Interfacial Cell Biology
@KnorrLab
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Biology mixed with physics & curiosity @UniCologne. Membranes, wetting, LLPS & condensates. Autophagy. Grow, microscope, eat plants. Harassment-free science.
Berlin and Köln
Joined August 2021
Thanks for everyone contributing!.
Condensates can not only bend biomembranes, but also cut them (fission). Check out the first evidence in our @nature paper: Great collaboration between maths, physics and biology @AgudoCanalejo @XiaofengFangLab @KnorrLab @csbdresden
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RT @LabRobinson: We are hiring a PhD @EdinburghUni @SchoolOfEng_UoE to work on the bottom-up design and construction of synthetic cells usi….
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RT @KononenkoLab: We have a PhD position available to study neuronal functions of autophagy and endocytosis.
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Thanks to the team and for funds: @SPP2191 @dfg_public!. Cell membranes shaped and cut by phase-separated liquid protein condensates .@Pha_Tran_Papers.
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Nature - Membrane bending and cutting can be mediated by biomolecular condensates, as well as by the conventional protein machinery.
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RT @yj_sakai: We simulated the formation of OPTN droplets on the membrane in mitophagy. The droplets could lead to the membrane connection.….
embopress.org
imageimageAutophagy adaptors undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, but it remains unclear how this contributes to selective mitochondrial autophagy. This study shows that the mitophagy adaptors...
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Exciting news: 2D condensates at mitochondria!.Thanks to @yj_sakai, @ChinoHaruka, @MizLabUT. Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates | The EMBO Journal @Pha_Tran_Papers.
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imageimageAutophagy adaptors undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, but it remains unclear how this contributes to selective mitochondrial autophagy. This study shows that the mitophagy adaptors...
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RT @UniCologne: 💧✂️Liquid droplets cut membranes without protein scissors🌱.A study led by @knorrlab and team shows that tiny liquid droplet….
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RT @AgudoCanalejo: ✂️A *liquid* pair of scissors? This is DALL-E's representation. But biology has built the real deal, as our new work w….
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Not exactly X-less.
more from Knorr! congrats twitterless Roland and @XiaofengFangLab .condensates 🤝 membranes 🤝 plants.
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RT @sshadan: In intracellular trafficking, the ESCRT machinery mediates membrane scission of the multivesicular bodies (MVBs). Work @nature….
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Nature - Plant ESCRT component FREE1 forms liquid-like condensates that associate with membranes to drive intraluminal vesicle formation.
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RT @BCCologne: We are thrilled to welcome our new colleague Roland Knorr with his team @KnorrLab who just was appointed as W2 professor @BC….
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Exciting news: our lab expands and moves @UniCologne next to @CECAD_ ; thrilling papers will be out soon. .
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Looking to join our lab in #berlin? We're hiring!. #microscopy #imaging #biology #physics #biophysics #biochemistry #cellBiology #Bioengineering.#phdstudent #studentships #PhDposition #postdoctoral #Postdocposition #sciencejobs #postdoc.@BioCondensates @dfg_public @HumboldtUni
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RT @AgudoCanalejo: ❗️just out @PhysRevLett ❗️a surprising nonequilibrium effect hidden in a classic theory of phase separation. .
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RT @MizLabUT: Our new preprint is out! The standard shapes of phagophores during autophagosome formation are statistically determined by 3d….
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Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process mediated by autophagosomes. The formation of autophagosomes involves dynamic morphological changes of the precursor phagophore, in which a disk-sha...
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RT @fietsprofessor: "We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!".#Vienna: 'hold my #Weisswein🥂*'. - Königsegggasse. (*or 16er-Blech🥫 i….
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RT @MaximCombes: Impressionnantes IMAGES de l'effondrement d'un pan du glacier de la #Marmolada, dans les Dolomites, sur la voie qui mène a….
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