News

May 14, 2024

Visit the Interactive Physics of Life Exhibition!

The work of PoL scientists will be highlighted at the SHOWCASES OF RESEARCH exhibition at Technische Sammlungen Dresden until October 27th this year – don’t miss out!

May 13, 2024

Meeting at the Crossroads: The IntCha24 Workshop

Exploring the frontiers of interdisciplinary research, IntCha24 brought early career researchers together to discuss open questions in physical and biological systems.

May 5, 2024

PoL Welcomes the Next Generation of Scientists for Girls' Day

The annual Girls’ Day event took place in April, and PoL was visited by a cohort of high school students for hands-on experience and presentations by leading researchers.

May 2, 2024

Breaking Barriers: The BeWISE Conference Empowers Women in Science Across the Dresden Community

The fourth BeWise conference took place in Dresden this April, driving knowledge exchange and networking amongst female scientists.

April 30, 2024

Bringing Science to Life: The DIPP School Project

Sharing their passion for science, a group of volunteer PhD students and postdocs in Dresden are inspiring school students, one classroom at a time.

April 29, 2024

CMCB Graduate Receives the Dresden Excellence Award

The Dresden Excellence Award Honours Marie Hoyer's Innovative Research on Zebrafish Spinal Cord Regeneration

April 27, 2024

The Alberti group receives Momentum funding from the Volkswagen Foundation

The Alberti group, an affiliate of PoL, is at the forefront of condensate research, and has now secured funding from the Volkswagen Foundation to investigate oncofusion proteins.

April 24, 2024

Successful kick-off event for mentoring program for female scientists and students

An event for networking between female scientists from the Dresden research community was a huge success

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

January 22, 2024

The Saxony Minister of Science Visits PoL

Sebastian Gemkow is introduced to the world of PoL research.

January 15, 2024

2024 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics for Jürgen Czarske

The PoL member Jürgen Czarske is awarded for significant contributions to the development of digital holography, and related techniques for biomedicine, fiber communication, imaging, information processing, and laser metrology.

December 5, 2023

PoL opens up the EUtopia week

November 30, 2023

A day to bring Machine Learning to Biology data analysis

Symposium brings Dresden and Leipzig researchers together

November 24, 2023

The PoL Day 2023

A day to bring and celebrate the PoL community!