Center for Systems Biology Dresden
Joint center @mpi-cbg.de, @mpipks.bsky.social & @tudresden.bsky.social. Our mission is to develop theoretical and computational approaches to biological systems.
- The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow Program is now open. We look forward to receiving your applications by March 13, 2026! Further information can be found here: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/jobs...
- The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenSnowy day @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. ❄️❄️❄️
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenHow does an elastic line buckle within a curved surface? The answer, by @zhaoshh.bsky.social and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social, has now been #published @physrevlett.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenWatch this video about the work of the research group of @agnestoth.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Agnes and her group work on protein plasticity and evolution. For her work, Agnes recently received the Schering Young Investigator Award 2025! youtu.be/lEpvGu3J63M?...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenModeling spatial point patterns from noisy, incomplete experimental data just got easier! Great work by @domsturm.bsky.social for sparse, noise-robust model inference of point processes 🤩 @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25550
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenGreeted this morning with the blackboard of math discussion— looks like algebra, topology and data— during tea yesterday @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenWith her research group, “Algebraic Topology and Networks in Biology,” Daniela Egas Santander joins @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. Welcome, Daniela! 🎉 @math-mpicbg.bsky.social www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenA new call for the ELBE Visiting faculty program is now open! No matter if you are junior or senior faculty, if you work on math/physics/computer science/ML applied to life sciences, you are welcome to submit an application to come and collaborate with the groups at CSBD! Deadline is November 30th.
- We welcome Fridtjof Brauns as new group leader for "Living and Morphing Matter Theory" @mpipks.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de! He is interested in self-organization in living systems. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden🤩👍🏼💪🏼 Meet #TopoSPAM - a high-performance simulation platform for biological morphogenesis with a friendly Python interface. @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Solve both continuous and discrete active mechanics! Released today: arxiv.org/abs/2509.24905
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- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenSchering Young Investigator Award 2025 by the Schering Stiftung for Agnes Toth-Petroczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social. She receives the award for her work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden🤩🤩🤩Absolutely thrilled our work is featured in the Magazine of @maxplanck.de ! Big thanks to the writer and editor 🙏🙏🙏 Never saw our work described so well! Curious? @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de - PDF is freely available, article starts p.36: www.mpg.de/25430399/MPR...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNow #published @pnas.org: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis", a great #biophysics #devbio collaboration led by @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122 @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org
- New #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688. A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman. @flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden🙏 Very honored to speak at #BuildingBridges2025 on #AI for #Biomedicine. What an amazing lineup of panelists 🤩🤩🤩 Politics and Science working together- Germany, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland - together for future #AI 👍🏼 @hzdr.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenAnother #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110 This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenCool paper out by mathematicians studying population dynamics with algebraic geometry @georgysch.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
- New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNew #preprint: "Strata of Ecological Coexistence via Grassmannians" with Türkü Özlüm Çelik, Georgy Scholten, Kexin Wang, Giulio Zucal - a great, first collaboration with #mathematics @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165 @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden#GenAI meets perception psychology for better super-resolution microscopy 🤩 Fig.1 says it all! 😎 Fantastic collaboration with @casusscience.bsky.social - work of @zuseschoolsecai.bsky.social students @csbdresden.bsky.social - out now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenOur scientific computing framework #OpenFPM now has multistage and adaptive time integrators that scale to distributed CPU clusters and GPUs! Happy supercomputing! @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.05331
- We are looking for a new Max Planck Director in Biomedical #AI here at @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Excited and looking forward!
- Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden🐠🦠Why can’t bacteria swim like fish? At microscopic scales, physics changes — viscosity rules! Researchers at our institute study how microbes like E. coli overcome this challenge with clever strategies like run-and-tumble. Watch our new video: youtu.be/drwCRRD7CGY?...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNow #published @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social: "Impossible ecologies: Interaction networks and stability of coexistence in ecological communities" doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2025.101297! With @yumeng0806.bsky.social, @szhorvat.bsky.social, Carl Modes @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenFormulas of Life: article of the @maxplanck.de on the research of Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social. Article in German language: www.mpg.de/24841408/ki-...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenIvo Sbalzarini was interviewed by German science radio @detektorfm.bsky.social and explains our research @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @tudresden.bsky.social to a general audience (in German only): detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden🔥Just out @EGPGV’25: Parallel visualization of distributed volume data for non-convex decompositions! @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de And the best: code is contributed upstream 🤩 diglib.eg.org/items/3aed38...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNow #published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion: "Mechanics of poking a cyst" - the first paper from the PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenFunding for Danai Deligeorgaki from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. She will spend her postdoctoral time with @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Heather Harrington @math-mpicbg.bsky.social at the @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenThirty-six institute staff members in nine tems participated in the REWE Team Challenge Dresden on Wednesday evening, May 28. Congratulations to all participants! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenAre you looking for homologous sequences but alignments do not seem to work? SHARK is available as a webserver: compare sequences or search against precomputed IDR datasets: bio-shark.org @narjournal.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenOutstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenAida Maraj @aidadoesmath.bsky.social selected as fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg @maxplanck.de. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenDeep learning tools predict variants in disordered regions with lower sensitivity. Just published by FedericaLuppino, @swlenz.bsky.social and WillisChow @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology Dresden"Unbuckling" in a minimal model of cell monolayers under compression: work by Chandraniva Guha Ray and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social now highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion by Physical Review Letters! doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.118402
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenIdentifying functional motifs in disordered regions is challenging. We gave it a try. Check out SHARK-capture, an alignment-free method to detect SLiMs. Congrats Chi Fung Willis Chow @swlenz.bsky.social et al. @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/pro....
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- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNew #preprint: "Euler buckling on curved surfaces" arxiv.org/abs/2503.04303 @zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface? @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Reposted by Center for Systems Biology DresdenNew #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688. A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman. @flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
