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Sebastian Fürthauer is co-organizing mini-colloquium M37 "Emergent Behavior in Soft and Living Matter" at the Austrian Physical Society / CMD Joint Meeting in Graz. The session brings together experimental, theoretical, and computational researchers working on self-organization and pattern formation in non-equilibrium biological and synthetic soft matter systems. Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2026.

New work by Cédrik Barutel and Sebastian Fürthauer presents a unified theoretical framework using nonequilibrium thermodynamics to decompose crosslinker forces into entropic, active, and frictional contributions — now on arXiv.

Collaborative work with Alexander Dammermann's group (Max Perutz Labs) shows centrosomes undergo a cell-cycle-dependent mechanical softening that facilitates spindle formation.

New work from the group on conserved phase-separating nucleators in self-straining cytoskeletal networks — now on arXiv.

Collaborative paper with Amy Maddox's group on three mechanistically distinct actomyosin contractile rings coexisting in a shared cytoplasm is now published.