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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

Living cells are the basic building blocks of all organisms. We, as humans, are essentially a collection of trillions of living cells: and all these cells emerge from a single fertilized egg. This means that “mitosis” (or cell division) is one of the most fundamental and important processes of life.

On October 21, Professor Dr. Marina Rodnina, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and MBExC member, receives the Albrecht-Kossel Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for her work in the field of biochemistry. The award is endowed with 7,500 EUR. Link to the GDCh press release

Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have identified molecules in the blood that can indicate impending dementia. The biomarker described by the team led by MBExC member Prof. André Fischer is based on measuring levels of so-called microRNAs. According to