***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

Is human limb regeneration science fiction? 🤯 What if the oxygen we breathe suppresses our ability to regenerate? @canaztekin.bsky.social busts myths and reveals the potential of regeneration. Watch the video: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths

Honouring 30 years of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard’s Nobel Prize with a symposium full of science, stories, and reunions. As Germany’s first and only female Nobel laureate in the sciences, her work continues to shape developmental genetics today: 🔗 tinyurl.com/5cvmu74e #NobelPrize #maxplanck

Join us this Friday for another exciting talk in our DSSS series by Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus from the University of Zürich. Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: shorturl.at/4804F 📆: Friday 28th November at 3pm 📍: Max Planck House lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 (ground floor) #DSSS

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle: Director Stuart Parkin presented Spintronics+, a technology designed to enable more powerful chips, underlining the importance of basic research in the development of new technologies #HightechAgenda

Excited to announce that the new Max Planck House has officially opened! A modern hub for events, collaboration, and visiting researchers, it brings the campus community back under one roof with a 250-seat lecture hall, library and guest rooms. Congratulations to everyone involved shorturl.at/M6W1D

Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack

Very proud of Catarina Lino for facilitating the first ever sequencing of a plant genome on Zimbabwean soil, together with local organiser and collaborator Prince Marowa. With thanks to the Max Planck Society ARTEMIS Bridging Minds and the University of Zimbabwe! www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-pat...

Kommen Sie und feiern morgen die Eröffnung des neuen Max-Planck-Hauses mit uns!

Postdoc Tony Walters and our Directors, Ruth Ley (@microbiome.bsky.social) and Detlef Weigel (@plantevolution.bsky.social), are among the 66 “Highly Cited Researchers” in 2025 from the Max Planck Society. Many congratulations!

Great visit yesterday from the J1 class of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in WHO Tübingen! 🌟 22 curious pupils explored the Electron Microscopy facility at the MPI for Biology, where Katharina Hipp gave an inspiring lecture and explained sample preparation techniques 🔬✨ #biology #education #STEM

Pleased to share our review on S-layers with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen, and @tbharat-lab.bsky.social, where we explore recent advances and argue that deeper insight into S-layers is key to deciphering microbial interactions and community organization. @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠 dailyneuron.com/how-gut-micr...

Promoting young research talent is something we take seriously at MPI-Bio! This Monday, we opened our doors to 23 class 3e pupils (+ their teachers) from the Lindenbrunnenschule Tübingen for them to learn about bacteria, peer at them under the microscope, and smell some peculiar-scented vials!

According to an international survey conducted by Elsevier, 68 percent of scientists say that publication pressure has increased over the past two to three years. 3,200 researchers from 113 countries took part in the survey. www.elsevier.com/insights/con... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Another talk in our DSSS series will take place this Wednesday where we will be hosting Dr. Dominique Ferrandon from the University of Strasbourg. Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2xjkzjsd 📆: Wednesday 12th November at 3pm 📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor) #DSSS #MPI-IS

November is here and for our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series we’re highlighting postdoctoral researcher Hadeer Elhabashy and her team in the Department of Protein Evolution. Find out more about what drives her, her team's research and how they connect as a team: tinyurl.com/3ez3csd6

🔍 Stellenangebot – Administrative Assistenz (m/w/d, Teilzeit 50 %) 📍 Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen Sie sind organisiert, kommunikativ und möchten in einem internationalen Umfeld arbeiten? Dann werden Sie Teil unseres Instituts! 👉 jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/264 #Assistenz #Administration

Join us this Friday for the next DSSS with Dr. Ana Marija Jakšić from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Come along for the next exciting lecture in the series! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/y3k7duv3 📆: Friday 7th November at 3pm 📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor) #DSSS

Interested audience at our Friday seminar today @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social featuring Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social talking about the evolutionary landscapes of the zygotic activation in animals.

