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For us, it's all about basic biomedical research! We develop technologies and methods to observe and manipulate the highly complex molecular and cellular interactions. Let's talk science! Imprint: /www.mr.mpg.de/imprint #science #medicalresearch #mpimr
🌟Great news! Kevin Jahnke @kejahnke.bsky.social will start the new research group “Biomembrane Engineering” at our institute, advancing synthetic lipid nano/micro-systems for biophysics and drug delivery. Funded by the #EmmyNoetherProgram 🎉
See you soon, Kevin!🤩
Team members wanted - get in touch!📧
✨ We’re entering the second week of Advent with a new science picture-puzzle.🕯️ Each week until the holidays we’ll drop a new quiz. 🎄These bubbles may look like Christmas ornaments… but what are they really? How fast can you crack the puzzle? 🧩🧠 #MPIMR #MaxPlanck #AdventCalendar #Quiz #HolidaySeason
08.12.2025 10:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ho, ho, HO! ❄️ In celebration of #Nikolaus Day, our #MaxPlanck bust has received a festive holiday makeover.🎅
We hope your morning brought a pleasant surprise - whether in your stockings or winter boots. ✨Let's stay festive!🎁
#MPIMR #HolidaySeason
✨Our new #ScienceSnapshot highlights PhD researcher Christopher Heidebrecht (Optical Nanoscopy) as he prepares samples for microscopy.🔬Stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes lab moments! 📸🤩 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #Research #BehindTheScenes
05.12.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0✨We are kicking off the festive first week of Advent with a science picture‑puzzle series.🕯️ A new visual riddle will launch each week until the holidays.🎄 How fast can you solve today’s?🧩🧠 #MPIMR #MaxPlanck #AdventCalendar #Quiz
01.12.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👉 Today at 3pm: Our Research Group Leader @glembockyte.bsky.social will give an online @mattertolife.bsky.social lecture on "Engineering optical nanoscale tools with DNA". 🔬 Participation recommended - Viktorija's research work is fascinating!😀🤩✨
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It’s #TagDerSuppe!🍲 Our Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute keeps a weekly soup ritual.😋 As the weather turns colder, it’s the perfect opportunity to slow down, connect, and enjoy lunchtime together.♨️ #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #DayOfTheSoup
19.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✨We are kicking off the week with a fresh #ScienceSnapshot! 📸Our postdoc, Nataliia Stepanenko (Optical Nanoscopy), is labeling a human cell line with a fluorescent dye. 🧫🔬More lab moments soon! 🤩 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes #Research
17.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Science met #curiosity!✨
At the “Home game science” talk yesterday in Bad Schönborn, our PhDs Ann-Kathrin Gelmroth & Philip Matthias shared how curiosity drives their #research: from #antibioticresistance to the beauty of #microscopy. Conversations continued long after the talk💬🧪
#maxplanck #mpimr
Poster: Invitation to a lecture on Wednesday, November 12, at 7 p.m. in Bad Schönborn at Café Glashaus
Invitation to a #MaxPlanck Special edition of “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” (home game science) 🏡✨! Scientists from more rural regions return to their hometowns and make #science accessible outside of large cities and university towns. Talk in German, this Wednesday with two of our PhDs! 🧪💬
#mpimr
🎉 Congratulations to all @erc.europa.eu grant recipients, including our Director Kai Johnsson!
07.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉🌟Big news! Our Director @kjohnsson.bsky.social has received an @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant, together with teams from EPFL @sulianamanley.bsky.social and @unibe.ch! 👏They’ll explore how mitochondria communicate with other cell parts🔬 #ERCSyG #maxplanck #mpimr #science
www.mr.mpg.de/14662972/erc...
📅 We are excited to announce three upcoming Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquia with outstanding scientists in November and December.
We are inviting you to join on site or register for online participation. 👇
www.mr.mpg.de/14167231/Moe...
