👨‍🔬🧬Are you a bachelor student curious about the physics behind biological systems and living matter? The international 'Physics of Life' MSc @cmcb-tud.bsky.social is taught entirely in English, tuition-free, and trains the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists! Learn more: tud.link/ak1hjt

👨‍🔬Are you an outstanding PhD student or recent PhD graduate? The application window for our Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program is now open! Apply here: tud.link/y3djda

Now #published @prxlife.bsky.social: a great Dresden collaboration on lumen mechanics with @chandraniva.bsky.social @markusmukenhirn.bsky.social, Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

🚀 Are you planning to secure funding to start your own research group? (e.g. ERC, Emmy Noether, etc). 👨‍🔬Physics of Life can host you, and offers numerous benefits! We are launching a new Program to host and support third-party funded junior groups. Check out the details here: tud.link/xayd8s

🚨Attention #postdocs! Applications for our Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program open on April 1. 👩‍🔬Are you an early career researcher interested in working at the interface of biology & physics? We offer a 3+ year position, generous resources, and mentoring opportunities! Apply: tud.link/y3djda

Thrilled to kick off the week with great news for PoL researchers! The 2026 HFSP Research Grant awardees @hfspo.bsky.social are out, and we’re proud to see our PIs and Associates included in 3 separate grants. Massive congratulations to all! 🎉

Grateful to have been awarded an #HFSPResearchGrants by @hfspo.bsky.social With @jrmarmor.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social Charlie Duclut @institutcurie.bsky.social & @djcohen.bsky.social @princeton.edu we will explore hidden roles of organs as electrochemical organizers of #morphogenesis 🤓

Congratualtions to our Physics of Life @poldresden.bsky.social members Elias Barriga ( @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social ), Jesse Veenvliet ( @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social ) and Frank Jülicher for getting an HFSP grant each! Not bad! 🤩👏

👩‍🔬 14,000+ physicists, one global meeting. We are super excited to be part of the #APS Global Physics Summit in Denver this week! 🧬 Curious about biophysics research at PoL? Learn more about us at the 🇩🇪 Research in Germany booth #2220. 📅 Wed: 10:00–17:00 📅 Thu: 10:00–13:00 📸 Katja Lesser

🎉 And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who visited our #conference booth at the DPG Spring meeting @dpgphysik.bsky.social, hosted this year at none other than @tudresden.bsky.social! 🧑‍🔬We greeted researchers and industry experts alike, showcasing our new flyers, booklets, and microscopy data in VR!

👨‍🔬🧬 Aktuelle Entdeckungen der Brugues-Gruppe @brugueslab.bsky.social werden in einem neuen spannenden Artikel im LaborJournal @laborjournal.bsky.social diskutiert.

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 🤓🎉

We are super excited to see a fellow Cluster of Excellence @tudresden.bsky.social joining Bluesky🦋. Welcome, REC²! 🎉

🎉Congratulations to the Friedrich group at PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social for a new collaboration published in PRX Life! Read the paper here: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

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

⚡👩‍🔬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

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

Just in time for Friday, the next image from our annual PoL Photo Competition 📸 👨‍🔬 🔬©️ This #microscopy image was taken by Shuzo Kato, a PhD student in the Brugués lab @brugueslab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de 🔍 Caption: The mitotic spindle in a zebrafish embryo under oxygen depletion (DCX-GFP).

How do cells establish and maintain their individuality with such precision? 🦠 A team led by Jan Brugués at the Cluster of Excellence @poldresden.bsky.social at TUD Dresden University of Technology has uncovered fundamental mechanisms that shed light on this question. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

🎉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

Here's the next submission from our annual PoL Photo Competition 📸 👨‍🔬 🔬©️ This beautiful image was designed by Shuzo Kato, a PhD student in the Brugués lab @brugueslab.bsky.social 🔍 Caption: A mitotic spindle; acrylic on canvas.

