03.04.2025
Congratulations to MBExC member Nadja Simeth-Crespi on her appointment as W2 Professor of Molecular Labeling Chemistry at the University of Göttingen! Prof. Simeth-Crespi and her team’s research intersects the boundaries of bioorganic and photochemistry, with a focus on the design of smart drugs, biochemical probes and labels, as well
02.04.2025
Power-law adaptation in the presynaptic vesicle cycle
Authors Mikulasch FA, Georgiev SV, Rudelt L, Rizzoli SO, Priesemann V Journal Communications Biology Citation Commun Biol. 2025 Apr 2;8(1):542. Abstract After synaptic transmission, fused synaptic vesicles are recycled, enabling the synapse to recover its capacity for renewed release. The recovery steps, which range from endocytosis to vesicle docking and
31.03.2025
Direct Stimulation of Gastric Smooth Muscle Cells via Gq Proteins With Light
Authors Zipf D, Vogt M, Sathyanarayanan U, Wagdi A, Riebeling J, Patejdl R, Bruegmann T Journal Neurogastroenterology and Motility Citation Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2025 Mar 31:e70028. Abstract Background: Optogenetics is a cutting-edge approach that can enable direct stimulation of gastric smooth muscle cells (SMC) by combining cell-specific overexpression of light-sensitive proteins
28.03.2025
Artificial neurons organize themselves
Göttingen research team constructs network of self-learning infomorphic neurons Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for
27.03.2025
Understanding mitochondrial protein import: a revised model of the presequence translocase
Authors Jain N, Chacinska A, Rehling P Journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences Citation Trends Biochem Sci. 2025 Mar 27:S0968-0004(25)00050-7. Abstract Mitochondrial function relies on the precise targeting and import of cytosolic proteins into mitochondrial subcompartments. Most matrix-targeted proteins follow the presequence pathway, which directs precursor proteins across the outer mitochondrial
26.03.2025
The inner nuclear layer in pediatric multiple sclerosis
Authors Hummel-Abmeier H, Naxer S, Kadas EM, Zimmermann H, Knaack B, Huppke P, Kowallick A, Meier K, Brandt AU, Paul F, Schittkowski M, Oertel FC, Gärtner J Journal Neurology: Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation Citation Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2025 May;12(3):e200387. Abstract Background and objectives: Pediatric onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) leads to optic
26.03.2025
Microtubules as a versatile reference standard for expansion microscopy
Authors Chowdhury R, Mimoso T, Chouaib AA, Mougios N, Krah D, Opazo F, Köster S, Rizzoli SO, Shaib AH Journal Communications Biology Citation Commun Biol. 2025 Mar 26;8(1):499. Abstract Expansion microscopy (ExM) is continually improving, and new ExM variants need to be validated on well-defined biological structures. There is no
25.03.2025
Thomas Frank receives project funding from the Schram Foundation
MBExC member Dr. Thomas Frank has received €360,000 in project funding over three years from the Schram Foundation. His project “Cellular mechanisms and brain-wide circuits of chemosensory valence coding” uses zebrafish as a model organism to investigate how the brain processes sensory information, such as odors, across different levels of
25.03.2025
Public inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl
Shadows and glimpses of light: structure and function of the interstitial space in the brain MBExC member Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl has held the University Professorship of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since September 1, 2024 and heads the Institute of Anatomy
25.03.2025
Tiling artifacts and trade-offs of feature normalization in the segmentation of large biological images
Authors Buglakova E, Archit A, D’Imprima E, Mahamid J, Pape C, Kreshuk A Journal Arxiv Citation arXiv:2503.19545. Abstract Segmentation of very large images is a common problem in microscopy, medical imaging or remote sensing. The problem is usually addressed by sliding window inference, which can theoretically lead to seamlessly stitched






