Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
@mpibp.bsky.social
Our research concerns biological membranes with particular emphasis on the structure and function of membrane proteins.
#Biophysics #cryoEM #structuralbiology
#Biophysics #cryoEM #structuralbiology
We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA
Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
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Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".
There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it.
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it.
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Proud to share that, according to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 ranking, our Director Gerhard Hummer is among the world’s most frequently cited scientists. 👏 The ranking recognizes about 6,600 researchers worldwide who are among the top 1% most cited in their fields over the past decade.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Proud to share that, according to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 ranking, our Director Gerhard Hummer is among the world’s most frequently cited scientists. 👏 The ranking recognizes about 6,600 researchers worldwide who are among the top 1% most cited in their fields over the past decade.
Scientists making waves! 🌊 At this year’s Frankfurt Museumsuferfest, our team swapped pipettes for paddles and crushed the Dragon Boat Race! 🐉🚣
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Scientists making waves! 🌊 At this year’s Frankfurt Museumsuferfest, our team swapped pipettes for paddles and crushed the Dragon Boat Race! 🐉🚣
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
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Great work of @deglushk.bsky.social from my PhD lab @mpibp.bsky.social on how to get more information out of all the membranes you see in cryoET data!
Glushkova, Böhm, & Beck @maxplanck.de develop a publicly available computational method to measure the thickness of biological membranes in cryo-electron tomograms. Analysis of algae & human cells reveals systematic membrane thickness variations within & across organelles rupress.org/jcb/article/...
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Great work of @deglushk.bsky.social from my PhD lab @mpibp.bsky.social on how to get more information out of all the membranes you see in cryoET data!
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Exciting week in Frankfurt! Our CEOS energy filter and ASI Timepix3 are installed and we're looking forward to running the first tests :) #CryoEM #timepix #REELanalysis #4DSTEM @mpibp.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Exciting week in Frankfurt! Our CEOS energy filter and ASI Timepix3 are installed and we're looking forward to running the first tests :) #CryoEM #timepix #REELanalysis #4DSTEM @mpibp.bsky.social
Precision, teamwork, and a sharp eye! Not just for experiments, but for #pumpkins too! 🎃🔬
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Precision, teamwork, and a sharp eye! Not just for experiments, but for #pumpkins too! 🎃🔬
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
SNDing proteins into the membrane! Our new publication from @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social ’s group identifies the SND3 protein as a new route for membrane protein insertion! 🍄 📘 Read more here: www.mpg.de/25599408/102... Image: Louise Duever.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
SNDing proteins into the membrane! Our new publication from @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social ’s group identifies the SND3 protein as a new route for membrane protein insertion! 🍄 📘 Read more here: www.mpg.de/25599408/102... Image: Louise Duever.
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Prof. Hartmut Michel's group @mpibp.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in structural bioenergetics. See the link for more detail.👇
Postdoctoral researcher in structural bioenergetics (m/w/d)
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October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Prof. Hartmut Michel's group @mpibp.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in structural bioenergetics. See the link for more detail.👇
Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
Heartfelt congratulations to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social @bjmurphylab.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis with summa cum laude! 👏💪🏆 For his doctoral research, Ralf used anaerobic sample preparation to study redox enzymes by single-particle cryo-EM.🔬 #phdlife #biophysics #excellence
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Heartfelt congratulations to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social @bjmurphylab.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis with summa cum laude! 👏💪🏆 For his doctoral research, Ralf used anaerobic sample preparation to study redox enzymes by single-particle cryo-EM.🔬 #phdlife #biophysics #excellence
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Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER developed by the authors in this new Communications Biology manuscript enhances cryoET reconstructions. @mpibp.bsky.social
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@sergiocruzleon.bsky.social
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cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography - Communications Biology
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER enhances angular sampling in cryoET, improving 3D reconstructions, particle localization, and structural recovery without increasing electron dose.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER developed by the authors in this new Communications Biology manuscript enhances cryoET reconstructions. @mpibp.bsky.social
@becklab.bsky.social
@jpkreysing.bsky.social
@sergiocruzleon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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Fantastic new work from our researchers!
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
❓What if you could peek between your tilt series ❓ We are proud to introduce cryoTIGER -- deep-learning based tilt interpolation for enhanced reconstruction in cryo-ET. A great collaboration between Turoňová lab, @becklab.bsky.social, @hummerlab.bsky.social #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s42...
cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography - Communications Biology
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER enhances angular sampling in cryoET, improving 3D reconstructions, particle localization, and structural recovery without increasing electron dose.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Fantastic new work from our researchers!
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
Our Green Yard Sale at the MPI of Biophysics was a great success! 💚
Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️
#Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics
Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️
#Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our Green Yard Sale at the MPI of Biophysics was a great success! 💚
Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️
#Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics
Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️
#Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics
🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.
September 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.
Our colleagues laced up their running shoes for this year’s “Lauf für mehr Zeit” charity run 🏃♀️🏃♂️.
It was the perfect opportunity to combine fitness, team spirit, and supporting a meaningful cause—all in one day! 💙
A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making a difference. ✨
A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making a difference. ✨
September 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our colleagues laced up their running shoes for this year’s “Lauf für mehr Zeit” charity run 🏃♀️🏃♂️.
It was the perfect opportunity to combine fitness, team spirit, and supporting a meaningful cause—all in one day! 💙
A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making a difference. ✨
A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making a difference. ✨
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And what better way to wrap up the day than with a poster session? Our current #imprs_cbp students shared their work and a beer or two while discussing science at the @mpibp.bsky.social 🍺 #phdlife #gradschool
September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
And what better way to wrap up the day than with a poster session? Our current #imprs_cbp students shared their work and a beer or two while discussing science at the @mpibp.bsky.social 🍺 #phdlife #gradschool
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We’re excited to welcome our new faculty member, Till Stephan! He shared his group's research on mitochondrial architecture using fluorescence nanoscopy. @goetheuni.bsky.social
#imprs_cbp
#imprs_cbp
September 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We’re excited to welcome our new faculty member, Till Stephan! He shared his group's research on mitochondrial architecture using fluorescence nanoscopy. @goetheuni.bsky.social
#imprs_cbp
#imprs_cbp
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Amazing week learning and discussing science! Thank you Florian Wilfling, Till Stephan and Alexandra Stolz for joining us! Looking forward to our last day on Monday! #imprs_cbp #phdlife
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Amazing week learning and discussing science! Thank you Florian Wilfling, Till Stephan and Alexandra Stolz for joining us! Looking forward to our last day on Monday! #imprs_cbp #phdlife
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We welcome our new faculty member Ramachandra Bhaskara! His group uses simulations and modeling to study complex biological systems at the interface of biology, physics, and data science.
#imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social
#imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We welcome our new faculty member Ramachandra Bhaskara! His group uses simulations and modeling to study complex biological systems at the interface of biology, physics, and data science.
#imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social
#imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social
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Another day full of science at the #imprs_cbp symposium! We heard from Eszter Lodinski on bacterial proteins linked to antibiotic resistance and Inga Hänelt on membrane transport proteins.
@goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
@goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Another day full of science at the #imprs_cbp symposium! We heard from Eszter Lodinski on bacterial proteins linked to antibiotic resistance and Inga Hänelt on membrane transport proteins.
@goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
@goetheuni.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social