News

  • 01/24 Samo’s paper on inhibiton of amyloid self-replication is our in PNAS! This work took us many years, but was worth it:).
  • 01/24 Andela shared the Soft matter Lectureship.
  • 12/23 Collaborative papers with Gutierrez and Palacci labs are our in Nature and Nat Phys. Congrats Chris & Ivan!
  • 11/23 We enjoyed science & planning our future research on a group retreat in the Alps.
  • 09/23 Promoted to full professor!
  • 09/23 The group enjoyed a stimulating trip to the International Soft Matter Conference in Japan.
  • 06/23 We are welcoming 3 scientific interns this summer: Smriti Chhibber from IISER Mohali, Eryk Ratajczyk from UCL, and Charlie Hamilton from Oxford. 
  • 06/23 Maitane joined us for her postdoc and Juraj & Mau joined us as PhD students!
  • 04/23 We got a new little group member. It’s a girl!
  • 06/22 Felix, Adam, Valerio joined us for their postdocs!
  • 06/22 We are welcoming 3 scientific interns this summer: Smriti Chhibber from IISER Mohali, Eryk Ratajczyk from UCL, and Charlie Hamilton from Oxford.
  • 06/22 Andela’s been awarded the 2022 P. G. De Geness Award at the X. meeting “From Solid State to BioPhysics” .
  • 05/22 Billie’s first paper is on bioRxiv.
  • 03/22 Chiara Lionello is our first visitor at ISTA! She’s staying for 6 months on a collaboration with G. Pavan’s group in Turin.
  • 02/22 Anne’s paper won the Biophysical Journal paper of the year award!
  • 01/22 Lena & Anne’s work on the physical mechanism for ESCRT-III-driven cell division, in collab with the Baum lab, is out in PNAS. <3
  • 01/22 We have moved to IST Austria!
  • 10/21 We have 2 postdoc positions available.
  • 09/21 Alex’s & Ivan’s work on durotaxis of passive nanoparticles is out in ACS Nano.
  • 04/21 Our collaboration with the Xiaolei Su’s lab at Yale is out in JCB.
  • 03/21 Lena & Anne’s work on the physical mechanism for ESCRT-III-driven cell division is on bioRxiv.
  • 02/21 Chris’s work on vesicle budding by osmotic shocks is out in Soft Matter.
  • 02/21 Alex’s paper on pulling tubes from cortex-attached-membranes, in a collaboation with the Bassereau lab, is out in Biophys J
  • 12/20 Johannes’s paper on amyloid nucleation on fluid membranes is out in PNAS.
  • 12/20 Andela is selected as EMBO Young Investigator 2020.
  • 11/20 We artificially evolved membrane-reshaping structures, now out in Phys Rev Lett.
  • 11/20 How collagen got its stripes? Anne’s paper is on the cover of Biophys J.
  • 10/20 Billie joined our lab as a PhD student
  • 09/20 Our collaboration with the Roux lab on ESCRT-driven membrane reshaping is out in Cell
  • 08/20 We developed a minimal model for archaeal cell division, with the Baum lab in Science.
  • 06/20 Kevin and Miguel joined our group as PhD students
  • 05/20 Our simulations on the cover of Nature Chemistry
  • 02/20 Alex’s paper is out in Physical Review letters
  • 01/20 Sharon, Ivan, and Christian joined our group!
  • 11/19 New publication in BMC Biology
  • 08/19 We’re collaborators on the newly awarded VW “Life?” grant to study evolution of vesicle trafficking
  • 08/19 We hosted two high-school students in our lab, Isabella and Jamie, through the in2scienceUK programme
  • 06/19 Review on our taste in simulations is out
  • 03/19 Lena’s paper is on bioRxiv
  • 02/19 Alex’s paper is on bioRxiv
  • 01/19 Another little member joined our lab: welcome Elise Harker-Kirschneck!
  • 12/18 We’re back from our scientific retreat in Paris!
  • 10/18 After doing his masters and ERASMUS with us, Samo Curk joined us as a PhD student
  • 09/18 Vincent Debets from TU Eindhoven is visiting us for 3 months for a collaboration with Liesbeth Janssen and Kees Storm
  • 07/18 We got the ERC Starting grant to study protein assembly far from thermodynamic equilibrium!
  • 05/18 A new little member joined our lab.