© TUD/Magdalena Gonciarz
Science Awards RA2 Associates and Affiliates
April 27, 2024
The Alberti group, an affiliate of PoL, is at the forefront of condensate research, and has now secured funding from the Volkswagen Foundation to investigate oncofusion proteins.
© Devarajan et al.
Science Publications RA2 Associates and Affiliates
March 14, 2024
The Nikoubashman affiliate group at PoL and the IPF has published novel findings in Nature Communications, highlighting a link between charge patterning of intrinsically disordered proteins, and the corresponding material properties of condensates.
© CMCB / Magdalena Gonciarz (image generated with DALL.E3)
Science Publications RA2 RA3 Jahnel Group Brugués Group
February 6, 2024
A landmark study published in Cell, led by PoL member Alberti and including PoL group leaders Jahnel and Brugués, has revealed that PARP1 proteins form a kind of molecular superglue to hold broken DNA ends together.
© Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden/Stephan Floss
Science Publications RA2 RA3 Associates and Affiliates
June 22, 2023
Living organisms use powerful physical principles to control interactions at their surfaces. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Leipzig University and TU Dresden have now discovered why cholesterol-containing surfaces can exhibit greatly reduced attachment of proteins and bacteria.
© Steven Freeman/Sven Döring
Awards RA2 Associates and Affiliates
September 29, 2022
World’s largest science prize for discovering a new mechanism of cellular organization.
© Fabio Novelli
RA2
December 1, 2021
Joint research group between the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to decipher biomolecules