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Ulrich Schwarz

@ulrichschwarz.bsky.social
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Theoretical biophysicist who loves to talk about science. Homepage www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~bioph…

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our summer academy on "Science and Histories of Fever" is in full swing at the Marsilius Kolleg, with great talks from e.g. @kakape.bsky.social, @feverprojecthd.bsky.social and @lendertgelens.bsky.social. If you are around, join us for "Marsilius Kontrovers" tonight at 7 pm: tinyurl.com/y8dkkxw4
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very nice thread on our new paper on competing actin networks now live at PRX Life 😀👍🙏🏻
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The symposium on "Spatial-temporal interrogation of living membranes", organized last week by Joost Holthuis and Jacob Piehler at Osnabrück, was amazing, including great speakers like @leventallab.bsky.social, @sciezgin.bsky.social and Cornelia Monzel. Full program here: tinyurl.com/3ecr9jc3
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢 Paper alert 📢 Now out in New Journal of Physics @ioppublishing.bsky.social: our first passage time analysis of a general batch arrival-degradation model doi.org/10.1088/1367... which models e.g. the time-asymmetric bursty dynamics of vesicle-mediated signaling at neurological synapses.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My first visit to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics 😀 What a beautiful place, tucked away deep in the Black Forest !!! Great workshop on "Stability and Bifurcations in PDE Models in Active Matter". Many thanks to the organizers, Leonid Berlyand, Tim Laux and Anna Marciniak-Czochra 🙏
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢Paper alert📢 Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: malaria parasites in infected red blood cells 🦟🔴 divide asynchronously due to a limiting replication resource🧬. Another great collaboration within #SFB1129 👍 Read our open access paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Competitive resource allocation drives asynchronous and rapid nuclear multiplication in the malaria parasite - Nature Communications
Within red blood cells, Plasmodium falciparum forms cells with multiple nuclei that replicate asynchronously despite residing in a shared cytoplasm. In this study, the authors developed a biophysical ...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are around Heidelberg today, starting 12 am we have a symposium on "Frontiers in Cellular Biophysics" at the #BioQuant. At 5.15 pm, Margaret Gardel from @squishycell.bsky.social will speak at the physics colloquium on "Mechanical Information Processing in Adherent Cells". Everyone is welcome!
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Feel the heat? This question could not be more fitting than in the current heat wave 🤒🌡️. If interested in the role of temperature for biological organisms, apply for our International Marsilius Academy Sept 20-25 at Heidelberg. We still have open slots 😀. New deadline July 1st. lnkd.in/ez2SMg7J
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How can one dynamically change the stiffness of a material? Nature knows how to do this, but would be a synthetic solution? Read our answer published in J Mech Phys Solids doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today the special issue has appeared in @biophysj.bsky.social in honor of the late Erich Sackmann, who has been an inspiration to many of the contributing authors. The wide range of subjects reflects his comprehensive interest in the physics of biological cells: www.cell.com/biophysj/iss...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Exciting end of an amazing conference that covered so much cool physics across the tree of life: closing talk by @prakashlab.bsky.social at #EESMechanobiology.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Very excited that #EESMechanobiology is about to start at EMBL Heidelberg. Check out the details on the website: s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
An inspiring morning on the mathematics of Turing-like patterns in biological systems at the conference on „Patterning principles in biophysics“ at beautiful Beg Rohu. Great talks by Robert Endres and @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social biopatterning.sciencesconf.org
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Fever - friend or foe? Happy to announce our International Marsilius Academy Feel the Heat – Science and Histories of Fever 📅 20–25 September 2026 | Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg ⏰ Application deadline: 14 June 2026 👉 More information and application: lnkd.in/eEmXDYgZ
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now out in Physical Review X: Cell Bulging and Extrusion in a Three-Dimensional Bubbly Vertex Model for Curved Epithelial Sheets Full article: doi.org/10.1103/x82g... With @omdrozdowski.bsky.social, Büşra Kocameşe-Tamgacı, @kimboonekamp.bsky.social and @michaelboutros.bsky.social. Here a 🧶 1/n
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Michael Boutros @michaelboutros.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Our publication on 3D models for drug discovery is out! In the primer, we discuss the role of organoid models in drug discovery and development. Full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dkfz.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @hlsalliance.bsky.social @sfb1324.bsky.social
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TUD | B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering @bcube-tud.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How can #diatoms move and turn so fast in their glass-like shells? A team at B CUBE led by Dr. Poulsen @nic-poulsen.bsky.social and Prof. Diez @stefandiezlab.bsky.social has cracked the code: they steer by shifting the contact point with the surface ⚙️ Read our news ➡️ tud.link/zc6u4q #CMCBnews
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It was a real pleasure to write this review with the group of ‪@lendertgelens.bsky.social‬ on the temperature response of biological systems👍. There is so much to tell that it did not fit into one manuscript😉Read the thread below to learn more about the two parts of this review👇
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The new "auditorium maximum" of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was inaugurated today, donated by @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de. We are so lucky to now have this beautiful building right in the middle of the science campus Im Neuenheimer Feld😀
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 10/04/2026
Researchers tracked individual diatoms—unicellular photosynthetic microalgae with rigid silica cell walls—as they glided along a surface using mobile adhesive strands that protrude through slits in their cell walls, known as raphes. In PNAS: ow.ly/3GnU50YFJwL
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Diatom gliding motility is so amazing 🚀 Happy to be together with @lettermann.bsky.social part of this great collaboration 😀 Check out the website of this open access publication to learn how their movement can be fast and flexible at the same time. And to watch many more beautiful movies 😉
