@ZwickerGroup

Theoretical biophysics group @mpids. We study how soft and fluid-like materials are organized in biological organisms and cells. @zwickergroup.bsky.social

Göttingen, Germany
Joined July 2019
We welcome 🇩🇪Henri Schmidt to our group! 🎉 Henri will work on multicomponent phase separation and graduate with a PhD in a few years. Welcome aboard!
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Our analysis of crossover interference in meiosis is now online: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5… 🎉 We introduce the interference distance L_int as a new scalar quantification (Online tool at zwicker-group.github.io/cros…). L_int allows us to compare data across species, mutants, and sexes!
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Thanks to @Raph_Mercier and @MarcelErnst91 for the inspiring interdisciplinary endeavor! 🙏
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RT appreciated: My lab is recruiting several Ph.D.s and Postdocs excited to build synthetic cells that undergo Darwinian evolution. The backgrounds that we need for include biochemistry, synthetic biology, and systems chemistry. Details: boekhovenlab.com/openings/
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Zwicker Group retweeted
4-year PhD and post-doctoral positions @goehring_lab @TheCrick combining advanced cell biological, biophysical, and theoretical approaches to uncover the design principles of cell polarity and fate specification in C. elegans. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/… crick.ac.uk/careers-study/va…
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Filipe Thewes 🇧🇷 joined our group this week! After a successful PhD with @psollich at @uniGoettingen, he moved up the hill to help us understand multicomponent phase separation. Welcome aboard! 🥳
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⏰Do you have a minute?⏰ Chengjie Lou is a postdoctoral researcher in the @ZwickerGroup at MPI-DS. Let's spend a minute with him and join his work on patterns created by phase separation! youtube.com/watch?v=XSqxw7T1… @luochengjie58 #DYHAM
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Happy to announce a preprint by @jerellea’s and our group. 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2409.15599 shows that #droplet growth is arrested at finite sizes when the phase separating material evokes a net #charge of the droplet. The attached molecular dynamics simulation visualizes this effect
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Interestingly, the strength of phase separation has only a weak effect on droplet size, which we confirmed with more simulations. Our work shows how charge can control droplet size, e.g., to regulate #condensates inside biological cells.
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The full article at arxiv.org/abs/2409.15599 has many more details and we will explorer the role of charges further. This work started from a short discussion after a Zoom talk by @jerelleaj and was driven by @luochengjie58, Nate Hess, Dilimulati Aierken, and Yicheng Qiang!
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We welcome 🇳🇱 Guido Kusters as a new postdoc in our group! Guido did his PhD in Eindhoven and will work on various topics involving phase separation with us. Welcome aboard! 🎊🎉
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That’s an excellent opportunity, which cannot be recommended enough :)
Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-planck-res…
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We are accepting applications again to our fantastic fully funded program with excellent faculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities! APPLY NOW!!! cognition.maxplanckschools.o… #maxplanckschools #passionforscience 👌💪🏻🧠🍀
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It’s amazing to see experimental evidence for a mechanism we conceived about a decade ago! Congratulations to @BoekhovenLab and @WebersGroup – this is surely just the beginning of an exciting scientific journey! 🎉
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This interdisciplinary work emerged from a short email with curious data, which sparked deeper investigations. Thanks to @SchwarzUlrich for putting us in touch!
Sharing this cool collaboration with @ZwickerGroup out today in @ScienceAdvances! Using the 3D spatial information of >1,000 precancers from 48 human pancreas samples, we developed a mathematical growth model for pancreatic precancer growth: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Sharing this cool collaboration with @ZwickerGroup out today in @ScienceAdvances! Using the 3D spatial information of >1,000 precancers from 48 human pancreas samples, we developed a mathematical growth model for pancreatic precancer growth: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Ready to lead your own research team-?😎The Max Planck Society offers you the chance to head an independent Research Group at a participating Max Planck Institute of your choice - the next open topic call starts on Sep 9, 2024. Stay tuned for updates!🌟 mprg.mpg.de
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Our paper on phase separation of multicomponent mixtures with higher-order interactions is published! Congratulations @luochengjie58 🎉
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