Congratulations to researchers in the group of @anne-grapin.bsky.social, PoL PI and director at @mpi-cbg.de for publishing an exciting new method to create functional acinar cells, opening new avenues for organoid research. 🧫

🎥 Exciting BTS from our new film project! As we start our new chapter at PoL, we’re creating some films to showcase our cutting edge research, career opportunities, and more.. Here’s a sneak peek of what to expect. We can’t wait to share the films with you, coming soon! 🌱✨

🎉PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social was recently featured in an exciting news piece about bioelectricity research by Quanta magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Curious? Check it out below! ⚡👨‍🔬

🎉New findings in PRX from @fischerfriedriclab.bsky.social at PoL overturn a long-standing belief in biophysics about living systems. Using AFM, the authors have found that time irreversibility is a better signature of cellular activity than effective temperature Read our news here: tud.link/wu3t36

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

Great story from @brugueslab.bsky.social. Congratulations, especially to @alisonkickuth.bsky.social. It was an honour to serve on the Thesis Advisory Committee! @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social #stuffthatmatters

Die mechanische Ratsche: Forscher:innen vom Exzellenzcluster @poldresden.bsky.social haben einen neuen Mechanismus der Zellteilung entdeckt. 🧫 Die in @nature.com veröffentlichten Ergebnisse zeigen, wie die Teilung über einen "Ratschen"-Mechanismus vorangetrieben wird. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Really happy to see my PhD first-author paper published in @nature.com! I’m very grateful to have worked with such a great team. Huge thanks to Urša Uršič, Michael Staddon, and Jan Brugués, as well as the @brugueslab.bsky.social, and the @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de community!

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

🎉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

🏋️Our review on how to build muscle is out in @biophysicalreviews.bsky.social: The Physical Basis of Sarcomere Assembly. We critically review past models and discuss a new mechanism that unifies past ideas, suggesting tension-driven self-organization. With @frankschnorrer.bsky.social & Kolley-Köchel

Continuing the entries from our annual Photo Competition 📸 👨‍🔬 🔬©️ This #microscopy image was captured by Arthur Boutillon from the Campàs lab @campaslab.bsky.social 🔍 Caption: Rhodamine dextran diffusing between cells, labelling extracellular space, in embryonic zebrafish.

Researchers from @merihuchlab.bsky.social, together with colleagues from @labshevchenko.bsky.social and clinicians from Dresden and Leipzig developed a patient-specific human periportal liver assembloid. Publication in @nature.com. Full news: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Onto the next submission from our annual Photo Competition! 📸 👩‍🔬🔬©️ This #microscopy image was captured by Marie Jagemann, a 'Physics of Life' MSc student 🔍 Caption: Early zebrafish embryos forming the shape of an adult fish.

Here's another beautiful submission from our annual Photo Competition 📸 👨‍🔬©️This #microscopy image was captured by Jaime Espina from the Barriga lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social 🔍 Caption: A cell cluster performing durotaxis and exhibiting differences in tubulin stabilization (nuclei shown in blue).

We’re excited to share the entries from our annual Photo Competition 📸 👨‍🔬 Here's a stunning image by Shuo-Ting Yen from the PoL Campàs lab @campaslab.bsky.social Caption: Developing zebrafish retina from the zebrabow line, captured with a Zeiss LSM980 confocal microscope using an oil paint filter.

🚨Job Opportunity for #Postdocs! We’re searching for a talented postdoctoral scientist to join our team, and explore meiotic spindle self-organization at the crossroads of biology and physics 🔬👩‍🔬 🔗 Curious? Apply now: tud.link/7fmgeg 🗓️ Deadline: January 14, 2026 Please share with your network!

Congratulations to Yasmin, a 'Physics of Life' MSc graduate now a PhD student in the PoL Friedrich group @friedrich-group.bsky.social for being awarded the Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Award last week! 🏅

🎉 Huge congrats to Caroline & Yasmin, our brilliant 'Physics of Life' MSc students @cmcb-tud.bsky.social, who were honored on Friday by TUD @tudresden.bsky.social for ranking among the top graduates last year 🏆 Fantastic work! Learn more about the awardees here: tud.link/fb4g67

Watch this video about the work of the research group of @agnestoth.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @csbdresden.bsky.social. Agnes and her group work on protein plasticity and evolution. For her work, Agnes recently received the Schering Young Investigator Award 2025! youtu.be/lEpvGu3J63M?...

🎉 After a two-year break, #PoLDay returned stronger than ever! Over 160 members from our community came together for a full day of interdisciplinary talks, research posters, team building games and more.🌟Thank you to all the organizers! Read the event recap in our PoL news⬇️ tud.link/ca72se

Best of luck to our former PoL group leader Natalie Dye @natalieadye.bsky.social ! Wishing you all the best for your future endeavours 🥳

🎉 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 🔬

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

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....

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 🎙️🤓

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