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Prof. Dr. Christine Stadelmann-Nessler, Director of the Institute of Neuropathology and MBExC member, receives the UMG Compatibility Award 2021. She particularly supports employees with family and care responsibilities. The “UMG Compatibility Award” stands for commitment to improving working conditions for employees with family responsibilities. Link to the press release of

Scientists of the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging describe a new mechanism that supports synaptic plasticity in the adult brain. Published in Nature Communications. The extracellular matrix (ECM) gives cell assemblies their structure and plays an important role in cell communication and control. In the adult brain, it forms lattices

For the entrepreneurial implementation of research results in the field of high-resolution light microscopy, abberior Instruments GmbH, the Max Planck Innovation GmbH and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry receive the technology transfer award from the German Physical Society. In 2012, abberior emerged from the NanoBiophotonics department of Nobel

The MBExC congratulates Hertha Sponer College member Funsho Fakuade, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the UMG, for receiving the Dissertation Prize 2020 of the Universitätsbund Göttingen e.V. His excellently evaluated dissertation on the assessment of altered atrial physiology in patients with atrial fibrillation was chosen by a selection committee

Researchers at the University and University Medical Center Göttingen, in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging and the Collaborative Research Center Mathematics of Experimentation, have found a new way to measure and quantify neuronal tissue architecture in three dimensions and at high resolution. Using their specialized X-ray imaging,

Scientists of the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) and the Collaborative Research Center 1190 develop novel strategy to investigate gene expression in mitochondria. Published in “Cell”.   Mitochondria are considered the power plants of cells because they generate energy from our food with the help of oxygen. The

One in 500 children is born with hearing impairment, and in 50 to 70 percent of cases a genetic defect is the cause. In a joint research project, a team led by Rüdiger Behr (German Primate Center) and MBExC spokesperson Tobias Moser (University Medical Center Göttingen) in cooperation with scientists

MBExC member Viola Priesemann has been awarded the Lower Saxony Science Award 2021 in the category “Scientist in an early career phase”. With this award, the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony honored her professional achievements in the field of theoretical neuroscience, as well as the flexibility to

The University of Göttingen is greatly saddened by the passing of the chemist and former Vice-President, Professor Ulf Diederichsen, who died on 11 November 2021. He has been very supportive to the MBExC. We are deeply saddened by his sudden death. Link to university press release

The approximately 100 billion nerve cells of our brain are amazing marvels of biology. In many brain areas, the number of signals exchanged between nerve cells varies depending on activity from just a few to over 100 per second. Some nerve cells can even transmit over 1000 signals per second