Physics of Life Dresden
@poldresden.bsky.social
We are the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) of Technische Universität Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social @dfg.de
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
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Excellence begins where people come together. PoL was honoured to be included in the recent "We are TUD" film @tudresden.bsky.social alongside other TUD Excellence Clusters and researchers. Very excited for the start of this new chapter! 🤓🤝
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
🎉 Exciting news! PoL PIs are involved in a new Research Training Group: “The Biological Making of Materials”.
With interdisciplinary research at the forefront, this new wave of PhD students will decipher the mechanisms by which organisms produce functional materials and regulate their properties 🔬
With interdisciplinary research at the forefront, this new wave of PhD students will decipher the mechanisms by which organisms produce functional materials and regulate their properties 🔬
Die @dfg.de richtet an der #TUDresden das Graduiertenkolleg „The Biological Making of Materials” ein. Über einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren werden damit mehrere Millionen Euro für Forschung zu nachhaltigen Materialien zur Verfügung gestellt.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎉 Exciting news! PoL PIs are involved in a new Research Training Group: “The Biological Making of Materials”.
With interdisciplinary research at the forefront, this new wave of PhD students will decipher the mechanisms by which organisms produce functional materials and regulate their properties 🔬
With interdisciplinary research at the forefront, this new wave of PhD students will decipher the mechanisms by which organisms produce functional materials and regulate their properties 🔬
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Axolotl can regrow lost limbs, matching their body size. How? Our new theory-experiment paper in @pnas.org proposes how oppositely oriented morphogen gradients scaling with animal size promote proportional growth. Great collaboration with @tatianasg.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Axolotl can regrow lost limbs, matching their body size. How? Our new theory-experiment paper in @pnas.org proposes how oppositely oriented morphogen gradients scaling with animal size promote proportional growth. Great collaboration with @tatianasg.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social
🎉Paper alert! How do #axolotls regrow their limbs to match their body size? A new publication by PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social along with @tatianasg.bsky.social @crtd-tud.bsky.social shows that opposing morphogen gradients scaling with animal size are key.
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Morphogen Math: A Model of Axolotl Limb Growth during Regeneration
In a new publication led by the Friedrich group at PoL and the Sandoval-Guzmán group at CRTD, scientists propose a model of morphogen scaling during limb regeneration in axolotls.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎉Paper alert! How do #axolotls regrow their limbs to match their body size? A new publication by PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social along with @tatianasg.bsky.social @crtd-tud.bsky.social shows that opposing morphogen gradients scaling with animal size are key.
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
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Congratulations to @sofiram.bsky.social and @artemiskorovesi.bsky.social on our last paper about the role of Sox8 in #xenopus #gastrulation
A link to the whole paper is here www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
A link to the whole paper is here www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Sox8 is essential for vertebrate gastrulation | EMBO reports
imageimageThe use of CRISPR Cas7-11 uncovers a role for sox8 in Xenopus gastrulation as a regulator of Wnt signaling. sox8 downregulation in the ventrolateral mesoderm disrupts blastopore closure and...
www.embopress.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Congratulations to @sofiram.bsky.social and @artemiskorovesi.bsky.social on our last paper about the role of Sox8 in #xenopus #gastrulation
A link to the whole paper is here www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
A link to the whole paper is here www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Curious about how #mechanical forces can affect our bodies? Listen to PoL PI Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich in an exciting new #podcast episode 'Conversations on AFM' developed by Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social 🎙️🤓
Episode 6: The Role of Mechanical Forces in Health and Disease feat. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Join Prof. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich from the Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life' at the Technical University Dresden, Germany, as she speaks about the role of mechanical forces in health and di...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Curious about how #mechanical forces can affect our bodies? Listen to PoL PI Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich in an exciting new #podcast episode 'Conversations on AFM' developed by Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social 🎙️🤓
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Interested in #mechanobiology? I joined Bruker’s Conversations on AFM to discuss how mechanical forces shape #cells and #tissues, what #AFM can reveal, and why mechanics matters for health and disease. @poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Interested in #mechanobiology? I joined Bruker’s Conversations on AFM to discuss how mechanical forces shape #cells and #tissues, what #AFM can reveal, and why mechanics matters for health and disease. @poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
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Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations! 🥳🎉
Congrats to our latest graduate Gina Dimari 🤩🥳💐@fischerfriedriclab.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social freshly graduated @tudresden.bsky.social faculty of Biology. Thanks to everyone involved in the project recently published @cp-iscience.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations! 🥳🎉
🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network.
