MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
A joint channel for the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. We study aspects of microbial, algal, fungi, plant & animal biology. www.bio.mpg.de/ www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/
Imprint: https://www.bio.mpg.de/3047/imprint
Imprint: https://www.bio.mpg.de/3047/imprint
Promoting young research talent is something we take seriously at MPI-Bio! This Monday, we opened our doors to 23 class 3e pupils (+ their teachers) from the Lindenbrunnenschule Tübingen for them to learn about bacteria, peer at them under the microscope, and smell some peculiar-scented vials!
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Promoting young research talent is something we take seriously at MPI-Bio! This Monday, we opened our doors to 23 class 3e pupils (+ their teachers) from the Lindenbrunnenschule Tübingen for them to learn about bacteria, peer at them under the microscope, and smell some peculiar-scented vials!
Another talk in our DSSS series will take place this Wednesday where we will be hosting Dr. Dominique Ferrandon from the University of Strasbourg. Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2xjkzjsd
📆: Wednesday 12th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2xjkzjsd
📆: Wednesday 12th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Another talk in our DSSS series will take place this Wednesday where we will be hosting Dr. Dominique Ferrandon from the University of Strasbourg. Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2xjkzjsd
📆: Wednesday 12th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2xjkzjsd
📆: Wednesday 12th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
November is here and for our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series we’re highlighting postdoctoral researcher Hadeer Elhabashy and her team in the Department of Protein Evolution. Find out more about what drives her, her team's research and how they connect as a team: tinyurl.com/3ez3csd6
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
November is here and for our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series we’re highlighting postdoctoral researcher Hadeer Elhabashy and her team in the Department of Protein Evolution. Find out more about what drives her, her team's research and how they connect as a team: tinyurl.com/3ez3csd6
🔍 Stellenangebot – Administrative Assistenz (m/w/d, Teilzeit 50 %)
📍 Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen
Sie sind organisiert, kommunikativ und möchten in einem internationalen Umfeld arbeiten? Dann werden Sie Teil unseres Instituts!
👉 jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/264
#Assistenz #Administration
📍 Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen
Sie sind organisiert, kommunikativ und möchten in einem internationalen Umfeld arbeiten? Dann werden Sie Teil unseres Instituts!
👉 jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/264
#Assistenz #Administration
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🔍 Stellenangebot – Administrative Assistenz (m/w/d, Teilzeit 50 %)
📍 Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen
Sie sind organisiert, kommunikativ und möchten in einem internationalen Umfeld arbeiten? Dann werden Sie Teil unseres Instituts!
👉 jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/264
#Assistenz #Administration
📍 Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen
Sie sind organisiert, kommunikativ und möchten in einem internationalen Umfeld arbeiten? Dann werden Sie Teil unseres Instituts!
👉 jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/264
#Assistenz #Administration
Join us this Friday for the next DSSS with Dr. Ana Marija Jakšić from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Come along for the next exciting lecture in the series!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/y3k7duv3
📆: Friday 7th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/y3k7duv3
📆: Friday 7th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Join us this Friday for the next DSSS with Dr. Ana Marija Jakšić from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Come along for the next exciting lecture in the series!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/y3k7duv3
📆: Friday 7th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/y3k7duv3
📆: Friday 7th November at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
Interested audience at our Friday seminar today
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
featuring Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social
talking about the evolutionary landscapes of the zygotic activation in animals.
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
featuring Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social
talking about the evolutionary landscapes of the zygotic activation in animals.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Interested audience at our Friday seminar today
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
featuring Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social
talking about the evolutionary landscapes of the zygotic activation in animals.
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
featuring Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social
talking about the evolutionary landscapes of the zygotic activation in animals.
