Researchers have developed a kind of “flight simulator” for sperm. No joke! This method allows observing physiological reactions & motor behavior of cells in real time. More stories in the new issue of INSIDE NAT magazine 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/inside-nat Picture: Tatiana Shepeleva / Adobe Stock

In Göttingen this autumn? Meet researchers behind popular science books at Göttinger Literaturherbst! Two events in our Scientific Lecture Series will be held in English: 🦇 Saturday, Oct 3: The Genius Bat with Yossi Yovel 🔍 Sunday, Oct 11: The Primacy of Doubt with Tim Palmer 📍Paulinerkirche 🎟️ 👇

Gerne weiterleiten an euer IT-Netzwerke: Wir stellen eine*n Systemtechniker ein! 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26

CompBioPhys@compbiophys.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wir suchen Dich als #IT -Experten am @mpi-nat.bsky.social in #Göttingen 🇩🇪 für den Betrieb und den Ausbau des Linux-GPU Clusters der Abteilung Theoretische und Computergestützte Biophysik! #joboffer #job #openposition #IT-Stelle 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26 📩 Bewirb Dich bis 📅 18.10.2026!

Some promising ideas for carboncapture may already exist inside living cells. 🦠 How do microorganisms capture CO₂ and what can we learn from them? 👉 Discover how @amkueffner.bsky.social and his Sustainable Biocatalysis research group are investigating exactly that at our institute.

@horizonsmolbio.bsky.social 2026 is in full swing! Organized by PhD students of the IMPRS for Molecular Biology, the conference brings together young and established researchers to exchange ideas and explore molecular biology. Happy to welcome you all on our Fassberg Campus! @uni-goettingen.de

“Are we facing an egg cell crisis?” asks the ARTE documentary series “42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles”. Our director Melina Schuh responds and explains why aged eggs can be so prone to defects. Tune in📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12... (in German)

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Immer mehr Frauen bekommen Kinder nur mit immer größeren Schwierigkeiten oder gar nicht. Die Geburtenrate sinkt, Kinderwunschpraxen boomen. Liegt es an Erkrankungen wie Endometriose und PCOS, an Umwel...

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PhD students from across Göttingen came together at MPI-NAT for PhD Day 2026: Nobel laureate Q&A, PhD research posters & conversations about careers, funding, mental health and more. Big thanks to our PhD reps for organizing and everyone who contributed!

Congratulations, Elisa Oberbeckmann! Our research group leader and junior professor @uni-goettingen.de has received a coveted Starting Grant from the @erc.europa.eu 🥳🎉 With her team, she aims to decipher the molecular functions and interaction networks of chromatin remodelers. Well done, Elisa 👏👏

Every electron counts⚛️! Researchers have determined the structure of the protein rubredoxin at an unprecedented 0.43 Ångström resolution. The method could now allow routine quantum crystallography of biological macromolecules. 👇More about this major advancement: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5314392/rn_2...

11 speakers explore research & big questions – from democracy and climate to AI, cooperation & killer asteroids: check out the programme of this year’s science series at 📚 Göttinger Literaturherbst, Oct. 2.-11.: www.literaturherbst.com/programm/wis...

Friendly reminder: Registration for Horizons in Molecular Biology 2026 Symposium, September 7th–10th, at the MPI-NAT, Faßberg Campus closes tomorrow (August 15th)! Info and registration: www.mpinat.mpg.de/horizons

MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences@mpi-nat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌍 Molecular biology meets networking: The Horizons 2026 symposium @horizonsmolbio.bsky.social at the MPI-NAT in Göttingen (Sept 7-10). Present your research, meet peers, & explore careers. Register until Aug 15. More info: www.mpinat.mpg.de/horizons

🌞🔭 Researchers at our institute brought the community together to observe the partial solar eclipse 2026 from one of our rooftops and share their passion for astronomy. Where did you watch? 😊

🎓 From PhD to Nobel Prize: Join our PhD day for a Q&A with Nobel laureates Erwin Neher + Stefan Hell, a PhD poster session + info booths on careers, funding, startups, mental health, equal opportunities + more for early career scientits in Göttingen. 📅 Sept 4 | 📝 events.gwdg.de/event/1513/

Looks unorganized to you? It isn’t. Indeed, you are looking at fixed 3D structures of the cancer protein p53. It can adopt at least 50 different 3D structures and is much more ordered than previously thought! 🎥© @dszollosi.bsky.social l / MPI-NAT @compbiophys.bsky.social (1/3)

🎧Hörtipp: Nobelpreisträger Stefan Hell erzählt, wie er d. Auflösungsgrenze der Lichtmikroskopie durchbrochen hat - jetzt im detektor.fm/@spektrum.de - Podcast. Hell entwickelt am @mpi-mr.bsky.social + unserem Institut + abberior optische Nanoskopie stetig weiter. 🔗 detektor.fm/wissen/die-g...