What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics.
Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy
🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.
What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics.
Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy
🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network.
What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics.
Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy
🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.
What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics.
Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy
🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.
🇬🇧Are you experienced as an administrative manager and thrive in an #international environment? We would love to hear from you!
Please share with those who might be interested!
🗓️Deadline: 30.10.2025
Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
Please share with those who might be interested!
🗓️Deadline: 30.10.2025
Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🚨 #WeAreHiring! Wir beim Physics of Life suchen für ein/e Verwaltungsleiter/in für unser internationales Team. 🌍 Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter!
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🇬🇧Are you experienced as an administrative manager and thrive in an #international environment? We would love to hear from you!
Please share with those who might be interested!
🗓️Deadline: 30.10.2025
Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
Please share with those who might be interested!
🗓️Deadline: 30.10.2025
Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🚨 #WeAreHiring! Wir beim Physics of Life suchen für ein/e Verwaltungsleiter/in für unser internationales Team. 🌍 Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter!
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 #WeAreHiring! Wir beim Physics of Life suchen für ein/e Verwaltungsleiter/in für unser internationales Team. 🌍 Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter!
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
🗓️Frist: 30.10.2025
Alle Infos hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#sachsenjobs #jobalert #admin #jobstelle
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The @cmcb-tud.bsky.social , @poldresden.bsky.social, @mpi-cbg.de, and the scientific community of Dresden would like to express the deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and colleagues of Jochen Guck. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The @cmcb-tud.bsky.social , @poldresden.bsky.social, @mpi-cbg.de, and the scientific community of Dresden would like to express the deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and colleagues of Jochen Guck. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Prof. Jochen Guck was one of the initial PIs that made our Excellence Cluster possible. He helped build the outstanding community at PoL, in addition to being a great scientist and person. You will be sorely missed Jochen.
Read the obituary here: tud.link/q3k63e
Read the obituary here: tud.link/q3k63e
With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
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📸 Stephan Spangenberg
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📸 Stephan Spangenberg
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Prof. Jochen Guck was one of the initial PIs that made our Excellence Cluster possible. He helped build the outstanding community at PoL, in addition to being a great scientist and person. You will be sorely missed Jochen.
Read the obituary here: tud.link/q3k63e
Read the obituary here: tud.link/q3k63e
Attention colleagues! Interested in an interdisciplinary #PhD? 🧬 Apply now for one of 12 PhD positions exploring biomolecular #condensates! This program involves several PoL PIs, bridging the gap between physics and biology.
Apply here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/
🗓Deadline: 24. October
Apply here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/
🗓Deadline: 24. October
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Attention colleagues! Interested in an interdisciplinary #PhD? 🧬 Apply now for one of 12 PhD positions exploring biomolecular #condensates! This program involves several PoL PIs, bridging the gap between physics and biology.
Apply here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/
🗓Deadline: 24. October
Apply here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/
🗓Deadline: 24. October
We recently featured in the new TUD film, highlighting how research at PoL is transformative. We are ushering in a revolution in biology, understanding life as a physical process, and bringing physics to life. 🔬
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e9...
Images: ©️ AVANGA Filmproduktion
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e9...
Images: ©️ AVANGA Filmproduktion
October 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We recently featured in the new TUD film, highlighting how research at PoL is transformative. We are ushering in a revolution in biology, understanding life as a physical process, and bringing physics to life. 🔬
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e9...
Images: ©️ AVANGA Filmproduktion
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e9...
Images: ©️ AVANGA Filmproduktion
Congratulations to PoL PI Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social for this award, given by the prestigious Schering Stiftung! 🎉
The Young Investigator Award honors scientists who have demonstrated outstanding achievements across the spectrum of life sciences.
The Young Investigator Award honors scientists who have demonstrated outstanding achievements across the spectrum of life sciences.
Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 by the Schering Stiftung for Agnes Toth-Petroczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social. She receives the award for her work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
New Perspectives on the Hidden World of Proteins
Schering Young Investigator Award 2025 goes to Agnes Toth-Petroczy
www.mpi-cbg.de
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations to PoL PI Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social for this award, given by the prestigious Schering Stiftung! 🎉
The Young Investigator Award honors scientists who have demonstrated outstanding achievements across the spectrum of life sciences.
