Events

The MBExC will meet for it’s yearly Retreat at the “Schlosshotel Blankenburg in Blankenburg, Harz from September 23 until 25, 2025.

A joint journey will be organized.
 
We are very much looking forward to meet you at the retreat.

DATE: 27 – 30 September 2025

Location: Hotel Freizeit In, Göttingen

Welcome to Göttingen: A Hub of Super-Resolution and Neuroscience

Göttingen, a picturesque university town in Lower Saxony, Germany, is renowned for its rich scientific heritage and cutting-edge research in super-resolution microscopy and neuroscience.

Home to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, the city has been at the forefront of numerous groundbreaking discoveries, including numerous Nobel Prize-winning inventions, for example for electrophysiology or super-resolution microscopy.

The GEF25 conference will be held at the Hotel Freizeit In, a 4-star hotel just a short drive from the city center. The hotel boasts modern rooms, a state-of-the-art Vital Spa health center with an indoor pool, and a variety of dining options. With its excellent facilities and convenient location, including a bus station right at the entrance, the Hotel Freizeit Inn is the perfect venue for our scientific gathering.

Confirmed speakers: Stefan Hell, Edward Boyden, Markus Sauer, Stella Hurtley, Virginie Hamel, Joshua Vaughan, Radu Aricescu, Jae-Byum Chang, Paul Guichard, Helge Ewers, Sabrina Absalon, Ilaria Testa, Matthew Paszek, Julien Vermot, Bi-Chang Chen, Antonio Giraldez, Luis Alvarez, Chi Zhang, Sven Truckenbrodt, Eva Christensen Arnspang, John Danial, Katrin Heinze, Yongxin Zhao, Lu-Yang Wang, Ute Becherer, Barbara Cheifet, Steffen Frey, Magali Grison, Moe Mahjoub, Lukas Kapitein, Johan Hofkens, Hans Blom, Tiago Outeiro, Wei Min, Gabriela Segal Wasserman, Christophe Leterrier, Shahar Alon, Birgit Foltas, Jörg Enderlein, Stefan Jakobs, Jan Huisken, Eugenio Fornasiero, Felipe Opazo, Silvio Rizzoli, Ali Shaib

Join us in Göttingen for an unforgettable experience where science meets history and innovation meets comfort.

For further information please visit the website: https://www.rizzoli-lab.de/gef25/

DATE: 06 – 08 October 2025

Location: Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (City Campus) Göttingen

Registration, program, and further info: https://gccc.umg.eu/ai-in-healthcare/
Registration deadline: 31 Aug. 2025

We would like to welcome you to our symposium “Shaping the Future of Medical Decisions” in Göttingen, the city of science. The goal of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare is to bring together leading experts from various fields — including medicine, artificial intelligence, ethics, law, social sciences, entrepreneurship, and engineering — to discuss the integration of AI technologies into clinical practice. Together, we aim to develop best practice guidelines, explore ethical and regulatory challenges, and inspire the next generation of scientists and clinicians. We are thrilled to have you join us in shaping the future of medical decision-making and look forward to our discussions, networking and exchange of ideas.

With best regards, the organization team

Frauke Alves, Anne Schwerk, Andrea Markus

Further information can be found on the website: https://gccc.umg.eu/ai-in-healthcare/.

Here you find the PDF of the flyer:

DATE: 09 – 11 October 2025

Location: Landhotel Am Rothenberg, Volpriehausen

This meeting follows the tradition of the Channelrhodopsin, SPP1926 Optogenetics and Optogenetics 2023 meetings and strives to gather the optogenetics community and facilitate collaborations. It has been made possible by funding contributed by Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies, FOR 5807, Göttingen CRCs, RTGs and MBExC. We are very excited about the list of already confirmed speakers (see below) and will cover the whole spectrum of tool development to control and image cellular behaviour and their applications in bacteria, eukaryotic cells, organs like the heart and brain to the translation of optogenetic approaches into clinics.

Please send your abstracts (max. 3000 signs/words) to this address: ed.negnitteog-inu.dem@zfke until 15th August 2025 if you would like to be selected for a talk in one of the sessions. For poster presentations only titles are sufficient and a short selection of suitable topics.

Confirmed speakers: Oliver Ernst, Timm Fehrentz, Thomas Frank, Christiane Grimm, Keiichi Inoue, Olivia Masseck, Andreas Möglich, Vlachesiav Nikolaev, Crystal M. Ripplinger, Eva Rog-Zielinska, Leonardo Sacconi, Philipp Sasse, Ali Shaib, Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi, Peter Soba, Philipp Tovote, Simon Wiegert, Jonas Wietek, Tania Zaglia

Further information can be found on the Optogenetics website: http://optogenetics2025.uni-goettingen.de.

Here you find the PDF of the the announcement poster:

We are looking forward to welcome you in Volpriehausen in fall 2025!

On behalf of the entire organizing team,

Emilie Macé, Tobias Brügmann and Tobias Moser

We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Symposium (RSS) 2025, a specialized international conference to be held in Göttingen, Germany, from November 5th till 7th, 2025. The RSS 2025 is organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1690 and will be hosted at the City Campus of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.

This meeting aims to not only bring together experts in the field, who will present and discuss novel data and provide a detailed overview of the current state of the art of ribbon synapse research, but additionally provide a platform for young scientists to present their work in form of either an oral presentation and/or a poster.

Confirmed Invited Speakers: Jonathan Demb, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Chad Grabner, Radha Kalluri, Katie Kindt, Sharon Kujawa, Régis Nouvian, Anthony J. Ricci

Posters and short talks are invited. Registration deadline for short talks is August 31st, 2025.

Please visit https://rss2025.uni-goettingen.de/ for registration.

For further information, please contact ed.negnitteog-inu.dem@0961bfs

Click here for the poster of the RSS 2025

The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.

The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.