How is artificial intelligence reshaping healthcare? Open lecture & panel discussion (🇬🇧) on inclusive AI, ethics, & patient integration. 🗓️ 6 Oct, 5 pm 📍 Aula am Wilhelmsplatz, Göttingen Speakers: Mei Lin Fung, Liz Goodman, Huw Williams. Please register via [email protected]. @uni-goettingen.de

Looking forward to welcoming you in Göttingen’s Max Planck community, @steffenmau.bsky.social! Congratulations to our colleagues at @mpimmg.bsky.social for this excellent appointment 👏!

Yesterday, about 30 researchers from Göttingen’s four Max Planck Institutes swapped labs for classrooms at #MaxPlanckGoesToSchool. From animal welfare to AI & space tech, students got a glimpse of frontier research. Thanks to all – see you in 2026! 🧑‍🏫🔬 @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Tomorrow, Max Planck goes to school! 34 school classes will welcome a scientist from one of the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen. From #MPSGoettingen, 16 scientists will participate and speak about #exoplanets, #solarstorms etc. #MaxPlanckgehtzurSchule @mpi-nat.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Colorful leaves ✅ Pumpkin spice ✅ Göttinger Literaturherbst …↺ loading… Our scientific lecture series at Göttingen’s literature festival is fast approaching! We will be providing you with info about the topics and speakers here. Stay tuned! @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Five MPI-NAT trainees joined 160 peers from 41 Max Planck Institutes at the first Trainee BarCamp in Berlin💡. The two days with crowd-sourced program covered career planning, team building, mental health, and much more. Looking forward to next time! 🤝🤩 @maxplanck.de

Today was Apprentice Welcome Day at the MPI-NAT! New trainees met seasoned peers, explored the institute, and grabbed insider tips. Looking for a hands-on apprenticeship in one of 9 exciting professions? Check out our website (in German) 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/ausbildung

Surprising tag: Scientists from @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social and colleagues have now discovered that the human ligase HUWE1 can tag synthetic drug-like molecules in cells with ubiquitin. Their finding could open up new avenues in drug discovery and biotechnology. @compbiophys.bsky.social

Congratulations, Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social! 🍾 The Falling Walls Foundation has awarded our director the Science Breakthrough 2025 prize! Melina Schuh and her team were the first to visualize the process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real time.

25 years: international Molecular Biology & Neurosciences research & teaching programmes in Göttingen! #IMPRS: unique collaborations across our Campus: Uni, UMG, MPIs, DPZ and more. Congratulations to those celebrating in Göttingen and alumni worldwide: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Dirk Görlich receives the prestigious #LaskerAward 2025! Congratulations!🍾 @laskerfdn.bsky.social honors him and Steven McKnight for discoveries exposing the structures and functions of protein sequences of low complexity. Read all about Görlich's research here 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5111108/pr_2...

The German young Molecular Imaging Community comes to Göttingen – GyMIC invites early-career researchers and students to join their talks, tours, discussions, and workshops in Göttingen. 📍 Where? City Campus, MPI-NAT 📅 When? October 9-10 Find all the details here 👉 e-smi.eu/young-esmi/g...

Breaking +++ The Science Communication Medal 2025 goes to Mojib Latif 🏅. The climate expert @geomarkiel.bsky.social joins the Göttinger Literaturherbst with his latest book “Klimahandel”. More highlights of the scientific lecture series in our press release ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5094670/pr_2...

Researchers from Göttingen and Hamburg have succeeded in finding a nanobody that can be used to switch off a protein that is essential for the herpes virus infecting cells. Their findings promise new therapies to treat and prevent severe infections. Learn more 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5095549/pr_2...

📣 Job opportunity for early career researchers! Our research group Computational Biomolecular Dynamics @compbiophys.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join their team. Interested? Find all the details here 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/24-25

Congratulations to Sait Şeyhanlı @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social on securing a coveted Boehringer Ingelheim PhD Fellowship 🎉! The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds supports exceptional young scientists worldwide in their PhD projects in basic biomedical science. ‬‬‬‬

Tabea Marx from the Department of Meiosis @schuhlab.bsky.social talks about the group’s ovulation research in the new SWR Wissen video (in German)! Why is ovulation research so challenging for scientists? What did the team find out? Watch the video to learn more👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...

AI is transforming medicine – from diagnosis to surgery. But innovation needs responsibility. From Oct 6–8, the “Shaping the Future of Medical Decisions” symposium in Göttingen brings experts from science, ethics, & law together. Register by Aug 31 to join them: ⬇️ gccc.umg.eu/ai-in-health...

Four outstanding trainees at our institute🥳 – Congrats to Jannick Flottmann, Frederike Thiele, Yannick Trolldenier, & Sarah Zamzow on being awarded the Trainee Award of @maxplanck.de for their outstanding achievements, personal development, & commitment. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5078643/pr_2...

Happy to share some work led by Aiturgan Zheenbekova and myself in the lab of @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de at @mpi-nat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our gardeners put a lot of passion, expertise, and creativity into making our #MPI_BioDiversum a biotope rich in species 🐝🦋🐦. Join them on a tour in our INSIDE NAT article: ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

Summer is now☀️, literature autumn next 🍂📖. The program of the literature festival Göttinger Literaturherbst is out – and our scientific lecture series from Oct 24 to Nov 2 features brilliant Nobel Prize laureates, scientists, & non-fiction authors tackling big questions. Get your tickets!

