News

November 15, 2024

Lukáš Pekárek is awarded the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Fellowship

With support from the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation, PoL postdoctoral researcher Lukáš Pekárek will investigate the structure of long RNAs and their changes during phase separation.

November 7, 2024

Otto Bayer Award for PoL member Meritxell Huch

The Bayer Foundation has announced the Science Award winners of 2024

October 29, 2024

Journal Club by Dr. Elias Barriga in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Elias Barriga highlights the invaluable contribution of Zhao and colleagues in a 2006 publication to the field of electrotaxis in a new journal club article.

October 23, 2024

Professor Miki Ebisuya's Inaugural TUD Lecture

Last week, Prof. Ebisuya delivered her inaugural TU Dresden lecture “In search of a global modulator for biological tempo across animal species”

October 17, 2024

Studying Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions Using SHARK

Researchers from the group of PoL member Agnes Toth-Petroczy have developed a new algorithm to compare structurally disordered protein segments.

September 27, 2024

Quantitative Biology Takes Center Stage at the “Physical Biology of the Cell” Summer School

Over 100 researchers from PoL and the MPI-CBG attended the interdisciplinary course taught by renowned biophysicist Rob Phillips.

August 27, 2024

Seeing the future: zebrafish regenerates fully functional photoreceptor cells and restores its vision

August 21, 2024

EMBO Interview with Elias Barriga

Elias Barriga, group leader at PoL, former EMBO Fellow, and Installation Grantee and Young Investigator, explains his research in this EMBO interview published on August 6th, 2024 by Terry O'Connor.

August 21, 2024

Science Awards 2024 of the German Stem Cell Network to two PoL members

The German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) awarded Miki Ebisuya, PoL core group, for the GSCN Publication of the Year Award 2024, and Claudia Gerri for the GSCN 2024 Young Investigator Award.

August 12, 2024

The Hidden Architect: How nuclei organize the eyes and brain

Groundbreaking research from the Campàs group at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden now reveals that the cell’s nucleus controls the stiffness of eye and brain tissues.

August 12, 2024

A New Mechanism for Shaping Animal Tissues

Dresden researchers discover a new mechanism for three-dimensional tissue shape changes in animals.

August 8, 2024

Shuting Xu Wins a DIGS-BB Travel Award

A PhD student from the Ebisuya lab at PoL was awarded a competitive DIGS-BB travel award to attend a conference in the USA.

August 1, 2024

PoL goes Podcasting! The New Episode of Exzellent Erklärt Showcases Biophysics Research

Dive into the world of biophysics, with PoL professors Benjamin Friedrich and Marcus Jahnel, in a new episode of German language podcast 'Exzellent erklärt', releasing on 1st August.

July 13, 2024

Breaking the Code: Unveiling the Secrets of Chromatin Remodelers

Sophie Klempahn, a PhD student with the Schießel group at PoL, has introduced a pioneering model to explore how chromatin remodelers reposition nucleosomes.

July 9, 2024

Professor Stefan Diez elected as an EMBO member

The PoL member Prof. Stefan Diez, managing director and research group leader at the B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering of TUD Dresden University of Technology, and PoL member, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and has become part of an elite network of the world’s best researchers.

July 5, 2024

Chemotaxis in Bits: Comparison of Fundamental Gradient-sensing Strategies as a Function of Noise

New research from the Friedrich group at PoL explains why cells of different sizes use different navigation strategies.

July 3, 2024

The Sächsische Newspaper Interviews PoL Director Otger Campàs

Read the translated interview of PoL Director Otger Campàs with the Saxon newspaper Sächsische.de.

June 19, 2024

PoL at the Long Night of Science: Igniting Passion for Research in Dresden

Over 50 volunteers from PoL took part in the 21st Long Night of Science on Friday the 14th June, with huge turnout from the public.

June 4, 2024

MPI-CBG Director Meritxell Huch appointed as Honorary Professor at TU Dresden

The Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden appoints honorary professorship for MPI-CBG and PoL PI for stem cell research and tissue regeneration.

June 3, 2024

Together for Democracy: Dresden’s Research Community Takes a Stand

Over 2,500 participants marched in the streets of Dresden during the TOGETHER FOR DEMOCRACY protest.

May 27, 2024

Tails for Proteins: How Environmental Factors Can Affect Protein Production

The research group of PoL affiliate Agnes Toth-Petroczy has published novel findings in Nature Communications exploring how temperature and nutrient depletion affect cell transcription and translation.

May 21, 2024

Prof. Frank Buchholz is Awarded a DFG Grant for Pioneering Gene Editing Research

The Buchholz group has secured a €1.25 million grant from the DFG to advance therapeutic gene editing through innovative epigenetic silencing research.

May 20, 2024

Postdoc in the Czarske Group Receives Award from the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation

Jiawei Sun, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of PoL associate Jürgen Czarske at TU Dresden has been awarded a bursary from the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation.