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
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October 12, 2020
How will we live in the future?
Opening of the DRESDEN-concept science exhibition in front of the Dresden Kulturpalast