📣 Paper alert 📣

Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)

In this study led by Lucia Baldauf we established a robust method to reconstitute vesicles with an actin cortex and – by pairing with theory by @sciFelixFrey and @TimonIdema - discovered that branched actin preferentially assembles at membrane necks! doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.0…

Now out in @JCellBiol: the geometry of clathrin coats measured with superresolution microscopy as function of pseudotime by @markus_sci, @aline_tschanz and @yule_wu from @JonasRies lab at @EMBLHeidelberg. Excellent agreement with cooperative curvature model by @sciFelixFrey

Very excited that part of my PhD work is now published in JCB! Together with @markus_sci, we investigated the nanoscale remodeling of clathrin coats during endocytosis using superresolution microscopy.

The NOMIS foundation and @ISTAustria present three exciting new fellowships, raising the count of NOMIS fellows on our campus from four to seven. 🔗 bit.ly/3WdxNa2

@istaustria experienced increased #cyberattacks lately, which could initially be repelled. After the attacks intensified today, the Institute took all #servers offline, incl e-mail & homepage. Origin and aim are investigated further together with external support.

@sciFelixFrey's paper on the relation between membrane area growth and cell division published in @PhysRevE: link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Phy…

Very excited that this story is out fresh on bioRxiv! We used superresolution microscopy to understand how the clathrin coat forms during endocytosis - a 🧵 with pretty pictures and a cool mechanism! 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Tomorrow (23/03) at 4:00 pm I will present a poster at #DPG2021 #BPCPPDYSOE21 on work dating back to my PhD together with @SchwarzUlrich. Join BP 24.14 if you like to know why we think that flat clathrin lattices assemble with lattice vacancies.

What can be learned about internal cellular processes by modeling membrane shape? Our new review together with @TimonIdema is now available in @softmatter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Which physical mechanisms can drive membrane bending during clathrin-mediated endocytosis ? From a continuum point of view, there are three of them, which we now analysed in one unifying and analytical theory. New work with @FelixFrey12 out in Soft Matter doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01375G

We use the Eden model to simulate the growth of flat clathrin lattices and compare it to EM data. Our new paper together with @SchwarzUlrich, @BoulantLab, @kem_sochacki and @taraskalab is now available in @NJPhysics . iopscience.iop.org/article/1……

We developed a new computational model to address the amazing plasticity of nonmuscle myosin II minifilaments and in particular the roles of the different isoforms. Great work by Tom Kaufmann now out in @PLOSCompBiol journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

Duco's and Gerhard's work on defect dynamics in developing bacterial colonies (collaboration with Tans lab @_amolf) is finally available as a preprint arxiv.org/abs/2003.10509.