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Authors Chaudhuri A, Eijsink LE, Simeth NA Journal Chemical Communications (Cambridge) Citation Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Aug 22. Abstract The dynamic regulation of pH via an external stimulus is an attractive technique to gate chemical transformations. Applying photons of different energy, we preferentially address either a photoacid or a photobase
22.08.2024
Ceremonial Opening of the Heart & Brain Center Göttingen
Ceremonial opening of the new Heart & Brain Center Göttingen (HBCG) of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) on 22 August 2024. The federal government and the state of Lower Saxony are investing around 38 million euros in the new building. Research groups work in an interdisciplinary manner on cutting-edge
22.08.2024
Protein folding helpers in their natural environment
Scientists from Martinsried and Göttingen have analyzed protein folding helpers, so-called chaperonin complexes, in their natural environment using cryo-electron tomography. Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET for short, can be used to visualize and analyze cellular structures in their natural environment. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in
22.08.2024
Signatures of hierarchical temporal processing in the mouse visual system
Authors Rudelt L, González Marx D, Spitzner FP, Cramer B, Zierenberg J, Priesemann V. Journal PLoS Computational Biology Citation PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 Aug 22;20(8):e1012355. Abstract A core challenge for the brain is to process information across various timescales. This could be achieved by a hierarchical organization of temporal processing
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Empirical Optimal Transport under Estimated Costs: Distributional Limits and Statistical Applications
Authors Hundrieser S, Mordant G. Weitkamp CA, Munk A Journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications Citation Stochastic Processes and their Applications 178 (2024) 104462. Abstract Optimal transport (OT) based data analysis is often faced with the issue that the underlying cost function is (partially) unknown. This is addressed in this
21.08.2024
Protein folding helpers in their natural environment
Scientists from Martinsried and Göttingen have analyzed protein folding helpers, so-called chaperonin complexes, in their natural environment using cryo-electron tomography. Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET for short, can be used to visualize and analyze cellular structures in their natural environment. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in
21.08.2024
Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography
Authors Wagner J, Carvajal AI, Bracher A, Beck F, Wan W, Bohn S, Körner R, Baumeister W, Fernandez-Busnadiego R, Hartl FU Journal Nature Citation Nature. 2024 Aug 21. Abstract Chaperonins are large barrel-shaped complexes that mediate ATP-dependent protein folding1-3. The bacterial chaperonin GroEL forms juxtaposed rings that bind unfolded protein
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Variational calculus approach to Zernike polynomials with application to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Authors Gligonov I, Enderlein J Journal Biophysical Journal Citation Biophys J. 2024 Aug 19:S0006-3495(24)00557-5. Abstract Zernike polynomials are a sequence of orthogonal polynomials that play a crucial role in optics and, in particular, modeling microscopy systems. Introduced by Frits Zernike in 1934, they are particularly useful in expressing wavefront aberrations
20.08.2024
Accelerated spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization reveals coordinated ganglion cell subunit mosaics in the primate retina
Authors Zapp SJ, Khani MH, Schreyer HM, Sridhar S, Ramakrishna V, Krueppel S, Mietsch M, Protti DA, Karamanlis D, Gollisch T Journal eLife Citation eLife13:RP99945. Abstract A standard circuit motif in sensory systems is the pooling of sensory information from an upstream neuronal layer. A downstream neuron thereby collects signals
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Stochastic tug-of-war among sarcomeres mediates cardiomyocyte response to environmental stiffness
Authors Haertter D, Hauke L, Driehorst T, Nishi K, Zimmermann WH, Schmidt CF Journal eLife Citation eLife 13:RP97321. Abstract Cardiac muscle function emerges from the coordinated contraction of sarcomeres in cardiomyocytes. Sarcomere dynamics are usually inferred from whole-cell or myofibril observations, assuming synchronized, uniform behavior. Here, we investigated how different




