2022/07/20 - Life at the edge

Great EMBO / DGZ meeting on "The nuclear envelope and nucleocytoplasmic transport". Abin's posters : ) were a great success!


2022/07/04 - Simone giving a talk at TU Kaiserslautern

With a nice walk through beautiful Pfälzer Wald! Thanks for the invite Storchova Lab!


2022/05/25 - Simone giving a seminar at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Excited to give the first in-person seminar after the pandemic! Thanks for the invitation:

Steventon lab!

 


2022/04/29 - Abin not impressed with Tobi's and my new make-up


2022/03/27 - Spotlight on our work in Trends in Parasitology

Thanks to Drs Shane McInally and Scott Dawson for writing this highlight!


2022/01/19 - Will's paper out in Current Biology


2021/12/01 - Happy holidays everyone!


2021/11/17 - Spindle3D online on JCB

Our paper "Volumetric morphometry reveals spindle width as the best predictor of mammalian spindle scaling" is now online @JCB.


Congratulations Tobi, Seb, Nils & Tommaso Cavazza @schuhlab @mpi_bpc & Christian Tischer @embl.


As a student project we had Anke Wagner interviewing Tobi, the first authour of the study. 
Find the podcast (German only, sorry) here.


2021/10/29 - Goodbye Soma - Rock on!

Soma will leave the lab to be a fulltime rock star - best of luck!
Check out his band

The Midnight Shower


2021/09/29 - Congrats Abin!

Abin receives an add-on fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science by the Joachim Herz Foundation! Congrats!

 

 


2021/06/11 - Abin Movie Star


2021/05/19 - Congrats Dr. WG Hirst


2021/04/08 - Preprint: Tobi's paper on spindle morphometry

Volumetric morphometry reveals mitotic spindle width as the best predictor of spindle scaling


We also introduce Spindle3D, an open-source plug-in that allows for the quantitative, unbiased, and automated analysis of 3D fluorescent data of spindles and chromatin.


Spindle3D: https://sites.imagej.net/Spindle3D


with Christian Tischer @ EMBL


2021/04/06 - Online now in Dev Cell: The Xenopus spindle is as dense as the surrounding cytoplasm

Congrats Abin! And thanks for past and ongoing teamwork @GuckLab


2021/03/10 - Happy B-day Soma & Congrats to your paper Abin!


2021/03/08 - Lab meeting with Carolyn Moores

Thanks to Carolyn Moores @BirkbeckUoL for being our guest in today's lab meeting! Microtubules rock!


08/02/2021 - Lab meeting with Flo @jug_lab @csbdresden

 

Thanks Flo for updating us on #denoising #CARE #Noise2Void #DivNoising @FijiSc


01/02/2021 - Welcome Mirko!

Spindles on the second day. Wow, congrats!


27/11/2020 - Our methods paper on imaging of microtubule dynamics is now online!

In Vitro Reconstitution and Imaging of Microtubule Dynamics by Fluorescence and Label-free Microscopy. 

Congrats to Will and thanks to the Schäffer lab for a great collaboration!

https://star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/283


17/11/2020 - Cheers!

Self-testing! We're all negative!


06/11/2020 - Our methods paper on tubulin purification is online!

Affinity Purification of Label-free Tubulins from Xenopus Egg Extracts

Congrats Seb, Abin & Will!
https://star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/232


01/09/2020 - Welcome Dominik!

It's fun to freeze some brain!


17/06/2020 - Dan Levy wrote a nice dispatch on our recent paper in Current Biology!


07/05/2020 - Our paper on frog spindle length control now online!

Will and Abin's paper on how differences in frog microtubule dynamics result in different spindle lengths - now online at Current Biology! #OpenAccess


01/04/2020 - Congrats to Adrian! His paper is now published in Molecular Biology of the Cell!

Adrian's paper on the effects of proliferation status and cell cycle phase on the responses of single cells to chemotherapy now online at Mol Biol Cell.


18/03/2020 - Coronavirus lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown - 1st virtual lab meeting.

Stay strong & healthy everyone!


12/03/2020 - Congrats @ Will & Abin

Congrats to Will and Abin, their paper has been accepted for publication in Current Biology. Well done!
Stay tuned, paper should be online and in press soon!


02/03/2020 - Happy birthday Soma!


20/02/2020 - Our science on stage!


