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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

The MBExC warmly welcomes its new member Humboldt-Professor Dr. Jan Huisken! The co-founder of modern light-sheet microscopy and world leader in the field of multiscale imaging strengthens research at the MBExC, the University of Göttingen, and the Göttingen Campus. Link to the press release Watch this video on YouTube

MBExC med. Ph.D. student Josefine Paulke (Stephan Lehnart lab) is awarded the Segnitz-Ackermann Foundation Prize for the best abstract on the occasion of the DGK Heart Days 2021. In her thesis she investigates the role of the protein dysferlin in membrane biogenesis and in cardiac hyperthrophic remodeling. The science award

The MBExC is pleased to welcome its new member Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nadja Simeth in Göttingen! The expert in the field of organic chemistry and photochemistry just started building up her own junior research group for Molecular Labeling Chemistry at the University of Göttingen. Link to the press release

The MBExC celebrated the inauguration of its cryo-EM platform at the University of Göttingen hosted by Rubén Fernández Busnadiego. Electron microscopy is central to MBExC’s mission of bridging the scales in biological imaging. In the virtual symposium MBExC speakers and colleagues from the international cryo-EM community presented exciting MBExC research

MBExC member Patrick Cramer was awarded this year’s Aminoff Prize together with Elena Conti, Germany, and Seth Darst, USA, for the investigation of cellular systems for the production, transport and quality control of RNA. The Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors every year scientific advances in