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November 18, 2024

How To Achieve Precision in a Noisy Biological System – Scientists Explain the Regular Beating of Sperm Tails

A new study by PoL Professor Benjamin Friedrich and Dr Veikko Geyer from the Diez group at B Cube has revealed how the coordinated efforts of molecular motors can power motile cilia.

August 12, 2024

A New Mechanism for Shaping Animal Tissues

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

July 13, 2024

Breaking the Code: Unveiling the Secrets of Chromatin Remodelers

Sophie Klempahn, a PhD student with the Schießel group at PoL, has introduced a pioneering model to explore how chromatin remodelers reposition nucleosomes.

July 5, 2024

Chemotaxis in Bits: Comparison of Fundamental Gradient-sensing Strategies as a Function of Noise

New research from the Friedrich group at PoL explains why cells of different sizes use different navigation strategies.

March 6, 2024

Branching Out: Understanding the Intricate Patterns of Diatom Silica Formation

By studying silica morphogenesis in diatoms, the Friedrich and Kröger groups at PoL have proposed a mathematical model to explain the formation of branching rib patterns.

February 1, 2024

Assembling the pieces for building muscles

Researchers from the Friedrich Group published a model for building the muscle structure in PRX Life.

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

March 24, 2022

Biophysics from scratch in 500 pages

With his textbook, Prof. Helmut Schießel, Chair and Deputy Director at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden, lays the foundation for interdisciplinary teaching.

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.

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.

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.

January 3, 2021

New Research Group Leader: Helmut Schießel