05/02/2020 - Congratulations Dr. Biswas


22/11/2019 - Simone giving a talk at the "Dissection Biology @ Single Cell Level" symposium

04/11/2019 - Harry's farewell

05/10/2019 - Will travelling to Stellenbosch for the IRTG retreat

30/09/2019 - Congrats Abin - Thesis submitted!

11/09/2019 - Ella & Simone travelling to the Engineering Life Meeting

22/08/2019 - Remembering Suzanne

Please, let's remember Suzanne as a wonderful person and a remarkable scientist:
"Suzanne Eaton: 1959–2019" in Nature Cell Biology 21, 1053–1054 (2019).
"Suzanne Eaton (1959–2019)" in Cell 179-1, 18-20 (2019).
"Tribute to Suzanne Eaton, from her lab members" in Nature 572, 178 (2019).

"Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019)" in

12/07/2019 - Back in Woods Hole

10/07/2019 - Lab day & BBQ

15/06/2019 - Long Night of the Sciences #lndw19

17/04/2019 - Happy birthday Will!

04/04/2019 - Iva Tolic is visiting us

01/04/2019 - No prank: Harry joins the lab!

24/03/2019 - Abin & Simone travelling to Split to the "Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory" meeting

07/03/2019 - Our paper "MTrack: Automated Detection, Tracking, and Analysis of Dynamic Microtubules" has been published in Scientific Reports

12/11/2018 - Christoph's farewell

31/10/2018 - Happy birthday Abin!

22/09/2018 - Will & Simone flying to Australia! 4 talks ahead!

27/07/2018 - Happy birthday Simone!

08/06/2018 - Lab day & BBQ

27/02/2018 - Session on the future of science communication at the DGZ Young Scientist Forum

26/02/2018 - We are organising the DGZ Young Scientist Forum in Berlin

21/08/2017 - Greetings from Woods Hole

12/05/2017 - Success! Our international research training program got funded

01/05/2017 - Welcome Ella!

Ella is joining us from France for 3 months! Have a great summer in Berlin, Ella!

22/04/2017 - March for Science


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.000 marched for Science in Berlin. Thank you all. Science matters!

 

19/03/2017 - Talk at the Simons Foundation

Simone is invited by the Simons Foundation to talk about ‘Biological Active Matter: Nongeneric Problems, Nongeneric Methods’ in the Flatiron building in New York!

03/03/2017 - Lab outing!

Lab outing! Madhouse live escape game - we got out in only 56 minutes and 39 seconds! Dinner was well deserved!

 

06/12/2016 - Data visualization workshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helena Jambor teaching us about science data visualization. Thanks Helena!

02/11/2016 - BSIO Grant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were awarded a BSIO grant together with Clemens Schmitt, who works on cancer genetics and cellular stress responses!

 

27/10/2016 - 15 years MPI CBG

Happy 15th Birthday MPI CBG! Fantastic symposium and fun Hyman lab reunion!

 

15/10/2016 - Welcome Tobias!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome Tobias!
Tobias is a joint master student with the Ewers lab!

 

10/10/2016 - Visting the Görlich lab

Sebastian, Will & Simone spent a few days in the Görlich lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry! Was great fun, especially meeting newborn Alpaca boy ‘Max’. Same hairdresser, Will?

 


14/09/2016 - EMBO Cell Size Meeting

Simone is giving a talk at the EMBO workshop ‘Cell Size Regulation’. Only a few weeks after leaving Woods Hole, Wallace, Thomas & Simone are reunited in one session! Thanks Britta for organizing a great meeting.

 


20/08/2016 - Back to Berlin!

We spent wonderful weeks in beautiful Woods Hole! Thanks to everyone at the MBL, in particular the Horb lab. Thanks to Nikon for providing microscopes! And special thanks to the Petry lab for being great lab mates! Such a fun time!

 


06/01/2016 - Off to Woods Hole - Yeah!

Moving to The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole for the summer. From June - August our address is

 

Reber lab

Rowe 308, 7 Mbl St

Woods Hole

MA 02543

USA

05/18/2016 - Systems Biology lecture series “Imaging Biological Systems"

 

 

Simone is invited to talk about "Using optics to measure subcellular dynamics and mechanics" at the at the BIMSB.

 

 

 

05/13/2016 - Interested? Joint Master Thesis in the labs of Helge Ewers & Simone Reber

Imaging the Neuronal Microtubule Cytoskeleton

 

Microtubules are essential cytoskeletal components of neurons. They are fundamental to many neuronal processes, such as long-distance transport, but they also establish and maintain neuronal morphology. We are interested in dynamic as well as structural parameters of the microtubule cytoskeleton, such as microtubule number, length, distribution, orientation, and bundling throughout neuronal differentiation. The aim of this imaging-based project is to resolve the spatial organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton throughout neuronal differentiation with nanometer precision. 

 

Individuals experienced / interested in neurobiology, biophysics, biochemistry or bioengineering are invited to apply. Please send a CV, a letter of motivation, and names of up to 3 references via email to helge.ewers@fu-berlin.de and simone.reber@iri-lifesciences.de.  

 

Keywords: Microtubule cytoskeleton, neuronal differentiation, superresolution microscopy, nanobodies, quantitative imaging.

05/10/2016 - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon

 

Thanks to the group of Michalis Averof, Patricia and all other PhD students for inviting Simone to their Student-Invited Seminar Series at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL).

04/15/2016 - Lise-Meitner-Kolloquium FU Berlin

Thanks to Helge Ewers for inviting Simone to give a Lise-Meitner-Kolloquium at the FU Berlin.

04/15/2016 - Welcome to our new postdoc Adrian Granada!

 

 

 

Adrian came from the Department of Systems Biology from Havard Medical School and will continue his work on DNA repair.

04/11/2016 - Symposium 'Molecular Interactions in Malaria'

The Australian National University Canberra and The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin jointly hosted a symposium on 'Molecular Interactions in Malaria.'  Thanks to the organizers Kai Matuschewski and Alex Maier for inviting Simone to speak and for encouraging Will to present a poster. Special thanks to Kevin Saliba for generous Zimtschnecken support.

03/10/2016 - Sebastian's 1st TAC and IRI Talk by Alex Bird

 

Great job Seb!

Thanks Alex for a wonderful seminar on ‘Regulation of microtubule instability towards ensuring genome stability’.

03/03/2016  - IRI Colloquium 'Collective Behavior' – Tony Hyman

 

Tony Hyman visits the lab and speaks about "Phase Separation in Cytoplasm: Implications for Polarity and Neurodegeneration". It was a pleasure!

02/25/2016 - Abin’s 1st TAC & IRI Talk by Ivo Telley

 

Well done Abin!

Thanks Ivo for coming all the way from Lisbon and giving a great lecture on ‘Drosophila early embryogenesis under a new light’.




2022/07/20 - Life at the edge

Great EMBO / DGZ meeting on "The nuclear envelope and nucleocytoplasmic transport". Abin's posters : ) were a great success!


2022/07/04 - Simone giving a talk at TU Kaiserslautern

With a nice walk through beautiful Pfälzer Wald! Thanks for the invite Storchova Lab!


2022/05/25 - Simone giving a seminar at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Excited to give the first in-person seminar after the pandemic! Thanks for the invitation:

Steventon lab!

 


2022/04/29 - Abin not impressed with Tobi's and my new make-up


2022/03/27 - Spotlight on our work in Trends in Parasitology

Thanks to Drs Shane McInally and Scott Dawson for writing this highlight!


2022/01/19 - Will's paper out in Current Biology


2021/12/01 - Happy holidays everyone!


2021/11/17 - Spindle3D online on JCB

Our paper "Volumetric morphometry reveals spindle width as the best predictor of mammalian spindle scaling" is now online @JCB.


Congratulations Tobi, Seb, Nils & Tommaso Cavazza @schuhlab @mpi_bpc & Christian Tischer @embl.


As a student project we had Anke Wagner interviewing Tobi, the first authour of the study. 
Find the podcast (German only, sorry) here.


2021/10/29 - Goodbye Soma - Rock on!

Soma will leave the lab to be a fulltime rock star - best of luck!
Check out his band

The Midnight Shower


2021/09/29 - Congrats Abin!

Abin receives an add-on fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science by the Joachim Herz Foundation! Congrats!

 

 


2021/06/11 - Abin Movie Star


2021/05/19 - Congrats Dr. WG Hirst


2021/04/08 - Preprint: Tobi's paper on spindle morphometry

Volumetric morphometry reveals mitotic spindle width as the best predictor of spindle scaling


We also introduce Spindle3D, an open-source plug-in that allows for the quantitative, unbiased, and automated analysis of 3D fluorescent data of spindles and chromatin.


Spindle3D: https://sites.imagej.net/Spindle3D


with Christian Tischer @ EMBL


2021/04/06 - Online now in Dev Cell: The Xenopus spindle is as dense as the surrounding cytoplasm

Congrats Abin! And thanks for past and ongoing teamwork @GuckLab


2021/03/10 - Happy B-day Soma & Congrats to your paper Abin!


2021/03/08 - Lab meeting with Carolyn Moores

Thanks to Carolyn Moores @BirkbeckUoL for being our guest in today's lab meeting! Microtubules rock!


08/02/2021 - Lab meeting with Flo @jug_lab @csbdresden

 

Thanks Flo for updating us on #denoising #CARE #Noise2Void #DivNoising @FijiSc


01/02/2021 - Welcome Mirko!

Spindles on the second day. Wow, congrats!


27/11/2020 - Our methods paper on imaging of microtubule dynamics is now online!

In Vitro Reconstitution and Imaging of Microtubule Dynamics by Fluorescence and Label-free Microscopy. 

Congrats to Will and thanks to the Schäffer lab for a great collaboration!

https://star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/283


17/11/2020 - Cheers!

Self-testing! We're all negative!


06/11/2020 - Our methods paper on tubulin purification is online!

Affinity Purification of Label-free Tubulins from Xenopus Egg Extracts

Congrats Seb, Abin & Will!
https://star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/232


01/09/2020 - Welcome Dominik!

It's fun to freeze some brain!


17/06/2020 - Dan Levy wrote a nice dispatch on our recent paper in Current Biology!


07/05/2020 - Our paper on frog spindle length control now online!

Will and Abin's paper on how differences in frog microtubule dynamics result in different spindle lengths - now online at Current Biology! #OpenAccess


01/04/2020 - Congrats to Adrian! His paper is now published in Molecular Biology of the Cell!

Adrian's paper on the effects of proliferation status and cell cycle phase on the responses of single cells to chemotherapy now online at Mol Biol Cell.


18/03/2020 - Coronavirus lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown - 1st virtual lab meeting.

Stay strong & healthy everyone!


12/03/2020 - Congrats @ Will & Abin

Congrats to Will and Abin, their paper has been accepted for publication in Current Biology. Well done!
Stay tuned, paper should be online and in press soon!


02/03/2020 - Happy birthday Soma!


20/02/2020 - Our science on stage!


05/02/2020 - Congratulations Dr. Biswas


22/11/2019 - Simone giving a talk at the "Dissection Biology @ Single Cell Level" symposium

04/11/2019 - Harry's farewell

05/10/2019 - Will travelling to Stellenbosch for the IRTG retreat

30/09/2019 - Congrats Abin - Thesis submitted!

11/09/2019 - Ella & Simone travelling to the Engineering Life Meeting

22/08/2019 - Remembering Suzanne

Please, let's remember Suzanne as a wonderful person and a remarkable scientist:
"Suzanne Eaton: 1959–2019" in Nature Cell Biology 21, 1053–1054 (2019).
"Suzanne Eaton (1959–2019)" in Cell 179-1, 18-20 (2019).
"Tribute to Suzanne Eaton, from her lab members" in Nature 572, 178 (2019).

"Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019)" in

12/07/2019 - Back in Woods Hole

10/07/2019 - Lab day & BBQ

15/06/2019 - Long Night of the Sciences #lndw19

17/04/2019 - Happy birthday Will!

04/04/2019 - Iva Tolic is visiting us

01/04/2019 - No prank: Harry joins the lab!

24/03/2019 - Abin & Simone travelling to Split to the "Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory" meeting

07/03/2019 - Our paper "MTrack: Automated Detection, Tracking, and Analysis of Dynamic Microtubules" has been published in Scientific Reports

12/11/2018 - Christoph's farewell

31/10/2018 - Happy birthday Abin!

22/09/2018 - Will & Simone flying to Australia! 4 talks ahead!

27/07/2018 - Happy birthday Simone!

08/06/2018 - Lab day & BBQ

27/02/2018 - Session on the future of science communication at the DGZ Young Scientist Forum

26/02/2018 - We are organising the DGZ Young Scientist Forum in Berlin

21/08/2017 - Greetings from Woods Hole

12/05/2017 - Success! Our international research training program got funded

01/05/2017 - Welcome Ella!

Ella is joining us from France for 3 months! Have a great summer in Berlin, Ella!

22/04/2017 - March for Science


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.000 marched for Science in Berlin. Thank you all. Science matters!

 

19/03/2017 - Talk at the Simons Foundation

Simone is invited by the Simons Foundation to talk about ‘Biological Active Matter: Nongeneric Problems, Nongeneric Methods’ in the Flatiron building in New York!

03/03/2017 - Lab outing!

