🌱 New beginnings, fresh faces! As our pilot phase wraps up, the school is ready to grow and thrive. We’re thrilled to welcome 18 new fellows to the #MatterToLife Faculty 🎉 Each brings exciting perspectives from across interdisciplinary research. mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/355008/new-f...

🌟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. 🔬

✨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! 🧬

🌟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 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

🌟 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

Preprint by @towalther.bsky.social at al! We design DNA hydrogel microparticles with sequence-controlled stiffness from 30 Pa to 6.5 kPa. They are remodelled in fibroblast spheroids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks @ibecbarcelona.eu @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social

1/3 🚨🥳New paper out in Advanced Materials! We bring attomolar, amplification-free DNA detection to the point-of-care using DNA origami nanoantennas.🧬Check it out here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Finally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you Steffi and Veselin.

A "Small" update on studying the coating of single DNA nanostructures with a fluorescence lifetime sensor! 🧬🔬 Was a fun project at the interface of DNA nanotech and single molecule photophysics working in a great team! 🤓 🙌 @ameliehj.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. March 15th-20th 2026 Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.

New technology challenges communication inside and outside the classroom, as my recent paper explains. Fingers crossed we get to explore this question soon for emerging synthetic biotechnology within SynthImmune www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Really excited to be part of this fantastic and highly interdiciplinary initiative! 🤓🧬 Fingers crossed for May 22nd! #SynthImmune

On the show, we also talk about the potential of bottom up synthetic biology approaches for immunology - the aim of our excellence cluster SynthImmune (in German). We hope to get funded!

Hello (bluesky) world! We are WONDER 🧬, an organization aimed at female PhD students, early and late career researchers within DNA Nanotechnology and related fields 😊🧬 Follow us here to stay updated and sign up to our mailing list (link in bio) to never miss out on any news🧬

Our team just joined bluer skies :-) We are a research team located at the CBS, a unit from CNRS, INSERM and Université de Montpellier, France. We are using biophysical tools to study membrane biophysics and membrane proteins. See our website : integrativebiophysicsofmembranes.wordpress.com

Die Alliance Wissenschaftlerin Kerstin Göpfrich zu Gast bei 3Sat. Leicht verständlich erklärt die Biophysikerin und Molekularbiologin ihre Arbeit an synthetischen Zellen mit dem sogenannten bottom-up Ansatz. www.3sat.de/wissen/scobe...

So happy to share our manuscript on DNA-mediated photostabilization! Thankyou to the people who made it such a fun project: Michi, @glembockyte.bsky.social , Julian and @szalaialan.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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