News

2023

June:

Last rotation student from this year, Samuel with the best cake ever.

April:

With help of the Pan box, we started also to collect the PET cell culture bottle (green labs)

March

Flo came back to have finally his farewell diner, he will start his group in Munich

Lukas had a fruitful rotation with us.

Zane passed passed his qualifying exam and is fully affiliated with the Sixt group.

Mini Retreat: escape room and dinner.

Sara finished here rotation with a excellent talk

Februari:

Michael had a good PhD defence! And received his PhD and the wiesel cape.

Isabelle passed his qualifying exam and is fully affiliated with the Sixt group.

Januari:

Successful rotations from Theresa and Medina

Patricia and Michael gave both an excellent talk on the gordon conference: directed cell migration in Texas. Title talk Patricia: “A DOCK8 Dependent Central Actin Pool Acts as a Capacitor for F-Actin and Maintains Cellular Coherence” Title talk Michael: “Synchronization in Collectively Moving Inanimate and Living Active Matter”

2022

December:

We wish you very relaxed holidays and a very good and inspiring 2023. With a lot of motivating moments!

ISTA winterbash

October:

Very happy that we are awarded with the ERC Synergy Grant together with Anna Akhmanova, Patricia Bassereau and Pierre Sens to study how non-adhesive cells interact with their environment. Pushingcell. 

Micheal made it into the molecular biology of THE CELL (Alberts) 

ISTA retreat. Hike, boat, food and dancing!

September:

Saren successfully defended his PhD thesis. Thesis title: Role of micro-environment geometry in invasion and collectivity of cancer cell invasion

August:

Steffi finished her bachelor of science internship excellently. 

Katrin's publishes her work in eLife! In collaboration with the Guet lab combined bacteria and immune cells to show that the Type1 piliated UPEC uses FimH to bind to CD14

Frank got his image on the cover of Nature immunology. The scanning electron microscopy image shows lymph node ECM conduits.

July:

Franks paper is OUT!!!!!!! http://rdcu.be/cRuO3
We show that lymph node conduits of the T zone are mechanosensors that coordinate stromal network growth in swelling lymph nodes, while capsule fibrosis constrains the swelling at late timepoints. 

Lunch pick-nick to the Hadersfeld obelisk

Farewell diner of Jonna. Good luck in Finland

Kari visited us. 

Juni:

Michael Riedl wins the open campus peoples'choice image contest with the 'Once Upon a Time… Life
LifeAct-Gfp Endothelial Cell on micropattern, acquired on Leica Mica, Brightfield, 63x Magnification, Water Objective.. 
It is amazing that we manage to win almost every year! 
This contest is organized by the image facility. Visitors from the IST open campus day and people from IST can vote what picture they like the best

ISTA open campus day. We organized a science tour in our lab. Tour guides: Julian, Patricia, Manjunath and Ingrid 

The official graduation ISTA ceremony for Frank, Aglaja and Kathrin.

May:

Rahmah and Zane are finishing their rotations successfully with delicious cakes!  

Patricia wins poster prize at the European Cytoskeleton Forum Meeting 2022

April:

We joined the ISTA life-science retreat in Retz. 

March:

From now on, you can follow the sixt lab also on Twitter.
Check out our first tweet at @sixt_lab

Isabelle finished her second rotation with us, with this amazing Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte!!!!!

We won the freezer challenge (organized by our life science facility) together with the Group Kicheva group. The Kicheva group is winner in the categorie: Best inventory system and we in the categorie: Tidiest freezer (amazing)

February:

Official release of the new sixt group website. The colors of the website are inspired by Wes Anderson color palette. 

January:

Manjunath passed his qualifying exam and will be affiliated with the Schurr and the Sixt group. 

Anna finished here 4 month internship with delicious muffins.

start news feed: September 2021