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12.05.2022

Professor Sarah Köster Photo: Göttingen University / Klein und Neumann, Iserlohn

12.05.2022

Interdisciplinary PhDs in biological physics

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will in future fund a new Research Training Group (RTG) in biological physics at Göttingen University. A total of 25 PhD students and one data […]

26.04.2022

Prof. Dr. med. Tobias Moser, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience Göttingen, UMG. Photo: MBExC / spförtner

26.04.2022

European funding for excellent research on hearing

Auditory neuroscientist of the University Medical Center Göttingen receives Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for the second time. Tobias Moser, MD, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience […]

26.04.2022

Prof. Dr. med. Tobias Moser, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience Göttingen, UMG. Photo: MBExC / spförtner

26.04.2022

European funding for excellent research on hearing

MBExC speaker Tobias Moser, director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen, received an ERC Advanced Grant. The European Research Council (ERC) supports his research […]

14.04.2022

Indicated are the intracellular steps of the Gq signaling cascade, which can now be controlled by scientists using light to drive activity in transgenic mouse hearts (left) and contractions in the small intestine (right). Source: Prof. Brügmann / umg.

14.04.2022

A new tool for optogenetics: human receptor for studying cell function with light

Scientists of the University Medical Center Göttingen identify the human OPN5 receptor as a new target to activate cells and to study the principles of how cells communicate with each […]

11.02.2022

During meiosis, the spindle (green) of a human oocyte halves the chromosome set by segregating the chromosome pairs (magenta). © Chun So / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

11.02.2022

A missing ‘motor’ causes our eggs to fail

Human eggs often contain the wrong number of chromosomes, leading to miscarriages and infertility. A research team led by MBExC member Melina Schuh at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for […]

01.02.2022

Stefan Hell receives Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 2022

This year, the Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation is honoring Max Planck researcher and MBExC member Stefan Hell for pioneering achievements in the technical sciences. The physicist and Nobel laureate […]