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Chair of Biophysics (Professorship)

Parent Units:
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
German name: "Professur für Biophysik".

Contact

web: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/
email:
phone: +49 (0)351 463 40328
fax: +49 (0)351 463 40342
address: Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Chair of Biophysics, Tatzberg 47/49, 01307 Dresden, Germany
partner: Technische Universität Dresden

Expertise

Morphogenesis refers to the generation of form in Biology. Our group is interested in understanding the biophysical basis of morphogenesis, how an unpatterned blob of cells develops into a fully structured and formed organism. We combine theory and experiment, and investigate force generation on multiple scales. At the level of cells and tissues we study how the actomyosin cell cortex self contracts, reshapes and deforms, and how these morphogenetic activities couple to regulatory biochemical pathways. At the level of molecules we investigate force generation and movement of individual molecules of RNA polymerases in the context of gene expression and transcriptional proofreading.

Affiliations

Parent Units

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type
actions
Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (Biotec) Center view
Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) Institute view

Last Update

Last updated at: 2018-08-17 10:03 CEST