# News

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© 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")

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

Science
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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")

© 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")

© Friedrich group / PoL

Publications
RA4
Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/07/05/chemotaxis-in-bits-comparison-of-fundamental-gradient-sensing-strategies-as-a-function-of-noise "››› read article")

© Friedrich & Kröger groups

Science
Publications
RA4
Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/03/06/branching-out-understanding-the-intricate-patterns-of-diatom-silica-formation "››› read article")

©PoL / Kolley et al.

Science
Publications
RA3
RA4
Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/02/01/assembling-the-pieces-for-building-muscles "››› read article")

© PoL / Vian et al.

Science
Publications
RA1
RA4
RA6
Campàs Group

November 3, 2023

### Under Pressure: Seeing the Squeeze in Living Organisms

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2023/11/03/under-pressure-seeing-the-squeeze-in-living-organisms "››› read article")

Science
RA1
RA3
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Elias Barriga Group

September 27, 2023

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

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2023/09/27/new-research-group-at-pol-investigates-collective-cell-migration-in-living-tissue "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer (TUD)

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Schießel Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2022/03/24/biophysics-from-scratch-in-500-pages "››› read article")

© Hagen Gebauer/TUD

RA1
RA4
Schießel Group
Campàs Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2022/02/15/new-leadership-at-the-cluster-of-excellence-physics-of-life-pol-of-tu-dresden "››› read article")

© Michael Kretzschmar

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Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/07/06/from-biological-clocks-to-the-movement-of-sperm-cells-benjamin-friedrich-appointed-to-new-heisenberg-professorship-for-biological-algorithms "››› read article")

RA4
Research Groups
Friedrich Group

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.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/04/14/new-research-group-leader-benjamin-friedrich "››› read article")

RA4
Research Groups
Schießel Group

January 3, 2021

### New Research Group Leader: Helmut Schießel

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2021/01/03/new-research-group-leader-helmut-schiessel "››› read article")

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