MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences

© C. Hollis

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.

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

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...

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. 👇

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

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...

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...

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

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!

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

📣 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

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...

Congrats to Tayfun Eyyuboglu and Alexander Rotsch for winning the Campus Seminar Communication Award🥳👏!
Since 2018, young scientists from the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization and our institute have presented their research in the Campus Seminar series, with the best talks receiving this award.

Talks from our 2020 to 2024 scientific lecture series are also available. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

Did you miss our 2025 scientific lecture series at the Literaturherbst in Göttingen? Stream most German & English talks in full-length on our website💻. From baby talk to democracy and the vaccines of the future; there is something interesting for everybody!
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4758909/media

Our institute’s New Year’s Reception at the City Campus 🎆: Reflecting on the past year at our MPI-NAT and looking forward to what lies ahead. We had a great time getting together with colleagues over delicious food and drinks. The highlight? The photo booth, of course 🕶️📸!

Apply now until Jan 18. Find all information here:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5173611/43-25

In the project, you will:
🧑‍🔬 investigate protein-nucleic acid interactions within the cell nucleus.
🧪 uncover the molecular mechanisms underlying global chromatin organization.
🔬 work with biochemical assays, long-read sequencing, and super-resolution microscopy.

Interested in chromatin and super-resolution microscopy? Looking for a postdoc position?
Join the MPI-NAT! 👇