Campàs Lab

Really excited that our recent work on nuclear jamming made it to the cover of NatureMaterials! 🤩 Congratulations to Rana Amini for capturing this amazing image of the zebrafish retina! 👁️ ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imagine a grant system that gave you approx 300k + overhead/year for up to 5 years; ability to submit 3 times/year; unlimited reapplications; no age limits; no limit on the grants you can receive. This used to be the NIH R01 grants in the US. We can do better in Europe. @erc.europa.eu

We hosted together with @poldresden.bsky.social a course for the Physical Biology of the Cell, Oct 5-9. The course was held by two leading biophysicists: Rob Phillips @caltech.edu, and Jane Kondev @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

If you’re around at #HumanDev26, come check out the fantastic work by @mtrani.bsky.social, joint predoc between our lab @mpi-cbg.de & @campaslab.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social at poster #11!

Nice technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on how physical measurements in embryos are changing how we understand development and morphogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It has been an honor to serve the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) as Managing Director and Speaker for nearly 5 years. We have achieved a lot together, and I am really proud of the team we have created and everything we have done. I will help Helmut to make PoL even better in the future 😃

Interested in a cross-scale understanding of #mechanobiology? Join the EMBO Workshop "Forces across scales" in Porto, Portugal, 27–30 April 2027. Deadline: 1 December 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/27-forces-scales #EMBOforces #EMBOevents 🧪

📢 We’re hiring in APPLIED MATHEMATICS at the OXFORD UNIVERSITY Mathematical Institute. We seek candidates using modern theoretical and computational methods to study physical, biological, medical and information sciences. Deadline: 28 Sept. Info: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81913 #AppliedMath

We have an open postdoc position to study phase transitions in embryos and/or biological time, broadly understood. We are looking for experimental physicists/biologists (or similar fields). If you are interested, please email or DM me. Join us! 😀

I am really happy and proud that we established the Suzanne Eaton Awards for Physics of Life! Not only because they honour an outstanding scientist and friend, Suzanne Eaton, but also because it recognizes great scientists in our field. I can’t wait to hear the awardees’ talks this Fall 🤩

🏆 Introducing the inaugural Suzanne Eaton Awards for Physics of Life! We're thrilled to announce the 2026 recipients: L. Mahadevan @harvard.edu and Anna Erzberger @embl.org. 👨‍🔬Both scientists will give award lectures on 20. November, more info to follow ➡️Read our announcement here: tud.link/cjm8t2

Savill, R., Villaronga Luque, A., Trani Bustos, M., Maroudas-Sacks, Y., ...., Modes, C. D., Campàs, O., & Veenvliet, J. V. (2025). SpinePy enables automated 3D spatiotemporal quantification of multicellular in vitro systems [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #EpithelialMechanics

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

🤔 How do stem cells determine how to respond to physical cues during development? 👨‍🔬The Doyle Lab at PoL combines approaches from biology, computer science, and engineering to understand the molecular circuits that enable mechanosignalling. Learn more👉 youtu.be/OJO2sxbYw4w

🚨One week left! Applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program will close on 20. May! We offer numerous benefits: ✅ 3-year funded position ✅ Core research funding to cover travel, publishing, and project costs ✅Mentorship from 2+ PoL PIs ..and much more! Apply now: tud.link/y3djda

In case you want to know more about what we do in my lab 🤓 In about 50 seconds… Thanks to Avanga for the amazing video!

👩‍🔬Calling all researchers! Are you interested in working on a project at Physics of Life? 🔬Our new Visitors Program will allow scientists to visit PoL for up to 6 months to pursue an interdisciplinary project, with their travel and accommodation covered. Learn more here and apply: tud.link/nasaw5

Are you interested in Physics of Life, Biological Physics or similar topics? Do you want to pursue a Master, PhD or Postdoc to do research at the interface between Biology, Physics and/or Computer Science? If so, check out the video below👇 We've got you covered 😀

This will be our new home 🤩 It has been and will continue to be a lot of work to make it happen, but we are really excited about this new building for Physics of Life!

