Biology mixed with physics & curiosity @UniCologne. Membranes, wetting, LLPS & condensates. Autophagy. Grow, microscope, eat plants. Harassment-free science.
Berlin and Köln
Joined August 2021
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Condensates can not only bend biomembranes, but also cut them (fission). Check out the first evidence in our @nature paper: t.ly/qOkcX
Great collaboration between maths, physics and biology @AgudoCanalejo @XiaofengFangLab @KnorrLab @csbdresden
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We are hiring a PhD @EdinburghUni @SchoolOfEng_UoE to work on the bottom-up design and construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes. Lab is based at the Institute for Bioengineering. #synbio eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/degree…
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We have a PhD position available to study neuronal functions of autophagy and endocytosis.
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#Job alert! A #postdoc position in my lab @CECAD_ @UniCologne is open until December 1st.
We look for: enthusiasm, curiosity, scientific rigour, and a background in protein quality control, lysosome signalling, or the cell cycle.
We offer: fully funded position, top European research campus, state-of-the-art facilities, collaborative working environment, interdisciplinary approach, fascinating and understudied cell model.
Details: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/aussc…
Applications *ONLY* here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewer…
Interviews of shortlisted candidates will be scheduled after December 1st.
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Thanks to the team and for funds: @SPP2191 @dfg_public!
Cell membranes shaped and cut by phase-separated liquid protein condensates nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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We simulated the formation of OPTN droplets on the membrane in mitophagy.
The droplets could lead to the membrane connection.
Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates | The EMBO Journal embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
Exciting news: 2D condensates at mitochondria!
Thanks to @yj_sakai, @ChinoHaruka, @MizLabUT.
Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates | The EMBO Journal embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
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💧✂️Liquid droplets cut membranes without protein scissors🌱
A study led by @knorrlab and team shows that tiny liquid droplets, known as biomolecular condensates, cut membranes of plant cells without the need for specialized protein✂️
Read more 🔗 uni.koeln/RRD22
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✂️A *liquid* pair of scissors? This is DALL-E's representation... But biology has built the real deal, as our new work w/ @XiaofengFangLab @KnorrLab @aland_lab just out @Nature shows nature.com/articles/s41586-0… (1/6)
Not exactly X-less
more from Knorr! congrats twitterless Roland and @XiaofengFangLab
condensates 🤝 membranes 🤝 plants
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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In intracellular trafficking, the ESCRT machinery mediates membrane scission of the multivesicular bodies (MVBs). Work @nature proposes that, in plant cells, this is mediated by biomolecular condensates, and depends on the condensates' physical properties.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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We are thrilled to welcome our new colleague Roland Knorr with his team @KnorrLab who just was appointed as W2 professor @BCCologne @UniCologne @UKKoeln We are looking forward to exciting research on phase separation & shaping of biological membranes biochemie-med.uni-koeln.de/e…
Exciting news: our lab expands and moves @UniCologne next to @CECAD_ ; thrilling papers will be out soon...
Looking to join our lab in #berlin? We're hiring!
#microscopy #imaging #biology #physics #biophysics #biochemistry #cellBiology #Bioengineering
#phdstudent #studentships #PhDposition #postdoctoral #Postdocposition #sciencejobs #postdoc
@BioCondensates @dfg_public @HumboldtUni
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❗️just out @PhysRevLett ❗️a surprising nonequilibrium effect hidden in a classic theory of phase separation...
It turns out that enzymes can drive liquid-liquid phase separation without equilibrium interactions! In a new paper with @AgudoCanalejo and @RGolestanian, we show how this can happen and how it can automatically regulate the enzymes' activity.
link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Phy…
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Our new preprint is out! The standard shapes of phagophores during autophagosome formation are statistically determined by 3d-EM and are quantitatively explained by a physical model. Congratulations, Yuji!!biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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"We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!"
#Vienna: 'hold my #Weisswein🥂*'
- Königsegggasse
(*or 16er-Blech🥫 if you prefer)
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Impressionnantes IMAGES de l'effondrement d'un pan du glacier de la #Marmolada, dans les Dolomites, sur la voie qui mène au sommet de la Punta Rocca. Il y faisait 10°C (très chaud donc).
Il y aurait au minimum 5 morts et 8 blessés.
#UrgenceClimatique