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Abin Biswas

@biswashere.bsky.social
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Postdoc w/ @GuckLab & @SimoneReber @MPI_Light + @mpiib_berlin Investigating the intersection of biology & physics by day, dreaming of butter chicken by night.

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Gabriel Neurohr @gabrielneurohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We just preprinted Marianna’s PhD work in which we asked: How does non-coding DNA affect cell physiology? And why do some organisms have so little of it while other genomes are 99% non-coding?
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Wrote this for @gucklab.bsky.social 💔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YG8NRH...
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Biophysik: Eine 3D‐Dichtekarte der Zelle
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In vitro reconstitution is powerful: we can rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components and recapitulate what cells actually do 🤩 Thanks to an incredible team that made this possible 🙌 @carolynmoores1.bsky.social in particular rdcu.be/e7eM2
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Adaptations in Plasmodium tubulin determine distinct microtubule architectures, mechanics and drug susceptibility
Nature Communications - Tubulin conservation presents a challenge to understanding microtubules’ diverse functions in eukaryotes. Here, the authors characterize the structures of P....
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Density. Crowding. Tomato. Tomato 🍅 @gabepopkin.bsky.social kin.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social Thx for covering the debate! We promise we're all friends 🥰 @liamholt.bsky.social & @gwgl.bsky.social Nothing would have been possible without @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social
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The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine
Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/02/2026
Recent studies in living animals reveal that the cytoplasm is a thick, jam-like fluid. And yet, miraculously, hoards of molecules find their way to each other in every crowded cell. www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
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Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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
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Abin Biswas @biswashere.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The world has lost a true great. 😞
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Researchers from #MPZPM and @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de have now compared the ratio of nuclear and cytoplasmic density in different organisms and come to a surprising conclusion: the cell nucleus in eukaryotes is less dense than the rest of the cell. 👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-de... #Physics #Medicine
A cell nucleus reconstituted in vitro in Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) egg extract. Left image shows a fluorescence image where DNA has been stained and right image shows a density map of the same nucleus aquired using Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT).
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 19/09/2025
📃 New paper alert! The Zychlinsky Lab and @raunser-lab.bsky.social identified the first protein that converts chromatin into an immune effector: Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps. Now published in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps - Nature
Myeloperoxidase, a highly expressed neutrophil protein, disassembles nucleosomes, facilitating neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation, and binds stably to NETs extracellularly.
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 08/09/2025
📢 Voices in Infection Biology ☀️ We're back from summer break with a talk by Jan Skotheim from @stanford.edu, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 10 🕓 4 pm 📍 on-site seminar (Berlin) Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/42144...
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Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
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A label-free method for measuring the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates - Nature Chemistry
Biomolecular condensates are made of multiple components but current techniques cannot capture their complex composition quantitatively. Now it has been shown that the dense-phase binodal point defini...
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 15/08/2025
🚨 Paper alert! Check out the latest work from the Reber Lab 📌 New research by @simonereber.bsky.social and @biswashere.bsky.social, now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🥳
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Abin Biswas @biswashere.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's here! It's out! AND It's become better 🐸 Our fundamental work on intracellular density distributions, how it influences cellular organisation & how deviations occur during pathophysiological states like senescence is out in @natcomms.nature.com Congratulations & thank you to the entire team!
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 02/08/2025
🍹Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a determinant in #organelle size control. bit.ly/4mhMvsU
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Cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling - Nature Cell Biology
Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a det...
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 13/06/2025
🚨 New paper alert: cytoplasm density controls spindle architecture and size. This shows for the first time that a physical property of the cytoplasm regulates the spindle. Congrats to @simonereber.bsky.social, @tobiaskletter.bsky.social and everyone who contributed. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling - Nature Cell Biology
Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a det...
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Abin Biswas @biswashere.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Congratulations to everyone involved!!!🎉🍾🤩 Fortunate to have contributed to this beautiful work demonstrating how cytoplasmic density tunes mitotic spindle architecture 🔬📈🐸
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
✨We are looking for a PhD student interested in physical cell bio, imaging 🔬, biochemistry, #Xenopus 🐸 & #microtubules ✨ Join us @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de!
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Abin Biswas @biswashere.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Beautiful work by @mctwo.bsky.social investigating the spatio-temporal dynamics of the cytoplasm using label-free tools and 🐸 extracts! 🐸 + 🔬 + 📈 = ✨ w. @gucklab.bsky.social , @simonereber.bsky.social , @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Congrats to Mirko Pleitner for winning the FEBS Letters Poster Award! Mirko from the lab of @simonereber.bsky.social at @humboldtuni.bsky.social presented an excellent poster at the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium "Wild frontiers of model organisms". Thanks for the fantastic insights! #EESWildModels
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Congrats Mirko! Proud lab colleagues & 🐸
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Wehner lab | Neuroregeneration @wehnerlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excited to share the latest work from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Biphasic inflammation control by dedifferentiated fibroblasts enables axon regeneration after spinal cord injury in zebrafish
Fibrosis and persistent inflammation are interconnected processes that inhibit axon regeneration in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). In zebrafish, by contrast, fibroblast-derived extracellu...
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 10/01/2025
📰 For a quick summary, read our website article: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2176621/news...
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Some frogs like it hot, others like it cold
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology show, how clawed frog species inhabit different climate zones thanks to small molecular adaptations
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Gabriel Neurohr @gabrielneurohr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Did you ever wonder how cytoplasmic properties influence mitotic spindle architecture? Come join us for an exciting seminar next Wednesday by @simonereber.bsky.social
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Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Two positions in our lab 🐸🐛🔬 #malaria #xenopus #microtubules #biophysics #imaging #PhDlife
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