This was a wild ride!
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Conducting research in the natural and medical sciences to obtain fundamental new insights. Posts by the communication team.
This was a wild ride!
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🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 5/5
Time to wrap up our video series with some laughs 😄.
Enjoy these behind-the-scenes outtakes from our video shoot with Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social – scientists are people too!
🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 4/5
Why should scientists join the MPI-NAT? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social shares what makes it such a special place to do research.
👉 And tomorrow: bloopers! 😅
🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 3/5
What sparks scientific curiosity? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social reveals what he finds most exciting about his research.
👉 Next video 📽️: Why he chose the MPI-NAT.
A “molecular lever” behind allostery: Maximilian Vossel, Bert de Groot, & Aljaz Godec @compbiophys.bsky.social have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows mechanical signals to travel across proteins.
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5065934/rn_2...
🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 2/5
What makes Göttingen a great place to live? Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social shares what convinced him to come here.
👉 Stay tuned – tomorrow it is all about his science 📽️!
🔬 Open PhD positions:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044640/19-25
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044746/20-25
🎬 Meet Andreas Küffner – Part 1/5
Our new research group leader Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social introduces himself, shares his research – and announces open positions in his lab. Want to join his team? Apply now!
👉 Want a sneak peek into life in Göttingen? Watch tomorrow.
Explore the entire gallery, updated regularly with new stories:
www.mpg.de/my-science-a...
📸 Jasmin Kappert and Germaine Arend from the Department of Ultrafast Dynamics, working at ultrafast speeds on the tiniest scales
www.mpg.de/my-science-a...
📸 Our research group leader Jens Frahm, with his invention of real-time MRI
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What inspires scientists about their research, and what keeps them motivated every day?
In the “My Science and Me” gallery of @maxplanck.de, employees from the 84 Max Planck institutes share their research through stunning images. Our MPI-NAT researchers are among them. 👇
Have you ever heard a glockenspiel in Göttingen’s city center? 🎶 That was our scientist Martin Begemann: He studies neurodegenerative diseases at the MPI-NAT & plays the carillon in his free time – 65 meters up in the Jacobi Church.
Read more in our INSIDE NAT: 👇
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...
© Theodor Boveri Institut/Herr Dr. Brönner
18.07.2025 06:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social on being awarded the Theodor Boveri Lecture by the Physikalisch-Medizinische Gesellschaft which she gave on Wednesday @uni-wuerzburg.de. The society honors her for her research on the development of mammalian egg cells – and thus also of humans.
18.07.2025 06:28 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our institute is hiring!
Apply as a PhD student for the project “Uncovering the evolution of metabolic interactions in intrinsically disordered peptides” & join our new research group Sustainable Biocatalysis by @amkueffner.bsky.social.
Check out the job offer:⬇️
www.mpinat.mpg.de/19-25?c=2501...
📣 You are looking for a PhD position?
Join our research group Sustainable Biocatalysis led by @amkueffner.bsky.social as a PhD student for the project “Bioengineering of a promiscuous methanogen hydrogenase for synthesizing renewable organics”. 👇
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044746/20-25
The startup Ovo Labs aims to make fertility treatments more effective by improving the quality of human egg cells. More about the MPI-NAT spin-off by our Director Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social, Agatha Zielinska, & Oleksandr Yagensky, in our INSIDE NAT article:👇
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...
Read more on his dissertation here: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/698895.html (in German)
04.07.2025 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Till Domröse from the Department of Ultrafast Dynamics receives the Born-Franck Dissertation Award – congratulations 🥳! The Faculty of Physics at @uni-goettingen.de honors him for his outstanding doctoral thesis on “Operando and Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Structural Phase Transformations”.
04.07.2025 12:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well done, Team! Yesterday, 40 colleagues represented the MPI-NAT at Göttingen’s annual Altstadtlauf. We are so proud of you for taking on this challenge and braving the summer heat 💪🏅
03.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Who knows? Maybe someone discovered the method, device, or expertise that will significantly advance their next project 🙂!
02.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Science does not only thrive on ideas; it also depends on the people and structures that make them possible. Yesterday’s Facility Symposium focused precisely on these people and structures: our scientific service facilities – from electron microscopy to mass spectrometry to neuroproteomics.
02.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Küffner and his team will investigate biological carbon fixation, exploring the intricate biocatalysis behind these processes. We look forward to telling you more about the team’s research in the future!
Learn more about the group’s research focus here:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/kueffner
Welcome to the MPI-NAT: Today, our new research group leader Andreas Küffner @amkueffner.bsky.social is starting his work with his Max Planck Foundation Group Sustainable Biocatalysis at our institute! We wish you a great start and look forward to working with you🙂! @maxplanck.de
01.07.2025 07:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What is the Manfred Eigen Award Lecture? Read all about it here:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/mea-lecture
Congrats to Nobel Prize laureate Rodrick MacKinnon who presented today’s Manfred Eigen Award Lecture, titled “Higher-order transient structures (HOTS) and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling”, at our institute. The award includes a medal and prize money of 10,000 euros.
27.06.2025 13:46 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Congrats to Cai Dieball from our institute & Björn Müller @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social on receiving the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅! @maxplanck.de is honoring them for their outstanding dissertations. Read more about their research here ⬇️
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044146/pr_2...
Congratulations to our Emeritus Director Erwin Neher on receiving an honorary degree by the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk 🎓
26.06.2025 07:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thank you to everyone who helped organize, contributed, and participated 🙂!
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