Very happy to be able to host a student delegation from China Agricultural University led by my friend @wangshengzhu.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇳 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

A minimal lipid kinase/phosphatase system, two effector proteins from Legionella pneumophila, self-organizes together with its lipid substrates (PI/PI3P) into dynamic patterns on membranes. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join us tomorrow for the final talk in our Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series before the summer break to be held by Prof. Dr. Clare Bryant from the University of Cambridge. When: 30th July, 11am Where: Max Planck House lecture hall (ground floor) We're looking forward to seeing a full house!

Congratulations to @sheilaroitman.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher in Detlef Weigel’s department @plantevolution.bsky.social, on receiving the Women’s Postdoctoral Career Development Award in Science from the Weizmann Institute! Her research explores how viruses shape plant microbiomes.

Career Development Award for Sheila Roitman

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Friday afternoon = Fix Your Bike time. 🚲 Behind FixYourBike is a group of colleagues who invite the whole campus to their repair sessions. The motto: bring your bike, learn to fix it yourself. And now there’s a bike repair station on campus too! 🔧 Thanks for keeping our bikes rolling!

Why do some birds migrate while others stay? A new paper by @junishigohoka.bsky.social in Phil. Trans. B explores how seasonal migration evolves in Eurasian blackcaps - combining a common garden experiment with single-cell epigenomics of the brain. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Jun Ishigohoka@junishigohoka.bsky.social · 2w ago

New paper out in Phil. Trans. B! We set out to understand how seasonal migration evolves by combining a common garden experiment and scATAC-seq of the hypothalamus in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap. 1/n

Meet the reception team at the Max Planck House 👋 Chido, Andreas and Nicole welcome researchers and guests from around the world to the Tübingen campus. We caught up with them about their work, their team and life beyond reception. #wearebio English: tinyurl.com/fac9z4hv German: tinyurl.com/bderaf8t

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For the next edition of our #wearebio series, we’re introducing the team at the heart of the Max Planck House: Chido Denzel, Andreas Reuter and Nicole Galimov. Since opening in autumn 2025, the Max Pl...

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Everyone welcome to this Thursday's DSSS talk to be held by Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwander from the University of Lausanne: ▶️Title and abstract: www.bio.mpg.de/events/44188... 📆: Thursday 23rd July at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

A first for German nematology Ralf J. Sommer has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Nematologists – the first German scientist to receive this honour. Congratulations on this outstanding recognition! Read full press item: www.bio.mpg.de/544368/ralf-j #Nematology #EvolutionaryBiology #Science

Interesting work by @atyakht.bsky.social and @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social from the Dept. of Microbiome Science. Bacterial flagellins come in thousands of different forms. This tool cuts through that complexity, helping predict how they’re sensed by TLR5, a key player in our innate immune system.

Alexander Tyakht@atyakht.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our paper on FlaPro tool for quantifying flagellin diversity in the human gut microbiome is out now! bit.ly/4wLPxuH @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social @microbiome.bsky.social

Next up in our DSSS seminar series: we're delighted to welcome a local guest, Kay Nieselt from the University of Tübingen! Join us this Thursday at 11:00 am in the MPH lecture hall on our Tübingen campus. As always, everyone is welcome—we hope to see you there!

Science beats the heat! Last Saturday, our researchers @najafae.bsky.social and Gesa Freimann took to the streets for @soapboxscience.bsky.social in Tübingen, bravely presenting their work to a great crowd despite the temperatures. Thanks for bringing science to the public!

Next talk this week in our DSSS calendar: Dr. Maria Barna is visiting us from the Genetics Department at Stanford University to discuss ribosomes in gene regulation. Everyone is very welcome to join us on Thursday at 11am in the MPH lecture hall on our Tübingen campus. See you there!

Today, we hosted 18 international early-career researchers who took the time after this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting to visit us as part of a Baden-Württemberg International (BW_i) program. The day included career insights and lab tours led by our postdocs. Thanks for the visit!

Wishing you all the best on your new adventure in Kiel Mike! We'll certainly miss you around @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social but good luck as you build your new department and recruit a great team!

