Lars Hubatsch
@larshubatsch.bsky.social
Hybrid Experimentalist/Theorist (MPI-CBG & MPI-PKS). Interested in developmental biology, pattern formation, and quantitative (single molecule) imaging: how to fit physical mechanisms out of complex data.
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Lars Hubatsch
@larshubatsch.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks!
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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It was an honor to present the laudation for the 2025 STS Honorary Medal Awardee, Hao Wu (@harvardmed.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social), at the 28th Signal Transduction Meeting. Her groundbreaking work has transformed our understanding of innate immune signaling.
@sigtrans.bsky.social #STS
@sigtrans.bsky.social #STS
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was an honor to present the laudation for the 2025 STS Honorary Medal Awardee, Hao Wu (@harvardmed.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social), at the 28th Signal Transduction Meeting. Her groundbreaking work has transformed our understanding of innate immune signaling.
@sigtrans.bsky.social #STS
@sigtrans.bsky.social #STS
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The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org
Check it out.
Check it out.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org
Check it out.
Check it out.
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Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!
Very excited to announce the #DGZ awardees 2025. We look forward to welcoming all award winners to our meeting in Heidelberg, where they will present their work!
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!
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Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1/ We’re delighted to hear that our Reviewing Editor, Shimon Sakaguchi, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine today alongside colleagues Fred Ramsdell and Mary Brunkell: www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1/ We’re delighted to hear that our Reviewing Editor, Shimon Sakaguchi, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine today alongside colleagues Fred Ramsdell and Mary Brunkell: www.nobelprize.org
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Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert!
Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert!
Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
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Warm goodbye to Dresden's @mpipks.bsky.social, my scientific home for the past 4 years. It's been amazing to start my group here! Thanks to the Max Planck Society, group members and everyone at the institute! Looking forward to the new chapter in Barcelona @ub.edu
September 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Warm goodbye to Dresden's @mpipks.bsky.social, my scientific home for the past 4 years. It's been amazing to start my group here! Thanks to the Max Planck Society, group members and everyone at the institute! Looking forward to the new chapter in Barcelona @ub.edu
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Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
With painted cows and a perfect pasta sauce, ‘Ig Nobel’ winners claim glory
Some of the world’s most imaginative scientific minds have been celebrated at the Ig Nobel awards, which recognize discoveries that make people “laugh, then think.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
September 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
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Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.
September 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.
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GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!
September 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!
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Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
September 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
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🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
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A C. elegans model for a human disease
July 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A C. elegans model for a human disease
Paper alert!🧪
We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4
We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4
Transport kinetics across interfaces between coexisting liquid phases
elifesciences.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Paper alert!🧪
We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4
We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4
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We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
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What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.
Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.
July 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.
Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.
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I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
An active torque dipole across tissue layers drives avian left-right symmetry breaking
Unlike in mice, frogs, and fish, left-right (L/R) body axis formation in avian embryos does not arise from the chiral beat of cilia. Instead, a counter-clockwise tissue rotation around Hensen′ node, t...
doi.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.
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I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
An active torque dipole across tissue layers drives avian left-right symmetry breaking
Unlike in mice, frogs, and fish, left-right (L/R) body axis formation in avian embryos does not arise from the chiral beat of cilia. Instead, a counter-clockwise tissue rotation around Hensen′ node, t...
doi.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.
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And that concludes our #kitp program on biomolecular condensates 😢 Wow, what an *incredible* experience, and unique place to learn and think and grow! 🤓
July 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And that concludes our #kitp program on biomolecular condensates 😢 Wow, what an *incredible* experience, and unique place to learn and think and grow! 🤓
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Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3