Keeping our fingers crossed for you, Melina @schuhlab.bsky.social! We are thrilled that our director has been nominated for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2025 in the Life Sciences category with her project “Breaking the Wall of Invisible Ovulation”. 🥂

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

📣 Ready for a PhD? Take a look at our job posting for a PhD position working on structural studies of membrane trafficking using cryo-electron tomography. Application deadline: Aug 24 – check it out! 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5067734/21-25

Apprenticeship at the MPI-NAT: In this INSIDE NAT issue we present the training as animal technician with the subject research and clinic. What makes training with us special? What are the advantages of training in Göttingen? 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

This was a wild ride! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... see thread below 🧵👇 1/6

🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 5/5 Time to wrap up our video series with some laughs 😄. Enjoy these behind-the-scenes outtakes from our video shoot with Andreas Küffner‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ @amkueffner.bsky.social – scientists are people too!

🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 4/5 Why should scientists join the MPI-NAT? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social shares what makes it such a special place to do research.‬‬‬‬‬‬ 👉 And tomorrow: bloopers! 😅

🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 3/5 What sparks scientific curiosity? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social reveals what he finds most exciting about his research. 👉 Next video 📽️: Why he chose the MPI-NAT.

A “molecular lever” behind allostery: Maximilian Vossel, Bert de Groot, & Aljaz Godec @compbiophys.bsky.social ‬have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows mechanical signals to travel across proteins. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5065934/rn_2...

🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 2/5 What makes Göttingen a great place to live? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social ‪shares what convinced him to come here.‬‬‬‬ 👉 Stay tuned – tomorrow it is all about his science 📽️!

🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 1/5 Our new research group leader Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social introduces himself, shares his research – and announces open positions in his lab. Want to join his team? Apply now!‬‬‬ 👉 Want a sneak peek into life in Göttingen? Watch tomorrow.

What inspires scientists about their research, and what keeps them motivated every day? In the “My Science and Me” gallery of @maxplanck.de, employees from the 84 Max Planck institutes share their research through stunning images. Our MPI-NAT researchers are among them. 👇

Have you ever heard a glockenspiel in Göttingen’s city center? 🎶 That was our scientist Martin Begemann: He studies neurodegenerative diseases at the MPI-NAT & plays the carillon in his free time – 65 meters up in the Jacobi Church. Read more in our INSIDE NAT: 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

Congrats to Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social on being awarded the Theodor Boveri Lecture by the Physikalisch-Medizinische Gesellschaft which she gave on Wednesday @uni-wuerzburg.de. The society honors her for her research on the development of mammalian egg cells – and thus also of humans.

Our institute is hiring! Apply as a PhD student for the project “Uncovering the evolution of metabolic interactions in intrinsically disordered peptides” & join our new research group Sustainable Biocatalysis by @amkueffner.bsky.social. Check out the job offer:⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/19-25?c=2501...

📣 You are looking for a PhD position? Join our research group Sustainable Biocatalysis led by @amkueffner.bsky.social as a PhD student for the project “Bioengineering of a promiscuous methanogen hydrogenase for synthesizing renewable organics”. 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044746/20-25

The startup Ovo Labs aims to make fertility treatments more effective by improving the quality of human egg cells. More about the MPI-NAT spin-off by our Director Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social, Agatha Zielinska, & Oleksandr Yagensky, in our INSIDE NAT article:👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

Till Domröse from the Department of Ultrafast Dynamics receives the Born-Franck Dissertation Award – congratulations 🥳! The Faculty of Physics at @uni-goettingen.de honors him for his outstanding doctoral thesis on “Operando and Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Structural Phase Transformations”.

Well done, Team! Yesterday, 40 colleagues represented the MPI-NAT at Göttingen’s annual Altstadtlauf. We are so proud of you for taking on this challenge and braving the summer heat 💪🏅

Science does not only thrive on ideas; it also depends on the people and structures that make them possible. Yesterday’s Facility Symposium focused precisely on these people and structures: our scientific service facilities – from electron microscopy to mass spectrometry to neuroproteomics.

Welcome to the MPI-NAT: Today, our new research group leader Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social is starting his work with his Max Planck Foundation Group Sustainable Biocatalysis at our institute! We wish you a great start and look forward to working with you🙂! @maxplanck.de

Congrats to Nobel Prize laureate Rodrick MacKinnon who presented today’s Manfred Eigen Award Lecture, titled “Higher-order transient structures (HOTS) and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling”, at our institute. The award includes a medal and prize money of 10,000 euros.

Congrats to Cai Dieball from our institute & Björn Müller @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social on receiving the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅! @maxplanck.de is honoring them for their outstanding dissertations. Read more about their research here ⬇️‬‬‬‬ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044146/pr_2...

Congratulations to our Emeritus Director Erwin Neher on receiving an honorary degree by the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 🎓

PhD Day at MPI-NAT 🎓 – stronger together in everyday research! Today was PhD Day at our institute, organized by PhD students for PhD students. New colleagues and experienced PhD students came together to network, exchange ideas, and support each other.

Do you have a master’s degree in Physics or Biophysics? And are currently looking for an interesting PhD position? Then we have just the right thing for you: PhD student position in Physics – Next-Generation MINFLUXoptical instrumentation. Apply now until July 15. ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5027139/17-25

What an evening🙂! Full booths, exciting lectures,& interesting discussions. The Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social🌙🦉was a real highlight for us, with curious visitors, lots of questions, & many “aha” moments. It was great meeting you all! See you next time when science turns night into day again!

Still awake? So are we! The vibes at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social 🌙🦉 are amazing, & the curiosity? Even better! Thanks to everyone who’s already stopped by. And if you are still out & about: Come join us! 🚲🚍 📍 @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social & Faculty of Physics. #ndwgoe