Join us Friday for the second DSSS talk this week where we are hosting Dr. Manuel Irimia from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8
📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
@mirimiam.bsky.social
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8
📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
@mirimiam.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us Friday for the second DSSS talk this week where we are hosting Dr. Manuel Irimia from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8
📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
@mirimiam.bsky.social
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8
📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
@mirimiam.bsky.social
Fruit flies are more than pests! Humans share 60% of their genome with them. @luisapallares.bsky.social busts myths about how these tiny creatures can tell us about human diseases. Watch Luisa's full video here: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths #Drosophila #Genomics
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Fruit flies are more than pests! Humans share 60% of their genome with them. @luisapallares.bsky.social busts myths about how these tiny creatures can tell us about human diseases. Watch Luisa's full video here: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths #Drosophila #Genomics
Join us next Tuesday for the next DSSS seminar where we are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz from MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5dkkadz3
📆: Tuesday 28th October at 11am
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5dkkadz3
📆: Tuesday 28th October at 11am
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Join us next Tuesday for the next DSSS seminar where we are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz from MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5dkkadz3
📆: Tuesday 28th October at 11am
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5dkkadz3
📆: Tuesday 28th October at 11am
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
Come along next Monday for the next seminar in the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series by Dr. Corrie Moreau from Cornell University for her talk on turtle ants. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc4vdbj2
📆: Monday 20th October at 3pm
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc4vdbj2
📆: Monday 20th October at 3pm
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Come along next Monday for the next seminar in the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series by Dr. Corrie Moreau from Cornell University for her talk on turtle ants. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc4vdbj2
📆: Monday 20th October at 3pm
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc4vdbj2
📆: Monday 20th October at 3pm
📍: MPI BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-BIO
Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Come along this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/xnanannn
📆: Friday 10th October at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS #MPI-IS
Meet the next guest in our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series: Dr. Prince Marowa, senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe who joined our African Plant Genomics Group in the month of September as part of the Horned Melon Genomics and Breeding Project. Read more tinyurl.com/5n6henhx
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet the next guest in our #WeAreMPIBio #WeAreFML portrait series: Dr. Prince Marowa, senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe who joined our African Plant Genomics Group in the month of September as part of the Horned Melon Genomics and Breeding Project. Read more tinyurl.com/5n6henhx
Busting myths with @jweir.bsky.social. Did you know you don't inherit exactly 1/4 of your DNA from each grandparent? Or that fertility issues can affect young people, too? Find out more: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Busting myths with @jweir.bsky.social. Did you know you don't inherit exactly 1/4 of your DNA from each grandparent? Or that fertility issues can affect young people, too? Find out more: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths
Meet Georgios Tsissios from the FML! For #PostdocAppreciationWeek, we're celebrating his research on wound healing & tissue regeneration, which is turning the sci-fi dream of scar-free regeneration capacities in humans into a reality. #WeAreFML #PostdocAppreciationWeek #WeAreMPIBio
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Meet Georgios Tsissios from the FML! For #PostdocAppreciationWeek, we're celebrating his research on wound healing & tissue regeneration, which is turning the sci-fi dream of scar-free regeneration capacities in humans into a reality. #WeAreFML #PostdocAppreciationWeek #WeAreMPIBio
Why do prey "play dead" when caught? Our new study reveals how the #nematode C. elegans goes into a sleep-like state when caught by a predatory fungus. It's not giving up—it's activating specific neurons to "freeze."
Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO
#maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology
Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO
#maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Why do prey "play dead" when caught? Our new study reveals how the #nematode C. elegans goes into a sleep-like state when caught by a predatory fungus. It's not giving up—it's activating specific neurons to "freeze."
Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO
#maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology
Full story: s.gwdg.de/NYkHdO
#maxplanck #fungalbiology #fungalwormlab #nematology
Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals.
Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE
Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals.
Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE
Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE
🪱🍄 The secret to predatory escape lies in collagen. A new study how a single nematode gene nhr-66 resist fungal traps thanks to Velcro-like abilities, but the trade-off is their weakened cuticles making them vulnerable to rainfall. For more: s.gwdg.de/VJySw4
#Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck
#Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck
September 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🪱🍄 The secret to predatory escape lies in collagen. A new study how a single nematode gene nhr-66 resist fungal traps thanks to Velcro-like abilities, but the trade-off is their weakened cuticles making them vulnerable to rainfall. For more: s.gwdg.de/VJySw4
#Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck
#Nematodes #FungalBiology #MaxPlanck
🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society.
🗓️ Date: 25 September
🕐 Time: 10am BST
💻 Location: Zoom
📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...
🗓️ Date: 25 September
🕐 Time: 10am BST
💻 Location: Zoom
📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society.
🗓️ Date: 25 September
🕐 Time: 10am BST
💻 Location: Zoom
📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...
