April 19, 2024
Prestigious funding awarded to Carl Modes to understand the regeneration of jellyfish
A HFSP Program Grant has been awarded to Carl Modes and international collaborators.
© Michael Riedl
Science Awards Brugués Group
April 15, 2024
Michael Riedl is awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship
A prestigious Human Frontier Science Program fellowship was awarded to Michael Riedl, a postdoctoral researcher of the Brugués lab.
© Neha Pincha Shroff & Pengfei Xu
Science Publications Campàs Group
April 3, 2024
Pressured to become the organizer
A collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL, the University of California, and Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles, has identified how organizers orchestrate the formation of teeth.
© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG
Science Awards Associates and Affiliates
March 21, 2024
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jinghui Liu
A postdoctoral researcher at the MPI-CBG and PoL has received a prestigious fellowship to study electrical environmental changes in damaged tissues.
© Devarajan et al.
Science Publications Associates and Affiliates
March 14, 2024
Charging Up: Identifying the Sequence-determinants of Condensate Material Properties
The Nikoubashman affiliate group at PoL and the IPF has published novel findings in Nature Communications, highlighting a link between charge patterning of intrinsically disordered proteins, and the corresponding material properties of condensates.
© PoL / Friedrich Group
Science Publications Friedrich Group
March 6, 2024
Branching Out: Understanding the Intricate Patterns of Diatom Silica Formation
By studying silica morphogenesis in diatoms, the Friedrich and Kröger groups at PoL have proposed a mathematical model to explain the formation of branching rib patterns.
© Humboldt-Stiftung
Ebisuya Group
February 29, 2024
At work with our Humboldt Professor Miki Ebisuya
Humboldt Professor and Chair of Cell and Tissue Control Miki Ebisuya was interviewed by TU Dresden as part of their “At work with …” series.
© DIGS-BB / Hagen Gebauer
Education Events
February 12, 2024
The DIGS-BB selection week welcomes new minds to Dresden!
75 students from around the world visited Dresden for the DIGS-BB bi-annual and IMPRS-CellDevoSys annual PhD selection, which took place from the 5th to 9th of February.
© PoL / Guerra Santillán et al
Science Publications Fischer-Friedrich Group
February 7, 2024
What regulates basal tension in epithelia? The answer is in the basement!
Novel findings published in PRX Life from the Fischer-Friedrich and Dahmann groups have uncovered a mechanism of basal tension regulation in epithelia.
© CMCB / Magdalena Gonciarz (image generated with DALL.E3)
Science Publications Jahnel Group Brugués Group
February 6, 2024
Making Ends Meet: Researcher find that a protein superglue is crucial for DNA damage repair
A landmark study published in Cell, led by PoL member Alberti and including PoL group leaders Jahnel and Brugués, has revealed that PARP1 proteins form a kind of molecular superglue to hold broken DNA ends together.
©PoL / Kolley et al.
Science Publications Friedrich Group
February 1, 2024
Assembling the pieces for building muscles
Researchers from the Friedrich Group published a model for building the muscle structure in PRX Life.
© PoL / Hagen Gebauer
Events
January 22, 2024
The Saxony Minister of Science Visits PoL
Sebastian Gemkow is introduced to the world of PoL research.