Lab outing! Madhouse live escape game - we got out in only 56 minutes and 39 seconds! Dinner was well deserved!

 

06/12/2016 - Data visualization workshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helena Jambor teaching us about science data visualization. Thanks Helena!

02/11/2016 - BSIO Grant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were awarded a BSIO grant together with Clemens Schmitt, who works on cancer genetics and cellular stress responses!

 

27/10/2016 - 15 years MPI CBG

Happy 15th Birthday MPI CBG! Fantastic symposium and fun Hyman lab reunion!

 

15/10/2016 - Welcome Tobias!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome Tobias!
Tobias is a joint master student with the Ewers lab!

 

10/10/2016 - Visting the Görlich lab

Sebastian, Will & Simone spent a few days in the Görlich lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry! Was great fun, especially meeting newborn Alpaca boy ‘Max’. Same hairdresser, Will?

 


14/09/2016 - EMBO Cell Size Meeting

Simone is giving a talk at the EMBO workshop ‘Cell Size Regulation’. Only a few weeks after leaving Woods Hole, Wallace, Thomas & Simone are reunited in one session! Thanks Britta for organizing a great meeting.

 


20/08/2016 - Back to Berlin!

We spent wonderful weeks in beautiful Woods Hole! Thanks to everyone at the MBL, in particular the Horb lab. Thanks to Nikon for providing microscopes! And special thanks to the Petry lab for being great lab mates! Such a fun time!

 


06/01/2016 - Off to Woods Hole - Yeah!

Moving to The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole for the summer. From June - August our address is

 

Reber lab

Rowe 308, 7 Mbl St

Woods Hole

MA 02543

USA

05/18/2016 - Systems Biology lecture series “Imaging Biological Systems"

 

 

Simone is invited to talk about "Using optics to measure subcellular dynamics and mechanics" at the at the BIMSB.

 

 

 

05/13/2016 - Interested? Joint Master Thesis in the labs of Helge Ewers & Simone Reber

Imaging the Neuronal Microtubule Cytoskeleton

 

Microtubules are essential cytoskeletal components of neurons. They are fundamental to many neuronal processes, such as long-distance transport, but they also establish and maintain neuronal morphology. We are interested in dynamic as well as structural parameters of the microtubule cytoskeleton, such as microtubule number, length, distribution, orientation, and bundling throughout neuronal differentiation. The aim of this imaging-based project is to resolve the spatial organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton throughout neuronal differentiation with nanometer precision. 

 

Individuals experienced / interested in neurobiology, biophysics, biochemistry or bioengineering are invited to apply. Please send a CV, a letter of motivation, and names of up to 3 references via email to helge.ewers@fu-berlin.de and simone.reber@iri-lifesciences.de.  

 

Keywords: Microtubule cytoskeleton, neuronal differentiation, superresolution microscopy, nanobodies, quantitative imaging.

05/10/2016 - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon

 

Thanks to the group of Michalis Averof, Patricia and all other PhD students for inviting Simone to their Student-Invited Seminar Series at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL).

04/15/2016 - Lise-Meitner-Kolloquium FU Berlin

Thanks to Helge Ewers for inviting Simone to give a Lise-Meitner-Kolloquium at the FU Berlin.

04/15/2016 - Welcome to our new postdoc Adrian Granada!

 

 

 

Adrian came from the Department of Systems Biology from Havard Medical School and will continue his work on DNA repair.

04/11/2016 - Symposium 'Molecular Interactions in Malaria'

The Australian National University Canberra and The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin jointly hosted a symposium on 'Molecular Interactions in Malaria.'  Thanks to the organizers Kai Matuschewski and Alex Maier for inviting Simone to speak and for encouraging Will to present a poster. Special thanks to Kevin Saliba for generous Zimtschnecken support.

03/10/2016 - Sebastian's 1st TAC and IRI Talk by Alex Bird

 

Great job Seb!

Thanks Alex for a wonderful seminar on ‘Regulation of microtubule instability towards ensuring genome stability’.

03/03/2016  - IRI Colloquium 'Collective Behavior' – Tony Hyman

 

Tony Hyman visits the lab and speaks about "Phase Separation in Cytoplasm: Implications for Polarity and Neurodegeneration". It was a pleasure!

02/25/2016 - Abin’s 1st TAC & IRI Talk by Ivo Telley

 

Well done Abin!

Thanks Ivo for coming all the way from Lisbon and giving a great lecture on ‘Drosophila early embryogenesis under a new light’.

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