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Conducting research in the natural and medical sciences to obtain fundamental new insights. Tweets by the communication team.
Göttingen, Deutschland
Joined August 2017
#PhD, #DnD(?) & #postdoc positions in “theory and methods for non-equilibrium atomistic simulations of complex #biomolecules” – Interested in theoretical and computational #biophysics? Check out the #JobAlert & apply here ⬇️: Shares welcome! #hiring #job.
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Am 2.11., 19 Uhr spricht Maja Göpel (@beyond_ideology) beim #Literaturherbst in #Göttingen über die neue Lebensweise, auf die wir uns etwa durch eine sich ändernde #Umwelt einstellen müssen. An diesem Abend wird sie mit der #ScienceCommunicationMedal🏅 ausgezeichnet.🥂 @leuphana
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#Labwear never goes out of style😎. What’s your #labstyle? 🥼.#Labwear101 #Dressforsuccess #Lablife #Research #Science #Phdlife #Postdoclife
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For a broader scientific scope: Two Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen become one – our institute will merge with the MPI for Experimental Medicine #MPIEM to bring together natural science and basic medical research. .@maxplanckpress @thegoecampus
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Scientists at our institute and #UMG #Goettingen developed #nanobodies that efficiently block #SARSCoV2 and its dangerous new variants. #Corona #Covid_19 @maxplanckpress @Thomas_Guttler .
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Welcome to MPI-NAT! 🎉.We wish you all a #HappyNewYear. 🥂.In the future, from this channel we will share everything interesting from the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences with you. #StayTuned! 🙂 #Finally #SomethingNew
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With this #winterwonderland all around our institute on #Fassberg, it's sometimes hard to focus on basic natural #sciences. ❄❤️❄❤️❄
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Congratulations to Marina Rodnina on becoming an International Member of @theNASciences.🥂 The U.S. academy honors her for her innovative #research on the structure and function of #ribosomes – the protein factories of living #cells.
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Today our director #MelinaSchuh of @SchuhLab is awarded the #LeibnizPrize 2019 in Berlin. 🏆Congrats again, Melina! #LeibnizPreis @dfg_public @maxplanckpress
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Bei der Wissenschaftsreihe beim #Literaturherbst in #Göttingen erhielt Maja Göpel (@beyond_ideology) die #ScienceCommunicationMedal🏅 für ihr großes Engagement in der #WissKomm. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!🍾.#MPIEM #mpids @MPSGoettingen @mpimmg @leuphana
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New microscopy method 🔬 by @Stefan_W_Hell and team: #MINSTED resolves molecules at the nanometer scale. .#nanoscopy .@NaturePhotonics @maxplanckpress @mpi_mr_hd
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Warmest welcome to our latest female group leader at the institute: Sonja Lorenz and her @SLorenzLab! We look forward to exciting research on #ubiquitin! #womeninscience #WomensDay
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Whoo-hoo! Our director #MelinaSchuh of @SchuhLab is awarded the #LeibnizPrize 2019 of #DFG for her groundbreaking research on oocyte development and #meiosis! Warmest congrats, Melina! 🥳#LeibnizPreis @dfg_public @maxplanckpress
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Size does matter – international team of scientists @mpi_bpc, @UZDundee and @univgroningen reveals how #PotassiumChannels strictly select between different types of ions. Press release: @NatureChemistry
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Patrick Cramer @CramerLab @mpi_bpc is honored with this year’s Ernst Schering Prize of @scheringstiftg for his ground-breaking research on #transcription. Our warmest congrats!
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8 tons for high-resolution #NMR spectroscopy hover in the air: One of the world’s three most powerful 1.2 GHz #NMR spectrometers is just set up @mpi_bpc in a great collaboration with the University Medical Center Göttingen. @uniGoettingen @maxplanckpress @thegoecampus @DZNE_en
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Here it is: Our new #NMR #spectrometer is a giant in research: 28.2 Tesla – almost 600,000 times stronger than the earth´s magnetic field. Thanks for funding @maxplanckpress @dfg_public @NdsLandesReg!.
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A literally cool resolution record by the Stark lab @mpi_bpc! Their novel technique breaks a key barrier and visualizes individual atoms in a protein with #cryoEM for the first time: @maxplanckpress
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Nobel laureate @francesarnold, professor @Caltech, gave the #ManfredEigenAwardLecture entitled “Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life” at our institute today. We warmly congratulate her on the medal🏅 and the prize money of 10,000 euros!
