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© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG

Science
Awards
Mateus Group

April 3, 2025

### Rita Mateus Receives Funding to Uncover Crystal Formation Inside Cells

PoL PI Rita Mateus and collaborators have received a prestigious HFSP Early Career Grant Award

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/04/03/rita-mateus-receives-funding-to-uncover-crystal-formation-inside-cells "››› read article")

© Veikko F. Geyer and Martin Striegler

Publications
Associates and Affiliates
Friedrich Group

March 4, 2025

### The Hidden Twist: Scientists Capture Cilia’s Secret Motion

For the very first time, researchers from PoL and B CUBE have captured cilia twisting motions during their beating that may play a key role in coordinating the movement of tiny molecular motors inside cilia.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/03/04/the-hidden-twist-scientists-capture-cilias-secret-motion "››› read article")

© Brian Long, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Publications
Campàs Group

February 21, 2025

### Turning Robotic Ensembles into Smart Materials that Mimic Life

Through a collaboration between the Campàs group at PoL and researchers at UCSB, scientists have developed robotic materials that can support heavy loads but also reshape, manipulate objects, and even self-heal.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/02/21/campas-2025-science "››› read article")

© PoL

Society
Science

February 3, 2025

### PoL Pushes for Excellence: Reapplying to the DFG for a Second Funding Period

After submitting a renewal proposal to the DFG, PoL scientists travelled to Bonn to defend the renewal of the Cluster of Excellence.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/02/03/tba-pol-reapplies-to-the-dfg-as-a-cluster-of-excellence "››› read article")

© Julien Marcetteau for the Barriga Lab/PoL

January 17, 2025

### Shocking Cues: How Cells Harness Electric Fields to Migrate During Embryonic Development

New findings from the Barriga Group at PoL reveal how electric fields can drive cells of the neural crest to migrate during development.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/01/17/barriga-naturematerials-2025 "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer

Science
Associates and Affiliates

December 19, 2024

### The Poetsch Group Becomes Part of a New European Consortium Addressing Leukemia

The group of PoL member Anna Poetsch at the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of TU Dresden has received a grant from the European Partnership for Personalized Medicine to investigate the molecular mechanisms behind leukemia.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/12/19/the-poetsch-group-becomes-part-of-a-new-european-consortium-addressing-leukemia "››› read article")

© PoL

Education
Society

December 11, 2024

### Revealing the Winners of the PoL LEGO Competition at Technische Sammlungen Dresden!

At the Physics of Life exhibition in Technische Sammlungen Dresden, young visitors could enter a competition to build animals from LEGO bricks. Now, the 10 winning entries are revealed.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/12/11/revealing-the-winners-of-the-pol-lego-competition "››› read article")

© Sharma et al., PNAS (2024), CC4

Publications
RA3
RA4
Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/11/18/how-to-achieve-precision-in-a-noisy-biological-system-scientists-explain-the-regular-beating-of-sperm-tails "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer / PoL

Awards
Jahnel Group

November 15, 2024

### Lukáš Pekárek is awarded the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Fellowship

With support from the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation, PoL postdoctoral researcher Lukáš Pekárek will investigate the structure of long RNAs and their changes during phase separation.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/11/15/lukas-pekarek-engelhorn-fellowship "››› read article")

© Sven Döring

Awards
Associates and Affiliates

November 7, 2024

### Otto Bayer Award for PoL member Meritxell Huch

The Bayer Foundation has announced the Science Award winners of 2024

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/11/07/otto-bayer-award-for-meritxell-huch "››› read article")

© PoL

Science
RA1
Elias Barriga Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/10/29/journal-club-by-dr-elias-barriga-in-nature-reviews-molecular-cell-biology "››› read article")

© TUD

Education
RA6
Ebisuya Group

October 23, 2024

### Professor Miki Ebisuya’s Inaugural TUD Lecture

Last week, Prof. Ebisuya delivered her inaugural TU Dresden lecture “In search of a global modulator for biological tempo across animal species”

