Dimova Lab

For those who missed this, the talk of Sarah @kaytrue.bsky.social is in the YouTube channel of @comeincell.bsky.social m.youtube.com/channel/UC9y...

Many thanks to Prof. Sarah L. Keller (@kaytrue.bsky.social) from the University of Washington for sharing her insights into liquid-liquid phase separation in membranes. 👏 Very insightful seminar on membrane phase separation in both artificial and living systems! @dimovalab.bsky.social

Deeply thankful, a little surprised, and very humbled, to receive the Agnes Pockels Award from @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social This is really recognition of my past & present group members, collaborators & mentors @mpici.bsky.social. A team achievement!🤝 And very happy to see GUVs 🫧 in the spotlight 😍

➡️ More broadly, this approach provides a new way to “see“ the chemistry of biomolecular condensates – without altering the properties of the system we want to understand. Paper: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Under a microscope, biomolecular condensates look like tiny droplets. But what exactly is inside them? 🧫 A new paper in Advanced Science presents a label-free approach combining Raman spectroscopy and spectral phasor analysis to map the chemical composition of biomolecular condensates in situ. ⬇️⬇️

🔬 PhD position: use patterned light to locally trigger division & endocytosis in synthetic cells (#GUVs)! Join Dimova & Santer labs via IMPRS-FMD @mpici.bsky.social & @unipotsdam.bsky.social MSc in (bio)physics/chemistry/soft matter needed Apply by Sep 15: imprs.mpikg.mpg.de/project-2603/

Free seminar (just register) from the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social on chemical & biophysical principles of how membranes interact with molecules around them, featuring Janice Robertson, Luca Monticelli, and @dimovalab.bsky.social. 8am for us West Coast researchers

It's today at 16:00 CET! Prof. Rumiana Dimova will talk about "Phase separation in biological systems: from membranes to biomolecular condensates". The first 1h of the lecture is open to the public. 👇 More details below: #HorizonEurope #MSCA

Looks like a great @embo.org workshop coming in September: “Lipid Code to Life”, with a who’s who of lipid #biochemistry… (e.g. @dimovalab.bsky.social @holthuislab.bsky.social @sciezgin.bsky.social etc ) More info and registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip... #lipids #biophysics

Want to learn more about membrane-condensate interactions? Maybe the lecture series of our @comeincell.bsky.social doctoral network would be of interest to you. 👉 the next lecture is on February 16: www.comeincell.org/2026-02-16-r...

Monday blues no more with these online events by @comeincell.bsky.social (coordination: @dimovalab.bsky.social) · 8 Dec, 2pm CET: “Drugging #Condensates & Drug Discovery” Dewpoint workshop · 15 Dec 2pm CET: “Life in #Biotech” Dewpoint workshop tinyurl.com/39rpaf84 #CellBiology #Biophysics

It was a great honor to deliver a plenary lecture at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society! 🇧🇷 eventos.galoa.com.br/sbbf-2025/pa... Loved the friendly atmosphere and the gorgeous surroundings in Campinas @unicampoficial.bsky.social! Huge thanks to the organizers!

It was a pleasure to deliver a course lecture together with Leonel @malacridalab.bsky.social on Phase separation at membrane interphases: Biomolecular condensates in Actions at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society www.sbbf.org.br Thanks to Antonio Costa Filho for organizing!

🎤 Sought-after everywhere! After delivering a great and crystal-clear talk at #BiomembraneDays2025 on asymmetric membranes in ternary mixtures, @markusdeserno.bsky.social also spoke in Barcelona. 🌍

🚀The #BiomembraneDays2025 concluded WE THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS & OUR SPONSORS🙏🙏🙏 @abberior.rocks Critical Insights in Biophysics Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation @dfg.de @jcellsci.bsky.social @lipotype.bsky.social @naniontech.bsky.social @picoquant.bsky.social Refeyn Ltd @biologists.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

Ilya @leventallab.bsky.social is clarifying the puzzles of biomembrane asymmetries amplifying our knowledge with comprehensive lipidomics #BiomembraneDays25

The last session of the #BiomembraneDays25 starts with Petra Schwille presenting minimal systems for cell division @comeincell.bsky.social @syncelleu.bsky.social

Georg Pabst presented how lipid asymmetry in membranes can modulate the performance of proteins like OmpLA and the importance of ions regulating this #BiomembraneDays25

Helge @ewerslab.bsky.social knows not only how to organize conferences (#BiomembraneDays25) but also how septins organize. Exceptional imaging #ExpansionMicroscopy of cytokinesis

Misha Kozlov presented a pressure/tension propagation model supported by the experiments of the lab of Raya Sorkin @sorkinlab.bsky.social #BiomembraneDauys25 @comeincell.bsky.social

Rainer Böckmann expanded on the (never ending story) about the effect of cholesterol on bending rigidity of membranes #BiomembraneDays25

Kandice @leventallab.bsky.social showed a great construct for resolving membrane organization around transmembrane domains #BiomembraneDays25

Alf Honigman clarified condensation and receptor segregation at cell junctions at the #BiomembraneDays25

Padmini Rangamani enforced the theory talks at the #BiomembraneDays25 focusing on curvature generation by the glycocalyx

Giacomo Fiorin discusses role of cholesterol and asymmetry on membrane stiffness at the #BiomembraneDays25

Jan @steinkuehler.bsky.social is now exciting us with electrically excitable membranes at the #BiomembraneDays25

Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25

Yuka Sakuma brings back (long and short-range) viscosity into spotlight at the #BiomembraneDays25

We start off the last day of the #BiomembraneDays25 with a lecture of Jay Groves on protein condensation at membranes.

Another welcome distraction from the dissertation awaits right next to the office: #BioMembraneDays25 are such a great gathering, spanning membrane and lipid #biophysics to physiology. The food is outstanding too 🤗. Thanks to organizers @ewerslab.bsky.social @dimovalab.bsky.social and Thomas Weikl!

Petia Vlahovska explained the contributions of viscous dissipation to membrane fluctuations and their increasing importance in analyzing data from small vesicles and interpretation of #NSE data #BiomembraneDays25 Check her paper Faizi et al PNAS 2024

Seraphine Wegner showed how to make membranes talk - light-based communication at the #BiomembraneDays25 @sigsyncell.bsky.social @comeincell.bsky.social

Omer Dushek @tcell.bsky.social starts the afternoon session of the #BiomembraneDays25 with a talk on CAR-T cell sensitivity and optimization

Puzzling temperature-responsive membrane rods in cells now presented by Oliver Rocks with work by @pm-mueller.bsky.social at the #BiomembraneDays25

The stunning results have to be credited to my great former and current group members! @mpici.bsky.social @mangiarotti.bsky.social

Second morning session starts with Ewa Paluch sharing her insight in the control of cell shape. #BiomembraneDays2025

Lu Tiemei just presented her work from the @spruijtlab.bsky.social showing coacervate wetting and penetrating membranes #BiomembraneDays25

Frederic Heberle now presents his work on modulated phases in bilayers at #BiomembraneDays2025

Claudia Steinem now with her newest observations in pore-spanning membrane systems. #BiomembraneDays2025

We start the second day of the #BiomembraneDays25 with impressive results on phase separation in the yeast plasma membrane by Roland Wedlich-Söldner

Charu Sharma from the group of Gijsje Koenderink and @ceesdekker.bsky.social is now showing how to drive dynaminA-assisted division of minimal cells #BiomembraneDays25