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There’s a popular misconception that cochlear implants restore natural hearing. In fact, these marvels of engineering give people a new kind of “electric hearing” that they must learn how to use. The scientists led by Tobias Moser, MBExC spokesperson, recognize that today’s cochlear implants run up against hard limits of

Scientists at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, UMG, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the abberior Instruments GmbH apply high-resolution 3D-MINFLUX technology for precise 3D representation of the molecular organization in the active zone of rod photoreceptor cells. Published in Science Advances. Link to the press release of

Dr. Marina Eckermann, former Hertha Sponer Collegian, receives the Academic Award of the Universitätsbund Göttingen e.V. for her doctoral thesis at the Göttingen University. For her dissertation, the physicist combined high-resolution three-dimensional X-ray imaging with modern mathematical and statistical analysis methods to identify changes in nerve tissue as a result

The MBExC currently presents selected research exhibits at the IdeenExpo in Hannover, which runs from 02 -10 July 2022. The  nationwide, successful cooperation between business, science and politics aims to promote next generation careers. It combines sound knowledge transfer with a high fun factor, and invites young visitors and families

Solid state physicist and MBExC member Professor Claus Ropers from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Göttingen receives the Diels Planck Medal of the Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS). Ropers is being honoured for his experimental pioneering work in the field of ultrafast

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has accepted Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling, Director of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), MBExC member and spokesperson of the Göttingen SFB 1190 Compartmental Gates and Contact Sites in Cells, as a new member. Link to the UMG

We are deeply saddened about the death of our MBExC-PhD student and Hertha Sponer College member Arun Sathyan. He has been a highly motivated and very esteemed collegian, and a dear friend. Aruns friendly and open-minded being will be greatly missed at the Hertha Sponer College and the MBExC. Our

Dr. Goran Kokic, MBExC member and Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, received the Young Scientist Award 2022 of the Division of Biochemistry of the German Chemical Society. His work is characterized by the fact that detailed structural insights into the molecular coupling of gene transcription with

An international group of researchers led by scientists from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University of Zurich (UZH) has deciphered the function of the CLN5 protein associated with childhood dementia. Published in the open-access scientific journal Science Advances. Link to the UMG press release (in German)

Dr. Fereshteh Haghighi, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (HTG) at the University Medical Center Göttingen and Hertha Sponer College Member, has received the Young Investigator Award of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology in the field of “Basic Science”. She was