❄️ New year, first workday @mpi-nat.bsky.social ❄️❄️❄️

Happy New Year and all the best for 2026! 🎆🥂🙂🍾🎇

We say goodbye to Aljaz Godec 👋 – the head of the Mathematical bioPhysics research group is accepting a W3 professorship at the @uni-freiburg.de. Congratulations on this achievement 👏! We wish him all the best for the future and many successful research projects.

We say goodbye to Jens Frahm 👋 – as head of Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH & our institute’s Biomedical NMR research group, he achieved groundbreaking scientific successes. His FLASH patent is the most successful of the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de to date. Best wishes for the retirement!

The year is drawing to a close and the holidays are just around the corner. Regardless of tradition or religion, we wish you a relaxing and restful end to the year and a happy 2026! 🎆 🙂

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Our campuses through the year 📸 As we wrap up 2025, we want to take you to where all our research happens: our Fassberg and City Campus. 👇

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Our Fassberg Campus is growing! 🏗️ Tower 7 is steadily taking shape. Comparing photos from April 2024 and today shows how far the construction has come. What are the features of the new tower? When will it be completed? 👇

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Conservation means trying things out – and that is exactly what we do in our biotope project #MPI_BioDiversum. Read here what went well this year and what we are still experimenting with. 👇

Congratulations to Jens Frahm on receiving the university medal “Aureus Gottingensis” 🏅🥂! The @uni-goettingen.de honors him for his scientific achievements in the field of MRI, as well as his commitment to Göttingen as a science location. © Peter Heller / University of Göttingen

How do enzymes carry out chemical reactions with almost perfect precision & efficiency? Scientists at our institute, @uni-goettingen.de, & @uni-hamburg.de will study this question with funds provided by @volkswagenstiftung.de – ~€2M over 5 years. Congrats to all! 👏 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5177404/pr_2...

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – A strong team for science 💪! At the MPI-NAT, around 1,000 people work together: half of them in research, the other half in science-supporting roles. This year, more than 85 new colleagues joined us – in research, administration, workshops, and many other areas. 👇

6SiR-C3-NextA is bright far-red, cell-permeable probe for live-cell selective HDAC6 imaging. Congratulations to Van-Thang Nguyen et al. @vanthang.bsky.social from @imprsgs.bsky.social ! Developed at @mpi-nat.bsky.social nat.bsky.social and published on BioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... .

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Science for everyone! This year, we brought the diversity of science even closer to the public: 👇

INSIDE NAT 3/25 is here! What you can expect: 👏 Lasker Award for Dirk Görlich 💪 Highly committed: Four outstanding trainees 🏅 Award lectures with Nobel laureates 🏊 Off to the pool: Iris Bickmeyer teaches children to swim Enjoy reading 🙂! www.mpinat.mpg.de/en/inside-nat

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Exploring, discovering, inspiring curiosity! This year, we once again had the chance to spark excitement for science among many young people. Two formats have become true traditions at our institute: 👇

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Excellent research does not only lead to new insights; it can also inspire new companies. This year, a new start-up emerged from our institute and an already established company was awarded for their innovation. 👇

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – Two exceptional scientists and Nobel laureates visited our institute this year, and we were proud to honor them as part of our Award Lecture series. Congratulations to both award recipients on their extraordinary achievements! 🏅👇

MPI-NAT wrapped 2025 🎉

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – A year of exceptional successes at our institute! 🥳 This year, our colleagues were recognized for outstanding contributions: 👇

Morgenrot. Am @mpi-nat.bsky.social Faßberg-Campus.

MPI-NAT Highlights 2025 – We look back on a year full of discoveries, awards, and special moments at our institute. Today, we start with our research highlights. Once again, our scientists have uncovered exciting new insights – with benefits far beyond the lab: 👇

Albert-Overhauser Award for Vrinda Sant! Our postdoc is honored by the Division of Magnetic Resonance of the German Chemical Society for her publication “Lipidic folding pathway of α-synuclein via a toxic oligomer” published in Nature Communications – Congratulations!🍾

“The solution to the problem wasn’t immediately obvious, but simple in the end.”— 2025 #LaskerAward winner Dirk Görlich on figuring out the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences. 🧪 #LaskerLaureate @mpi-nat.bsky.social laskerfoundation.org/winners/stru...

Many congratulations to @abberior.rocks! 🥂 The Göttingen-based company is a spin-off from Stefan Hell’s Department of NanoBiophotonics at our institute and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Four scientists of our institute are among the most influential scientists of the past decade in their respective fields, according to @clarivate.com Analytics. Congratulations to @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de, Stefan Hell, Klaus-Armin Nave, and Johannes Söding 🥳🍾! www.mpinat.mpg.de/5167382/pr_2...

From the north campus to our institute: A rainbow of research lit up the Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de this morning 🌈💡💛!

10 million euros in funding for research into new mechanisms of translation regulation: Congratulations to our director Marina Rodnina & her colleagues Johannes Buchner @tum.de & Judith Frydman @stanford.edu on receiving an ERC Synergy Grant! @erc.europa.eu #ERCSyG www.mpinat.mpg.de/5162804/pr_2...

