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Real-Time Data 📡
From pioneering research to community moments, here's what’s happening now.
Mechanics of Poking A Cyst
New Paper from Shiheng Zhao and Pierre Haas
DIPP Predoc Retreat 2026!
PhD Retreat took place this year in the Czech Republic, Liblice Castle! Nearly 100 PhD Students from both the IMPRS and the DIGS-ILS together had engaging scientific conversation, community networking, and of course, a lot of fun!
Summer Interns 2026! 🍺
IMPRS & DIGS-ILS Summer interns, coming from all over the word -- Peru to Taiwan -- meet for a refreshing scientific exchange next to the Dresden Elbe River!
Stretching the Immortal Hydra
Cool new insights about how tissue mechanics can trigger mechanochemical self-organization!
Carl Modes, Anne Materne & Michael Staddon bring us the thunderously successful Physical Principles Course
Join us! The only requirement is wanting to hear about topics like entropy, statistical physics, fluid mechanics, phase transitions, non-linear dynamics and chaos!
Liver Organoid Breakthrough
Exciting news from the Huch lab! 🐁