Susann Meyer

12.11.2025

Cover image of the current issue of the journal Circulation Research: The image shows the regular, blue-stained arrangement of mitochondria in heart muscle cells from the atrium of a patient without cardiac arrhythmia. The cytoskeleton, which supports the structure of the cells and contributes to the orderly organisation of the mitochondria, is shown in magenta. Image: Circulation Research

12.11.2025

Atrial fibrillation: disrupted calcium communication throws the heart out of rhythm

A joint study by Göttingen University Medical Center (UMG) and Würzburg University Hospital provides new insights into why heart muscle cells lose their rhythm in atrial fibrillation. Disrupted calcium communication […]

07.11.2025

Prof. Dr. Marina Rodnina © Irene Böttcher-Gajewski / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

07.11.2025

Millions in funding for research into new mechanisms of translation regulation

The CHAPEROME project, now awarded an ERC Synergy Grant, aims to uncover how molecular folding helpers – known as chaperones – work together with the translation machinery to keep cells […]

06.11.2025

Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), spokesperson at the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence ‘Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells’ (MBExC) and spokesperson at the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1690 ‘Disease Mechanisms and Functional Restoration of Sensory and Motor Systems’ (left; photo: umg/frank stefan kimmel), and Dr. Rohan Kapoor, former postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at UMG (right; photo: umg/rohan kapoor).

06.11.2025

Teamwork in the inner ear: our sense of hearing relies on the organised grouping of proteins

For the first time, researchers at the Göttingen Campus have succeeded in examining the tiny synapses in the inner ear — the contact points between hair cells and auditory nerve […]

05.11.2025

Sci Adv

05.11.2025

Charting the nanotopography of inner hair cell synapses using MINFLUX nanoscopy

Kapoor R, Kim H, Garlick E, Lima MADRBF, Esch K, Ruhwedel T, Möbius W, Wolf F, Moser T

04.11.2025

Arxiv

04.11.2025

Redundancy Maximization as a Principle of Associative Memory Learning

Blümel M, Schneider AC, Neuhaus V, Ehrlich DA, Graetz M, Wibral M, Makkeh A, Priesemann V

03.11.2025

Dr. Christiane Grimm, new MBExC Junior Fellow. Photo: private.

03.11.2025

MBExC Junior Fellow Position for Dr. Christiane Grimm

The MBExC cordially welcomes Dr. Christiane Grimm as new Junior Fellow starting on 3rd November 2025. Her research will focus on “Integrated photonic and genetic tools for all-optical neurophysiology”. Her […]