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.
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© Sylvia Hurlimann / Middelkoop et al. PNAS, 18. May 2021 / MPI-CBG
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).
RA4 Research Groups Friedrich Group
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.
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RA1 Research Groups Mateus Group
March 23, 2021
Start of the first DRESDEN-concept Research Group
Dr. Rita Mateus joins the Dresden research community with her research on organ growth and structural colors.
RA1 Research Groups Doyle Group
February 25, 2021
New Research Group Leader: Adele Doyle
Adele Doyle will start as new research group leader at PoL in July 2021. Her group studies how molecular circuits give rise to specialized mechanosignaling.
RA1 Research Groups Campàs Group
February 25, 2021
New Research Group Leader: Otger Campàs
Otger Campàs holds the Chair of Tissue Dynamics at PoL and leads the Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis group, starting in July 2021.
RA1 Research Groups Mateus Group
February 3, 2021
New Research Group Leader: Rita Mateus
Portuguese scientist, Dr. Rita Mateus, is newly appointed and first DRESDEN-concept Research Group Leader. Dr. Mateus and her research lab will work with zebrafish in order to understand how animals control their organ size.
© Louise Jawerth, MPI-PKS / MPI-CBG
January 25, 2021
The aging of protein droplets
Scientists discover how protein droplets change from liquid to solid state over time
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January 12, 2021
EMBO New Venture Fellowships in Honor of Suzanne Eaton
The EMBO New Venture Fellowship supports young researchers from across the life sciences to enter a new field or bring a new direction to their work.
RA4 Research Groups Schießel Group
January 3, 2021
New Research Group Leader: Helmut Schießel
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RA1 Research Groups Dye Group
December 16, 2020
New Research Group Leader: Natalie Dye
© Akanksha Jain et al. / MPI-CBG
November 5, 2020
Relaxing during the stressful times of gastrulation
Researchers uncover a mechanism that, similar to wound-healing, converts tissue during a spreading event into a fluid-like state.
Bio-image Analysis Group
November 2, 2020
New Technology Development Group Leader: Robert Haase
© MPI-CBG
October 12, 2020
How will we live in the future?
Opening of the DRESDEN-concept science exhibition in front of the Dresden Kulturpalast
© Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Science RA3 Fischer-Friedrich Group
September 2, 2020
How do tumor cells divide in the crowd?
Scientists led by Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, group leader at the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) and the Biotechnology Center TU Dresden (BIOTEC) studied how cancer cells are able to divide in a crowded tumor tissue and connected it to the hallmark of cancer progression and metastasis, the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).
© Left schematic: Lokesh Pimpale et al. / right schematic: openclipart.org by danjiro
August 3, 2020
Go with the counter-rotating flow!
Counter-rotating flows drive cell movement during cell division
RA3
May 28, 2020
Twist and torque in the cellular nanocosmos: Diez group detects biophysical forces of molecular motors in 3D
RA3 Research Groups Fischer-Friedrich Group
December 2, 2019
New PoL Research Group Leader: Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Optical Microscopy Group
November 3, 2019
New Technology Development Group Leader: Bert Nitzsche
© Robert Lohse
July 22, 2019
TU Dresden retains its title as University of Excellence
© MPI-PKS
April 9, 2019
Unraveling growth of organs with computer science and physics
Workshop on "Image-based Modeling and Simulation of Morphogenesis" brings leading expertise to Dresden
© MPI-CBG
April 3, 2019
Children’s University - How does an organism form?
Stephan Grill talks in front of 500 curious kids
© Ivana Viktorinova / MPI-CBG
April 2, 2019
A new force awakens
Newly discovered physical force contributes to proper development of the red flour beetle
© MPI-CBG
February 18, 2019
Adding Biophysics to the Mix
Interview with Stephan Grill, new director at the MPI-CBG