreat of growing Biophysics Theory Groups at the University of Augsburg in Sion (Switzerland) 2024. Hiking, discussing, and cooking!
March 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Retreat of growing Biophysics Theory Groups at the University of Augsburg in Sion (Switzerland) 2024. Hiking, discussing, and cooking!