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We are deeply saddened to announce that Manfred Eigen died yesterday aged 91. Our institute's founder and 1967 #Chemistry #NobelLaureate was a visionary thinker and ingenious scientist who made a formative impact on researchers worldwide. @maxplanckpress
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Görlich lab develops secondary #nanobodies! They outperform conventional secondary antibodies and can replace these and their controversial production in animals: Nanobodies can be produced in large scale by bacteria. @JCellBiol
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Finally, our #MPI_BioDiversum is officially opened!.Almost three years of intense planning and implementation of various measures is crowned today, with a walk along the pond 💦, flowering meadows 🌻, nesting boxes 🐣 and so much more. #biodiversity
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We warmly congratulate our Managing Director Patrick Cramer @CramerLab to his future position as new President of the Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress. A great honor for a great scientist! 🙂🥂.
At its meeting on 23 June 2022, the Max Planck Society’s Senate appointed Patrick Cramer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen @mpi_nat, as new President-elect for the term of office from 2023 to 2029. @CramerLab #maxplanckhv2022
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Congratulations🍾 to our director Marina Rodnina for receiving the Albrecht Kossel Award📜from @GDCh_aktuell. She is honored for developing groundbreaking methods to study #ribosomes, which enabled her to reveal key principles of protein production.👩🔬🔬🧪.
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Three ERC Starting Grants #ERCStG go to #Göttingen🍾🥂 – congratulations to @MariekeOudelaar @mpi_nat, @hauke_hillen @yourUMG & @mpi_nat, and @saskia_limbach @uniGoettingen. @ERC_Research.Read more about it on our website:.
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Congratulations to our project group leader @wojciechkopec3 and his colleagues @AndreasHartel1 and @tiagomlcosta for receiving the @HFSP grant for early-career scientists 2021! 🥳.
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For his outstanding scientific work, Helmut Grubmüller of the @CompBioPhys Department was elected as new member of the @Leopoldina. Congratulations!🍾 The 1,600 academy members advise policymakers and give recommendations on socially relevant issues.
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We congratulate this year’s Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecturer Titia de Lange from @RockefellerUniv who gave a great talk titled “Telomere Shortening: Why and How”. The lecture honors outstanding scientists and their work with a price money and a medal.🏅@CramerLab
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We congratulate our #research group leader @hauke_hillen for receiving the Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Research Award 2022 🍾🎉. The #biochemist is honored for his work on viral and mitochondrial #gene expression machineries. @yourUMG #scienceaward #scientist.
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Judith Frydman, professor at @Stanford_ChEMH, gave the Manfred Eigen Award Lecture entitled “Molecular Origami: Protein Folding and Misfolding in Health and Disease” at our institute today. Congratulations from the #mpinat for this award🏅!
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Two become one: On January 1, 2022, our institute will merge with the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine #MPIEM. Today, we can finally reveal the new institute’s name! . @thegoecampus @maxplanckpress
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So cool work by the Stark lab @mpib_bpc: Their #cryoEM technique breaks a key barrier and sees atoms in a protein for the first time. @maxplanckpress @thegoecampus @kash1shsingh.
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Kick-off of the 74th Annual Meeting of @maxplanckpress in #Goettingen – our director Melina Schuh @SchuhLab opens the three-day internal event with her scientific lecture “From studies of eggs to fertility treatment”. #MaxPlanck75
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Congratulations 🍾! @MariekeOudelaar has been elected as new member to the @EMBO_YIP Program – a European network of young top researchers. @EMBO
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#PatrickCramer @CramerLab receives @ERC_Research Advanced Grant for the third time - warmest congrats to this success! He will use the ~2 million Euro funding to investigate how cells use the information stored in their genes. #ERCAdG
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The order Pour le mérite admits @Stefan_W_Hell. He is recognized for his special contributions to science. Acceptance into the association is one of the highest honors in Germany that can be granted to researchers or artists. Congratulations! 🍾.
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Patrick Cramer @CramerLab receives the 2021 Louis-Jeantet Prize by @LouisJeantetFDN for his pioneering research on #transcription. Many congratulations!.@maxplanckpress #LouisJeantetPrize .
