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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
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For us, it's all about basic biomedical research! We develop technologies and methods to observe and manipulate the highly complex molecular and cellular interactions. Let's talk science! Imprint: /www.mr.mpg.de/imprint
#science #medicalresearch #mpimr
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✨We are kicking off the week with a fresh #ScienceSnapshot! 📸Our postdoc, Nataliia Stepanenko (Optical Nanoscopy), is labeling a human cell line with a fluorescent dye. 🧫🔬More lab moments soon! 🤩 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes #Research
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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#Science met #curiosity!✨

At the “Home game science” talk yesterday in Bad Schönborn, our PhDs Ann-Kathrin Gelmroth & Philip Matthias shared how curiosity drives their #research: from #antibioticresistance to the beauty of #microscopy. Conversations continued long after the talk💬🧪
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Invitation to a #MaxPlanck Special edition of “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” (home game science) 🏡✨! Scientists from more rural regions return to their hometowns and make #science accessible outside of large cities and university towns. Talk in German, this Wednesday with two of our PhDs! 🧪💬
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Poster: Invitation to a lecture on Wednesday, November 12, at 7 p.m. in Bad Schönborn at Café Glashaus
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to all @erc.europa.eu grant recipients, including our Director Kai Johnsson!
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Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu
Strong as a team
Five Max Planck researchers secure prestigious ERC Synergy Grants in 2025, enhancing collaborative research in Europe.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🎉🌟Big news! Our Director @kjohnsson.bsky.social has received an @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant, together with teams from EPFL @sulianamanley.bsky.social and @unibe.ch! 👏They’ll explore how mitochondria communicate with other cell parts🔬 #ERCSyG #maxplanck #mpimr #science
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ERC Synergy Grant for MPI Director Kai Johnsson
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November 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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📅 We are excited to announce three upcoming Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquia with outstanding scientists in November and December.

We are inviting you to join on site or register for online participation. 👇
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November 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Ever wondered what our interns work on in the lab?👀 In today’s #ScienceSnapshot, Optical Nanoscopy MA student Joshua Eigenmann is staining human cells to investigate them via fluorescent microscopy.🔬 Stay tuned for future snapshots from our labs!📸🥼 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🍂Trick or trivia? 🎃 PhD student Christopher Heidebrecht challenges you with today’s #Halloween question from our 2025 #ScientificRetreat pub quiz. 🦇 What's your guess? 👻 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #Trivia #Quiz
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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✨Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our PhD student Betül Karakoc, who is involved in designing nanostructures for targeted photodynamic therapy. 💡 Let's learn about her work in the newly established Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute!👀 🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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✨Today's #ScienceSnapshot 📸 portrays our postdoc Nataliia Stepanenko from the Optical Nanoscopy department observing human cells with bright-field microscopy!🧫🔬 Stay tuned for future impressions from our labs!🤩 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes #Research
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🎉 ✨ Groundbreaking ceremony for #IPAI in Heilbronn today. Congratulations on this milestone! 👏
We are delighted that two of our departments will have their first home at IPAI Spaces 🤩
#maxplanck #mpimr #ai #innovation #ipaicampus #medicalresearch
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Heilbronn: Startschuss für Innovationspark für Künstliche Intelligenz - IPAI - mit Kanzler Merz
In Heilbronn ist am Dienstag der Spatenstich für den Innovationspark für Künstliche Intelligenz (IPAI) erfolgt. Neben Kanzler Merz war auch Ministerpräsident Kretschmann vor Ort. Rund drei Milliarden ...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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✨Today's #ScienceFunFactFriday is brought to you by the Biomolecular Mechanisms Department at the Institute!🥳Let's learn about the software and hardware advances in quantum-chemistry calculations!💻👀 The more you know...🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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🌟No more glare! Start-up #nanoAR, by a team of our scientists, developed nanostructures inspired by moth eyes – reducing reflections even on curved surfaces & at wide light angles. Now funded by "exist"-Forschungstransfer! 🎉
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#deeptech #mpimr #maxplanck
No more problems with reflective surfaces
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October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Today is #DayOfTheGirl !💪 To celebrate the focus on girls' empowerment and the fulfilment of their rights, we asked some of our female colleagues at the Institute what they would love to tell their younger selves 💬 Have a look! 👀 #MPIMR #MaxPlanck #WomenInSTEM
October 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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✨Today's #ScienceSnapshot captures Chemical Biology PhD student Christophe Didier preparing the chromatography system to purify proteins produced in bacteria. 🧫❄Stay tuned for more snapshots from our labs! 📸🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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👉 Corrected link: Please use the link below to participate in our Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquium with Adam Cohen online tomorrow:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Of course you can also join on site!
#maxplanck #mpimr #medicalresearch #colloquium #rmc
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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✨Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our Postdoc Thomas Müller, who is involved in many projects on super resolution microscopy and biosensing 🔬💡 Let's learn about his work in the newly established Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute!👀🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📣 📅 Invitation to two talks at our institute next Tuesday, October 7: 🤩 Luciano Masullo @lumasullo.bsky.social from @mpibiochem.bsky.social at 10 am, Adam Cohen @harvard.edu at 3pm, also online:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#maxplanck #mpimr #colloquium #medicalresearch #sciencetalks #science
One talk by Luciano Masullo at 10 am and another talk at 3 pm by Adam Cohen, both next Tuesday, October 7, at the MPI for Medical Research Heidelberg.
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🤝 We had a very nice visit at our institute: We welcomed colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Thank you very much for all your great questions and your interest! We hope to see you again soon! 👋 Enjoy the rest of your stay in Heidelberg! ☀️
#maxplanck #mpimr #colleagues
October 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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✨#ScienceSnapshot from our labs: PhD student @yuqizhang.bsky.social extracting plasmids from E.cloni. After sequencing, these plasmids will be used for AAV preparation and to express a cGMP integrator in neurons. 👩‍🔬 Stay tuned for future snapshots from our labs!📸 🌟 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #BehindTheScenes
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🎉🥳The shortlist of @cancergrand.bsky.social 2025 has been announced: Thrilled that our Research Group Leader @romansarott.bsky.social has made it, as part of team NeoCircuit! Congrats, Roman!👏 They’ll now compete for up to £20M for their proposal for rewiring cancer cells.
#cancerresearch #mpimr
Cancer Grand Challenges congratulates team NeoCircuit for being shortlisted.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🍂Today is the first day of fall – and fall welcomes us with dreary, continuous rain. 😒🌧️ ☔ Let's look back instead on the last days of summer in our institute garden, where we played table tennis in good company and sunshine! 🌞 🏓
#maxplanck #mpimr #tabletennis #sunversusrain #summersover
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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😎 Back from our #scientificretreat 2025 in Neckarsulm, full of scientific exchange and #teamspirit! 🤩🌟One highlight was the tour of the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn, where two new departments of our institute will be established, and the Innovation Park for #AI #IPAI 🚀
#maxplanck #mpimr #letsmingle
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features our PhD student Yuqi @yuqizhang.bsky.social ✨👏 She gives insights into her research in the Chemical Biology department 👀💡 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM #BehindTheScenes #womeninscience
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🌟Our new #MPIMRSpotlight features PhD student Amanda Pasqual✨ Let's learn about her research on genetic engineering of viruses and on the development of bioinspired materials for medical and filtering applications! 👀💡 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM
September 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM