News from the lab:
1.11.2024 For the first time we show that neuronal tissues exhibit scale-free rheology: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.21.619491v1
13.3.2024 We manage to grow human retinal organoids over 200 days and quantify virus transduction: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.06.583795v1
29.11.2022 New paper published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24350-y
19.7.2022 Paulina defends her PhD thesis. The preprint of her work is online (bioarxiv)
18.3.2022 We received an HFSP grant
https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/grant-understanding-skin-formation.html
Our team integrates concepts of physics and biology to develop a model system for a retinal neuronal network.
Our team integrates concepts of physics and biology to develop a model system for a retinal neuronal network.
The high accessibility and tunability of our in vitro system will allow us to address fundamental questions at the interface between physics and biology:
The high accessibility and tunability of our in vitro system will allow us to address fundamental questions at the interface between physics and biology:
- What are the mechanical cues that guide the self-organization of retina tissues?
- How are light-induced neuronal signals processed within these tissues?
- Can we use these systems as powerful in vitro disease models?
To address these questions we join forces with the soft condensed matter group at the Department of Physics at LMU and the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology SyNergy.
To address these questions we join forces with the soft condensed matter group at the Department of Physics at LMU and the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology SyNergy.