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Aysecan Ünal wearing a sweater with orange and purple stripes, standing against a brick wall.

Aysecan Ünal wearing a sweater with orange and purple stripes, standing against a brick wall.

On #InternationalWomensDay our PhD candidate Aysecan shares what resilience, interdisciplinary science, and a pair of running shoes taught her along the way.

Read the full interview here 👉 mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/aysecans-story

#mattertolife #WomenInScience #passionforscience

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📣 🌟 Our research group leader @romansarott.bsky.social will give the next talk in the virtual #mattertolife Lecture Series. Register, join in and enjoy, next Wednesday, March 11, at 3 pm! 📅
#mpimr #maxplanck #scientifictalks

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Our #mattertolife PhD candidate Christoph Karfusehr will defend his PhD thesis next Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 3 pm.
Register here and join the defense live on Zoom 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/147/52:

Droplets hunting for “chemical treasures”: oil-in-water droplets reshape in response to chemical gradients (from the glowing treasure chest), recapitulating how living cells detect and grow toward or away from environmental cues. By understanding the forces driving this behavior, the authors aim to build synthetic versions of cellular life and gain deeper insight into matter-to-life transitions.

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/147/52: Droplets hunting for “chemical treasures”: oil-in-water droplets reshape in response to chemical gradients (from the glowing treasure chest), recapitulating how living cells detect and grow toward or away from environmental cues. By understanding the forces driving this behavior, the authors aim to build synthetic versions of cellular life and gain deeper insight into matter-to-life transitions.

🎉🎉The art I designed is now featured on the Front Cover of @jacs.acspublications.org!🎉🎉
Grateful to my mentor @ayusmansen.bsky.social for encouraging creative ways to illustrate our science.
Check out the article: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#ActiveEmulsions #SoftMatter #MatterToLife #ScienceArt

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Its a new day..its a new dawn!
Fellows from #mattertolife have convened at Heilbronn to recap the path traversed, give feedback, and brainstorm about what lies ahead.
Lets shape the future that advances the research field and empowers our PhD candidates!

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A chemist, a biologist, and a physicist walk into a symposium…

Check out our recap of this year's #mattertolife Fall Days! 👉
mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/426906/mtl-f...

@graeterlab.bsky.social
@landfesterdept.bsky.social
@weilgroup.bsky.social

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A group of Matter to Life PhD candidates are sitting at a table on a terrace with drinks and papers. In the background, a few clouds can be seen in the sky.

A group of Matter to Life PhD candidates are sitting at a table on a terrace with drinks and papers. In the background, a few clouds can be seen in the sky.

View of a cable car ascending a rocky mountain slope toward the Schneefernerhaus research station on the Zugspitze under a clear blue sky.

View of a cable car ascending a rocky mountain slope toward the Schneefernerhaus research station on the Zugspitze under a clear blue sky.

Wide mountain panorama near the Zugspitze with sharp, dark ridges, light rocky terrain in the foreground, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds above.

Wide mountain panorama near the Zugspitze with sharp, dark ridges, light rocky terrain in the foreground, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds above.

Science at New Heights🏔️ In August, our #mattertolife community headed to the Zugspitze (2,962 m) for a 4-day symposium organized by our PhD candidates Sophia Hampe & Irene Pellini. Read the recap 👉 mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/381440/zugsp...

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During his Master’s practical training at #mattertolife, Andrey Sysoev joined a collaborative project by Petra Schwille from @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @hendrikdietz.bsky.social from @tum.de, bridging wet-lab work and computational workflows. Read about his experience on our website👉 bit.ly/47Sd0zG

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Self-Organization of Microcompartments Powered by Enzyme-Driven Solutal Flows at the Water–Oil Interface Design of microcompartments capable of self-organization via consumption of energy or fuel to power opposable short-range forces is a step toward realization of adaptive cellular materials capable of ...

