🍂Today is the first day of fall – and fall welcomes us with dreary, continuous rain. 😒🌧️ ☔ Let's look back instead on the last days of summer in our institute garden, where we played table tennis in good company and sunshine! 🌞 🏓 #maxplanck #mpimr #tabletennis #sunversusrain #summersover

😎 Back from our #scientificretreat 2025 in Neckarsulm, full of scientific exchange and #teamspirit! 🤩🌟One highlight was the tour of the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn, where two new departments of our institute will be established, and the Innovation Park for #AI #IPAI 🚀 #maxplanck #mpimr #letsmingle

Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our PhD student Yuqi @yuqizhang.bsky.social ✨👏 She gives insights into her research in the Chemical Biology department 👀💡 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes #womeninscience

🌟Our new #MPIMRSpotlight features PhD student Amanda Pasqual✨ Let's learn about her research on genetic engineering of viruses and on the development of bioinspired materials for medical and filtering applications! 👀💡 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM

📣Paper alert: New developments in #ultrasound technologies! 🚀Scientists from our Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Group led by Peer Fischer have developed the first all-optically controlled phased-array system for ultrasound. 👉Find the complete study in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📣PhD position available! 🔬The department of Stefan Hell is looking for a new group member working at the intersection of #optics, #molecularbiology and #biophysics. More info on our website, see link below! #maxplanck #mpimr #science #phd #hiring bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/5...

🔬 Welcome back to #ScienceFunFactFriday! 🥳 Today we learn about bacterial cells and their peculiar behaviors in relation to antibacterial drugs! 🧫👀 The more you know...🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

🌟Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features Nicole Wambold, a chemistry Master’s student and member of the Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute. ✨ Let's explore her work on engineering DNA nanostructures for biomedical uses, focusing on photodynamic therapy!🧬👀 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM

✨Welcome to our new #ScienceSnapshot series. 📸 We capture little moments in the labs and share them with you. Today, we look over PhD student Betül Karakoc's shoulder and observe the preparation of agarose gel electrophoresis for quality control of DNA Origami after folding and purification! 🧬

🌞 Good morning, Heidelberg! We absolutely love our commute, especially when the sun is shining so brightly over the Neckar. ⛵ #Heidelberg #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #SunnyDay #Commute

🔬 Welcome back to #ScienceFunFactFriday! 🎉 Ever wondered about the quirkiest science facts? We're here to share them! Dive into our team's top picks and share your own fun fact with us.🌟🧠Today we learn about the texture of chocolate!🍫 😋 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

🌟Join us for our #MPIMRSpotlight series, where we shine a light on the scientists at our Institute and their exciting research! 👀👏Today, we are happy to feature Justas Lekavičius, MA student in Photonics and Nanotechnology and member of the Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute. 🔬

📣 #Hiring: Our department #CellularBiophysics of our Managing Director Joachim Spatz is looking for an Engineer, Technical Assistant (CTA) or Laboratory Technician in the fields of battery related applied #chemistry, #syntheticchemistry & #batterytechnology. bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...

📣Curtains up for a new #MaxPlanckCenter @maxplanck.de in which our institute is involved, with the @mpinb.mpg.de and the Institute for Basic Science at Yonsei University, Seoul! 🤩 Focus is on ‘Deep Tissue Nanoscale Control’. Excited about this fantastic partnership! 🚀 www.mr.mpg.de/14654184/new...

🌟 Take a glimpse at some behind-the-scenes moments from our recent Institute photoshoot! A huge thank you to photographer Alexander Grüber and the creative team for making it such a fun and memorable experience. 📸✨ #MPIMR #Teamwork #Photoshoot #BehindTheScenes

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️400 kilometers for a good cause! Many colleagues ran or hiked in the #NCTRun by @nct-heidelberg.bsky.social over the weekend, either here at our institute in Heidelberg along the Neckar River, in Stuttgart, or in their hometowns. Thank you all, that was great! 👟💪 #nctrun2025 #alonetogether #mpimr

👀 💡 Find out more about SNAP-tag2, a new powerful tool for labeling proteins with synthetic fluorophores for bioimaging, that scientists around our @kjohnsson.bsky.social and @steffi-k.bsky.social have developed 🎉 #maxplanck #mpimr #medicalresearch #science #bioimaging www.mr.mpg.de/14653278/sna...

