We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026! We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!

From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA

Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET! 🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".

There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it. Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉

Proud to share that, according to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 ranking, our Director Gerhard Hummer is among the world’s most frequently cited scientists. 👏 The ranking recognizes about 6,600 researchers worldwide who are among the top 1% most cited in their fields over the past decade.

Scientists making waves! 🌊 At this year’s Frankfurt Museumsuferfest, our team swapped pipettes for paddles and crushed the Dragon Boat Race! 🐉🚣 #Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace

Great work of @deglushk.bsky.social from my PhD lab @mpibp.bsky.social on how to get more information out of all the membranes you see in cryoET data!

Exciting week in Frankfurt! Our CEOS energy filter and ASI Timepix3 are installed and we're looking forward to running the first tests :) #CryoEM #timepix #REELanalysis #4DSTEM @mpibp.bsky.social

Precision, teamwork, and a sharp eye! Not just for experiments, but for #pumpkins too! 🎃🔬 We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆! #CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit

SNDing proteins into the membrane! Our new publication from @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social ’s group identifies the SND3 protein as a new route for membrane protein insertion! 🍄 📘 Read more here: www.mpg.de/25599408/102... Image: Louise Duever.

Prof. Hartmut Michel's group @mpibp.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in structural bioenergetics. See the link for more detail.👇

Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts! 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-... 📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026

Heartfelt congratulations to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social @bjmurphylab.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis with summa cum laude! 👏💪🏆 For his doctoral research, Ralf used anaerobic sample preparation to study redox enzymes by single-particle cryo-EM.🔬 #phdlife #biophysics #excellence

Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER developed by the authors in this new Communications Biology manuscript enhances cryoET reconstructions. @mpibp.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Fantastic new work from our researchers! Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯

Our Green Yard Sale at the MPI of Biophysics was a great success! 💚 Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️ #Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics

🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.

Our colleagues laced up their running shoes for this year’s “Lauf für mehr Zeit” charity run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️.
 It was the perfect opportunity to combine fitness, team spirit, and supporting a meaningful cause—all in one day! 💙 A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making a difference. ✨

And what better way to wrap up the day than with a poster session? Our current #imprs_cbp students shared their work and a beer or two while discussing science at the @mpibp.bsky.social 🍺 #phdlife #gradschool

We’re excited to welcome our new faculty member, Till Stephan! He shared his group's research on mitochondrial architecture using fluorescence nanoscopy. @goetheuni.bsky.social #imprs_cbp

Amazing week learning and discussing science! Thank you Florian Wilfling, Till Stephan and Alexandra Stolz for joining us! Looking forward to our last day on Monday! #imprs_cbp #phdlife

We welcome our new faculty member Ramachandra Bhaskara! His group uses simulations and modeling to study complex biological systems at the interface of biology, physics, and data science. #imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social

Another day full of science at the #imprs_cbp symposium! We heard from Eszter Lodinski on bacterial proteins linked to antibiotic resistance and Inga Hänelt on membrane transport proteins. @goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social

In the afternoon we dove into the computational world. From cryo-ET data processing with Beata Turonova to molecular simulations by Ramachandra Bhaskara, Gerhard Hummer, and Jürgen Köfinger. @goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social #imprs #imprs_cbp

That’s a wrap! Thanks to all speakers and participants for joining us on this week’s cellular biophysics journey. See you at next year’s #imprs_cbp symposium! 🎊✨

We followed with a day packed with CryoEM! We heard about the cryoEM from Werner Kühlbrandt, STEM-EELs from Bonnie Murphy and CryoET from Martin Beck.

This morning we travelled into the fascinating world of neurons and synapses with @erin-schuman.bsky.social. We learnt how protein synthesis takes place in neuronal dendrites. 🧠 @mpibrain.bsky.social #imprs_cbp #gradschool #brain

What do we do in case of conflicts at work? We heard from Ulrike Trojahn and Andreas Münch about conflict reporting and management at our institute! #imprs #imprs_cbp #ombudsperson #gradschool

We ended the day with a fun twist: the @MPIbp #openscience Ambassadors taught reproducibility using LEGO! Thanks to @UniGlasgow for sharing their #openresources. eprints.gla.ac.uk/196477/

We love science communication! Thanks to Melek Özdemir for presenting the @MPIbp comms team’s projects. Want to share your work? IMPRS-CBP offers training in communication.