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

🇬🇧 We are looking for someone to assist with technical building operations at Physics of Life, please share! 🔬 👨‍🔬What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive team of scientists and admins working at the frontiers of biophysics. 🗓️Apply by 5th May. Learn more here: tud.link/rywtux

Welcome, Tony Hyman! EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, as he takes up the mandate of leading EMBL's six sites. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Join us! 😃

🚀 Are you planning to secure funding to start your own research group? (e.g. ERC, Emmy Noether, etc). 👨‍🔬Physics of Life can host you, and offers numerous benefits! We are launching a new Program to host and support third-party funded junior groups. Check out the details here: tud.link/xayd8s

If you are interested in doing a postdoc of quantitative biology, biological physics or similar areas… we got you covered 😃 👇🏻

🚨Attention #postdocs! Applications for our Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program open on April 1. 👩‍🔬Are you an early career researcher interested in working at the interface of biology & physics? We offer a 3+ year position, generous resources, and mentoring opportunities! Apply: tud.link/y3djda

Congratualtions to our Physics of Life @poldresden.bsky.social members Elias Barriga ( @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social ), Jesse Veenvliet ( @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social ) and Frank Jülicher for getting an HFSP grant each! Not bad! 🤩👏

If you are at the APS Global Physics Summit and are interested in Biological Physics, stop by our booth and learn more about Physics of Life! #APSsummit26 #APSMarchMeeting @apsphysics.bsky.social

International Congress in Biological Physics, Genova, Italy, 28 June to 3 July 2026. URGENT: submission deadline 25 March. Session topics, plenary and invited speakers: www.icbp2026.org IUPAP Physics of Life medal awarded at meeting. Spread the word - and act quickly to submit your work.

🎉 And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who visited our #conference booth at the DPG Spring meeting @dpgphysik.bsky.social, hosted this year at none other than @tudresden.bsky.social! 🧑‍🔬We greeted researchers and industry experts alike, showcasing our new flyers, booklets, and microscopy data in VR!

PoL is at the DPG @dpgphysik.bsky.social spring meeting in Dresden. Visit us in Tent C until Thursday afternoon! Special thanks to the @brugueslab.bsky.social for the cool data on our Apple Vision Pro devices! Come check it out 🤓🎉

We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here! physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro... Drop a line if you are interested to know more details! #labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

Congratulations to Marie, a MSc student working in our lab, who did this beautiful and creative composition of zebrafish embryos to make a fish 🐟🤩 Bravo Marie!

Features new works from Stankunas Lab @uoregon.bsky.social, Ruprecht Lab @crg.eu & @campaslab.bsky.social (albeit mammals this time 😉)

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations Shuo-Ting! 🎉👏 It is beautiful!

🎉 After a two-year break, #PoLDay returned stronger than ever! Over 160 members from our community came together for a full day of interdisciplinary talks, research posters, team building games and more.🌟Thank you to all the organizers! Read the event recap in our PoL news⬇️ tud.link/ca72se

It was great to have you as colleague at @poldresden.bsky.social ! I know you will do great science also at @mbisg.bsky.social. Probably we will continue to “work” together through the PoL-MBI partnership. See you soon either in Dresden or Singapore! :) Good luck with everything!

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-...

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Is it just me or the new security verification step in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social has rendered it so slow that effectively does not work anymore? Does anyone else have the same problem?

@campaslab.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social labs use #gastruloids to explore axial extension in mammalian embryos www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... They find novel mechanisms involving and interplay of proliferation and mechanical constraining. #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs

#IZFS is proud to announce Drs. Antonia Monteiro and Rong Li as our #SCZI2026 Keynote Speakers! We are honored to have them join us in Singapore to present on their science. See below for their presentation information, and a link to our program! www.izfs.org/education/11...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

📣 New preprint! Stoked to share a fantastic collaboration with @campaslab.bsky.social! We discover a unique mammalian mechanism for body axis elongation using mouse and human gastruloids, and confirm central findings in mouse embryos. Check out the 🧵 👇 @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social

Really happy and proud to share my PhD work! This has been a fun and collaborative project that led to the discovery of a unique biophysical mechanism of axial elongation in mouse gastruloids and human gastruloids, and confirmed our key findings in vivo with mouse embryos. Check it out down below!