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Friday afternoon and #DPG2026 is over. Like always, a great meeting, well-organized and highly interesting👍This time with France as a guest country and many high-profile speakers from Dresden. Looking forward to #DPG2027 at Regensburg😀
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The annual spring meeting of the German Physical Society #DPG2026 took place this year at beautiful Dresden and we organized a biological physics focus session on ultrasound and #sonogenetics. Peter Yingxiao Wang and Raphael Wittkowski gave impressive overview talks on what this field can do 👍🙏
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Just back from the annual meeting of the @dfg.de priority program #SPP2332 on "Physics of Parasitism", this time at the Robert Koch Institute at Berlin. So many great talks and discussions! Already looking forward to next year's meeting at Hamburg👍
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📢Paper alert📢 Now out in @bmc.springernature.com with open access: our very cool collaboration with @chlandalab.bsky.social on FIB-milling designs for cryoET rdcu.be/e2nXE Here you can see different designs for the stress relief cuts for dual-axis tomography. Read the paper for more details😀
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
(1/2) Our work with @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social on the chirality of malaria parasites has found its home in the January issue of @natphys.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Moreover, we are very happy that it comes with a news and views article 👍❤️😀
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Chirality of malaria parasites determines their motion patterns - Nature Physics
Malaria parasites move on helical trajectories when infecting their hosts. Now it is shown that they use right-handed chirality to control their motion patterns, and that this chirality is linked to t...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Very sad news…
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Now out in @biophysj.bsky.social: our work on the rosettes that sometimes are formed by red blood cells infected by malaria parasites (iRBCs). Surprisingly, they do not marginate, as do white blood cells or "normal" iRBCs, and we explain why (because they are dynamic and effectively soft).
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Wow, researchers from our #SFB1129 are implicated in the Science 2024 Breakthrough of the Year, because they showed that HIV-capsids are flexible and go through nuclear pores. The latest paper on Lenacapavir-induced capsid damage just came out in @embojournal.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Lenacapavir-induced capsid damage uncovers HIV-1 genomes emanating from nuclear speckles - The EMBO Journal
Following cell entry, HIV-1 capsids enter the nucleus by passage through nuclear pores and reach nuclear speckles with subsequent uncoating of the reverse-transcribed genome and its integration into s...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great news also for the Heidelberg life science community 👍
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
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Andrew Clark @andrewgclark.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am happy to announce that my group has an opening for a funded PhD position to explore the intersection between mechanobiology and inflammation in the intestine. Please see the attached advertisement below. Thanks for circulating and forwarding! www.srcsb.uni-stuttgart.de/news/New-ope...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Finally out in #PRXLife: our theory on the effect of temperature on the completion time of large networks. Using graph theory, one can show that the Arrhenius plot is quadratic, in excellent agreement with experimental data from fly development. Read the open access paper here: go.aps.org/48brig2
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Beautiful work, congrats to Moritz, Petr and team🙌
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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Now out in @biophysj.bsky.social with open access and for the special issue dedicated to Erich Sackmann: our model for mechanochemical signal propagation in cell layers. Led by Dennis Wörthmüller from @institutcurie.bsky.social and implemented with discontinuous Galerkin FEM. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The WEH-workshop on „Emergent trends in physics of the cell“ in honor of the late Erich Sackmann is now in full swing at TU Munich. Great talks and an amazing line-up for poster flash talks.
Dave WeitzLaurent BlanchoinSarah Köster
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Jochen Guck from MPI Erlangen has passed away on October 4 2025. He has left us far too soon. RIP, Jochen
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congrats Nedal @ndarif.bsky.social, Yannick, Freddy and coworkers to this beautiful project. Another great work from #SFB1129. Special congrats to first author Nedal who very recently defended his PhD at #EMBL.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A very inspiring day with great 45 min talks at the Ulm Biophysics Summer Symposium 2025, by Joachim Spatz, Jovica Ninkovic, Max Bi, @streichan.bsky.social, Sabrina Leslie and Joachim Rädler. Many thanks @serwanelab.bsky.social for the invitation and congratulations for the new position👍😀🚀
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The #mattertolife fall days are a wonderful opportunity to connect to this vibrant community. This time at the @mpip-mainz.mpg.de with talks by the local hosts @graeterlab.bsky.social, @landfesterdept.bsky.social and @weilgroup.bsky.social. Thanks @mattertolife.bsky.social for bringing us here 👍😀🙏
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Very attractive position at EMBL Heidelberg
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Great session with flash talks at #25EngLife. Here @lettermann.bsky.social presenting his work on malaria parasite motility.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
📣 Now out in @physreve.bsky.social‬ as editors' suggestion: our theory on the role of different myosin II isoforms during cell migration. For standard parameters, A and B segregate to the front and the back, respectively. Yet for other parameter values, also oscillations are possible.
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Now out in ACS Infectious Diseases @pubs.acs.org: joint work from the Lanzer, Tanaka, Schwarz and Cavalcanti-Adam labs within #SFB1129 on the adhesion footprint of malaria-infected infected red blood cells. Read the open access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Contact Dynamics of Cytoadhering Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes in Flow
The virulence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is linked to the altered mechanical and adhesive properties of infected erythrocytes, which adhere to the microvascular endothelium to...
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Diez Lab @ TU Dresden @stefandiezlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Few spots left on our @bcube-tud.bsky.social organised hashtag #Symposium: Engineering Life 2025: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬 📆 September 1-3, 2025 📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden Register now (Deadline 31 July 2025): engineering-life-dresden.de
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s
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