PoL is at the DPG @dpgphysik.bsky.social spring meeting in Dresden. Visit us in Tent C until Thursday afternoon!
Special thanks to the @brugueslab.bsky.social for the cool data on our Apple Vision Pro devices! Come check it out 🤓🎉
New research group at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social !🎉🔬
Supported by the ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social is launching a new group to study the sense of gravity and #regeneration in the inner ear in axolotl.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/buva24
#CMCBnews
This is a fantastic #biophysics job opportunity to join us in Dresden @mpipks.bsky.social! Apply by the 3rd of April!
Looking for a theory partner for an #HFSP project? #morphogenesis in cells and tissues, #chemotaxis, #cilia? Feel free to reach out! Deadline for letters of intent 26.03.2026.
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro...
Would the dot pattern be compatible with a Turing mechanism?
The abstract deadline for our Motors and Filaments Meeting is approaching fast - 1st March. We have plenty slots for 15/10min talks and 3min flash talks to allocate. Thanks to generous support from @embo.org and @biologists.bsky.social, we can offer sustainable travel bursaries and a free livestream
Link to full paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
@mpinb.mpg.de @unibonn.bsky.social @limes-bonn.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social
@poldresden.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
Just published: chemotactic sperm cells become phototactic 💡- by loading photo-activatable second messengers. This allows to "reverse-engineer" chemotactic signaling dynamics and expose cells to signals they would never see in the wild. Honoured to be part of this collaboration with the Kaupp lab.
Congratulations to Prof. María Teresa Pisabarro, our expert in structure-based computational approaches! 🎉 She's part of a new @dfg.de consortium with @uni-saarland.de that investigates signaling in vascular inflammation. 🩸🔬
Read more ➡️ tud.link/tmga7z
@tudresden.bsky.social #CMCBnews
This month, together with @cmcb-tud.bsky.social, we celebrate #WomenInScience 🔬✨
Read the full interview with Prof. Yael Politi ➡️ tud.link/y6755t
#everyvoiceinscience #idwgs2026 #IWD2026
Great to see our paper on light-intensity dependent swimming patterns in #Chlamydomonas out now in Phys Rev Lett. as an Editors' suggestion! With a nice commentary by @philipcball.bsky.social.
Chlamy actively modulate the beat planes of their #cilia!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #protistsonsky
Exciting news 🧬 Funded by a Rise Up! grant from @boehringerglobal.bsky.social, the Albert group @mareikealbert.bsky.social will explore how epigenetics shapes the timing of brain development across species.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/uakytp
Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones?
www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...
Ooooh. Cool new paper on origins of life. A simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here's a beautiful #microscopy image from our PoL Photo Competition 📸
👨🔬 🔬©️ Image taken by Yogishree Arabinda Panda, PhD student in the Fischer-Friedrich group @fischerfriedriclab.bsky.social
🔍 Caption: A SEM micrograph of a mitotically arrested HeLa cell with visible filopodia membrane reservoirs
New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
⚡👩🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study!
Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social
Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz
Video:©️ Mateus group
The Elbe Program is offering positions for independent postdocs at the interface between theory (physics, maths, computing) and biology. Join us in Dresden! Deadline 13 March.
🎉Exciting new findings out in @nature.com today by the Brugués lab! @brugueslab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
👨🔬 The authors describe how physical instability of the cytoskeleton works with the cell cycle to drive organization in the embryo during early development
Read our press release: tud.link/kctu4s
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
You have a background in math/physics/computer science/ML and are looking for an interdisciplinary postdoc fellowship in life sciences with free choice of host groups? Then join us at the CSBD as an ELBE postdoc! The application deadline is the 13 of March
🦠 Antibiotic resistance is a growing global challenge 🌍.
With support from the GO-Bio program (BMFTR), Dr. Ekaterina Vorobevskaia & Prof. Michael Schlierf @schlierflab.bsky.social are taking the next step to develop new tools against multiresistant bacteria. 🔬🧪
Read more: tud.link/q66rj1
The group of @anne-grapin.bsky.social developed methods to create functional acinar cells, which are involved in the formation of pancreatic cancer. Rashmiparvathi Keshara, Karolina Kuodyte, and the TDS facility used image-based screen & robust analysis pipeline. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
I remember the great talk - great to see the story mature. I am truly intrigued how Chlamydomonas seemingly uses two fundamentally different taxis mechanisms for gradient sensing in either space or time: helical klinotaxis and run-and-tumble phototaxis
How do phototactic microorganisms navigate structured light fields? 🦠🔬
We show that their motion depends on both the light gradient and a memory of illumination. By exploiting this, we can guide and confine microalgae using tailored light patterns.
@comedialkb.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.07741
ECM as a cell-cycle brake.
Led by Liyuan Sui (Dahmann lab), we show that the ECM gates Yorkie nuclear entry to halt proliferation at final size via G2 arrest in the Drosophila wing disc. Programmed ECM degradation later enables re-entry + proper adult wing size. Link 👇
#Mechanobiology #ECM
New paper out: AFM-tip fluctuations inside the actin cortex reveal that effective temperature can remain unchanged while time-irreversibility/entropy production drop (turnover inhibition). #CellMechanics #ActiveMatter #Nonequilibrium
@poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
🎉Exciting findings out today in Nature @nature.com from the PoL group of Jan Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social! The authors describe a new mechanism driving cell division during early development in #zebrafish, fundamentally altering our view of the process.
Read the press release: tud.link/2s3bxj
Apply for a PhD in Singapore at NUS! Deadline Jan 12. I'm recruiting:
Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
and
Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/
Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics
