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
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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'
© PoL/TU Dresden
RA3 Fischer-Friedrich Group
September 9, 2021
New insights into the mechanics of epithelial cells
Dresden researchers show characteristic changes in cellular mechanics for a cancer-associated transformation of epithelial cells
Science
September 1, 2021
Excellently explained – cutting-edge research for everyone
57 Clusters of Excellence launch joint podcast series on cutting-edge research in Germany
RA1 Doyle Group
August 30, 2021
Cell feng shui: How the unity of physical and biochemical cues creates healthy organisms
New TU Dresden research group aims to uncover how stem cells respond to mechanical forces and electrical cues during the development and maintenance of the nervous and cardiovascular system.
© Ondrej Kucera
Science
August 26, 2021
New perspective on forces that divide cells
© Michael Kretzschmar
RA1 Campàs Group
July 27, 2021
Of embryo mechanics and living foams: Otger Campàs appointed as Chair for Tissue Dynamics at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life at TU Dresden
Prof. Campàs joins the Dresden research community to focus on embryonic self-organization and morphogenesis