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/10/23/miki-ebisuya-inaugural-lecture "››› read article")

© Toth-Petroczy / MPI-CBG

Science
Publications
RA3
RA5
Associates and Affiliates

October 17, 2024

### Studying Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions Using SHARK

Researchers from the group of PoL member Agnes Toth-Petroczy have developed a new algorithm to compare structurally disordered protein segments.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/10/17/studying-intrinsically-disordered-protein-regions-using-shark "››› read article")

© Katrin Boes / MPI-CBG

Education
Science
RA5

September 27, 2024

### Quantitative Biology Takes Center Stage at the “Physical Biology of the Cell” Summer School

Over 100 researchers from PoL and the MPI-CBG attended the interdisciplinary course taught by renowned biophysicist Rob Phillips.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/09/27/physical-biology-of-the-cell-summer-school "››› read article")

© PoL

Education
Society

September 18, 2024

### Polina Explains Biophysics: Introducing PoL's New Comic Series!

Explore the fascinating world of biophysics with our new comic series, offering bite-sized insights into cutting-edge PoL research every Wednesday!

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/09/18/introducing-polina-pols-new-weekly-comic-series "››› read article")

©Michael Brand and Evelyn Abraham

Science
Publications
RA1
Associates and Affiliates

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/27/seeing-the-future-zebrafish-regenerates-fully-functional-photoreceptor-cells-and-restores-its-vision "››› read article")

© Elias Barriga and edited by EMBO

Education
RA1
Elias Barriga Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/21/embo-interview-with-elias-barriga "››› read article")

© Joana Carvalho, Júlia Charles/EMBL

Science
Publications
Awards
Associates and Affiliates
Ebisuya Group

August 21, 2024

### Science Awards 2024 of the German Stem Cell Network to two PoL members

The German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) awarded Miki Ebisuya, PoL core group, for the GSCN Publication of the Year Award 2024, and Claudia Gerri for the GSCN 2024 Young Investigator Award.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/21/science-awards-2024-of-the-german-stem-cell-network-to-two-pol-members "››› read article")

© Campàs Lab – Rana Amini

Science
Publications
RA1
Campàs Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/12/the-hidden-architect-how-nuclei-organize-the-eyes-and-brain "››› read article")

© Fuhrmann et al., Science Advances 2024, MPI-CBG

Science
Publications
RA1
RA4
Dye Group

August 12, 2024

### A New Mechanism for Shaping Animal Tissues

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

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/12/a-new-mechanism-for-shaping-animal-tissues "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer / PoL

Awards
Ebisuya Group

August 8, 2024

### Shuting Xu Wins a DIGS-BB Travel Award

A PhD student from the Ebisuya lab at PoL was awarded a competitive DIGS-BB travel award to attend a conference in the USA.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/08/shuting-xu-wins-a-digs-bb-travel-award "››› read article")

© Exzellent erklärt

Education
Society

August 1, 2024

### PoL goes Podcasting! The New Episode of Exzellent Erklärt Showcases Biophysics Research

Dive into the world of biophysics, with PoL professors Benjamin Friedrich and Marcus Jahnel, in a new episode of German language podcast 'Exzellent erklärt', releasing on 1st August.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/08/01/pol-goes-podcasting-the-new-episode-of-exzellent-erklaert-showcases-biophysics-research "››› read article")

© PoL / Sophie Klempahn and colleagues

Publications
RA4
Schießel Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/07/13/breaking-the-code-unveiling-the-secrets-of-chromatin-remodelers "››› read article")

© TUD CMCB, Magdalena Gonciarz

Science
Awards
Associates and Affiliates

July 9, 2024

### Professor Stefan Diez elected as an EMBO member

The PoL member Prof. Stefan Diez, managing director and research group leader at the B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering of TUD Dresden University of Technology, and PoL member, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and has become part of an elite network of the world’s best researchers.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/07/09/professor-stefan-diez-elected-as-an-embo-member "››› read article")

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