We had a great time yesterday, hosting a group of young scientists traveling around Baden-Württemberg to explore the life science research landscape. It was an honor to be the last stop on their tour after attending #LINO25! ⚗️

🔬 Welcome back to #ScienceFunFactFriday! 🎉 Ever wondered about the quirkiest science facts? We're here to share them! Dive into our team's top picks and share your own fun fact with us. Let's make science (even more) fun together! 🌟🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

📣Paper alert! 👏 If you're interested in investigating kinase activities in living cells, our scientists @kjohnsson.bsky.social have built a molecular recorder to monitor them spatially and temporally. Check out our website or Nature Chemical Biology (link in comments)! www.mr.mpg.de/14652710/mol...

🌞🎉 We're absolutely loving the Institute's summer party! The unexpected sunshine truly made our day. 🍦☀️ Delicious ice cream in hand and great company all around - what more could we ask for? 😊 #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes #SummerFun

🥳 Hurray, Max Planck Manatees! Our team took part in the famous Dragon Boat Cup 🐲 🚣 in Heidelberg again today and came 14th out of 30 in the fun mix category. Congratulations, you did great!💪 #dragonboatcup #mpimr #maxplanck #teamspirit #maxplanckmanatees

📣Paper alert! Interested in faster and brighter protein labeling than before? 👀 @steffi-k.bsky.social & other colleagues have developed an improved tool for labeling proteins with synthetic fluorophores for bioimaging. Also works in STED microscopy 🤩🔬 Congratulations!🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥 Our fire protection officer Mario is training the team on handling unexpected fires in our facilities.These exercises cerainly match today's sizzling heat! 🌞😉 #FireSafety #StayCool #WorkplaceSafety #BehindTheScenes #MPIMR

Good morning, Heidelberg! ☀️

Let's finish the week on a high note by playing another guessing game! 💡Check out the close-up image below and guess which piece of lab equipment it belongs to! 🧪 Did you guess correctly? ✅ Keep an eye out for more exciting guessing games! 👀 #ScienceFun #Quiz #BehindTheScenes #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

🎉Whoop whoop! 🎉 One of the prestigious Otto Hahn Medals by @maxplanck.de goes to @jonaswilhelm.bsky.social for his outstanding achievements in his doctorate done in the department of @kjohnsson.bsky.social at our institute! Congratulations, Jonas!👏🥳 #maxplanck #congrats www.mr.mpg.de/14648335/ott...

📓 💡 #Scientificpublishing isn't always easy, right? 🤔🫠 How do you write a really good title? An abstract? When and how do you use AI? Today, Wiley Editor-in-Chief Uta Goebel was our guest, shared her insights and offered advice 👏 @mattertolife.bsky.social #research #maxplanck #mpimr #science

Research is one thing—publishing research is another! If you are looking for tips on optimizing manuscripts for submission to a journal, on AI tools for writing & research, & more, join our next event with Publishing House Wiley on June 4. Registration required (link in comment)! #publishing #mpimr

🎉Decision made: The initiative #SynthImmune by uniheidelberg.bsky.social has been selected in the Excellence Strategy 2025 of the German federal and state governments! Congratulations! 👏 Our Managing Director Joachim Spatz and research group leader @glembockyte.bsky.social are involved 😀

Metal fleece: material for the batteries of the future! 🔋 🚀 A discovery by a research team at our institute, led by our Managing Director Joachim Spatz, could now give batteries a significant energy boost. Find out more! www.mr.mpg.de/14647652/new... #maxplanck #science #mpimr #energy

🥳🏅Our research group leader Peer Fischer has been elected a Fellow of AIMBE @aimbe-official.bsky.social “for pioneering contributions in nanorobotics, the development of new ultrasound technologies, and for his leadership and engagement in translational science.” 🚀 Congratulations, Peer! 👏 ©AIMBE

