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: 👇

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