Benjamin Friedrich

Porträtfoto von Jeronimo Castrillón-Mazo.

Computersyste­me einfacher programmieren: 🧑‍💻 TUD-Prof. Jerónimo Castrillón-Mazo wird mit dem hochdotierten @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grants gefördert. Sein Projekt COMETH soll neue Tools entwickeln, die die Programmierung von Computersystemen vereinfachen.
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🎉 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

Honors and Awards for Top Graduates The top graduates of each academic year are honored with the Lohrmann Medal and the Certificates of the various Schools.

Here the official link: tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/p...

Congratulations to sky-less Yasmin Abdelghaffar (2nd from right), who received an Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Award for her MSc studies as one of the top-4 graduates of the School of Science at @tudresden.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social. Congratulations and keep up the great work!

Delighted to announce “Hydrodynamic Approaches to Active Matter: Successes and Future Challenges”, will now take place on 6–10 October 2025 at @mpipks.bsky.social, on the occasion of John Toner’s 71st birthday. We hope you will join us.

www.pks.mpg.de/haam26

All the best for your new position!

Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾

👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

🎉 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 🔬

Grfaik: Glasskelett des Schwamms Geodia cydonium, abgebildet mittels Röntgen-Nanotomographie.

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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Exciting application of our programmable #CellCulture matrix #DyNAtrix.

By creating a mechanically reconfigurable microenvironment, we can now invert & guide epithelial cell polarity in real time.

#DNAnanotech

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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.

🎉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

Here is the link to the paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Schematic of limb regeneration in axolotl, with growth controlled by two oppositely oriented morphogen gradients (SHH, FGF8).

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

A big thank you to the organizers from CAS and MPG for this fantastic meeting!

Great meeting in Shenzhen by @asm.org and SIAT! Really appreciated the microbiology insights — amazing how central microbes are to so many of today’s challenges. @vscooper.micropopbio.org @rebeleinlab.bsky.social @helgebode.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social
www.greeninger-chemistry.com/

Mesenchymal-epithelial transition reduces proliferation but increases immune evasion in tumor spheroids Microenvironment; Biological process; Cancer

Why do secondary #tumors go for #MET during the metastatic cascade? Our new study suggests that immune evasion—rather than faster proliferation—might give them the edge.
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#CancerResearch #TumorBiology #Immunology #Metastasis

How do individual proteins sculpt the epithelial basement membrane?
Our new study uncovers their role in network structure, nematic alignment & fractal patterns.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CellBiology #ECM #BasementMembrane

Fabulous job call @tudresden.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for a new head. Post is for two years in the first instance, remunerated at group leader level with lots of opportunity to drive development and science
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Sarcomeres are the contractile units of muscle 💪. During development, sarcomeres divide to add new sarcomeres - out now and on the cover. Great work by @clementrodier.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @frankschnorrer.bsky.social at @ibdm.bsky.social & @poldresden.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Sarcomere Division: A New Mechanism of Muscle Growth Under Tension Researchers from the Friedrich group at PoL have identified a novel sarcomere division mechanism, explaining how muscles add new contractile units under high mechanical stress.

🎉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

Wonderful theory-experiment collaboration with @frankschnorrer.bsky.social on muscle growth: by detecting and analyzing thousands of sarcomeres, we discovered a mechanism of tension-driven sarcomere addition: a mother sarcomeres divide daughter sarcomeres - now out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Picture of the PIs of TUD's Clusters of Excellence and Cluster of Excellence Initiatives beeing happy.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger during the announcement of the funding decision of the DFG.

Picture of cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger and cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
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Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Good news: there will be 3 scholarships available for Physics of Life MSc students starting in 2025!

✅ €300/month for 1 year
✅ No separate application—admitted students are automatically considered.

Apply now ➡️ tud.link/vejrmx

#Biophysics #PhysicsofLife #StudyinGermany #Masters #Biology

One week left to apply to the Physics of Life MSc this year! Students learn first-class research skills and can also avail of #scholarships to aid their studies.

Learn more and apply: physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/career-educa...

#internationalstudents #MSc #EnglishMSc #Physics #studyabroad

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
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Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Fully-funded PhD position at @poldresden.bsky.social in Dresden, Germany, to theoretically study sarcomere self-assembly in muscle cells, in collaboration with the experimental group of Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social

More information here:
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/friedrich

It was wonderful to meet you at our #cilia meeting - thank you for your great talk!

🚀 Looking for an #HFSP ally? We’ve got you covered with #AtomicForceMicroscopy, #CellCulture, #Mechanobiological #Modeling, & more! 🤝 Interested? Let’s connect! 📧 Details 👉 physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de #Collaboration