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MBExC speaker Tobias Moser, director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen, received an ERC Advanced Grant. The European Research Council (ERC) supports his research project „Solving the dynamic range problem of hearing: deciphering and harnessing cochlear mechanisms of sound intensity coding (DynaHear)“ over five

Scientists of the University Medical Center Göttingen identify the human OPN5 receptor as a new target to activate cells and to study the principles of how cells communicate with each other. Published on 1 April 2022 in the renowned journal Nature Communications. Link to the MBExC press release

A team of researchers led by Marcus Jeschke at the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) and at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience led by MBExC member Tobias Moser at the University Medical Center has developed an automated auditory training program that marmoset monkeys can perform

Nerve cells communicate via chemical neurotransmitters stored in small containers, termed synaptic vesicles. Some of these cells are more ‘articulate’ than others as they can send more than one type of messenger. By which mechanism such multilingual communication takes place, however, remained a puzzle. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute

Human eggs often contain the wrong number of chromosomes, leading to miscarriages and infertility. A research team led by MBExC member Melina Schuh at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences has discovered that human eggs are missing an important protein, which acts as a molecular motor. This motor

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), including MBExC members André Fischer, Jutta Gärtner, Peter Rehling and Christine Stadelmann-Nessler, have created the first animal model that can be used to study the damaging mechanisms of excessive interferon release on the brain. The results were published in the scientific open-access

This year, the Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation is honoring Max Planck researcher and MBExC member Stefan Hell for pioneering achievements in the technical sciences. The physicist and Nobel laureate succeeded in observing living cells at the molecular level using a new type of super-resolution microscopy. In addition to Hell,

The MBExC congratulates Hertha Sponer College member Charlotta Lorenz for receiving the doctoral award of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Göttingen. The award, funded by the Berliner-Ungewitter Foundation, recognized her outstanding doctoral thesis on “Interactions within and between cytoskeletal systems” that she performed at the Institute of X-ray Physics under supervision

The MBExC congratulates computer scientist and brain researcher Prof. Dr. Alexander Ecker from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) for receiving a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC is thus supporting his project “Deep Neuron Embeddings: Data-driven multi-modal

The Göttingen-based Max Planck Institutes (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine have merged as of January 1, 2022. This will establish a new MPI, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. It will cover a much broader spectrum of research, thus promoting disciplinary diversity and collaboration. With a total