Spektrum der Wissenschaft@spektrum.de · 2mo ago

Der Physiker Stefan Hell hat mit der STED-Mikroskopie die vermeintlich unüberwindbare Beugungsgrenze durchbrochen. Im Podcast erzählt er, wie aus einer Idee eine Technologie wurde. 🎙️

How does a species adapt to a new environment? An international team discovered how herring evolved its reproduction migrating from the Atlantic into the low-salinity Baltic Sea 🌊. MPI-NAT researchers contributed proteomics analyses. Read our press release here: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5302322/pr_2...

📢 PhD students: Don't miss Third Infinity 2026! 🗓 Sept. 23–25 📍 MPI-NAT Faßberg Campus, Göttingen 🎤 Talks & posters across life sciences, physics & chemistry 📋 organized by IMPRS for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems 📝 Register by August 1: thirdinfinity.mpg.de/registration... !

Great news from our lab: Congratulations to Marios & @debojitsaha.bsky.social on receiving the 2025/26 Campus Seminar Awards at @mpi-nat.bsky.social! Marios was recognised in the PhD category, Debojit in the Postdoc category. Delighted to see their excellent research acknowledged — well deserved!👏

Congrats @thomas-hensel.bsky.social on receiving the German Thesis Award by @koerber-stiftung.de for his PhD research! 🎊His work makes molecular dynamics visible by tracking protein-like structures with advanced light microscopy.

🏆 🍒 We also celebrate non-scientific achievements: Congratulations on the group victory at the German Cherry Pit Spitting Championships at the traditional Cherry Festival in Witzenhausen! Our researchers Arian, Anush, Jaschka, Morten und Taras achieved a spit distance of 43,39m in total! 👏Well done!

We are hiring an #IT expert! Interested to join our department @mpi-nat.bsky.social in #Göttingen 🇩🇪 as Hardware Operations Technician (IT-Systemtechniker*in)? Please apply! 📩 #joboffer #job #openposition 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26 📅 Don't miss the application deadline: August 23, 2026

Our managing director Melina Schuh has now been formally admitted to the @royalsociety.org at the Admissions Day ceremony in London. Congratulations for this remarkable recognition! 😊

Schuh Lab@schuhlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week, I had the great honour of being formally admitted as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org & signing its historic Charter Book. Deeply grateful for this recognition of our work. None of this would've been possible without many wonderful lab members, colleagues & collaborators. ✨

AI meets cutting-edge microscopy: Welcome Constantin Pape, head of our new Machine Intelligence in the Life Sciences group! 👋 🔬 His team develops AI methods to analyze high-resolution microscopy & cryo-EM data to better understand the function of proteins and protein complexes inside cells. (1/3)

🏆 Congrats to Jan-Wilke Henke on receiving the Born-Franck Dissertation Award 2026! In his thesis he investigated how free electrons and light can be effectively coupled. A well-deserved recognition from the Faculty of Physics @uni-goettingen.de !

66 colleagues, 23 nationalities, one team. 🙌 A record number of MPI-NAT staff joined the Göttingen Altstadtlauf, making us the 4th largest company team. We are of everyone who took part! 👏You did a great job!

Nanobodies herstellen, Proteine aufreinigen oder Plasmide konstruieren – erforsche in deinem neuen Team, wie Zellen ihre Welt organisieren🧬: Technische Assistenz in der Abteilung Zelluläre Logistik gesucht! Bewerbungsfrist: 19. Juli 2026 👉 Ausschreibung: www.mpinat.mpg.de/22-26

New hope for Huntington’s 🧠: A drug reduces harmful protein clumps and improves movement & lifespan in mice and human cells. New paper @embomolmed.org by @irinadudanova.bsky.social . #Huntingtons @mpi-nat.bsky.social ➡️ go.uniwue.de/dudanova-embo 📷 Miguel da Silva Padilha

A pleasure to welcome the Max Planck Funding Foundation to Göttingen’s MPIs. Thank you for your generous support of basic research and for taking the time to engage with our scientists and their work! 🤝🔬 @mpips.bsky.social, @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Congrats to Alexander Rotsch to the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅 by @maxplanck.de for his doctoral thesis where he investigated a “criminal case”: the theft of mRNA caps by influenza viruses. For more information on his research project: 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5270051/pr_2... © : Bettina Ausserhofer / MPG

Congratulations to #OvoLabs! Melina Schuh, director @mpi-nat.bsky.social, Agata Zielinska, and Oleksandr Yagensky received the Max Planck #Startup Award of the Stifterverband yesterday in Frankfurt. The company aims to significantly improve success rates in assisted #reproduction.