🗓️ Date: 25 September
🕐 Time: 10am BST
💻 Location: Zoom
📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...
New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L
Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com
Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L
Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com
Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com
The mind of a predatory worm
A new perspective piece in Science highlights a study (published in same issue) showing that a behavioural switch in nematodes (from non-predatory to predatory) is due to widespread neural changes, not just one key connection.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new perspective piece in Science highlights a study (published in same issue) showing that a behavioural switch in nematodes (from non-predatory to predatory) is due to widespread neural changes, not just one key connection.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The mind of a predatory worm
A new perspective piece in Science highlights a study (published in same issue) showing that a behavioural switch in nematodes (from non-predatory to predatory) is due to widespread neural changes, not just one key connection.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new perspective piece in Science highlights a study (published in same issue) showing that a behavioural switch in nematodes (from non-predatory to predatory) is due to widespread neural changes, not just one key connection.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New Research! Our postdoc Kateryna Maksymenko & co. developed a new method making it possible to design custom proteins that bind precisely to specific sites in diseased cells. A big step for the development of targeted drugs, esp. cancer.
Find out more: www.bio.mpg.de/476284/news_...
Find out more: www.bio.mpg.de/476284/news_...
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New Research! Our postdoc Kateryna Maksymenko & co. developed a new method making it possible to design custom proteins that bind precisely to specific sites in diseased cells. A big step for the development of targeted drugs, esp. cancer.
Find out more: www.bio.mpg.de/476284/news_...
Find out more: www.bio.mpg.de/476284/news_...
Join us again this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Dr. Pulin Li from MIT. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: shorturl.at/Xk3li
📆: Friday 25th July at the earlier time of 11am
📍: MPI-BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: shorturl.at/Xk3li
📆: Friday 25th July at the earlier time of 11am
📍: MPI-BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
July 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Join us again this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Prof. Dr. Pulin Li from MIT. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: shorturl.at/Xk3li
📆: Friday 25th July at the earlier time of 11am
📍: MPI-BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: shorturl.at/Xk3li
📆: Friday 25th July at the earlier time of 11am
📍: MPI-BIO seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
📌 #OffeneStelle #WirSuchen #Jobs
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Die Stelle als Pressesprecher/ Pressesprecherin ist noch offen. Muttersprachler sind super willkommen!
▶️ befristeter Vertrag für 2 Jahre
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Die Stelle als Pressesprecher/ Pressesprecherin ist noch offen. Muttersprachler sind super willkommen!
▶️ befristeter Vertrag für 2 Jahre
▶️ Bewerbungsfrist: 28 Juli 2025
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July 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
📌 #OffeneStelle #WirSuchen #Jobs
Bitte teilen
Die Stelle als Pressesprecher/ Pressesprecherin ist noch offen. Muttersprachler sind super willkommen!
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▶️ Bewerbungsfrist: 28 Juli 2025
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Bitte teilen
Die Stelle als Pressesprecher/ Pressesprecherin ist noch offen. Muttersprachler sind super willkommen!
▶️ befristeter Vertrag für 2 Jahre
▶️ Bewerbungsfrist: 28 Juli 2025
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🎉Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 "Grandes Avancées françaises en biologie" from @academiesciences.bsky.social for her research on how microalgae navigate ocean depths. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/FxdLh8
#Microalgae #ScienceAwards
Photos © Académie des sciences
#Microalgae #ScienceAwards
Photos © Académie des sciences
July 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🎉Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 "Grandes Avancées françaises en biologie" from @academiesciences.bsky.social for her research on how microalgae navigate ocean depths. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/FxdLh8
#Microalgae #ScienceAwards
Photos © Académie des sciences
#Microalgae #ScienceAwards
Photos © Académie des sciences
Join us again this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Assis. Prof. Michael O'Donnell from Yale University. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: shorturl.at/o6IVn
📆: Friday 11th July at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: shorturl.at/o6IVn
📆: Friday 11th July at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
July 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Join us again this Friday for the next Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk to be delivered by Assis. Prof. Michael O'Donnell from Yale University. Everyone is welcome!
▶️More info: shorturl.at/o6IVn
📆: Friday 11th July at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS
▶️More info: shorturl.at/o6IVn
📆: Friday 11th July at 3pm
📍: MPI-IS seminar room (ground floor)
#DSSS