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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.

February 3, 2022

Reading DNA is team work

Dresden researchers explain how liquid-like protein droplets collectively read DNA regions to switch on genes.

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.

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

November 25, 2021

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich honored with the Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society

November 15, 2021

Physics of Life and B CUBE visit "Saturday Physics"

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.

September 22, 2021

Imaging Science – The beauty of Science

An exhibition of cfaed’s 'Scientific Image Contests'

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

September 1, 2021

Excellently explained – cutting-edge research for everyone

57 Clusters of Excellence launch joint podcast series on cutting-edge research in Germany

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.

August 26, 2021

New perspective on forces that divide cells

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

July 7, 2021

PoL Research Groups Leaders review Tissue Size and Scaling

July 7, 2021

“Physik-Preis Dresden” awarded for the fifth time

July 6, 2021

From biological clocks to the movement of sperm cells: Benjamin Friedrich appointed to new Heisenberg Professorship for Biological Algorithms

Professor Benjamin Friedrich assumed the Heisenberg Professorship for Biological Algorithms at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life on June 1, 2021. Prof. Friedrich had already headed the eponymous research group at the research cluster cfaed (Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden) since April 2016.

July 5, 2021

New research groups established at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life

July 2, 2021

Immerse yourself in the world of science at the Dresden Science Night 2021!

June 18, 2021

Interview with Dr. Marcus Jahnel – new research group leader at the BIOTEC and PoL

June 17, 2021

EMBO Workshop "Physics of living systems: From molecules to tissues"

International workshop on unravelling the organization of life

June 1, 2021

New Research Group Leader: Marcus Jahnel

May 31, 2021

Hydraulic instability decides who’s to die and who’s to live

Dresden researchers discover that a mechanical cue is at the origin of cell death decision.

May 19, 2021

Rotating forces get embryos in shape

New publication by the Lab of Stephan Grill, Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG).

April 14, 2021

New Research Group Leader: Benjamin Friedrich

PD Dr. Benjamin Friedrich has taken up a Heisenberg Professorship for Biological Algorithms as of April 1, 2021.