📢 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! 😊

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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.

🌍 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

What can a glimpse inside an egg cell reveal about fertility, miscarriage & health? 🎧 Listen to the new episode of “Ach, Mensch!” podcast about @schuhlab.bsky.socials research on meiosis (in German): detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m...

Unfruchtbarkeit: Wie lässt sie sich behandeln, Melina Schuh?

Dr. Melina Schuh erforscht, wie menschliche Eizellen funktionieren und worin Ursachen für Unfruchtbarkeit und Fehlgeburten liegen.

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Update in progress… IT training at our institute! As an IT specialist, no two days are alike: 💻 Develop 🧠 Solve problems 🚀 Bring ideas to life Watch our video for a real look at the apprenticeship at our institute.

All kestrel chicks have hatched! Mom and dad are taking really good care of their offspring. Need proof? 👉 Watch our livestream from the kestrel camera at any time: www.mpinat.mpg.de/kestrel-camera

Mitochondrial ribosomes follow a precisely timed 🕺choreography to coordinate protein production, folding & insertion. 👉 About the collab between Peter Rehling (University Medical Center Göttingen) & our project group leader @niels-fischer.bsky.social & their teams: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5263150/pr_2...

What if we could visualize indicators of Parkinson's in the living brain before symptoms occur? 🧠 Novel PET tracer detects alpha-synuclein deposits developed by University Hospital Tübingen, MODAG GmbH & our director Christian Griesinger. 👉 Joint press release: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5262756/pr_2...

@mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social becomes a director at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) in Freiburg - congratulations! 🎉 Thank you for the experience & expertise you shared with us at MPI-NAT and all the best in your new department of Genome Biology.

Congratulations to Melina Schuh (@schuhlab.bsky.social) who has been elected to the Fellowship of the @royalsociety.org !🌟 Five MPI directors join this Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists, engineers, & technologists in 2026. 👉 Our press release: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5261979/pr_2...

The new issue of our INSIDE NAT magazine is out! 📚 What’s inside? 🫀 🔍 Miniature organs 🌏 carbon capturing 🔨 carpentry apprenticeship and more! Check it out and enjoy reading 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/en/inside-nat

Melina Schuh (@schuhlab.bsky.social) has officially received the Carus medal of @leopoldina.org in Schweinfurth🏆 - congratulations! Her research on mammalian egg cells is paving the way for improved in vitro fertilization success rates. 🌟 © Foto: Stadt Schweinfurt, Kristina Dietz

Neurizons 2026 has started in Göttingen! 🧠 Organized by PhD students of the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences, bringing together researchers for exchange, networking & collaboration. We wish all participants an inspiring & successful conference!

We are hiring a PhD student or PostDoc in the field of understanding and manipulating ubiquitin ligase specificities at @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social. 📅 The positions should be filled as soon as possible. 👉 More info: www.mpinat.mpg.de/19-26?c=2501...

Reinhard Maurer was officially awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin! A pioneer in applying machine learning & AI to theoretical chemistry, he joined us as Humboldt Professor at the @uni-goettingen.de and our institute & MPG Fellow. More Info👉 www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...

Congrats to @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social on the FEBS Anniversary Prize 2026 of @gbmev.bsky.social for her studies of genome organization and regulation! 👏 ℹ️ 🏆The award recognizes achievements in the field of biochemistry & molecular biology or related sciences with a certificate & 2000€.

🍻 Round two: Come join us for more Pints of Science! Meet our scientists in a relaxed setting in Göttingen pubs and discuss current research about "Frigid break-ups" (topic of the event). 📅 May 20, 7-9 pm 📍Duke Pub Do not wait – spots are limited. See you there! Topics and scientists: 👇

Come join us for a Pint of Science🍺! Meet our scientists in a relaxed setting in Göttingen pubs and discuss current research. 📅 May 18, 7-9 pm Do not wait – spots are limited. See you there! Topics, scientists, and places: 👇