Conrad Möckel

🔍Exploring cytoplasmic dynamics! Our study reveals hierarchical heterogeneities in Xenopus egg extracts using #DDM 🐸🔬. Macromolecules, energy, and the cytoskeleton each play a role. Check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @GuckLab @MPI_Light @MPZ_PhysMed @UniFAU

Congratulations to everyone involved!!! 🍾🎉🤩 Fortunate to have contributed to this beautiful work demonstrating how cytoplasmic density tunes mitotic spindle architecture 🔬📈🐸

✨Thanks to amazing students @TobiasKletter @MrEnkapsis, postdocs @bis_was_here & collaborators @Omar136661 @VasilyZaburdaev ALMF @EMBLHeidelberg ✨ 👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉out today @NatureCellBio rdcu.be/eqPr8

1/ 🚀 New tutorial alert! Ever wanted to use your microscope as a multi-angle light scattering device? Our new preprint is out: 📄 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) arXiv: 2507.05058 (link in the last tweet!) 🧵 Thread ⬇️

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat @IBECBarcelona biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The paper is out here: pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/ca… Of personal interest: the full range of neutrino masses allowed by neutrino oscillations are now excluded at 98% confidence.

The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices. Encoding matrices as graphs is a cheat code, making complex behavior simple to study. Let me show you how!

New insights in to the physical properties of the 🐸#Xenopus cytoplasm! Great work @MockelConrad & @bis_was_here! 🤟Together with @VasilyZaburdaev & @GuckLab @MPZ_PhysMed @mpiib_berlin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mercator projection (eᶻ) applied to a fractal tiling. Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

Standard (Model) routine:

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Beyond dipolar activity: Quadrupolar stress drives collapse of nematic order on frictional substrates #CoolVideo #biology go.aps.org/3QB9AZP

Ecosystem responses to environmental changes can be predicted by introducing a universal geometric framework that maps species-resource interactions onto vector spaces, showing fundamental limits to inferring these interactions from perturbation data. 🔗 go.aps.org/3QggFyL

Consciousness is not explained by classical physics and superluminal information transmission is possible, for the simple reason that future events affect present cognitive states. This is established to well beyond six-sigma significance.

Has the weak force shaped DNA? A possible explanation for why live on earth is build almost entirely from left-handed amino acids whereas on asteroids formed in the early solar system both left- and right-handed amino acids appear in equal numbers

“One- and two-particle microrheology of soft materials based on optical-flow image analysis”. Our new article (with @FabioGiavazzi @manuescobedo @squishycell1) in @softmatter shows you simpler way to microrheology pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

The cumulative incidence of autism diagnosis by vaccination status over fourteen years in over 650,000 children. The (nonsignificant) association was negative, meaning that vaccination was related to lower rates of autism.

We can now extract simple and predictive reduced-order models for nonlinear dynamical systems directly from videos! doi.org/10.1007/s11071…

Made this while procrastinating