News
10.03.2025: Janni‘s paper on how loop extruders mediate rigidity and order bacterial chromosomes has been published in PRX life! Check it out here.
10.10.2024: Bram won the first poster prize at the Hereaus meeting on “The Cytoskeleton as Active Matter“. Congratulations!
25.07.2024: Tom‘s paper on learning phenomenological contact interaction mechanisms between motile cells from cell collider experiments is up on the arXiv. Check it out here.
23.04.2024: Janni’s paper on topoentropic chromosome segregation has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications! You can find it here.
25.03.2024: Janni’s mini-review on physical models for bacterial chromosomes has been accepted for publication in Molecular Microbiology! You can find it here.
25.03.2024: Janni has been selected to attend the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for physics this summer. Congratulations!
25.03.2024: David‘s review on Learning dynamical models of single and collective cell migration has been accepted for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics. You can find it here.
27.01.2024: Johannes‘ and Omar‘s paper on geometry-sensitive cell migration and decision making has been published in Physical Review Letters! Check it out here!
23.11.2023: Our group is awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to study the 4D organization of bacterial chromosomes: Check out this article!
11.10.2023: Janni and Bram recently won prizes for their work! Janni won the “Emerging Talent in Molecular Microbiology” award for her talk at the Lorentz center workshop about Biology and Physics of the Prokaryotic Chromosome. Bram won the audience prize for best poster at NWO biophysics. Congratulations!
24.03.2023: Tom‘s and David‘s paper on curvature-induced velocity waves in rotating cell spheroids has been published in Nature Communications! Check it out here!
19.10.2022: Estelle’s paper about nonlinear mechanosensation in fiber networks is up on the arXiv! Also check out Estelle’s contribution to this related paper!
20.09.2022: David’s, Matthew‘s, Johannes‘ and Nico‘s paper about geometry adaptation of protrusion and polarity dynamics during confined cell migration has been published in PhysRevX! There is also an article about his paper in Physics Magazine!
16.06.2022: Johannes’ paper about contracting actomyosin deforming soft structures has been published in Nature Materials!
06.05.2022: Janni’s paper about nonlinear mechanics of human mitotic chromosomes has been published in Nature!
08.04.2022: Chase wrote a perspective on the Jarzynski equality, which has been published in Nature
15.02.2022: Grzes‘ paper about time-irreversibility in linear systems with colored noise has been published in Physical Review E!
18.11.2021: David won the prestigious Gustav-Hertz-Preis by the DPG for his PhD thesis work about modelling the stochastic dynamics of confined cell migration. Congratulations!
17.11.2021: Grzes’ paper about time-irreversibility in linear systems with colored noise is up on the arxiv!
28.10.2021: Tom and David’s paper on active velocity waves in rotating multicellular spheroids is up on the arXiv!
04.10.2021: Joris’ paper single-cell growth inference of Corynebacterium glutamicum has been published in eLife!
21.9.2021: Christian’s paper on active intracellular transport has been published in PRL!
30.3.2021: Joris‘ paper on chromosome conformations in bacteria has been published in Nature Communications.!
12.3.2021: Hamed Abbaszadeh joined the group as postdoc. He will work on hydrodynamic descriptions of cellular systems with a focus on topological aspects.
16.2.2021: Our paper on cell-cell interactions in confined cell migration is now out in PNAS. See also the LMU press release.
29.07.2020: David’s paper on inferring underdamped Langevin dynamics from stochastic trajectories is published in PRL!
26.5.2020: Joris’ paper on the unusual growth dynamics of Corynebacteria is up on the bioRxiv.
10.2.2020: Joris’ paper on resolving the order of the bacterial chromosome is up on the arXive!
23.1.2020: Federico’s paper on learning the non-equilibrium dynamics of Brownian movies is posted on the arXive.