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Claudia Schmidt (@clautinaschmidt) was awarded this year’s @maxplanckpress Otto Hahn Medal 🏅 for her outstanding PhD work. Our warmest congrats to her! 🍾. @TheGoeCampus #OttoHahnMedal.
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Prof. Dr. Melina Schuh🍾🥂 – we congratulate our director @SchuhLab on being awarded an honorary professorship by @uniGoettingen.
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Lost your head? At least for some #flatworms this is no problem at all: They can regrow severed body parts. How do they manage? And why can’t we do this? That’s what our new director Jochen Rink investigates. He moves from @mpicbg. Have a good start! More:
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Winter at its best: heaps of snow 🌨️and freeeeezing temperatures at our institute today.☃️ #flockdown #goettingen #snow
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We warmly welcome our first Lise Meitner group leader @MariekeOudelaar. Many congrats on being elected into the @maxplanckpress excellence program and good luck for you and your team! @TheGoeCampus @IMPRS_GS #genomeregulation
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Today we welcomed Federal Minister @starkwatzinger @BMBF_Bund and member of the German parliament @KonstantinKuhle at our institute. They discussed current topics in science politics with our directors @CramerLab, @Stefan_W_Hell and @SchuhLab.
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Today, this year’s #ManfredEigenAward laureate Thomas R. Cech🏅 from the University of Colorado (@CUBoulder) gave his award lecture titled "Curious in the nucleus: Cryo-EM of a telomeric complex and RNA as a regulator of epigenetic silencing" at our institute. Congratulations!🥂
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We welcome our new director Claus Ropers and his team. They will develop new experimental methods allowing to observe ultrafast processes in slow motion using #ultrafast #electronmicroscopy. Have a good start!.@thegoecampus @maxplanckpress @uniGoettingen
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A team led by Steffen Sahl & @Stefan_W_Hell @mpi_nat and @mpi_mr_hd has succeeded in measuring distances within biomolecules using the #MINFLUX microscopy method, down to 1 nanometer and with Ångström precision. Read more in our press release:.
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“We're broadcasting live from the 🌸#MPI_BPC #cherryblossom #Campus🌸.” 😉 BTW #nofilter !.#slowmotion #Göttingen
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His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden awarded Patrick Cramer (@CramerLab), Elena Conti (@MPI_Biochem) & Seth Darst (@RockefellerUniv) the Gregori Aminoff Prize. The Royal Swedish Academy (@vetenskapsakad) honors their groundbreaking research on #RNA. Congratulations!🍾
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Earthworks started today! We create a #biotope at our institute, with a pond, flowering meadows, hedges, nesting boxes, and much more… our contribution to stop #biodiversityloss. 🐦🐝🐸..#BioDiversumMPI #biodiversity #Goettingen @maxplanckpress
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Our scientist and creepy-crawly enthusiast Alexandre Webster discovered over 100 species and put together a beautiful collage. We look forward to seeing how the #biodiversity will develop over the years in our #MPI_BioDiversum! 🦋🐞🐝🐛🕷️ .
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Where is #spring gone?🤔 #FassbergCampus #snow ❄☃🌨.Calling out to our colleagues at #CityCampus and all the other #MPI: What does the winter onset look like for you?📸
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Origami in mitochondria: Scientists @JakobsLab, @uniGoettingen and @unibielefeld have shown that switching off so-called MICOS proteins results in mitochondria that can no longer form cristae correctly: @maxplanckpress.@thegoecampus
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The alpaca shearing in our herd was successful, with their new hairstyles, the animals are ready for the summer. But be careful: Alpacas can also get sunburn 🦙☀⛱🕶.
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Congratulations to Patrick Cramer (@CramerLab) on being elected to the @BBAW_de 🥂. The Academy appoints new members from all disciplines on the basis of their outstanding scientific achievements.
