TUD | Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB)
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB) of TU Dresden 🏢 3 institutes (B CUBE, BIOTEC, CRTD) 🔬 1 Technology Platform 🎓 3 Master's programs 🥼 over 40 research groups 🔗 tud.de/cmcb
🥳 Congratulations to Prof. Kai Markus Schneider for securing a Starting Grant from @erc.europa.eu! The project LIVER-CIRCUITS will explore how nerve fibers influence bile duct tumor - a difficult-to-treat cancer. Read more ➡️ tud.link/aqan5b #CMCBnews
Community, connection, and good food! 🍲✨ On Monday, we joined #DresdenIsstBunt on Neumarkt, meeting hundreds of curious visitors and sharing stories from @bcube-tud.bsky.social, @biotec-tud.bsky.social, and @crtd-tud.bsky.social 💬 #CMCBnews #Gastmahl4All #BuntesDresden
Ein Fest der kulinarischen Vielfalt & des Miteinanders 🥘 Tausende Menschen haben gestern beim Gastmahl #DresdenIsstBunt teilgenommen & ein sichtbares Zeichen für eine weltoffene Stadtgesellschaft gesetzt. Zahlreiche Einrichtungen der #TUDresden beteiligten sich. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
👩🔬Unsere Physikerin der Woche ist Dr. Anna Taubenberger! Anna ist Forschungsgruppenleiterin am Zentrum für Molekulare und Zelluläre Bioingenieurwissenschaften. Mehr zu Anna: www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge... @tudresden.bsky.social
Big congrats to Dr. Igor Zlotnikov on receiving a Heisenberg Position @dfg.de 🎉 One of Germany's most competitive research awards is going to support him in his work on #biomineralization - dissecting how nature builds extraordinary materials 🐚 Read more ➡️ tud.link/z2ahhh #CMCBnews
Dr. Igor Zlotnikov erhält renommierte Heisenberg-Stelle
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Biomedicine meets bioengineering meets physics. One of Germany's most beautiful cities. DIGS-ILS at TU Dresden lab rotations, travel grants, international community. Explore → https://www.digs-ils.phd/ Symposium Sept 10 → doctoralinsights.at #DocInsights
Is healing too fast actually a problem? 🐟 Zebrafish can heal their own spinal cords, but researchers @beckergroup.bsky.social found a natural "brake." Remove it, and regeneration speeds up, but the fish struggle to fully recover. Read more ➡️ tud.link/wtvr33 #CMCBnews #regeneration #neurobiology
Forschende entdecken molekulare „Bremse“ bei der Nervenregeneration
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🚨 #JobAlert PhD position available in the Diez group at the B CUBE @stefandiezlab.bsky.social! More info ⤵️
Diez Lab @ TU Dresden@stefandiezlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago🔬 #JobAlert Interested in doing a PhD with us in #SyntheticBiology on the Reconstitution of Oscillatory Microtubule-Motor Systems? Check shorturl.at/wis5P (note the eligibility criteria) or/and get in touch with us shorturl.at/WmgOD. Deadline: 31 July 2026 #WeAreHiring #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
Maestros of Healing 🧬 Why can zebrafish heal spinal cord injuries while humans can't? Scientists from the @beckergroup.bsky.social found that first-responder neutrophils do more than clean up - they release IL-4 to quiet the chaos so nerves can regrow. 🧠✨ Read more ➡️ tud.link/dycug1 #CMCBnews
Taktgeber der Heilung: Wie „gute“ Immunzellen bei der Regeneration von Rückenmarksverletzungen helfen
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TU Dresden@tudresden.bsky.social · 2mo agoTaktgeber der Heilung: Forschende am Zentrum für Regenerative Therapien Dresden (CRTD) der #TUDresden entschlüssen, wie „gute“ Immunzellen bei der Regeneration von Rückenmarksverletzungen helfen. 🔬 ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
📣 Big news at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social! We have a new director: Prof. Mike O. Karl @mokalab.bsky.social A massive thank you to Prof. Marius Ader for his fantastic leadership and guidance over the last two years. Here's to the next chapter! ✨ Read more ➡️ tud.link/hd4drc #CMCBnews
Prof. Mike O. Karl neuer Direktor des CRTD
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Welcome Prof. Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy! New Professor of Systems Biology and Protein Evolution & joint group leader at BIOTEC @tudresden.bsky.social & CASUS. She focuses on disordered proteins - ones that lack a fixed 3D structure - yet play essential roles. Read more ➡️ tud.link/784yv9 #CMCBnews
Sachsen bindet Spitzenforscherin im Bereich der Bioinformatik: Prof. Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy verstärkt das BIOTEC und CASUS
