How do 2 meters of DNA fit inside a nucleus you can barely see? 🧬 Our new study mapped individual nucleosomes inside human cells.

🚀 We're hiring! Join the founding Digital Twin Team at the SCALE Cluster of Excellence @goetheuni.bsky.social Apply by: 31 August 2026 For more information: scale-frankfurt.org/wp-content/u... Full position description: scale-frankfurt.org/wp-content/u... Descriptions below 🧵:

🌈 What does it mean to be queer in science today? Join our panel with four LGBTQIA+ scientists sharing their journeys, insights, and truths in academia! 📅 July 15, 2026 | 1:00–5:30 PM | MPI Biophysics, Lecture Hall 🍕+Beer & Pizza after by PhD Reps! #LGBTQIAinScience #QueerInSTEM #ScienceForAll

Scorching heat, eager minds: Postdoc @emmabelcher96.bsky.social shared her scientific journey with students from Friedrich-Dessauer High School—lab life, salaries, pros & cons, all while keeping them hooked, despite the sweltering weather. Inspiring the next generation, one talk at a time.💡🔬

1/3: We are excited to share a new study by Maarten Tuijtel from @becklab.bsky.social, published in eLife. 🔬 🎉 The work addresses a key question in cryo-electron tomography: how to best distribute the limited electron dose across a tilt series while balancing angular sampling and image quality. 💥

1/3: We are proud to share that the recent work by postdocs Karen Palacio-Rodriguez and Sergio Cruz-León, from Gerhard Hummer’s department, was selected as one of the Editors’ Highlights in Nature Communications! 🎉 👏 Open-access paper: 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We present MitoScanner: a newly discovered step in mitochondrial division! 🔍✂️ Explore here the work by @office-garcia.bsky.social 📝 www.biophys.mpg.de/2921124/sear... #Mitochondria #CellBiology

MitoScanner: Searching for the Right Place to Divide Mitochondria

Proteins DRP1 and MID49 scan the mitochondrial outer membrane before division, revealing a previously unrecognized step in mitochondrial fission.

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Now it's @jpkreysing.bsky.social 's turn! 🎓🎉 Congratulations Jan Philipp on defending your PhD thesis, "Capturing Functional States in Situ with Cryo-Electron Tomography" in the @becklab.bsky.social lab! We're very excited to see more IMPRS-CBP #PhDs graduate🎓✨ #imprs_cbp #PhDlife #CryoET

How do you do quantum physics ⚛ when sign language ☝️ lacks the words? Kudos to Ingo Barth, the first deaf German to earn a chemistry PhD, broke barriers as a physics student and research leader—then created Sign2MINT, a STEM sign language lexicon with 5,000+ signs, empowering Deaf scientists. 💪💪💪

Komm’ am 12. Juni auf die Night of Science✨! Erlebe, wie aus Stickstoff leckeres Eis🍦wird und welche Aufgaben verschiedene Proteine in unserem Körper übernehmen! Erfahre in Vorträgen und bei einer Elektronenmikroskopie-Tour 🔬 mehr über unsere Forschung! Infos: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/de/night-of-...

We had a great time having Michael Elbaum from the Weizmann Institute visit our institute (@mpibp.bsky.social)! Had an insightful seminar and a fun time at the Krios doing STEM 🔬 Our Krios is upside down according to material scientists so instead of turning our microscope, we turned ourselves!

What does a postdoc do in their “free” time? Spoiler: They don’t have any. But when Marcel Heinz does sneak in a few minutes between tasks, he’s busy building a free, no-registration chemical sketcher—kudos for this valuable contribution to the community! 👉 Check out his project: www.bondcraft.net

That’s a wrap on our @embo.org #cryoFIB & #cryoET course! It was an incredible week of hands-on learning, collaboration, and shared expertise, made possible by dedicated organizers, incredible trainers, and an engaged group of participants.

We are having a very hands-on week at the @embo.org #cryoFIB & #cryoET course 🔬 Our participants are learning about sample vitrification, lamella milling, FLM, lift-out, data acquisition and more! We are learning by doing, troubleshooting, and sharing expertise across labs. 🧪

Participants shared their work and ideas in our poster session at the @embo.org Practical Course on “In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET” at our institute! It was a great chance to connect, discuss, and get new perspectives on #cryoFIB and #cryoET. 🌍

We’ve kicked off our @embo.org Practical Course on #cryoFIB & #cryoET! Participants from around the world are joining us this week for hands-on training, from lamella milling to tomogram reconstruction 🔬

Thinking of applying to IMPRS-CBP? 👣 Here’s a quick look at our application process to guide you along the way. 🗓️ Deadline: March 11 Apply here 👉 imprs-cbp.mpg.de/call-for-app... #gradschool @mpibp.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Interested in how membrane proteins are born? Our First IMPRSsion video introduces the McDowell Group and their research (@melaniemcdowell.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social). Watch it on our YouTube channel and apply to IMPRS-CBP: youtu.be/rigtICb6yco?... #imprs_cbp #phd #membraneproteins #biophysics

Why should you join our #gradschool? Check out our 10 #keyfeatures and find out how we support you during your #phdjourney! Apply by March 11! imprs-cbp.mpg.de/key-features

Come visit our @mpibp.bsky.social booth at the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social #bps2026 meeting in San Francisco! We’re looking forward to chat about our research, PhD opportunities, and international career paths! 🥳 We’d love to connect and take your #cellfie! 🦠 Find us in booth 630! #imprs #imprs_cbp

Ready to TANGO? 💃 In our new publication, Beata Turoňová & Markus Schreiber (@ms314.bsky.social, @becklab.bsky.social) present TANGO: the first cryoET framework to analyze the relation between particle positions and orientations 🪩 All in a single user-friendly package! #CryoET #OpenScience

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉 💪 🔬 🦠 🧬 We take this day as an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the women at our institute—representing all women and girls in science—whom we have honored over the past year in our article series:

Der Arbeitsalltag der technischen Assistentinnen Angela Burkart und Eva Kaindl an unserem Institut ist geprägt von Vielfalt, regelmäßig neuen Themen und dem kreativen Austausch mit den Forschenden. In ihrem Interview gewähren sie spannende Einblicke in ihren Arbeitsalltag! 👉 tinyurl.com/462cp48b

🌟 PhD positions at IMPRS-CBP! Applications open from Jan 23 – Mar 11. Fully funded PhDs in cellular biophysics at @mpibp.bsky.social , @goetheuni.bsky.social l and @unimainz.bsky.social . 👉 imprs-cbp.mpg.de #phd #biophysics #imprs_cbp

We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026! We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!

From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA

Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET! 🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".

There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it. Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