XVI International Symposium on Flatworm Biology 📅 September 1 – 4, 2026 | 📍 Göttingen Join an international community of researchers to explore the latest findings in free-living and parasitic flatworms. More information & registration: ⬇️ events.gwdg.de/e/isfb2026

Do you love research computing? ❤️ We do too! Join us as Scientific IT Specialist / Research Software Engineer: 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5239120/15-26

What is it like to work in research computing at the MPI-NAT? This is your chance to find out: 💻 Data Scientist / Bioinformatician 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/14-26?c=2501... 💻 Scientific IT Specialist / Research Software Engineer 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/15-26?c=2501... Apply now!

Precision training – your future at the MPI-NAT! As a precision mechanic, you will work with state-of-the-art technology at the micrometer level – and create high-tech parts that become a cornerstone for cutting-edge research. 🎥 Take a look & start your apprenticeship at our institute!

Congrats to our postdoc, @thomas-hensel.bsky.social, who has been selected as a Schmidt Science Fellow 👏! The fellowship program supports top young researchers as they transition to a new field of study after completing their PhD.

Save the date 📅: @horizonsmolbio.bsky.social Symposium 2026 Look forward to an international conference from Sep 7 to 10 at our institute – you can expect exciting scientific presentations from fields such as cell biology, structural biology, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genomics, and immunology. 👇

Congratulations to Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social on the Carus Medal! 🥂 The @leopoldina.org is honoring our director for her research on mammalian egg cells – specifically, how they develop and why errors can occur during egg cell formation. Read more here: ⬇️ www.leopoldina.org/en/newsroom/...

Are you a postdoc thinking about your next career steps? Then come to the Postdoc Fair – organized by postdocs of the @goettingen-campus.de. 📅 Mar 19 ⏰ 2:30 to 5:30 pm 📍 Physics Foyer, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen Drop by! More information: 👇 goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

We can do it! The positive trend in #womeninscience leadership positions within the Max Planck Society continues. All figures in detail 📈➡️ www.mpg.de/26233321/app... #idw2026

Scientists @MPI-NAT, @fmp-berlin.de, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, University of Utah, & @stanford.edu, have identified the presynaptic protein Munc13-1 as a key control point linking intracellular lipid & Ca2+ signals to vesicle readiness and synaptic performance. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5220593/rn_2...

We are at the Göttingen Career Information Day! From 10 am to 3 pm, our team is in the Lokhalle to answer your questions & give you insights into our apprenticeships. Whether you are a student exploring career paths or a parent looking for opportunities for your child – stop by 🙂!

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy, noses are running🤧. Hopefully it’s not the flu 🤞. Scientists from our institute, @embl.org, & @pasteur.fr have deciphered the process by which the influenza virus steals the cap of the host RNA to replicate. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5179649/pr_2...

Mach was Greifbares! 🛠️🪚 Starte bei uns deine Ausbildung als Tischler*in! Ob Möbel, Laboreinrichtung oder individuelle Projekte – hier lernst du, wie man aus Rohholz echte Meisterwerke macht. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199421/04-b...

Welcome to Göttingen – we are delighted that Reinhard Maurer joined us on March 1 as Humboldt Professor ‪@uni-goettingen.de and our institute, as well as MPG Fellow. We wish him all the best in his new role and many successful research projects 🙂! @humboldt-foundation.de‬ @maxplanck.de

Bock auf Technik, die was aushält? 🛠️💥 Dann starte eine Ausbildung als Metallbauer*in, Fachrichtung Konstruktionstechnik! Ob Stahlkonstruktionen oder Tore – hier lernst du, wie man Stahl & Metall in Form bringt & präzise arbeitet 💪. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199421/04-b...

Auf der Suche nach einer neuen Herausforderung im Bereich Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit? Das trifft sich gut! Lerne das Team Kommunikation & Medien im Video kennen. Jetzt kannst du dich ja nur noch bei uns bewerben, oder 😎? Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. März. 👇

Benjamin Kaupp @MPI-NAT & Olivia Kendall @unibonn.bsky.social have discovered that sea urchin & salmon regulate sperm motility differently than mammals. Previously, it was assumed that sperm motility was regulated via a universal mechanism in all living organisms. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5211203/pr_2...

