# PoL Associates

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In addition to [PoL Groups](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups), our research is supported by additional PIs from various partner institutes in Dresden that are associated with PoL.

### Sebastian Aland

HTWD
| Professor for Numerical Analysis

Modeling and Simulation of Biological Interfaces

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### Michael Brand

TUD CRTD
| Professor for Developmental Genetics

Development and Regeneration of the Vertebrate Brain

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### Jürgen Czarske

TUD
| Professor for Measurement and Sensor Systems

Biomedical Computational Laser Systems (BIOLAS): Adaptive Smart Microscopy

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### Christian Dahmann

TUD
| Professor for Systems Biology and Genetics

Signals and mechanics in epithelial morphogenesis

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### Thomas Kühne

TUD, CASUS, HZDR
| Director of CASUS, Professor for Computational Systems Science

Sustainable Systems Science, Theory of Complex Systems

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### Min Ae Lee-Kirsch

TUD Medical Faculty
| Professor for Molecular Pediatrics

Disorders of Nucleic Acid Immunity

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### Carl Modes

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Network Complexity and Systems Biophysics

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### Felix Müller-Planitz

MTZ, TUD
| Professor for Physiological Chemistry

Epigenetics and Chromatin: How chromatin forms and how it affects cellular functions

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### André Nadler

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Membrane Chemical Biology

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### Arash Nikoubashman

IPF, TUD Faculty of Physics
| Heisenberg Professor for Theory of Biologically Inspired Polymers

Theory of Bio-inspired polymers

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### Yael Politi

TUD B CUBE, TUD Faculty of Biology
| Professor for Bioprospecting

Chitin-based biological materials and biomineralization

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© TUD CMCB, Magdalena Gonciarz

### Michael Schlierf

TUD B CUBE
| Professor for Molecular Biophysics

Conformational changes in biomolecules and enzymes

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### Benjamin Schumann

TUD
| Professor of Biochemistry

Chemical Glycobiology

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### Jens-Uwe Sommer

IPF
| Professor for Theory of Polymers at Interfaces

Theoretical Polymer Physics

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© IPF, Jürgen Lösel

### Stefanie Speidel

NCT/UCC, CeTI, TUD
| Professor for Translational Surgical Oncology

Machine learning for computer/robot-assisted surgery

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© Gabriele Bellmann, UKD

### Anna Taubenberger

TUD BIOTEC, IPF
| Research Group Leader

Oncomechanics

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© Magdalena Gonciarz

### Pavel Tomancak

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Patterns of gene expression in animal development

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### Jesse Veenvliet

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Stembryogenesis

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### Axel Voigt

TUD
| Professor for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Cells and Systems

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### Alexander von Appen

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Structural Self-Organization of Membranous Organelles

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### Michael Weber

MPI-CBG
| Research Group Leader

Nanoscale Optical Bioimaging

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### Martin Weigert

TUD, ScaDS.AI
| Chair of Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding

AI & Computer Vision for Quantitative Microscopy

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### Artur Yakimovich

CASUS, HZDR
| Research Group Leader

Machine Learning for Infection and Disease

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