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Two fully funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Candidate positions in Electron-Light Interaction in Silicon Photonic Nanostructures at Claus Ropers’ department are open at our institute! More info on the position: www.mpinat.mpg.de/26-26

🎉 Congratulations to Fathima Ridha Karuvanthodikayil on her Humboldt Research Fellowship of the @humboldt-foundation.de! At MPI-NAT, the postdoctoral researcher continues her work on gene neighbourhood-enhanced functional annotation of microbial genomes 🧬, hosted by Johannes Soeding.

Dear researchers, which tool do you use to compare protein 3D structures? The new distance-based algorithm LoL-align is more sensitive, more accurate & 5-20 times faster than established tools! Published in @natmethods.nature.com & explained in our research news: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5343581/rn_2...

Award lecture week incoming: 📅 Oct 27: Bill Morandi (left, @ethz.ch) on editing complex molecules 📅 Oct 29: Ramanujan S. Hegde (right, @mrclmb.ac.uk lmb.ac.uk) on membrane protein biogenesis 📍 Manfred-Eigen-Saal, MPI-NAT Faßberg Campus 🕐 both at 1 pm All interested are welcome!

🏆 Congrats to our PhD Julius F. Matz on receiving the Ernst Prize from the @gdch.de Division of Magnetic Resonance for his outstanding scientific publication! 📄: pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic... Foto (Matz in the center left): Dr. Raphael Kirchner / JGU Mainz

Two of the 2026 #Medicine #NobelPrize winners, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel, made their prize‑winning discoveries during their time at Max Planck Institutes: our warmest congratulations! 🎉(and yes, we’re feeling just a tiny bit 'nobel' today, too!😉) @mpibiochem.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social

Gerne weiterleiten an euer IT-Netzwerke: Wir stellen eine*n Systemtechniker ein! 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26

Some promising ideas for carboncapture may already exist inside living cells. 🦠 How do microorganisms capture CO₂ and what can we learn from them? 👉 Discover how @amkueffner.bsky.social and his Sustainable Biocatalysis research group are investigating exactly that at our institute.

@horizonsmolbio.bsky.social 2026 is in full swing! Organized by PhD students of the IMPRS for Molecular Biology, the conference brings together young and established researchers to exchange ideas and explore molecular biology. Happy to welcome you all on our Fassberg Campus! @uni-goettingen.de

“Are we facing an egg cell crisis?” asks the ARTE documentary series “42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles”. Our director Melina Schuh responds and explains why aged eggs can be so prone to defects. Tune in📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12... (in German)

PhD students from across Göttingen came together at MPI-NAT for PhD Day 2026: Nobel laureate Q&A, PhD research posters & conversations about careers, funding, mental health and more. Big thanks to our PhD reps for organizing and everyone who contributed!

Congratulations, Elisa Oberbeckmann! Our research group leader and junior professor @uni-goettingen.de has received a coveted Starting Grant from the @erc.europa.eu 🥳🎉 With her team, she aims to decipher the molecular functions and interaction networks of chromatin remodelers. Well done, Elisa 👏👏

Every electron counts⚛️! Researchers have determined the structure of the protein rubredoxin at an unprecedented 0.43 Ångström resolution. The method could now allow routine quantum crystallography of biological macromolecules. 👇More about this major advancement: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5314392/rn_2...

11 speakers explore research & big questions – from democracy and climate to AI, cooperation & killer asteroids: check out the programme of this year’s science series at 📚 Göttinger Literaturherbst, Oct. 2.-11.: www.literaturherbst.com/programm/wis...

Friendly reminder: Registration for Horizons in Molecular Biology 2026 Symposium, September 7th–10th, at the MPI-NAT, Faßberg Campus closes tomorrow (August 15th)! Info and registration: www.mpinat.mpg.de/horizons

🎓 From PhD to Nobel Prize: Join our PhD day for a Q&A with Nobel laureates Erwin Neher + Stefan Hell, a PhD poster session + info booths on careers, funding, startups, mental health, equal opportunities + more for early career scientits in Göttingen. 📅 Sept 4 | 📝 events.gwdg.de/event/1513/

🎧Hörtipp: Nobelpreisträger Stefan Hell erzählt, wie er d. Auflösungsgrenze der Lichtmikroskopie durchbrochen hat - jetzt im detektor.fm/@spektrum.de - Podcast. Hell entwickelt am @mpi-mr.bsky.social + unserem Institut + abberior optische Nanoskopie stetig weiter. 🔗 detektor.fm/wissen/die-g...

How does a species adapt to a new environment? An international team discovered how herring evolved its reproduction migrating from the Atlantic into the low-salinity Baltic Sea 🌊. MPI-NAT researchers contributed proteomics analyses. Read our press release here: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5302322/pr_2...

📢 PhD students: Don't miss Third Infinity 2026! 🗓 Sept. 23–25 📍 MPI-NAT Faßberg Campus, Göttingen 🎤 Talks & posters across life sciences, physics & chemistry 📋 organized by IMPRS for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems 📝 Register by August 1: thirdinfinity.mpg.de/registration... !

Great news from our lab: Congratulations to Marios & @debojitsaha.bsky.social on receiving the 2025/26 Campus Seminar Awards at @mpi-nat.bsky.social! Marios was recognised in the PhD category, Debojit in the Postdoc category. Delighted to see their excellent research acknowledged — well deserved!👏

Congrats @thomas-hensel.bsky.social on receiving the German Thesis Award by @koerber-stiftung.de for his PhD research! 🎊His work makes molecular dynamics visible by tracking protein-like structures with advanced light microscopy.

🏆 🍒 We also celebrate non-scientific achievements: Congratulations on the group victory at the German Cherry Pit Spitting Championships at the traditional Cherry Festival in Witzenhausen! Our researchers Arian, Anush, Jaschka, Morten und Taras achieved a spit distance of 43,39m in total! 👏Well done!

We are hiring an #IT expert! Interested to join our department @mpi-nat.bsky.social in #Göttingen 🇩🇪 as Hardware Operations Technician (IT-Systemtechniker*in)? Please apply! 📩 #joboffer #job #openposition 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26 📅 Don't miss the application deadline: August 23, 2026