December 15, 2022
Amazed children’s eyes, many questions and aha moments
PoL Group Leader Marcus Jahnel answered curious children’s questions
News
© Oliver Killig
Education Awards Schießel Group Dye Group Brugués Group
December 12, 2022
Students in PoL groups among best TUD graduates of 2021/22
TUD honors the best graduates of the academic year 2021/22
© EMBL
RA6 Ebisuya Group
November 28, 2022
Newly awarded Humboldt Professor Dr. Miki Ebisuya joins PoL
Miki Ebisuya plans to join the PoL leadership in April 2023 on the newly established Chair of Cell and Tissue Control
Awards RA5 Bio-image Analysis Group
September 30, 2022
Robert Haase receives the 2023 Royal Microscopical Society Award for Data Analysis in Imaging
© Steven Freeman/Sven Döring
Awards RA2 Associates and Affiliates
September 29, 2022
2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for Anthony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne
World’s largest science prize for discovering a new mechanism of cellular organization.
© CMCB Master’s Courses
September 28, 2022
Start of the new Physics of Life Master Program
The newly developed international Master of Science Physics of Life starts on October 1, welcoming 20 students from around the globe
Publications
September 14, 2022
An unstable, flake-like network in the making
Dresden research team finds that the cell cortex, a fine network of filaments below the cell membrane, is activated in a controlled way by thousands of short-lived protein condensates.
Society
July 5, 2022
3, 2, 1 Science: enthusiastic about science at the Dresden Science Night 2022!
This year, the Dresden Science Night welcomes everyone in person and on site again. Visit us at our three PoL stations and enjoy the science!
© Anna-Maria Hantschke
May 10, 2022
PoL and six other DFG-coordinated programs at BeWISE conference WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
May 9, 2022
DFG Grant for collaborative research project on epithelial folding
The Fischer-Friedrich Lab and the Dahmann Lab of TU Dresden receive DFG funding to investigate the role of the basement membrane in the morphogenesis of animals.
© TUD/CRTD
April 28, 2022
Why does the axolotl age so slowly?
DFG funds interdisciplinary project to explore the role of regeneration in aging.
March 31, 2022
New Master's program Physics of Life: Application period opens 1st April
The newly designed international Master of Science Physics of Life will start for the first time in Fall 2022.
© Klaus Fabel
March 30, 2022
4th Dresden DZG Symposium: Jointly against common diseases!
© Hagen Gebauer (TUD)
RA4 Schießel Group
March 24, 2022
Biophysics from scratch in 500 pages
With his textbook, Prof. Helmut Schießel, Chair and Deputy Director at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden, lays the foundation for interdisciplinary teaching.
© Catarina R. Oliveira
March 3, 2022
How Much to Regenerate?
The Yun Group Identifies a Protein Determining Positional Identity in Cells.
© Hagen Gebauer/TUD
RA1 RA4 Schießel Group Campàs Group
February 15, 2022
New leadership at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) of TU Dresden
The Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden has appointed Prof. Otger Campàs as new managing director and Prof. Helmut Schießel as deputy director.
© Mark Leaver, Jose A. Morin and Sina Wittmann, / MPI-CBG / Jose A. Morin et al. Nature Physics, 2022
February 3, 2022
Reading DNA is team work
Dresden researchers explain how liquid-like protein droplets collectively read DNA regions to switch on genes.
© GFF-TUD e.V.
January 17, 2022
Online teaching course for bio-image analysis and bio-statistics in Dresden wins teaching prize
Dr. Robert Haase (Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life at TU Dresden - PoL, Center for Systems Biology Dresden - CSBD) and Dr. Anna Poetsch (MSNZ group leader at BIOTEC and NCT Dresden) were awarded the 2021 Teaching Prize of the Society of Friends and Supporters of Technische Universität Dresden e. V. (GFF-TUD e. V.) for a joint innovative online lecture series about bio-image analysis and bio-statistics.
© Fabio Novelli
RA2
December 1, 2021
Using terahertz to explore the inside of the cell
Joint research group between the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to decipher biomolecules
© PoL, TU Dresden
November 25, 2021
Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich honored with the Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society
© Dr. Robert Haase
RA5 Bio-image Analysis Group
October 1, 2021
Image analysis for everyone: PoL researchers acquire funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Accelerating image data science: Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden together with scientists from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Francis Crick Institute in London set out to enable the biomedical community to analyze complex microscopy data faster.
© Katherina Haase
September 22, 2021
Imaging Science – The beauty of Science
An exhibition of cfaed’s 'Scientific Image Contests'