News

October 29, 2024

Journal Club by Dr. Elias Barriga in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Elias Barriga highlights the invaluable contribution of Zhao and colleagues in a 2006 publication to the field of electrotaxis in a new journal club article.

August 27, 2024

Seeing the future: zebrafish regenerates fully functional photoreceptor cells and restores its vision

Research by PoL associate Michael Brand has identified that regenerated photoreceptors in the zebrafish retina regain normal function, allowing complete recovery of vision.

August 21, 2024

EMBO Interview with Elias Barriga

Elias Barriga, group leader at PoL, former EMBO Fellow, and Installation Grantee and Young Investigator, explains his research in this EMBO interview published on August 6th, 2024 by Terry O'Connor.

August 12, 2024

The Hidden Architect: How nuclei organize the eyes and brain

Groundbreaking research from the Campàs group at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden now reveals that the cell’s nucleus controls the stiffness of eye and brain tissues.

August 12, 2024

A New Mechanism for Shaping Animal Tissues

Dresden researchers discover a new mechanism for three-dimensional tissue shape changes in animals.

April 3, 2024

Pressured to become the organizer

A collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL, the University of California, and Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles, has identified how organizers orchestrate the formation of teeth.

February 7, 2024

What regulates basal tension in epithelia? The answer is in the basement!

Novel findings published in PRX Life from the Fischer-Friedrich and Dahmann groups have uncovered a mechanism of basal tension regulation in epithelia.

November 3, 2023

Under Pressure: Seeing the Squeeze in Living Organisms

September 27, 2023

New Research Group at PoL Investigates Collective Cell Migration in Living Tissue

June 20, 2023

The speed of life: a zoo of cells to study developmental time

Researchers from the Ebisuya Group at EMBL Barcelona have used an unprecedented stem cell zoo to compare six different mammalian species and their developmental

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

December 16, 2020

New Research Group Leader: Natalie Dye