Ever thougth about pulling a protein apart? Nina Morgner shared how her group uses native mass spectrometry to explore protein structure. #imprs #MassSpec @goetheuni.bsky.social

A productive morning with Profs. Dötsch, García-Sáez and Helfrich! We learnt about transcription factors, cellular death and biosynthetic pathways. All before lunch time! #sciencemorning #gradschool @mpibp.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

Great session with Melanie McDowell today! She shared exciting insights into how proteins find their way into the ER. #imprs #imprs_cbp #phd #gradschool #biophysics

We had a great start of the #IMPRS Symposium on Cellular Biophysics to welcome our new students. Thank you for your fascinating talks Michaela Müller-McNicoll, Bernhard Hampölz and Christian Münch 👏 #imprs_cbp #phd #biophysics

Do you know IMPRS-CBP? We're the International Max Planck Research School on Cellular Biophysics. Since 2021 we train the next generation of PhD students in biophysics together with @maxplanck.de @mpibp.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social & @fias.bsky.social #imprs #imprs_cbp

We're very excited to welcome the new generation of #IMPRS students during our Symposium on Cellular Biophysics 🧪 This morning, we heard spokespersons Volker Dötsch and Martin Beck, and coordinator Pamela Ornelas, introduce the doctoral program to the new students! #imprs_cbp #biophysics #gradschool

We’re looking forward to the IMPRS-CBP Symposium on Cellular Biophysics at the @mpibp.bsky.social ! Join us on Sept 15–22 for a week+ of talks from our faculty as we welcome our new students! 🧑‍🎓Learn more here: imprs-cbp.mpg.de/symposium-on...

My PhD paper is in press @cellpress.bsky.social and now online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...! Contents: weird #NPCs in yeast and flies, #CLEM, in situ #cryoET and more! Made possible by the amazing @becklab.bsky.social team at @mpibp.bsky.social and collaborators! #TeamTomo

We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

Science came to life at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics during the 2025 Night of Science of @goetheuni.bsky.social! 🌙✨

👏 Congrats to Schara Safarian on his nomination for the Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award—Germany’s top honor for young life science researchers! 🎉 Hear his talk on Sept 15: 👉 goethe-university-frankfurt.de/150458316/Ea... #Biophysics #EarlyCareerAward #ScientificExcellence

From India to Germany: Pratima Verma and Deepshikha Ghosh shared their journeys as international scientists with 30 students at Friedrich Dessauer Gymnasium and offered insights into biophysics, skills & career paths in research. 🧪 #scienceforall #scienceoutreach #biophysics #imprs2impress

AI for Cryo-ET 🌟 Our new paper presents a deep-learning framework that cleans up faulty tilt series in a more automated, precise and powerful way! 💪 Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔬 Check out our new article on the mitochondrial TOM complex! Researchers from the Structural Biology Department have resolved a high-resolution structure of the main entry point for proteins into mitochondria. 🚪 🤩 Read more: www.biophys.mpg.de/2876415/tom-main-gate-into-mitochondria?c=2011019

Proud to share our first lab pre-print: “SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon” where @tzujingyang.bsky.social solved the structure of a ribosome-associated SND3-translocon complex involved in ER membrane protein insertion ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Sixteen of our Institute’s colleagues, along with colleagues from the MPI for Legal History & Legal Theory, joined this year’s 5.6-kilometre #jpmcc2025, challenging themselves and encouraging others! It was great to meet colleagues in a different setting and join over 64,000 runners! #teamspirit

🏆 The SCALE-it Best PhD Award 2025 celebrated groundbreaking doctoral research shaping the future of science! From interdisciplinary innovation to pioneering methods & major scientific contributions — we honored early-career researchers pushing the boundaries:🧵

Big congratulations to Dr. Lea Dietrich @lea-dietrich.bsky.social for receiving the Otto Hahn Medal from the @maxplanck.de for her research on mitochondrial architecture! 🏅 A brilliant young scientist and a great role model 💪