26.01.2021
Patrick Cramer receives the 2021 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
The research award is one of the most prestigious in Europe and endowed with 500,000 Swiss francs. With this prize the Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry and member of the MBExC for his pioneering work in the field of gene transcription.
25.01.2021
Carola Gregor and Antoine Huet are new MBExC Junior Fellows
The Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging” (MBExC) welcomes Dr. Carola Gregor and Dr. Antoine Huet as new Junior Fellows starting in January 2021 for 3 years. Dr. Carola Gregor will focus with her project Bioluminescence imaging of neurons and cardiomyocytes on the bioluminescence system from bacteria to develop new tools
18.01.2021
Why remdesivir does not fully stop the coronavirus
Remdesivir is the first drug against Covid-19 to be conditionally approved in Europe and the United States. The drug is designed to suppress the rapid replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in human cells by blocking the viral copying machine, called RNA polymerase. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for
12.01.2021
Jörg Enderlein receives ERC Advanced Grant
Physicist Professor and member of the Excellence Cluster “Multiscale Bioimaging” (MBExC) Jörg Enderlein from the University of Göttingen has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC has supported Enderlein’s project – “Single-molecule, metal-induced energy transfer” – since the beginning of January 2021. The grant
18.11.2020
“Scientific Grand prize” of the Fondation Pour l’Audition for Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser
Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser receives high distinction from French Fondation Pour l’Audition: “Scientific Grand Prize” 2020 honours his pioneering work on the optical cochlear implant for the treatment of hearing loss. The prize is endowed with 100,000 euros. Link to the press release
17.11.2020
Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken nominated for top level research at the MBExC
Göttingen University receives another Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (mbexc/umg) The University of Göttingen was once again successful in the competition for the most highly endowed German research award: Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken, nominated by the University of Göttingen, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. The professorship, financed by
12.11.2020
Mini-Symposium “Excitable cell networks in heart and brain”
on November 23rd and 30th, 2020, from 1 pm until 5 pm via ZOOM This mini symposium focuses on cross-scale analysis of information processing in cardiac and/or neural networks by means of imaging, optogenetics and/or electrophysiology as well as computational modelling. Such cross-scale analysis propagates insights from the structural and
09.11.2020
Exhibition „Sinneswelten“ (World of Senses)
The exhibition “Sinneswelten” provides special insights into the wonderful world of senses at the cellular level of sensory cells and neurons from an artistic perspective. The displayed images are results of the daily work of the scientists at the Collaborative Research Center 889 (CRC889). They have been acquired with different
06.11.2020
ERC Synergy Grants for Göttingen neuroscientists
Professors Silvio Rizzoli from Göttingen, Director of the Institute of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and Nils Brose, Director of the Department of Molecular Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine (MPI-EM), both members of the MBExC, are among the recipients of
21.10.2020
World record resolution in cryo electron microscopy
Holger Stark and his team at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry have broken a crucial resolution barrier in cryo electron microscopy. The scientists succeeded in observing single atoms in a protein structure and taking the sharpest images ever with this method. Such unprecedented details are essential to