Excited to announce our latest paper accepted in JACS!
@jacs.acspublications.org
on “Self-Organization of Microcompartments Powered by Enzyme-Driven Solutal Flows at the Water−Oil Interface.”
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
#systemschemistry #SoftMatter #MatterToLife #lifelikesystems

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We are especially proud that our MtL alumna Anastassiya Schramm is representing #mattertolife on the Max Planck School Day’s stage today 👏🏻

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MPS Day 2025 is on! 🎉 This year’s topic: Science in the Age of AI

A warm welcome to all new PhD candidates – from our sister schools @mps-cognition.bsky.social @mps-photonics.bsky.social and our very own MPS #mattertolife!

Now on stage: Our Fellow Karin Jacob’s for the #passionforscience lecture!

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New Faculty Members from October 2025 Matter to Life welcomes 18 new Fellows, enhancing innovative research and mentorship opportunities for PhD candidates starting this October.

🌱 New beginnings, fresh faces!
As our pilot phase wraps up, the school is ready to grow and thrive. We’re thrilled to welcome 18 new fellows to the #MatterToLife Faculty 🎉 Each brings exciting perspectives from across interdisciplinary research. mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/355008/new-f...

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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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Lecture hall with a large group of people watching a presentation

Lecture hall with a large group of people watching a presentation

Our #mattertolife Fall Days have just started 👏🏻 Thank you @mpip-mainz.mpg.de for hosting us!

@graeterlab.bsky.social @landfesterdept.bsky.social @weilgroup.bsky.social

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Group photos of the new Matter to Life PhD Candidates Cohort 2025, welcoming 20 international students from diverse disciplines.

Group photos of the new Matter to Life PhD Candidates Cohort 2025, welcoming 20 international students from diverse disciplines.

👏 Join us in welcoming the newest #mattertolife PhD candidates who are embarking on the Masters/PhD program with us. From over 10 countries and different disciplines, their strength would be their diversity. All the best 🚀

#maxplanckschools #WelcomeStudents #InterdisciplinaryResearch

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A recipe for synthetic cells: non-biological components, a pinch of evolution and then... life? The Boekhoven Lab recently engineered a cell-like system capable of producing offspring, a key prerequisite for Darwinian evolution.

How to build life from non-living components? Or perhaps a blueprint of #MatterToLife!
syntheticcell.eu/a-recipe-for...
Check out the recent study from @boekhovenlab.bsky.social and @hniederho.bsky.social, @tum.de
www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...

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Why do things stick? The physics of adhesion and adsorption in biological systems "Sticking" is a sloppy description that does not include an explanation why two objects stay together. In biological systems, the terms adhesion, adsorption or "tethering" are used. However, when cova...

Why do things stick?
The physics of adhesion and adsorption in biological systems as explained by #MatterToLife Fellow Prof. Karin Jacobs from ‪@uni-saarland.de‬
av.tib.eu/media/67581

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Frontiers | First contact: an interdisciplinary guide into decoding H5N1 influenza virus interactions with glycosaminoglycans in 3D respiratory cell models The human respiratory system is vulnerable to viral infections. The influenza virus family alone accounts for one billion reported cases annually, some of wh...

A unique publication indeed! What started as an assignment for a course turned to a publication. Congratulations to the all the authors. We are proud to have @heikeboehm.bsky.social as part of our #MattertoLife faculty, who has empowered and guided the students.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

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In this latest work from #MatterToLife PhD candidate, Florian Auberman, in the group of Joachim Spatz, they have developed a microfluidc platform to better understand the heterogeneity of NK cells, which in turn will help immunotherapy.
maint.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Yong Han Phee joined our group today! He's a #mattertolife student and will do an internship for this semester. Welcome aboard 🎉

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The 51st Annual Linus Pauling Lectureship | Chemistry The Linus Pauling Lectureship Committee of Stanford University announces the 51st Annual Linus Pauling LectureAbout the Lecture“Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems”About the SpeakerE...

#MatterToLife Fellow Erwing Frey will be giving the 51st Annual Linus Pauling Lecture at Stanford University on the 'Emergence and self-organization of biological system'
chemistry.stanford.edu/events/51st-...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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“What, exactly, is life?” The Max Planck School #MatterToLife is awaiting your application! Work with great scientists, among them Helmut Grubmüller and #StefanHell of our institute. twitter.com/mattertolife/status/1052...

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