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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 8d

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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 12d

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! 🥳

Anna Poetsch @apoetsch.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 15d

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!

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 14d

🇬🇧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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 #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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations!! 🥳

paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 23d

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

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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 23d

🥳 Excited to be part of this new journey! Thank you for featuring us.

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 28d

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!

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 29d

Great to see PoL PI Stephan Grill @stephangrill.bsky.social presenting fascinating work at #MBIMPG2025 in Singapore!

Our recent partnership with the MBI @mbisg.bsky.social will foster some exciting new collaborations 🤓 Looking forward!

Mechanobiology Institute @mbisg.bsky.social · 29d

Physics meets morphogenesis! @stephangrill.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social live imaging shows how a left-right principal body axis forms through actomyosin cell surface deformation that supports chiral rotations – driving cell reshaping – in both nematodes and the Japanese quail. #MBIMPG2025

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨Attention image analysts, with expertise in programming and image/data science software!

We are #hiring another scientific role at PoL to support our interdisciplinary research team. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬

🗓Deadline: September 19th
Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

#imageanalysis #jobad

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Hyman Lab @hymanlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to Patrick and his team!
Tremendous work carried out over the last years @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social as collaboration between Hyman lab, Brugues lab and Andrei Shevchenko

Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · Sep 5

New #preprint: "Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces", a great #biophysics collaboration with Chandraniva Guha Ray, @markusmukenhirn.bsky.social, Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.04316

@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are #hiring for two scientific support roles at PoL - in light microscopy and biophysics instrumentation. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬

Are you an expert in either of these areas? We would love to hear from you! The deadline for both roles is September 18th. 🗓️

Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

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Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Sep 3

New findings out today in Nature Chemistry from the Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social at PoL, alongside colleagues at @mpi-cbg.de and the IPF Dresden 🧪 The authors have discovered a new method to identify the molecular makeup of biomolecular condensates

Read our press release here: tud.link/ajwtaz

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.link

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Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social · Sep 1

We have a fully funded 3y postdoc position open!!!! Come join us @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social to understand the role of Membranes in Controlling Biogenic Crystallization :) this is part of our #HFSP funded project with @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social and @vmonje.bsky.social! Applications👇

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 1

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · Aug 29

Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells

Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.

www.mpi-cbg.de

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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our paper about active crystals is now out @softmatter.rsc.org! During the revisions, we added a section about triangular lattices, on which the turn-towards or turn-away interactions can be frustrated. Check it out, and see the post below!

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

bsky.app/profile/rica...

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are excited to announce our new #partnership with the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) in Singapore! 🇸🇬

This collaboration will combine MBI’s expertise on molecular, cell, and tissue mechanobiology with our research on spatiotemporal organization of living matter to understand how organisms form 🔬

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Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Of course, this could not be possible without incredible support from @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social, and their great facilities! 😊

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · Aug 25

Massive congratulations to the lab of PoL and MPI-CBG @mpi-cbg.de group leader Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social for a novel publication on the formation of zebrafish iridosomal crystals! 🎉 You can learn more in the thread below:

Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social · Aug 22

The first paper of our lab is finally out, and I feel very proud and grateful to our wonderful team! @Jannik Rothkegel, @Sylvia Kaufmann, @Michaela Wilsch-Braueninger, @Catarina Lopes <3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Purine Molecular Interactions Determine Anisotropic Shape of Zebrafish Biogenic Crystals

Many organisms self-organize crystals for vision, pigmentation, or storage. In zebrafish, iridophores produce anisotropic crystals in iridosomes. Using imaging and genetic tools, crystal growth is sh...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wonderful joint retreat with Yang lab @poldresden.bsky.social!

Renewed my enthusiasm for clarifying the energy budgets of diverse cells and organisms.

Grateful to the organizers for putting together such a fun and creative event!

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