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Welcome Agnieszka!
A warm welcome to Agnieszka Obarska-Kosinska that just joined the MBM group as a postdoctoral fellow from Poland. Agnieszka did her …
Made by nature: a highly elastic pressurized balloon
Collagens constitute the dominant class of extracellular proteins in multicellular organisms. They are highly abundant wherever high elasticity is needed. The …
Welcome Vedran!
A warm welcome to Vedran Miletić that just joined the MBM group as a postdoctoral fellow from Croatia. Verdan has …
Mechanosensing of focal adhesion kinase
Why do astronauts suffer from bone loss? Astronauts lose bone mass because of the low gravity in space. Bones need mechanical …
In “Cell”: Floppy but fast
Inside cells, communication between the nucleus, which harbours our precious genetic material, and the cytoplasm is mediated by the constant exchange …
Welcome Csaba!
A warm welcome to Csaba Daday that joined us from the Biomolecular Electronic Structure group of Prof. Claudia Filippi in Twente. …
Lectures and Hands-on sessions in Computational Biophysics!
How can a bird sense magnetic fields, how does our ear detect sound waves, how does our bone feel gravitation? It …
International Summer Science School 2015 at HITS
Once again HITS welcomes two students in the framework of the International Summer Science School Heidelberg (ISH). The project allows young …
A warm welcome to Sebastian Sturm!
Sebastian Sturm from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Leipzig has joined the group to work on the fitting of data …
Revealing the behaviour of von Willebrandt Factor through experiments and simulations
Dr. Camilo Aponte-Santamaria has recently published three papers revealing the behaviour of the von Willebrandt factor. The work describes a new …