The Betz Lab is interested in the mechanics of cellular systems especially concerning cancer progression, collective cell migration and cell fate decision.
Joined December 2017
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If you want to literally play with a microscope, try our new LEGO based one: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. Plans and multi-language guides to teach kids are on GitHub: github.com/tobetz/LegoMicros…. Sub-micron resolution thanks to a smartphone lens. Please RT, so that it reaches the kids!
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Jochen Guck just passed away. He was not only a brilliant mind, amazing researcher, and outstanding person — he was also one of the best friends one could ever have. Jochen, you will be missed so deeply. Your spirit and laughter will stay in our hearts forever.
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After 8 amazing months at the NYU/Center for Soft Matter Research I had to say goodbye😭to a wonderful group of colleagues and students. Thanks for the hospitality and patience in teaching me active swimmers and holographic tweezers🤩. Next thing to do: Setting it up in Germany💪
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I am so proud. Dorian's poster was selected for the posterprize at this years spring meeting of the German Physical Society🥳. Well deserved 🫠. Three prizes by my students in three years. I am so lucky that I can call this talented crowd of passionate researchers the BetzLab 🤩
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Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_publi… implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.
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Check out the corresponding paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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You are a biologist and want to get an idea why looking at intracellular active mechanics is important for cellular function? Check out our recent review preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.14538
We try to give an intuitive access, but also provide details in extensive toolboxes.
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Congrats to all the authors, especially Wolfram and Malte for an amazing work. The paper is a beautiful icing on the amazing achivement of the heart muscle patches! It's such a gamechanger!!
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When your paper is accepted and you just find an old bottle of sparkling wine almost gone bad. It didn't harm us...
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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What a day! Perfect weather for the beautiful Göttingen tradition to give a kiss to the famous 'Gänseliesel'.🥳 Till was pulled to the fountain in a special cart and stepped in the footprints of many famous scholars by offering some flowers and a kiss to the statue 🤩.
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Happy and exhausted after an amazing week of active cytoskeleton talks at the #WEH818 seminar in Bad Honnef. We had a whopping 44 talks, 33 posters, a 13km hike, and lots of incredible discussions. Congrats to the poster prize winners👇 and thanks to all for an amazing seminar🤩
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The schedule of the #weh818 seminar on the cytoskeleton as active matter is as dense as the cytoskeleton itself, but we do not want to miss any of its great talks. Here a few pictures, from the talks by Francois Nedelec, Erwin Frey @PhysOfLifeLMU, Martin Lenz @lenz_lab and Gijsje Koenderink @BiosoftLab (who just joined the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
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The 818th WE-Heraeus seminar #weh818 on „The cytoskeleton as active matter“ has started at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, with an introduction by @BetzLab and many great speakers, including @BauschLab, @murrell_lab and @Lblanchoin we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veran…
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Congrats Leon and Ulrich! This is very well deserved. The paper is a beauty!
Congratulations to @LeonLettermann for winning this year‘s Klaus Arnold publication prize by the German Biophysical Society #DGfB #DGfB24 for his recent paper in @PNASNews on a geometrical theory for gliding motility 👍🎉🥇
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Paper alert: nature.com/articles/s41563-0… @NatureMaterials introduces the “Mean Back Relaxation” which quantifies non-equilibrium from simple passive particle trajectories. Amazing theory (M. Krüger, G.Knotz) and experiments @MunkerTill to obtain cell mechanics by simple observation🧐
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What a surprise goodbye from my group, showing up at the station. Best farewell ever 🥹🥰. Now they will have a productive 8 months, as I will not bother them with meetings, journal clubs and updates 🤔.
And I look forward learning about Active Droplets and Tweezers @nyu_csmr.🤓
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… the nucleus is not as dense as the cytoplasm - true for all eukaryotic cells - and the ratio is always 0.8. Go figure...
@MPI_Light @MPZ_PhysMed
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This is such a nice story. What you show here will surely end up textbooks🤩. Good luck for the next steps!
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Preprint alert! We show that the electrical maturation of neurons is regulated by environmental mechanics in vitro & in vivo, and we identify a mechanotransduction pathway. A tour de force by Eva Kreysing et al, great collaboration with @ThoraKaradottir. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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What a great PhD defense by Till, who earned highest distictions🤩. He developped a mechanical fingerprint that can be used to classify intracellular viscoelasticity and activity. On top he established a new way to get activity and mechanics from passive observation. SO PROUD🤓
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Welcome to a new cohort of PhD students🥳. Jannis, Dorian and Noémie focus on intracellular mechanics, while Tim is about to combine AFM, Spinning Disk microscopy and micropipette aspiration in a single setup to disentangle the contributions of membrane and cortical tension. 🤩
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