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Congratulations! Our Hertha Sponer College members Lennart Roos, clincian scientist at the MBExC, and Inés Hojas Garcia-Plaza, Ph.D. student at the MPI-NAT City Campus received the 1st and 2nd prize of the „Breaking News‘ Best Paper Award 2023“ at the 15th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society.

To connect neuroscience from around the world through visual and performance art. Science is founded on the creativity of the human mind, much like art. Spray painting is a versatile technique that is used at a global scale, to convey messages throughout history. In this event, art and neuroscience will

Optical cochlear implants promise to improve the restoration of hearing in hearing loss and deafness. A Göttingen team of hearing researchers around Antoine Huet have now defined for the first time the biologically plausible range of stimulation parameters for the use of the optical cochlea implant in humans. Published in

Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, MBExC spokesperson and Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen, received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his project on „Waveguide-based Cochlear Implants for Optogenetic Stimulation“ (OptoWave). The grant about 150.000 euros enables researchers to bridge the gap between

Rubén Fernández Busnadiego, expert in cryo-electron microscopy at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and member of the MBExC received a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC supports his research project ”In situ structural basis of human axonopathies“ (“cryoNERVE“) over five years with a total of

A research team at the University of Göttingen has developed a new method to produce X-ray images in colour. In the past, the only way to determine the chemical composition of a sample and the position of its components using X-ray fluorescence analysis was to focus the X-rays and scan

Mathematician and data scientist Dr. Gilles Mordant from the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics at the University of Göttingen, headed by MBExC-member Prof. Dr. Axel Munk, has received the prize for the Annual Contest (section mathematics) of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. The prize is

With beginning of the new year, neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Frank took up a MBExC Junior Research Group for Zebrafish Neurobiology. Together with his team, he aims on understanding how the brain processes smells and how that leads to specific actions and flexible behaviors. Neuronal information processing at multiple scales, from

The Göttingen physicist and MBExC-member Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell has received the “In Publica Commoda” medal of honor from the University of Göttingen. With this award, the university honors his merits in basic research at the Göttingen site and the development of the Göttingen Campus. Link to the press release

Season’s greetings and best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful year 2023!