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

🚨 #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

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

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

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!

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!

🚨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

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

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

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

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

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

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👇

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...

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...

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 🔬

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

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:

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!

Congratulations to PoL PI Alf Honigmann and PoL Associate André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social and colleagues @mpi-cbg.de for their publication in Nature @nature.com highlighting a new workflow for imaging lipid localization and transport. 🎉🤓 Fantastic work!

Today’s #microscopy #market was very smooth. The student teams got the hang of it. Lightsheet systems are going on all cylinders all around @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social #LISH25

🇬🇧 We are #hiring a Financial Assistant to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment and speak both English and German? We would love to hear from you! Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux 🗓️Application deadline: 21st August #financejobs #dresden

🚨 #WeAreHiring! Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter! Wir suchen eine/n Projektassistent/in für unser internationales Team bei Physics of Life! Bewerbt euch bis zum 21. August. Mehr Infos hier: tud.link/rywtux #joboffer #jobalert #jobdestages #sachsenjobs #dresdenjobs

🇬🇧 #WeAreHiring for a Building and Technical Infrastructure Manager at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment, and speak English and German? We would love to hear from you! Please share with your network. Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13 Deadline: 2nd September 2025

Stretching the immortal Hydra. Publication by @paveltomancak.bsky.social group with Carl Modes @mpi-cbg.de & @zechnerlab.bsky.social shows how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties. @anaisbailles.bsky.social @pnas.org www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

An new collaboration between the Fischer-Friedrich group at PoL @fischerfriedriclab.bsky.social, Anke Fuchs lab at the CRTD @crtd-tud.bsky.social and colleagues highlights that mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) may help tumors survive in new environments by avoiding attacks from immune cells!

Congratulations to the Fischer-Friedrich group @fischerfriedriclab.bsky.social at PoL for their new publication in Matrix Biology! 🎉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

For our seventh (and final) new #Research Avenue at PoL we're diving deep into data! For Bio-Data Science and Physics-Informed AI 💻 We will develop cutting-edge computational methods, including AI and Machine Learning, blending data and theory to uncover hidden patterns in living systems. 📈

🇬🇧 We are #hiring an IT Specialist to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Please share with your colleagues. 🗓️Deadline: 8th August. Apply here: tud.link/rywtux

🚨 #JobAlert Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter! Wir suchen eine/n Informatiker/in für unser internationales Team bei Physics of Life! Bewerbt euch bis zum 8. August. Mehr Infos: tud.link/rywtux #joboffer #wearehiring #jobdestages #sachsenjobs

Our sixth new #Research Avenue at PoL is Engineering Living Matter! By building reconstituted or synthetic modules that reproduce functional parts of living systems at molecular, cellular, and tissue scales, we aim to reveal the physical principles of life 🤓 🧫

Congrats to the Sbalzarini lab at PoL @mosaicgroup.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social and the Brand Lab (a PoL Associate) @crtd-tud.bsky.social for their fascinating work published in Development, exploring the contribution of porous 3D tissue geometry on morphogen gradients in zebrafish embryos!🤓🎉

Tagging @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social

Our fifth new #Research Avenue at PoL is Physical Measurements in Intact Living Systems 🔬 Developing non-invasive microscopy tech is key for measuring physical forces like electric fields, pressure, stress, and more. This will bring our understanding of the physical basis of life to a new level.

Congratulations to the Friedrich group at PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social and the group of Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social at IBDM @ibdm.bsky.social for their new publication on the cover of Science Advances! Check out the paper below⤵️

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉Paper alert! Congratulations to the Friedrich group at PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social and collaborators for their new findings (+cover!) published in Science Advances. They reveal a novel mechanism for muscle growth via division of sarcomeres, throughout myofibrils Learn more: tud.link/35mkgk

Last month, PoL took part in the Dresden Long Night of Science at the CRTD @crtd-tud.bsky.social . Over 46,000 visitors took part across the city in a massive science communication event. We were proud to be part of it! 👨‍🔬 Learn more in our PoL news: tud.link/qsbexh #sciencecommunication #outreach

How does life organize itself? 🤔 PoL's fourth new #Research Avenue is Energy and Information Flows in Active Matter. Our aim is to reveal the physical principles underlying the emergent dynamic organization of the living state of matter. To do so, we harness the physics of life to investigate!

Congrats Augusto Ortega Granillo, a joint postdoc at PoL @campaslab.bsky.social and @anne-grapin.bsky.social at @mpi-cbg.de (a PoL member) for receiving a prestigious HFSP Postdoc Fellowship! He will investigate osmotic pressure in pancreas lumen formation- exciting interdisciplinary science ahead🤓

Our third new #Research Avenue: Self-Organizing Active Molecular Systems! 🧬 We're uncovering the physical principles of self-organization leading to functional cytoskeletal and chromatin structures. Our research will reveal how these structures emerge from molecular behaviors and interactions!

The event would not be possible without 250+ volunteers from the CMCB institutes @bcube-tud.bsky.social, @biotec-tud.bsky.social, @crtd-tud.bsky.social and partners @poldresden.bsky.social, @plid-info.bsky.social, SaxoCell, MANOS, and Dresdner Seniorenakademie ❤️

🌙 Over 2,200 visitors, 250+ volunteers, and one unforgettable Science Night at the CMCB, @tudresden.bsky.social! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us – and to our amazing volunteers! #LNDWDD #Dresden #CMCBnews

That’s a wrap on #LNDWDD 2025! Thank you to the CRTD @crtd-tud.bsky.social for hosting PoL for the evening. With over 2000 visitors, we were proud to take part in Dresden’s largest scientific outreach event. Special thanks to the 50+ PoL volunteers who made this possible! 🤓💪 #sciencecommunication

Our second new #Research Avenue at PoL: Emergent Cellular Phases! 👩‍🔬🧫 RA2 aims to connect the physical principles and underlying molecular mechanisms of how membraneless compartments (like biological condensates) form, to uncover how cells generate, maintain, and control these distinct phases.

Big news 🎉 We are excited to announce the new TUD graduate school "Biomolecular Condensates: From Physics to Biological Functions", with 12 members from PoL! Through this school, we will train a new generation of scientists working on #condensates at the interphase between theory and experiments 🤓⤵️

🐠🦠Why can’t bacteria swim like fish? At microscopic scales, physics changes — viscosity rules! Researchers at our institute study how microbes like E. coli overcome this challenge with clever strategies like run-and-tumble. Watch our new video: youtu.be/drwCRRD7CGY?...

Check out a fantastic video by @marionamec.bsky.social in the lab of Christina Kurzthaler, a PI at PoL, @mpipks.bsky.social, and @csbdresden.bsky.social, highlighting how micro-organisms move, including the 'run-and-tumble' strategy, which helps bacteria navigate their environment 🤓 Nice work!