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Apply now for the Max Planck Foundation start-up school and learn how to transform research into real-world application. June 3-5 @mpi-cbg.de! startupinitiative.maxplanckfoundation.org/en/start-up-...
By altering the growth environment, the group of @merihuchlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de with first authors Javier Bregante & Flaminia Kaluthantrige has developed a liver model that extensively mimics the heterogeneity of the real organ. @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
The public event "CRISPR Gene scissors in Dresden" is taking place March 26 to 29. The "CRISPR-Roadshow" is teaming up with partners @mpi-cbg.de, @tudresden.bsky.social, and @crtd-tud.bsky.social for a wide range of activities on the CRISPR/Cas method. www.crispr-whisper.de/2025/10/01/d...
🦜 The genomes of fours species in this study were sequenced and assembled at @mpi-cbg.de. The Cell Technology Facility extracted the relevant RNAs for the functional analyses. 🦜
Mini organs in space: Research project of the @tudresden.bsky.social together with @mpi-cbg.de investigates the effects of weightlessness on liver tissue. The liver organoids for the project come from Meritxell Huch's research group @merihuchlab.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Nikola Sadovek in @haharrington.bsky.social group & Daniel McGinnis @princetonupress.bsky.social, solved a 38-year-old mathematical puzzle by finding a precise rule for when a point, line, or plane can simultaneously intersect a whole family of convex shapes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our work @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @scadsai.bsky.social fuses representation learning with spatial statistics @iclr-conf.bsky.social enabling #AI for spatial localization patterns: openreview.net/forum?id=09Y...
LiSyM Status Seminar-2026 is hold right now in Dresden! We are happy to share our latest results in liver #lipidomics and #proteomics with colleagues @mpi-cbg.de and other researches from Liver System Medicine Consortium @lisymcancer.bsky.social. Together we are a very strong team!💪
Join us in Vienna for the biggest international 'FISH' meeting in 2026! No matter which fish is your favorite model - zebrafish, medaka, killifish, cavefish, Danionella, cichlids, stickleback, you name them...- this meeting is for you!
www.ezm2026.org
Abstract submission deadline is March 15th.
Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Vannur Garikapati on new step in career development! Following successful postdoctoral research in lipidomics @mpi-cbg.de he'll be building new mass spectrometry Facility at the Medical School Uni Bielefeld. We are very proud of you, Vannur! Stay in touch❤️
As the President of the Beer Committee (yes...), I have moved the quest to #MakeBeerHourGreatAgain to the next level. By executive order, the #CzechPolka "Roll Out the Barrels" becomes the official beer #anthem. #Starobrnobitter Lots of foam, room for improvement. But it went fast... ❤️ @mpi-cbg.de
COMBINING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY WITH OPTICAL TWEEZERS TO SHINE LIGHT ON DNA AND CHROMOSOMES. Erwin Peterman. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Saturday 21 February 2026 - 4:00 PM - Room 303/304, Biological Fluorescence Symposium. A PROTEIN-DNA SURFACE HYDROGEL MECHANICALLY REINFORCES THE CELL NUCLEUS AND PROTECTS THE GENOME. Ramesh Adakkattil. MPI-CBG (Von Appen lab). Sunday 22 February 2026 - 4:00 PM - Room 201/202/203, Platform: Condensates from Biophysics to Disease I.
Find Erwin Peterman (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) speaking on the virtues of combining fluorescence microscopy with optical tweezers on Saturday 4:00 PM, Room 303/304.
On Sunday, 4:00 PM, Room 201/202/203, Ramesh Adakkattil of the Von Appen lab (@mpi-cbg.de) speaks on the protein-DNA surface hydrogel.
2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...
Our chapter "Laser Capture Microdissection for Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomics" is out in Methods in Molecular Biology @springernature.com ! We're delighted to share expertise and protocols in lipid analysis by mass spectrometry @mpi-cbg.de with the broad scientific community.
Giulio from the group of Türkü Özlüm Çelik talks on mathematical structures during our current coffee chalk talk series @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social to promote knowledge exchange between disciplines.
Electrifying story from @ritamateus.bsky.social lab. @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social
New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
⚡👩🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study!
Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social
Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz
Video:©️ Mateus group
portrait of Nagaraja Chappidi
We welcome new research group leader Nagaraja Chappidi! He joins the @mpi-cbg.de to explore how cells regulate DNA replication and repair. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Just in time for Friday, the next image from our annual PoL Photo Competition 📸
👨🔬 🔬©️ This #microscopy image was taken by Shuzo Kato, a PhD student in the Brugués lab @brugueslab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
🔍 Caption: The mitotic spindle in a zebrafish embryo under oxygen depletion (DCX-GFP).
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
🎉Exciting new findings out in @nature.com today by the Brugués lab! @brugueslab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
👨🔬 The authors describe how physical instability of the cytoskeleton works with the cell cycle to drive organization in the embryo during early development
Read our press release: tud.link/kctu4s
The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
🎓 Congratulations to Jonas Pöhls on successful PhD thesis defense . “The Dark Proteome: The extent and impact of phenotypic mutations in prokaryotes” is a challenging interlaboratory work between @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social & Shevchenko lab @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social Proud of you, Jonas!
event poster with green background
Join the GROW@Dresden 2026 event March 26-27 @tudresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de and register here: plan.events.mpg.de/event/588/ The event is for all students of underrepresented gender identities in mathematics, especially women, who want to explore graduate programs and research opportunities.
Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible.
If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.
@kuodyte.bsky.social
Publication in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
The group of @anne-grapin.bsky.social developed methods to create functional acinar cells, which are involved in the formation of pancreatic cancer. Rashmiparvathi Keshara, Karolina Kuodyte, and the TDS facility used image-based screen & robust analysis pipeline. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