Join us Friday for the second DSSS talk this week where we are hosting Dr. Manuel Irimia from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8 📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm 📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor) #DSSS @mirimiam.bsky.social

1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social! Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics #pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

Excellence in #science drives #innovation! We are ranking among the top ten European research institutions with the highest number of #patent applications ✨🤩 The Fraunhofer Society is 3rd place, the Max Planck Society 7th place, and the German Aerospace Centre 10th place. mpg.de/25586100/europ…

Fruit flies are more than pests! Humans share 60% of their genome with them. @luisapallares.bsky.social busts myths about how these tiny creatures can tell us about human diseases. Watch Luisa's full video here: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths #Drosophila #Genomics

Join us next Tuesday for the next DSSS seminar where we are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz from MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. Everyone is welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5dkkadz3 📆: Tuesday 28th October at 11am 📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor) #DSSS #MPI-BIO

Had a fantastic visit to the ‪Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Super thanks to @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social for hosting me and showing me the town! Fun to talk symbiosis science with such superstars 🤩

🧪 Looking for candidates with experience in stem cell culture, quantitative image analysis, or modeling — and eager to learn! 📩 Interested? Contact us!

Our Pyrodictium cannulae paper is out in its final form! Cannulae assemble into calcium-stabilized tubular filaments stable at 100 °C—a unique archaeal cell–cell connection. Led brilliantly by @mikesleutel.bsky.social & @vinceconticello.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64120-8

Come along next Monday for the next seminar in the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series by Dr. Corrie Moreau from Cornell University for her talk on turtle ants. Everyone is welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc4vdbj2 📆: Monday 20th October at 3pm 📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor) #DSSS #MPI-BIO

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️

News for mushroom lovers: With the Flora Incognita app, you can now identify numerous #mushroom species in Central Europe based on images. These results can give you a good initial indication of what you have found 🍄 😱https://floraincognita.com

Meeting our Max Planck group leaders and young researchers in São Paulo was a highlight of my Latin America trip. Their talent and commitment show how collaboration across borders strengthens science — and the global community that depends on it. 📸 Ricson Onodera

But beware: **An app determination is never approval to eat the mushroom!**

Looking to do a postdoc? Explore this fantastic opportunity to do a postdoc at a Max Planck institute. Applications for this program are due by October 13, 2025. hashtag#maxplancksociety hashtag#postdoc www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn 📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm 📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor) #DSSS #MPI-IS

Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️ genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉

Excited to share our new preprint on giant virus infection in brown algae: Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host doi.org/10.1101/2025...

International Podcast Day Curious about algae sex? For #InternationalPodcast Day Dr. Susana Coelho explains in our #wissenspodcast episode 🎧 twtr.to/4tbQv. Plus, read about her latest research on asexual brown algae 📰 twtr.to/8ynOj. #BiologyPodcast #Nature #reproduction

Meet the next guest in our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series: Dr. Prince Marowa, senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe who joined our African Plant Genomics Group in the month of September as part of the Horned Melon Genomics and Breeding Project. Read more tinyurl.com/5n6henhx

📢 Are you interested in plant genomics? 📢 Will you be in Zimbabwe this November? 🫵Apply to attend the #ARTEMIS Bridging Minds Workshop at the University of Zimbabwe. Our fantastic PhD researcher, @catarinalino.bsky.social, will be leading the workshop. #africanplantgenomics #plantgenomics

Busting myths with @jweir.bsky.social. Did you know you don't inherit exactly 1/4 of your DNA from each grandparent? Or that fertility issues can affect young people, too? Find out more: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths

Hassan Salem will be co-hosting the EMBL/EMBO Symposium “The Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis: Sensing Friend from Foe” from 17–20 March 2026 in Heidelberg next year. Registration and abstract submission will open next month! For more info: tinyurl.com/bdhyv3ht

Meet Georgios Tsissios from the FML! For #PostdocAppreciationWeek, we're celebrating his research on wound healing & tissue regeneration, which is turning the sci-fi dream of scar-free regeneration capacities in humans into a reality. #WeAreFML #PostdocAppreciationWeek #WeAreMPIBio

Why do prey "play dead" when caught? Our new study reveals how the #nematode C. elegans goes into a sleep-like state when caught by a predatory fungus. It's not giving up—it's activating specific neurons to "freeze." Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO #maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology

Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals. Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE

🪱🍄 The secret to predatory escape lies in collagen. A new study how a single nematode gene nhr-66 resist fungal traps thanks to Velcro-like abilities, but the trade-off is their weakened cuticles making them vulnerable to rainfall. For more: s.gwdg.de/VJySw4 #Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck

How diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society. 🗓️ Date: 25 September 🕐 Time: 10am BST 💻 Location: Zoom 📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...