Michael Borg@borglab.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our group is moving from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to the maritime city of Kiel! ⛵️🩵 I will lead the Department of Marine Plant Development and Physiology @uni-kiel.de 🌱🪸🌊 Look out for opportunities to join us in this exciting & growing hub for Plant, Marine & Evolutionary Biology in North Germany 🇩🇪

What a week! 🎉 Our postdoc @maryammahmoudir.bsky.social and doctoral researcher Alexandra Waldherr were selected to attend the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Read about Maryam's highlights and the inspiring conversations and new perspectives she took away from the experience.

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The 5th International #Pristionchus Meeting has begun at the @MPI for Biology Tübingen! Looking forward to two days of exciting 🪱 talks and great discussions with colleagues from around the world. Wishing everyone an inspiring and enjoyable meeting! #Nematodes #Evolution #Genetics #Tübingen

A great way to ring in the weekend: afternoon drinks on the rooftop terrace celebrating awards and prizes at the institute—a toast to a third ERC Advanced Grant for Thomas Boehm, appointment to Fellow of The Royal Society for Ruth Ley, and to Susana Coelho, member of Leopoldina. Cheers to all three!

Fantastic news! Congratulations to @silviadapra.bsky.social from research group @canaztekin.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her exciting work on regeneration and development. Wishing you every success Silvia! Read more: tinyurl.com/2m4jypzz #EMBO

Great to see our postdoctoral researcher, Amor II Damatac in Can Aztekin's research group, recognised with the Society for the Study of Evolution President's Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement tinyurl.com/3wpc535y

Join us for our next DSSS talk tomorrow where Janusz Bujnicki from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw will be discussing computational approaches to RNA biology: 🗓️ 2nd July | 11:00 📍 MPH lecture hall, Tübingen

Organisationstalent gesucht! Werden Sie als Assistenz des Betriebsrats Teil unseres internationalen Teams am Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen. Bewerben Sie sich bis 12.07.2026: jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/277

#SMBE2026 I will talk about **evolutionary roles of non-genetic variation**. If you care about expression noise, developmental instability, microenv. variance, or selection experiments (or if you don't believe in genetic determinism), come join me in S20 "mapping fitness landscapes" (17:30, Pjerrot)

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#SMBE2026 S20: Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Very excited to announce that my paper with @toettch.bsky.social from my time as a Fellow at Princeton's Center for the Physics of Biological Function @cpbf.bsky.social is finally out as a preprint! Here is the link if you want to check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread: (1/10)

A modular live-cell biosensor for extracellular protease activity

Extracellular protease activity plays key roles in cell and tissue behavior, processing cell surface proteins, ligands and the extracellular matrix. Extracellular proteases can be subject to complex p...

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Congratulations to our Emeritus Director Thomas Boehm on receiving his third ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for his ImmunoPlast project to explore the extraordinary immune systems of deep-sea anglerfishes. Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/527824/thoma...

Pleased to announce another talk this week as part of our Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Prof. Henrik Krehenwinkel will be joining us from Trier University. Everyone welcome! ▶️ More info: tinyurl.com/y3sk7zbr 📆: Thursday 25th June at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6

Congratulations Detlef Weigel @plantevolution.bsky.social !!

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25 years at @maxplanck.de! (Really 40 years, if you count that I started my graduate studies exactly 40 years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology under the guidance of my beloved mentor (and friend) Herbert Jäckle.)

Great to see two of our doctoral researchers taking part in this year's Soapbox Science event in Tübingen on July 11th. Watch their videos on what inspires Naja and Gesa and why science communication is important to them: tinyurl.com/429fz48n tinyurl.com/h84vsnww

Meet Florentine! For the latest edition of our #wearebio and #wearefml series, we're shining a spotlight on one of the people who keeps things running smoothly behind the scenes. Outside work, she's passionate about sports, travel, and much more. Read her story: tinyurl.com/ys7x2b3c

Delighted to announce that this year’s Schering Young Investigator Award has been awarded to Can Aztekin, Max-Planck-Research Group Leader. Congratulations Can! Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/524116/can-a...