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🚨 #jobalert Postdoc position available in @albertilab-tud.bsky.social. Are you interested in working on cellular stress and biomolecular #condensates? More info ⤵️ #academicjobs #Germany #lifesciences
Congratulations to Prof. Simon Alberti @albertilab-tud.bsky.social for being elected to German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina @leopoldina.org! 🥳 Read more ➡️ tud.link/bc82ng #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social
Prof. Albert @mareikealbert.bsky.social is part of MICRO-NEST, a new international consortium. Backed by €6 million Horizon Europe grant 🇪🇺, it combines multidisciplinary expertise to study early markers of autism spectrum disorders. Read more ➡️ tud.link/319gn4 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social
✅ Last few days to apply for our #MSc programs! ⚛️🧬 Physics of Life 🌱⚙️ Molecular Bioengineering 🔬🧪 Regenerative Biology & Medicine Get top-quality #Master education in the #LifeSciences at @tudresden.bsky.social More info ➡️ tud.link/pjdqrp #studyingermany #biophysics
Der Schlaf-Schalter: 😴 Somatostatin gilt seit langem als einer der wichtigsten Regulatoren für Gesundheit, Gedächtnis & Lebensspanne. Eine neue Studie @cmcb-tud.bsky.social zeigt: Schlaf ist die zentrale Schaltstelle, über die das Hormon viele lebenswichtige Prozesse koordiniert. ℹ️ tud.link/ekgcb1
😴 The Sleep Switch: Somatostatin has long been known as a major regulator of health, memory, and #lifespan. Prof. Bringmann’s team found that #somatostatin doesn’t control these functions directly. Instead, it regulates #sleep 💤 which in turn drives it all! Read more: tud.link/rdzud2 #CMCBnews
Der Schlaf-Schalter: Ein Hormon, um Stoffwechsel, Gedächtnis und Lebensspanne zu beherrschen
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Check out a student testimonial from the international taught 'Physics of Life' MSc⬇️ Applications are open until 31. May! ✅No tuition fees ✅Taught by leading experts in the field ✅Course entirely in English
TUD | Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB)@cmcb-tud.bsky.social · 4mo agoJoin #MSc Physics of Life @tudresden.bsky.social and help shape the future of #Biophysics! Learn from the world-class scientists of the CMCB and @poldresden.bsky.social More about the program ➡️ tud.link/3wz553 Don't miss the testimonials from our graduates ⤵️ #studyinGermany #MastersProgram
Join #MSc Physics of Life @tudresden.bsky.social and help shape the future of #Biophysics! Learn from the world-class scientists of the CMCB and @poldresden.bsky.social More about the program ➡️ tud.link/3wz553 Don't miss the testimonials from our graduates ⤵️ #studyinGermany #MastersProgram
Study Physics of Life at the CMCB, TU Dresden - Testimonial - Hamza, Part 1
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How can #diatoms move and turn so fast in their glass-like shells? A team at B CUBE led by Dr. Poulsen @nic-poulsen.bsky.social and Prof. Diez @stefandiezlab.bsky.social has cracked the code: they steer by shifting the contact point with the surface ⚙️ Read our news ➡️ tud.link/zc6u4q #CMCBnews
New funding for Korean-German collaboration! 🇰🇷 🤝🇩🇪 Backed by the @dfg.de, the Albert group @mareikealbert.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social partners with Korean researchers to study how epigenetics and the extracellular matrix shape the human cortex 🧠 🧬 Read more ➡️ tud.link/qqvtcv #CMCBnews
Congratulations to the team! Fantastic success on the way to bring the new therapy from the lab to the market.
TUD | Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)@crtd-tud.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Super macrophages” against cancer 🧬 Prof. Michael Sieweke, Dr. Anke Fuchs, and Dr. Angela Jacobi are developing a new immune cell therapy targeting solid tumors. Backed by €2.5M from the EIC, StemPhage aims to bring this approach closer to clinical use 🔬 Read more ➡️ tud.link/vwwmxg #CMCBnews
Fantastic news! 🥳 @tudresden.bsky.social continues as University of Excellence!
TU Dresden@tudresden.bsky.social · 6mo agoTUD bleibt Exzellenzuniversität: 🎉 Die #TUDresden hat ihren Status als Exzellenzuniversität erfolgreich verteidigt. Mit 5 Exzellenzclustern & einer überzeugenden Gesamtstrategie gehört die TUD damit weiterhin zur Spitzengruppe der deutschen Forschungsuniversitäten. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
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
We continue our celebration of #WomenInScience 🔬✨ Read the full interview with Prof. Franziska Knopf ➡️ tud.link/57h4cz #everyvoiceinscience #idwgs2026 #IWD2026
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
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
