MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences

MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences

@mpi-nat.bsky.social

Conducting research in the natural and medical sciences to obtain fundamental new insights. Posts by the communication team.

1,428 Followers 742 Following 3,202 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

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More women in leadership positions: This chart shows the development within the Max Planck Society from 2019 to 2025 among directors, independent research group leaders, group leaders, postdocs, and PhD candidates.

We can do it! The positive trend in #womeninscience leadership positions within the Max Planck Society continues. All figures in detail 📈➡️ www.mpg.de/26233321/app... #idw2026

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Scientists @MPI-NAT, @fmp-berlin.de, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, University of Utah, & @stanford.edu, have identified the presynaptic protein Munc13-1 as a key control point linking intracellular lipid & Ca2+ signals to vesicle readiness and synaptic performance.
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5220593/rn_2...

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We are at the Göttingen Career Information Day!
From 10 am to 3 pm, our team is in the Lokhalle to answer your questions & give you insights into our apprenticeships. Whether you are a student exploring career paths or a parent looking for opportunities for your child – stop by 🙂!

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The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy, noses are running🤧. Hopefully it’s not the flu 🤞. Scientists from our institute, @embl.org, & @pasteur.fr have deciphered the process by which the influenza virus steals the cap of the host RNA to replicate.
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5179649/pr_2...

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📅 Lust auf mehr Infos?
Triff uns am 7. März beim Göttinger Berufsinformationstag (GöBit) – und bring deine Fragen mit. Wir zeigen dir, wie spannend Handwerk ist!

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Mach was Greifbares! 🛠️🪚
Starte bei uns deine Ausbildung als Tischler*in!
Ob Möbel, Laboreinrichtung oder individuelle Projekte – hier lernst du, wie man aus Rohholz echte Meisterwerke macht.
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5199421/04-b...

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Maurer is considered a pioneer in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in theoretical chemistry. The approaches he has developed are important for computer-aided materials research and can also be transferred to other fields.

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Welcome to Göttingen – we are delighted that Reinhard Maurer joined us on March 1 as Humboldt Professor ‪@uni-goettingen.de and our institute, as well as MPG Fellow. We wish him all the best in his new role and many successful research projects 🙂! @humboldt-foundation.de‬ @maxplanck.de

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📅 Lust auf mehr Infos?
Triff uns am 7. März beim Göttinger Berufsinformationstag – und bring deine Fragen mit! Wir zeigen dir, wie spannend Handwerk ist!

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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...

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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. 👇

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A collaboration with reseachers at the Center for Reproductive Medicine @uni-muenster.de, the @tuberlin.bsky.social, and the @mpinb.mpg.de.

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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...

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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...

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Forschungskooperation mit Israel Vier niedersächsisch-israelische Kooperationsprojekte am Göttingen Campus werden mit insgesamt mehr als zwei Millionen Euro gefördert. Eines dieser Projekte ist in der Forschungsgruppe von Sonja Lorenz am MPI-NAT angesiedelt.

Learn more about all the projects here (press release in German):
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5211345/pr_2...

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Congratulations as well to the three other German-Israeli cooperation projects at the Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the German Primate Center @primatenzentrum.bsky.social on securing the funding!

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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.

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📅 Lust auf mehr Infos?
Triff uns am 7. März beim Göttinger Berufsinformationstag – und bring deine Fragen mit! Wir zeigen dir, wie spannend Handwerk ist!

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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...

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1 month ago
The Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.

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

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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.

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📅 Lust auf mehr Infos?
Triff uns am 7. März beim Göttinger Berufsinformationstag (GöBit) – und bring deine Fragen mit! Wir zeigen dir, wie spannend Handwerk ist!

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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📣 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

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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...

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