Ever wondered what our interns work on in the lab?👀 In today’s #ScienceSnapshot, Optical Nanoscopy MA student Joshua Eigenmann is staining human cells to investigate them via fluorescent microscopy.🔬 Stay tuned for future snapshots from our labs!📸🥼 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
03.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🍂Trick or trivia? 🎃 PhD student Christopher Heidebrecht challenges you with today’s #Halloween question from our 2025 #ScientificRetreat pub quiz. 🦇 What's your guess? 👻 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #Trivia #Quiz
31.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0✨Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our PhD student Betül Karakoc, who is involved in designing nanostructures for targeted photodynamic therapy. 💡 Let's learn about her work in the newly established Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute!👀 🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes
24.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✨Today's #ScienceSnapshot 📸 portrays our postdoc Nataliia Stepanenko from the Optical Nanoscopy department observing human cells with bright-field microscopy!🧫🔬 Stay tuned for future impressions from our labs!🤩 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes #Research
22.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 ✨ Groundbreaking ceremony for #IPAI in Heilbronn today. Congratulations on this milestone! 👏
We are delighted that two of our departments will have their first home at IPAI Spaces 🤩
#maxplanck #mpimr #ai #innovation #ipaicampus #medicalresearch
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✨Today's #ScienceFunFactFriday is brought to you by the Biomolecular Mechanisms Department at the Institute!🥳Let's learn about the software and hardware advances in quantum-chemistry calculations!💻👀 The more you know...🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR
17.10.2025 06:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌟No more glare! Start-up #nanoAR, by a team of our scientists, developed nanostructures inspired by moth eyes – reducing reflections even on curved surfaces & at wide light angles. Now funded by "exist"-Forschungstransfer! 🎉
www.mr.mpg.de/14657543/nan...
#deeptech #mpimr #maxplanck
Today is #DayOfTheGirl !💪 To celebrate the focus on girls' empowerment and the fulfilment of their rights, we asked some of our female colleagues at the Institute what they would love to tell their younger selves 💬 Have a look! 👀 #MPIMR #MaxPlanck #WomenInSTEM
11.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
✨Today's #ScienceSnapshot captures Chemical Biology PhD student Christophe Didier preparing the chromatography system to purify proteins produced in bacteria. 🧫❄Stay tuned for more snapshots from our labs! 📸🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
09.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
👉 Corrected link: Please use the link below to participate in our Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquium with Adam Cohen online tomorrow:
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Of course you can also join on site!
#maxplanck #mpimr #medicalresearch #colloquium #rmc
✨Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our Postdoc Thomas Müller, who is involved in many projects on super resolution microscopy and biosensing 🔬💡 Let's learn about his work in the newly established Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute!👀🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes
03.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One talk by Luciano Masullo at 10 am and another talk at 3 pm by Adam Cohen, both next Tuesday, October 7, at the MPI for Medical Research Heidelberg.
📣 📅 Invitation to two talks at our institute next Tuesday, October 7: 🤩 Luciano Masullo @lumasullo.bsky.social from @mpibiochem.bsky.social at 10 am, Adam Cohen @harvard.edu at 3pm, also online:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#maxplanck #mpimr #colloquium #medicalresearch #sciencetalks #science
🤝 We had a very nice visit at our institute: We welcomed colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Thank you very much for all your great questions and your interest! We hope to see you again soon! 👋 Enjoy the rest of your stay in Heidelberg! ☀️
#maxplanck #mpimr #colleagues
✨#ScienceSnapshot from our labs: PhD student @yuqizhang.bsky.social extracting plasmids from E.cloni. After sequencing, these plasmids will be used for AAV preparation and to express a cGMP integrator in neurons. 👩🔬 Stay tuned for future snapshots from our labs!📸 🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
26.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cancer Grand Challenges congratulates team NeoCircuit for being shortlisted.
🎉🥳The shortlist of @cancergrand.bsky.social 2025 has been announced: Thrilled that our Research Group Leader @romansarott.bsky.social has made it, as part of team NeoCircuit! Congrats, Roman!👏 They’ll now compete for up to £20M for their proposal for rewiring cancer cells.
#cancerresearch #mpimr
🍂Today is the first day of fall – and fall welcomes us with dreary, continuous rain. 😒🌧️ ☔ Let's look back instead on the last days of summer in our institute garden, where we played table tennis in good company and sunshine! 🌞 🏓
#maxplanck #mpimr #tabletennis #sunversusrain #summersover
😎 Back from our #scientificretreat 2025 in Neckarsulm, full of scientific exchange and #teamspirit! 🤩🌟One highlight was the tour of the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn, where two new departments of our institute will be established, and the Innovation Park for #AI #IPAI 🚀
#maxplanck #mpimr #letsmingle
