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MBExC member Melina Schuh, director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences and her team filmed the entire ovulation process in mouse follicles in real-time for the first time. For this decisive success in her field, she has been awarded the 2025 Science Breakthrough by the Falling Walls

Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Emilie Macé, Head of the ‘Brain-wide Networks’ at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Co-Spokesperson for the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies at UMG, and Member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks

MBExC member and Neuroscientist Dr. Oliver Barnstedt from the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI-G) receives an ERC Starting Grant for his project “LearnMamBo: Neuronal dynamics of learning and memory in the mammillary body“. This projects will run for five years with a budget of around 1.5 million euros.   You

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) will support research at the Institute for X-ray Physics at the University of Göttingen with a total of around one million euros over the coming years. Around 350,000 euros will be used to further develop the ‘Ginix’ X-ray microscope at the

Prof. Dr. Diethelm Wolfgang Richter, former director of the Institute of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), passed away on 23 July 2025 at the age of 81. Prof. Richter held the university professorship for Neuro- and Sensory Physiology at the Medical Faculty of the

Reliable and gentler control of cellular activity with light: Researchers at the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) and the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies (EKFZ OT) of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have developed a light-sensitive protein that can restore vision and hearing and regulate the

MBExC member Prof. Dr. Dr. Tobias Brügmann from the University Medical Center Göttingen has helped establish the new DFG research unit, ‘Dynamic Integration of GPCR signaling to control organ function and animal behaviour’. The DFG is funding the group for four years with 5 million euros.   Link to DZHK

MBExC members Timo Betz and Jörg Enderlein, both from University of Göttingen,have each been awarded Proof of Concept (PoC) grants by the European Research Council (ERC). These grants provide top-up funding to outstanding researchers, who have already received ERC funding, so that they can build on the innovation potential of

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging” (MBExC) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases the sensitivity of sensory cells in the inner ear. Even soft sounds, such as a whisper, are perceived more clearly, but

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions. Thousands of cells coordinate, move and exert mechanical forces on each other as an embryo takes shape. Researchers at the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN), the Max Planck Institute