Theory & Bio-Systems

The ceremonial farewell of Reinhard Lipowsky as director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) has taken place today during the "Biomembrane Days" conference. more

Max Planck scientists uncover a novel and generic mechanism for the division of artificial cells into two daughter cells. more

Dresden and Potsdam researchers engineer a minimal synthetic cellular system to study basic cell function more

Rumiana Dimova, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Carlos Marques, CNRS Senior Scientist at the Charles Sadron Institute in Strasbourg, publish "The Giant Vesicle Book". more

The image that won third place was submitted by Ziliang Zhao, a postdoc in Rumiana Dimova’s group at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. more