© Friedrich and Sandoval-Guzmán labs
Publications Friedrich Group
November 24, 2025
In a new publication led by the Friedrich group at PoL and the Sandoval-Guzmán group at CRTD, scientists propose a model of morphogen scaling during limb regeneration in axolotls.
© DGZ
Awards Elias Barriga Group
November 7, 2025
PoL group leader Elias Barriga has been recognised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie (DGZ) for introducing new conceptual frameworks in the field.
© Leonie Ringrose and Thomas Chemnitz
Education Society
October 14, 2025
A unique science communication workshop brought together improvisation theater and scientists to enhance researchers' skill in communicating across disciplines.
© Stephan Spangenberg
Society
October 9, 2025
Mourning the loss of PoL alumni group leader Jochen Guck (1973-2025), a globally recognized pioneer in the field of cell mechanics.
© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG
Science Awards
October 1, 2025
Agnes Toth-Petroczy is awarded the Schering Young Investigator Award 2025
© Patrick McCall
Publications RA2 Associates and Affiliates Brugués Group
September 3, 2025
Groundbreaking findings published in Nature Chemistry by researchers at PoL, IPF, and MPI-CBG highlight how the makeup of multi-component condensates can be measured.
© PoL
Society Science
August 29, 2025
PoL and the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore will enter a strategic partnership.
© Anaïs Bailles / MPI-CBG
Publications Associates and Affiliates
August 5, 2025
PoL Associate and Affiliate researchers from MPI-CBG show how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties.
© Friedrich group / PoL
Publications Friedrich Group
July 9, 2025
Researchers from the Friedrich group at PoL have identified a novel sarcomere division mechanism, explaining how muscles add new contractile units under high mechanical stress.
© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG
Science Awards Campàs Group
July 1, 2025
Augusto Ortega Granillo, a joint postdoc at Physics of Life and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, has received a Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program.
© TUD / Magdalena Gonciarz
Education Society
June 23, 2025
With over 50 PoL volunteers taking part in the event, the Dresden Science Night at the CMCB was a resounding success.
© Anna M. Dowbaj, Aleksandra Sljukic et al. Nature (2025) / MPI-CBG
Publications RA6 Associates and Affiliates
June 3, 2025
The research group of Meritxell Huch, a PoL PI and director at the MPI-CBG, has developed next-generation organoid models to better understand liver disease.
© PoL
Education Society Science
May 26, 2025
The Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) has been officially renewed for a second funding phase, from 2026–2032.
© COSMO Wissenschaftsforum
Education Society
May 12, 2025
With over 800 visitors, the Physics of Life exhibition at COSMO Wissenschaftsforum offered plenty of new things to discover!
© Alba Villaronga-Luque, Ryan G Savill et. al / MPI-CBG
Publications RA6 Associates and Affiliates Ebisuya Group
April 17, 2025
Researchers from PoL (Ebisuya group), MPI-CBG (Veenvliet group), and EMBL Barcelona have uncovered the instructive potential of glycolysis in two novel publications.
© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG
Science Awards Mateus Group
April 3, 2025
PoL PI Rita Mateus and collaborators have received a prestigious HFSP Early Career Grant Award
© Veikko F. Geyer and Martin Striegler
Publications Associates and Affiliates Friedrich Group
March 4, 2025
For the very first time, researchers from PoL and B CUBE have captured cilia twisting motions during their beating that may play a key role in coordinating the movement of tiny molecular motors inside cilia.
© Brian Long, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Publications Campàs Group
February 21, 2025
Through a collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL and researchers at UCSB, scientists have developed robotic materials that can support heavy loads but also reshape, manipulate objects, and even self-heal.
© PoL
Society Science
February 3, 2025
After submitting a renewal proposal to the DFG, PoL scientists travelled to Bonn to defend the renewal of the Cluster of Excellence.
© Julien Marcetteau for the Barriga Lab/PoL
January 17, 2025
New findings from the Barriga Group at PoL reveal how electric fields can drive cells of the neural crest to migrate during development.
© Hagen Gebauer
Science Associates and Affiliates
December 19, 2024
The group of PoL member Anna Poetsch at the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of TU Dresden has received a grant from the European Partnership for Personalized Medicine to investigate the molecular mechanisms behind leukemia.
© PoL
Education Society
December 11, 2024
At the Physics of Life exhibition in Technische Sammlungen Dresden, young visitors could enter a competition to build animals from LEGO bricks. Now, the 10 winning entries are revealed.
© Sharma et al., PNAS (2024), CC4
Publications RA3 RA4 Friedrich Group
November 18, 2024
A new study by PoL Professor Benjamin Friedrich and Dr Veikko Geyer from the Diez group at B Cube has revealed how the coordinated efforts of molecular motors can power motile cilia.
© Hagen Gebauer / PoL
Awards Jahnel Group
November 15, 2024
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.