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Wir gratulieren @JA_Allmendinger herzlich zur diesjährigen #ScienceCommunicationMedal vom #WissenschaftLiteraturherbst! @WZB_Berlin @HumboldtUni @CramerLab
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@SiemensRing @maxplanckpress Recently, #JensFrahm speeded up #MRI once again: FLASH 2 now delivers live videos from inside the human body! #realtimeMRI @MaxPlanckPress
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"Film ab" heißt es heute auf der Nacht des Wissens beim Vortrag von Jens Frahm: MRT-Filme in Echtzeit: Bewegungen unseres Körpers live verfolgen. Wann und wo? 19 h, großer Hörsaal, MPI für Sonnensystemforschung. Hier gibt's schon einen Vorgeschmack: #ndwgoe @MPSGoettingen #MRI
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Here we go! 💉💉💉 This week, we are vaccinating 120 employees via our company physician! More to follow soon. #Corona #Covid #vaccination
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Scientists around @SchuhLab, @LastChrisThomas, and @Tabea_Marx have now filmed #ovulation in mouse follicles from start to finish in real-time for the first time. This can contribute to new insights into #fertility research. ⬇️ @NatureCellBio .
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Research group leaders🧑🔬of the MPI-NAT introduce themselves – Meet @SLorenzLab, @MariekeOudelaar, @hauke_hillen, and @KovtunOleksiy!.Check out their portraits on their research🔬, hobbies🚴, interests🎶 and more.
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A very warm welcome to our new director Jochen Rink @rinklab, his team and his worms! We are excited that the molecular wonders of #flatworm #tissueregeneration will be part of #mpi_bpc research soon. 😀#planaria @maxplanckpress.
Happy to announce that we & the worms shall be moving soon to Goettingen. We have the honour and privilege of joining @SchuhLab, @CompBioPhys and all the other new colleagues at the @mpi_bpc. Preliminary (!) working title of the endeavour: Department of Planarianology 😉.
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Congratulations to Martin Wikelski on winning the #Science #Communication Medal! The behavioural biologist receives the prize for his achievements in communicating science in an understandable way and involving anyone interested in his research. #WissLitHerbst @animaltracking
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Errors at the start of life – researchers @SchuhLab together with @Loeffler_News and @BournHallClinic find parental genome unification in the #zygote to rely on a surprisingly inefficient process: @maxplanckpress @TheGoeCampus @CellCellPress.#embryogenesis
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#WorldSnowDay❄ – Check out this picture of our institute grounds from February 2021. At about -23°C🥶, we had to cope with real #SnowMountains. One week later, the temperatures🌡 in #Göttingen rose about 40°C. Do you still remember these #snow masses? Show us your pictures ☃.
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"More peer reviews, less alternative facts!" #MarchForScience today in #Göttingen – Thanks to the organizers #maythe4thbewithyou @ScienceMarchGoe @ScienceMarchGER
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1,735 scientists applied for this round’s ERC Advanced Grants – only 253 prevailed in the competition. Among the successful researchers are Hannelore Ehrenreich and Claus Ropers from our institute. Congratulations! 🥂 @ERC_Research #ERCAdG.
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#ATownFullOfPlanck (2/8) – On Oct 4, 1947, #MaxPlanck died at the age of 89 in #Goettingen. The formula of Planck’s quantum of action is engraved at the foot of the otherwise plain gravestone🪦. ⬇ #MaxPlanck75 #MaxPlanckHistory @maxplanckpress
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Reinhard Jahn just said “thank you” to our institute and @maxplanckpress in his retirement lecture today, a furious tour de force through the history of his research on #synapticvesicle fusion…
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Patrick Cramer @CramerLab receives the #Röntgenplakette2023🏅for his pioneering research in deciphering the #gene transcription mechanism using #Xray methods. The medal is awarded by the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des Deutschen Röntgen-Museums. Congrats🥂!
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Congratulations to @Stefan_W_Hell as well as the @BioNTech_Group quartet Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci, Christoph Huber, and Katalin Karikó who received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 2022 @SiemensRing yesterday 🥂.
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Congrats to @Stefan_W_Hell and @BioNTech_Group scientists Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Christoph Huber & Katalin Karikó for receiving the Werner von #Siemens Ring 2022. 🥂 @SiemensRing @maxplanckpress @StefanHellLabs.
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Many congrats #MarinaRodnina @mpi_bpc for winning the #OWM19🏅! In her research she investigates the structure and function of the #ribosome. @GBM_ev @ElsevierNews @BBAjournals.
We are pleased to announce Prof. Marina Rodnina as Otto Warburg Medal winner 2019 #OWM19 @mpi_bpc @ElsevierConnect @BBAjournals
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Two @maxplanckpress Otto Hahn Medals go to Chun So and Karl Bertram for their outstanding PhD work. Chun So also won the prestigious Otto Hahn Award. Our warmest congrats to all awardees! 🍾 .@SchuhLab @thegoecampus
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Happy #WorldSunDay ☀ from #Goettingen! This is the perfect day to show you great sunset photos from our #FassbergCampus. We love the view from up here😍! #internationalsunday
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For all wanting to improve their scientific writing: Check out this guide by Helmut Grubmüller @CompBioPhys @mpi_bpc @maxplanckpress @thegoecampus.
Struggling with writing your paper draft or thesis? Here’s advice my students found helpful over the years. It’s version 1.0 -- Comments, suggestions, corrections highly appreciated! Get PDF ➡️@CompBioPhys @mpi_bpc #scientificWriting #academicWriting
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Congrats to @jentoft_ida & @panos_poulis @mpi_nat and Yuto Bekki @MPSGoettingen 👏🍾 – @maxplanckpress honors them with #OttoHahnMedals for outstanding achievements in their theses. Jentoft also receives the #OttoHahnAward for her outstanding research.
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The audience voted: Our slammer @ConstanzeDepp wins the #ScienceSlam at @ndw_goe. Congrats – Cheers to you, Constanze!🍾🥂 In her talk, she wondered: How does Alzheimer‘s dementia develop in the aging brain? #ndwgoe #ndw22 #wisskomm
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Patrick Cramer @CramerLab erhält den Hector Wissenschaftspreis für seine Pionierarbeiten auf dem Gebiet der #Transkription und seinen prägenden Beitrag in den Lebenswissenschaften. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! #hectorstiftung @maxplanckpress @thegoecampus
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One, two, three, FOUR handsome youngsters were born and raised by our #kestrel lovebirds ♥️ and will any day now leave their nest for good. What a great first success for our #MPI_BioDiversum🙃.
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Our #christmastree is up. 🎄 A little snow would be nice now. Have a good Christmas time everyone, despite all pandemic challenges!
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With her Lise Meitner Group, research group leader @MariekeOudelaar 👩🔬 wants to understand how the organization of genetic information in our cells is related to gene activity. Watch the video to learn more about the scientist and her research👇. @YouTube:
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The late #ManfredEigen received the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry in 1967. In 1971, he initiated the foundation of our predecessor institute, the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry. And today, he would have turned 95.
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@hauke_hillen, group leader at our institute and @yourUMG, has been elected as new member of the @EMBO Young Investigator (YIP) Programme. Congrats for receiving this great support!
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For his discoveries in the field of cellular logistics, the @wlaforum honors Dirk Görlich with the #WLAPrize 2022 in the #lifescience or #medicine category. Many congrats 🍾!.
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Congratulations to our research group leader Marina Bennati and her colleagues Lutz Ackermann (@aztul) & Alexander Flügel @TheGoeCampus for receiving an @ERC_Research Advanced Grant!🍾🍾🍾. @uniGoettingen @maxplanckpress #NMR.
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A 1.25 Å resolution structure of apoferritin by cryo-EM was achieved by Holger Stark's group @mpi_bpc: @kash1shsingh @maxplanckpress.
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#MelinaSchuh @mpi_bpc is awarded this year’s prestigious #EMBOgoldmedal for her groundbreaking research on #meiosis in mammals – many congrats, Melina! @SchuhLab @EMBO
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Imagine an #MRI unit that is small, portable, and cost-efficient: Stefan Glöggler and team @mpi_bpc have made an important step towards this goal. #lowfieldMRI @maxplanckpress
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Mammalian #eggcells have to stay functional in the #ovaries for a long time, sometimes decades. Scientists @SchuhLab, @JLiepe, Henning Urlaub & @yourUMG have investigated what helps the cells survive that long👇. @naturecellbio #researchresults.
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10 am in #Göttingen . today, the institute's PR team starts their workday with a cozy #breakfast 🥐🍳☕ #Betriebsausflug #happythursday #workouting
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Congratulations to Patrick Cramer @CramerLab for receiving the Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy @vetenskapsakad! He and his colleagues Elena Conti @MPI_Biochem and Seth Darst .@RockefellerUniv are honored for their groundbreaking research on RNA.
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