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👏 And that's a wrap for Fall Days 2025 @mpip-mainz.mpg.de!

We thank all the speakers, presenters, participants, and our hosts @graeterlab.bsky.social @landfesterdept.bsky.social @weilgroup.bsky.social, for making this event lively and the science vibrant.

Next stop Spring Days 2026 in Marburg!🥳
September 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wondering how to predict protein flexibility in a sec? No time to run MD simulations but want to go beyond pLDDT? Check out BBFlow
arxiv.org/html/2503.05...

Useful in particular for de novo designs.

Led by Nico Wolf & Leif Seute, w Seva, Simon, and Jan. @mpip-mainz.mpg.de @hitsters.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🥲... and very excited to start from January with full forces at the MPIP@Mainz, with many (most) of my awesome lab members - and some HITS spirits - tagging along
After 15 years, we say goodbye to group leader Frauke Gräter (@graeterlab.bsky.social) who will assume her new role as director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz as of January 2025.

Read more about her time at HITS here: www.h-its.org/2024/12/19/f...
Frauke Gräter: “I will miss HITS.
After fifteen years at HITS, group leader Frauke Gräter will leave the institute at the end of the year. As ...
www.h-its.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:58 PM
📢 We are thrilled to announce our International Symposium on Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function, happening from 4-6 March 2026!

📍It will take place in Mainz, Germany, at the @mpip-mainz.mpg.de on the
@unimainz.bsky.social campus.

🌐 Find more information here: crc1551.com/sfb1551-inte...
April 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📜New paper alert! 🧪
A transient assembly system showing how a single catalyst can drive multiple reactions simultaneously—offering insights into prebiotic chemistry and early life's chemical evolution.
From the group of Tanja Weil at @mpip-mainz.mpg.de
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Regulating Promiscuous Catalysis via Substrate‐Induced Transient Assembly
We report a novel substrate-induced transient co-assembly between a short Lys-rich peptide and Fmoc-Gly-OH. In the activated state, the assembly exhibits promiscuous catalytic activity through the ra...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Grüße gehen raus an die Kolleg*innen vom @mpip-mainz.mpg.de - beruhigt mich gerade sehr, dass wir nicht die einzigen sind, bei denen Notizen im CMS manchmal ungewollt öffentlich sichtbar werden :-)
June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Open Access UCL Research: Mindful Parenting Inventories for Parents (MPIP) and Children (MPIC) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Mindful Parenting Inventories for Parents (MPIP) and Children (MPIC) - UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
this song makes me feel like I've reached peak emo- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiP...
The Abnormality / GHOST REUPLOAD (Orig.PV)
YouTube video by ghostie and p
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ich wünsche noch einen schönen Abend. Hoffe ich habe nicht genervt. Bin seit 2 Jahren voll erwerbsunfähig und vermisse das MPIP und die Kollegen so sehr...
War schön mit Dir zu schreiben. 🫶
March 31, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Christmas party at #mpip. Assemble of @graeterlab.bsky.social department.
December 22, 2024 at 8:14 AM
A team @mpi_polymer around @SynatschkeLab @WeilTanja has developed a 20nm thin filter using the mussel-like material "polydopamine". It efficiently separates ions & molecules, mimicking biological membranes. Read more in our press release: https://mpip-mainz.mpg.de/en/press/pr-2024-10
January 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
#ICIQSeminar

🙌Thank you Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester from @mpip-mainz.mpg.de for delivering a seminar about the design of photoactive polymeric nanostructures for biomedical and artificial cell applications.

🔵Also thanks to our seminar sponsor @basf.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A long journey has taken the next step. Yesterday we defended our Cluster of Excellence Proposal #CoM2Life Communicating Biomaterials at the DFG. What an amazing journey with an amazing team. #teamscienceisthedreamscience @unimainz.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @mpip-mainz.mpg.de
January 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Impressions from this week MPIP-JGU-TUe Mini Symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research🧪📸

Inspiring atmosphere and great exchanges with colleagues from Eindhoven and Mainz!

@mpip-mainz.mpg.de @weilgroup.bsky.social
#SupramolecularChemistry #ScienceExchange #TUe #JGU #MPIP
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Welcome to Bluesky, @mpip-mainz.mpg.de!

We’ve added you to our starter pack of German universities and research institutes.
May 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨🚨Together w/ @landfesterdept.bsky.social from @mpip-mainz.mpg.de, we are recruiting a joint #PHD #researcher on the topic of "Ultrapecise mRNA Delivery for Targeted Neurotherapeutics" in a larger collaborative center.
#phdposition #chemistry #biomedicalengineering #mRNA #syntheticbiology
RT = 😍
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Excited to be on Bluesky now! Looking forward to connecting in this space with fellow researchers and science enthusiasts! 🧪🔬 @mpip-mainz.mpg.de
April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🌊🧪 Panel Talk: Corals as a Dumping Ground? Join @landfesterdept.bsky.social (@mpip-mainz.mpg.de) & Jonathan Jung (MPI for Chemistry) as they discuss the impact of microplastics on coral reefs.
📅 Apr 10, 2025 | 5–7 PM
📍 MPI for Polymer Research
📌Free entry: tinyurl.com/dr797ctk
🗣️ Event in German
March 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Welcome Frauke at the MPIP. http://I.am looking forwards to new exciting projects. https://x.com/mpi_polymer/status/1805533953668890972
January 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#ICIQSeminar

➡️"Nanocapsules as Nanocarriers for Targeted Drug Delivery and as Modules for Synthetic Cells" by Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester from @mpip-mainz.mpg.de

📅04/04/2025
🕛12:00 h
📍ICIQ Auditorium

Info 🔗 iciq.org/event/prof-d...

🔵Sponsored by @basf.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Congratulations to Dr Julian Heuer, who graduated in December. He is the final PhD from my group in @mpip-mainz.mpg.de and the landfester department. #Chemsky check out a thread of Julian's published work!
January 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are pleased to announce that our Director, Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research!💡🔬
#Polymers #MaxPlanckInstitut #MaterialsScience
@aboeker.bsky.social | @mpip-mainz.mpg.de | @maxplanck.de lanck.de
February 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Die meisten #Organismen versuchen, die Bildung von Eiskristallen zu verhindern. Das #Bakterium Pseudomonas syringae löst sie indes gezielt mit eisbildenden Proteinen aus, wie Konrad Meister vom @mpip-mainz.mpg.de et al. berichten … Larissa Tetsch hat nachgefragt: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3...
March 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🏅 Top10 most accessed articles: Stefan Weber @weber-nano.bsky.social and co-researchers @mpip-mainz.mpg.de and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz present a novel method for high-resolution nanoscale capacitance characterization.
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3tdrjmya
#BJNANO 💎 🔓
May 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM