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© Patrick McCall
Publications RA2 Associates and Affiliates Brugués Group
September 3, 2025
Life’s Tiny Droplets: A Novel Method Revealing Biological Condensate Composition
Groundbreaking findings published in Nature Chemistry by researchers at PoL, IPF, and MPI-CBG highlight how the makeup of multi-component condensates can be measured.
© TUD/Magdalena Gonciarz
Science Awards RA2 Associates and Affiliates
April 27, 2024
The Alberti group receives Momentum funding from the Volkswagen Foundation
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
Charging Up: Identifying the Sequence-determinants of Condensate Material Properties
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
Making Ends Meet: Researcher find that a protein superglue is crucial for DNA damage repair
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
Repelling disorder: What makes cholesterol-containing surfaces so repulsive?
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
2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for Anthony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne
World’s largest science prize for discovering a new mechanism of cellular organization.
© Fabio Novelli
RA2
December 1, 2021
Using terahertz to explore the inside of the cell
Joint research group between the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to decipher biomolecules
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