Full moon on the Fassberg. @mpi-nat.bsky.social

In our Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics @compbiophys.bsky.social, several exciting projects are waiting for you 😊. Are you currently looking for a new challenge as a PhD student or postdoc? Why not take a look at our job posting? ⬇️

Curtain down – our 2025 scientific lecture series at the literature festival Göttinger Literaturherbst has come to an end! Ten evenings, lots of new insights, inspiring discussions. Big thank you to all speakers, moderators, organizers, & visitors. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó was honored at our institute with the Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecture for her work in developing mRNA for therapy. Congratulations 🥂! With the lecture, we recognize outstanding scientists & their work. Besides a medal, the prize is endowed with 10.000 euros.

Are you looking for a PhD opportunity? Or would you like to start your postdoc after having earned your doctorate? Our Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics @compbiophys.bsky.social is hiring: ⬇️

Coming up: Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecture with Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó! 📅 Oct 30 🕚 11 am 📍 Manfred Eigen Hall, Fassberg Campus She presents her work on the development of new mRNA vaccines. The technology she developed made it possible to use mRNA therapeutically for the first time.

Du bist ein Organisationstalent? Your English is on point? Du arbeitest gut im Team, bist flexibel und belastbar? Dann bewirb dich bei uns als Direktionsassistenz – zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt und in Vollzeit. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 2. November. ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/38-25?c=2501...

Our scientific lecture series at the literature festival Göttinger Literaturherbst 📚🍂 is underway! After two evenings full of insights and inspiring discussions, we will continue tomorrow with events every evening until Nov 2. Fancy to join 🙂? 👇 @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

Scientists from our institute, @uni-goettingen.de, & EPFL have generated quantum light using an electron beam instead of a laser. Unlike LED or laser light, this type of quantum light is characterized by a precisely defined and constant number of light particles per light pulse. ⬇️

📣 Werde technische Assistenz an unserem Institut! Unsere Abteilung Gewebedynamik und Regeneration sucht eine*n Mitarbeitende*n zur Unterstützung & Entwicklung von Next-Generation Sequencing Anwendungen. Deine Aufgaben und was du mitbringen solltest, findest du hier: ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/36-25

Problems speaking or walking, muscle tremors, & seizures – in a large interdisciplinary collaboration, scientists led by @noalipstein.bsky.social @fmp-berlin.de & Nils Brose of our institute have discovered a new developmental disorder linked to variations in the UNC13A gene.

Du studierst in Göttingen oder Umgebung & suchst einen Nebenjob? Dann bewirb dich bei uns als studentische Hilfskraft! Unsere Abteilung @compbiophys.bsky.social sucht Unterstützung beim Ausbau & der Wartung der Hardware ihres Linux-Clusters. Bewerbungsschluss: 26.10. 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/37-25

Attention art fans 🖼️🎨🖌️: After a three-year hiatus, “Kunst am Fassberg” is back! From Oct 23 to Nov 24, artist Birgit Egen will showcase her abstract paintings under the theme “FARBCODE” (color code). The vernissage will take place on Oct 23, at 5:30 pm. You are cordially invited!

“Shaping the Future of Medical Decisions” – How can AI technologies be responsibly integrated into clinical practice? What opportunities could this integration create for more inclusive, patient-centered medicine? These questions were the focus of the international symposium at our institute.

Tropical disease Leishmaniasis affects the world’s poorest regions. Scientists led by Thornton Fokkens & Sonja Lorenz @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social have shown that leishmania parasites require the protein TKUL to maintain infections of host cells. 👇 (1/3)

Our institute & the Applied Physics Division at the NIST (Boulder, CO, USA) are seeking a postdoc to develop high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) and arrays for mid-infrared spectroscopy. Apply by Nov 2. More info here: ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5122824/27-25

True stories from science – and the people behind them – at the Göttinger Literaturherbst: Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Karikó shares her journey, while Hans-Hennig von Grünberg looks back on the pioneers of quantum mechanics. Details below 👇 @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

What values guide us, and where do we draw the line? At the Göttinger Literaturherbst, Johanna M. Lukate and Alena Buyx will discuss racism, beauty standards, medical ethics, and moral living. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social Details below 👇

Thanks to basic research, we learn more about the universe, the building blocks of life, and the origins of communication. At Göttingen’s Literaturherbst, astrophysicist Jason Steffen and biologist Kathleen Wermke will share their insights. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

2025 Basic Award winner Dirk Görlich @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social advises scientists to overcome "headwinds against new ways of thinking" by putting ideas to the "strictest possible test" and finding satisfaction in the journey, not just the destination. #LaskerAwards

🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 is awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar Yaghi! They have created molecular constructions, known as metal–organic frameworks, that can contribute to solving some of humankind’s greatest challenges. www.kva.se/nobelchemistry2025 #Nobelprize

🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis! The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. www.kva.se/nobelphysics2025

Will humanity outlive its own power – and break the cycle of violence? Kai Michel, Johannes Krause, and Thomas Trappe explore at Göttinger Literaturherbst the history of humankind to find answers for its future. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social Details below 👇