Jan defended his Ph.D. this week with flying colors! He gave a brilliant talk and mastered the following discussion to earn his doctorate. His work on “Chemical Reactions as Control Mechanisms for Biomolecular Condensates” will form the basis for multiple follow-up projects in our group and hopefully also helps biologists to interpret their data on condensate regulation. Stay tuned for his thesis, which will soon be published officially and on our website.
We are happy to announce that our group got awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, which will fuel our group for the next five years.
Read MoreWe seek a Ph.D. student to strengthen our team. We offer a collaborative, international, and fun environment to conduct a thesis in Theoretical Biological Physics, which likely will involve inter-disciplinary work with biologists, chemists, and other physicists around the world. We offer multiple projects in the broader field of theoretical descriptions of phase separation in biological cells, but are also interested in other topics.
Read MoreWe are looking to expand our team and offer a postdoc position. We’re looking for fun people, who are interested in working collaboratively in a team of physics and collaborate with biologists, chemists, and other physicists around the world. We offer multiple projects in the broader field of theoretical descriptions of phase separation in biological cells, but are also interested in other topics of Theoretical Biological Physics.
Read MoreWe published a new review on phase separation and chemical reactions in multi-component fluids on arXiv.
Read MoreNew preprint “Evolved interactions stabilize many coexisting phases in multicomponent liquids”
Read MoreDavid has been selected to become a new member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) community of young researchers. Together with 25 other scientists, he will join an international platform through which young investigators have access to a variety of networking opportunities and funding.
Read MoreWe assessed the formation of droplets in elastic gels using a new model in a recent publication in PNAS. In our study, we simulated how environmental factors such as temperature influence the size of oil droplets in elastic matrices. Our study will also help understanding droplet formation in biological cells, where biological molecules self-organize in condensates.
Read MoreMarcel Ernst joined the group as a Ph.D. student. He’ll work on physical description of condensate in meiosis.
Read MoreOur paper on modeling active droplets has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. In this work, we identify the minimal ingredients to control droplets via chemical reactions. Prime examples for such regulation are biomolecular condensates in cells.
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