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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This review with Agu @mangiarotti.bsky.social 🙏on a topic close to my heart -membranes&condensates- came out some time ago.Only after receiving the printed issue,I realized it's on the journal cover. It does not have much to do with plants, but droplets on thin surfaces is kind of what it is about.

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🔬 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/

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@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller) @kaytrue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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

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ComeInCell @comeincell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It was exciting to step outside our own research bubble on membranes & vesicles 👀 and engage with sustainable & responsive materials design, soft matter under confinement & AI. Exactly the kind of event that reminds you why being part of a broader scientific community matters. 🔬 @mpici.bsky.social

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🧵1/5 ❄️Last week, our lab had the pleasure of attending a wonderful Winter School in the Austrian Alps🏔️⛷️ Huge thanks to the organizers - students and postdocs from three fantastic groups: 🔬Silvia @vignolinilab.bsky.social 🔬Nico @bruns-lab.bsky.social 🔬Ulli Steiner @merkleinstitute.bsky.social

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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...

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2026-02-16: “Morphological complexity of biomembranes and vesicles interacting with condensate droplets” lecture by Reinhard Lipowsky – ComeInCell

Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Using hyperspectral imaging with ACDAN and phasor plotting, we map phase-specific dielectric properties. Condensates can exhibit a wide range of permittivities from water- to oil-like. Thanks to Elias Sabri and Agu @mangiarotti.bsky.social ! @mpici.bsky.social @comeincell.bsky.social

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How do biomolecular condensates🫧 interact with membranes? We show that dielectric permittivity contrast between coexisting phases directly governs condensate wetting behavior. 👉 preprint: bit.ly/4qBmVRx Permittivity matters.🧪🫧

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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Events (Jul – Dec 2025) – ComeInCell

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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!

Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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!

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

🎤 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. 🌍

Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🚀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

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🎉 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!

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Last talk in the #BiomembraneDays25 (before the best poster awards @lipotype.bsky.social ) is given by Thomas Weikl who explains nano-dome membrane deformations by #Piezo2 @mpici.bsky.social

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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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!

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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

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

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

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Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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

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