Congrats to Ovo Labs, the winner of the Max Planck Start-up Award 2026 from the Stifterverband 🥂! This spin-off company from @schuhlab.bsky.social develops novel therapeutics to improve the quality of human eggs and increase the chances of a successful pregnancy. 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5213531/pr_2...

Funded with ~€500,000 by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture & @volkswagenstiftung.de: Congrats to Sonja Lorenz @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social & Gali Prag (Tel Aviv University)! They aim to develop new strategies to influence the regulation of human proteins.

Technik, die begeistert – bist du dabei? ⚙️💡 Dann starte bei uns deine Ausbildung als Feinwerkmechaniker*in, Fachrichtung Feinmechanik! Hier lernst du, wie man mit Fingerspitzengefühl und Köpfchen maßgeschneiderte Technik erstellt. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199421/04-b...

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

Blanca Baños receives a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship🥂🎉! Congratulations! Our postdoctoral researcher @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social aims to decipher the structural mechanisms by which ubiquitin ligases build ubiquitin chains and to develop new strategies to identify their substrates.

Bock auf einen Job mit Zukunft? 🔧💧 Starte eine Ausbildung als Anlagenmechaniker*in für Sanitär-, Heizungs- und Klimatechnik bei uns! Ob moderne Heiztechnik oder nachhaltige Klimalösungen – hier lernst du, wie Technik funktioniert, die Menschen jeden Tag brauchen. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199421/04-b...

The Faculty of Physics @uni-goettingen.de annually awards the Berliner-Ungewitter Prizes. Congratulations to Annke de Maeyer who receives this award for her exceptional master’s degree👏! We are happy she continues her PhD with us @compbiophys.bsky.social

Unser Team Kommunikation & Medien hat ein neues Intro 🎬 – nur DU fehlst noch! Wir suchen Verstärkung als Referentin*in für Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Interessiert? Bewirb dich – vielleicht spielst du dann schon bald eine Hauptrolle in unserem Team🥳! www.mpinat.mpg.de/04-26

Our former PhD student, Annemarie Kehl, has been awarded the Bruker ESR Thesis Prize. The ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry honored her for her doctoral thesis, “Development of analysis and simulation routines for ENDOR spectroscopy”. Congratulations👏! @brukercorporation.bsky.social

📣 Our department @compbiophys.bsky.social is hiring a PhD Student or Postdoc in the field of theory and methods for non-equilibrium theory and atomistic simulations of complex biomolecules. Check out our website for the possible projects & further information: ⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199181/01-26

Powerful in vitro tool: Scientists from our institute have developed a multistep in vitro pipeline based on integrated cancer patient derived organoid immune co-cultures to assess complex responses to different immunotherapies. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5202475/rn_2...

Congrats to Tayfun Eyyuboglu and Alexander Rotsch for winning the Campus Seminar Communication Award🥳👏! Since 2018, young scientists from the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization and our institute have presented their research in the Campus Seminar series, with the best talks receiving this award.

Did you miss our 2025 scientific lecture series at the Literaturherbst in Göttingen? Stream most German & English talks in full-length on our website💻. From baby talk to democracy and the vaccines of the future; there is something interesting for everybody! www.mpinat.mpg.de/4758909/media

Our institute’s New Year’s Reception at the City Campus 🎆: Reflecting on the past year at our MPI-NAT and looking forward to what lies ahead. We had a great time getting together with colleagues over delicious food and drinks. The highlight? The photo booth, of course 🕶️📸!

Interested in chromatin and super-resolution microscopy? Looking for a postdoc position? Join the MPI-NAT! 👇

🚨 Last call - deadline extended to Jan. 15! PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute & University of Göttingen! #IMPRSGS #GönomiX ➡️ www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... #PhD #GenomeScience #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #Germany @mpi-nat.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

📣 Talented PhD students wanted: The IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social and the DFG Research Training Group GönomiX are looking for you!

❄️ 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: 👇