🔬 Welcome back to #ScienceFunFactFriday! 🎉 Ever wondered about the quirkiest science facts? We're here to share them! Dive into our team's top picks and share your own fun fact with us. Let's make science (even more) fun together! 🌟🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

📣Review paper with a special story: conceived & written by master's students in #MolecularBiotechnology at uniheidelberg.bsky.social, taught by our heikeboehm.bsky.social and supported by our institute👩‍🏫🔬 #mpimr The photo shows them submitting the review together🥳 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Honored to welcome a delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at our institute today! Their visit is part of a broader program including visiting further Max Planck Institutes as well. Great scientific exchange that goes beyond the horizon! #mpimr #maxplanck #scientificeexchange #science

Let's play another round of our guessing game! 💡Check out the close-up image below and guess which piece of lab equipment it belongs to! 🧪 Did you guess correctly? ✅ Keep an eye out for more exciting guessing games! 👀 #ScienceFun #Quiz #BehindTheScenes #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

Proud to be part of the @hlsalliance.bsky.social! It is always a pleasure to meet everyone, share ideas, and plan new joint projects. 🚀 Congratulations on the new location. It is fantastic and we look forward to visiting again! 😃 🌞

“Engineering Genomes Cell by Cell and Nucleotide by Nucleotide”: That’s the talk Lars Steinmetz (@stanford.edu @embl.org) will give next Monday, May 12, at 11am, on site and online. We look forward to it! More info and the zoom link on our website: www.mr.mpg.de/events/41756... #mpimr #science

👉Paper out in Science Advances. In their study, researchers at our institute and @mpi-nat.bsky.social show for the first time that the protein paralemmin-1 plays a critical role as a powerful regulator in the organization of the MPS in nerve cells. Congrats to @vmacarron.bsky.social and colleagues!

Let's kick off the work week by playing another guessing game! 💡Check out the close-up image below and guess which piece of lab equipment it belongs to! 🧪 Did you guess correctly? ✅ Keep an eye out for more exciting guessing games! 👀 #ScienceFun #Quiz #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

Wishing everyone a happy #Easter holiday! 🐣☺️ Our talented colleagues in Chemical Biology have creatively arranged bacterial plates with fluorescent proteins to mark the occasion. 🐰 Take some time to relax and enjoy the sunshine. 🌞

Here are more impressions from this year's wonderful #GirlsDay! 📸🔬A big thank you to our young participants for their curiosity and enthusiasm!💡🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #WomenInSTEM #Science

Today, we experienced a fantastic #GirlsDay with amazing guests from 7th grade and onwards! 🌟 It was a joy to see you that curious and excited for our science experiments and work in our labs. 🧪🔬 It was great having you! 😊 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #WomenInSTEM

#Energy boost for #batteries: Find out more about the story behind Batene GmbH, the start-up co-founded by our managing director Joachim Spatz. It develops electrodes that could make batteries significantly more powerful, safer and cheaper (article in German only). #science #future #mpimr #maxplanck

Excited for today's seminar! Join us online or on site!

🌟Join us for our #MPIMRSpotlight series, where we shine a light on the scientists at our Institute and their exciting research! What sparks their curiosity? ✨What are they aiming to achieve? 👀Today, we're featuring @chrisheideb.bsky.social from the Optical Nanoscopy department. 🔬 Check out his work!

📆 Our next Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquium is coming up in one week. Sing up to participate online or join the talk of Seraphine Wegner on site at our institute! 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣👂The latest news on the funding by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and our site expansion in Heilbronn: a short summary right to the point from tagesschau.de (in German): www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio... #maxplanck #medicalresearch #science #research #expansion

We’ll open two new departments in Heilbronn! The Dieter Schwarz Foundation provides funding for an initiative by our institute aiming to translate basic research into applications. MPG president P. Cramer & DSS CEO R. Geilsdörfer just signed the contracts. 📷: Nico Kurth www.mr.mpg.de/14641433/new...

🌟 Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 🌟 Join us as our colleagues share stories of the women who have inspired and empowered them—from influential leaders and talented athletes to supportive mothers all around. 💪👩‍🔬✨Who are the women that have inspired you? 💡 #IWD25 #WomenInScience #MPIMR