The Young Investigator Award honors scientists who have demonstrated outstanding achievements across the spectrum of life sciences.
Fantastic work PoL students! Another cohort of MSc 'Physics of Life' students @cmcb-tud.bsky.social are wrapping up their defenses this week. Congratulations to all! 🥳
There is a new Master of Physics of Life in the house. Congratulations, Adnan! Well done! It was really a superb Defense!
@poldresden.bsky.social
@poldresden.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Fantastic work PoL students! Another cohort of MSc 'Physics of Life' students @cmcb-tud.bsky.social are wrapping up their defenses this week. Congratulations to all! 🥳
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Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
🇬🇧Attention colleagues! We are hiring a new Building Manager to join our team at PoL. Please share with your network 👥
Learn more and apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🗓️Deadline: 14.10.2025
Learn more and apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🗓️Deadline: 14.10.2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🇬🇧Attention colleagues! We are hiring a new Building Manager to join our team at PoL. Please share with your network 👥
Learn more and apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🗓️Deadline: 14.10.2025
Learn more and apply here: tud.link/f4wf13
🗓️Deadline: 14.10.2025
🚨 #WeAreHiring!
Wir beim Physics of Life suchen eine engagierte Persönlichkeit zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement! Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung.
🗓️ Frist: 14.10.2025
Alle Details hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#wearehiring #sachsenjobs #joboffer #jobsdeutschland
Wir beim Physics of Life suchen eine engagierte Persönlichkeit zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement! Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung.
🗓️ Frist: 14.10.2025
Alle Details hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#wearehiring #sachsenjobs #joboffer #jobsdeutschland
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚨 #WeAreHiring!
Wir beim Physics of Life suchen eine engagierte Persönlichkeit zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement! Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung.
🗓️ Frist: 14.10.2025
Alle Details hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#wearehiring #sachsenjobs #joboffer #jobsdeutschland
Wir beim Physics of Life suchen eine engagierte Persönlichkeit zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement! Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung.
🗓️ Frist: 14.10.2025
Alle Details hier: tud.link/f4wf13
#wearehiring #sachsenjobs #joboffer #jobsdeutschland
Congratulations!! 🥳
Congratulations @philipschoene.bsky.social on defending his Master’s thesis on the supremacy of mechanics in Hydra regeneration from aggregates of dissociated cells. Expertly guided by @anaisbailles.bsky.social. #experiment and #theory #LoPaTs @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social #stuffthatmatters
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Congratulations!! 🥳
Excellence begins where people come together. PoL was honoured to be included in the recent "We are TUD" film @tudresden.bsky.social alongside other TUD Excellence Clusters and researchers. Very excited for the start of this new chapter! 🤓🤝
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Excellence begins where people come together. PoL was honoured to be included in the recent "We are TUD" film @tudresden.bsky.social alongside other TUD Excellence Clusters and researchers. Very excited for the start of this new chapter! 🤓🤝
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
Watch the full film on Youtube: youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
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Excellence begins where people come together, where perspectives meet. At TUD, we create innovation together. Experience how we are shaping the future with curiosity, passion, and creativity.
We are TUD | The Collaborative University
inventive. transformative. engaged.
🎥 youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
We are TUD | The Collaborative University
inventive. transformative. engaged.
🎥 youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
September 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Excellence begins where people come together, where perspectives meet. At TUD, we create innovation together. Experience how we are shaping the future with curiosity, passion, and creativity.
We are TUD | The Collaborative University
inventive. transformative. engaged.
🎥 youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
We are TUD | The Collaborative University
inventive. transformative. engaged.
🎥 youtu.be/58e9lF793ww
Congratulations to postdoc Arthur Boutillon at the Campàs lab @campaslab.bsky.social for a beautiful cover image selected for the latest Development issue @dev-journal.bsky.social!
Issue 16 is complete!
On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.
thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...
On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.
thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...
September 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Congratulations to postdoc Arthur Boutillon at the Campàs lab @campaslab.bsky.social for a beautiful cover image selected for the latest Development issue @dev-journal.bsky.social!