Join us tomorrow for the final talk in our Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series before the summer break to be held by Prof. Dr. Clare Bryant from the University of Cambridge. When: 30th July, 11am Where: Max Planck House lecture hall (ground floor) We're looking forward to seeing a full house!

Friday afternoon = Fix Your Bike time. 🚲 Behind FixYourBike is a group of colleagues who invite the whole campus to their repair sessions. The motto: bring your bike, learn to fix it yourself. And now there’s a bike repair station on campus too! 🔧 Thanks for keeping our bikes rolling!

Everyone welcome to this Thursday's DSSS talk to be held by Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwander from the University of Lausanne: ▶️Title and abstract: www.bio.mpg.de/events/44188... 📆: Thursday 23rd July at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

A first for German nematology Ralf J. Sommer has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Nematologists – the first German scientist to receive this honour. Congratulations on this outstanding recognition! Read full press item: www.bio.mpg.de/544368/ralf-j #Nematology #EvolutionaryBiology #Science

Next up in our DSSS seminar series: we're delighted to welcome a local guest, Kay Nieselt from the University of Tübingen! Join us this Thursday at 11:00 am in the MPH lecture hall on our Tübingen campus. As always, everyone is welcome—we hope to see you there!

Science beats the heat! Last Saturday, our researchers @najafae.bsky.social and Gesa Freimann took to the streets for @soapboxscience.bsky.social in Tübingen, bravely presenting their work to a great crowd despite the temperatures. Thanks for bringing science to the public!

Next talk this week in our DSSS calendar: Dr. Maria Barna is visiting us from the Genetics Department at Stanford University to discuss ribosomes in gene regulation. Everyone is very welcome to join us on Thursday at 11am in the MPH lecture hall on our Tübingen campus. See you there!

Today, we hosted 18 international early-career researchers who took the time after this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting to visit us as part of a Baden-Württemberg International (BW_i) program. The day included career insights and lab tours led by our postdocs. Thanks for the visit!

The 5th International #Pristionchus Meeting has begun at the @MPI for Biology Tübingen! Looking forward to two days of exciting 🪱 talks and great discussions with colleagues from around the world. Wishing everyone an inspiring and enjoyable meeting! #Nematodes #Evolution #Genetics #Tübingen

A great way to ring in the weekend: afternoon drinks on the rooftop terrace celebrating awards and prizes at the institute—a toast to a third ERC Advanced Grant for Thomas Boehm, appointment to Fellow of The Royal Society for Ruth Ley, and to Susana Coelho, member of Leopoldina. Cheers to all three!

Fantastic news! Congratulations to @silviadapra.bsky.social from research group @canaztekin.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her exciting work on regeneration and development. Wishing you every success Silvia! Read more: tinyurl.com/2m4jypzz #EMBO

Great to see our postdoctoral researcher, Amor II Damatac in Can Aztekin's research group, recognised with the Society for the Study of Evolution President's Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement tinyurl.com/3wpc535y

Join us for our next DSSS talk tomorrow where Janusz Bujnicki from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw will be discussing computational approaches to RNA biology: 🗓️ 2nd July | 11:00 📍 MPH lecture hall, Tübingen

Organisationstalent gesucht! Werden Sie als Assistenz des Betriebsrats Teil unseres internationalen Teams am Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen. Bewerben Sie sich bis 12.07.2026: jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/277

Congratulations to our Emeritus Director Thomas Boehm on receiving his third ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for his ImmunoPlast project to explore the extraordinary immune systems of deep-sea anglerfishes. Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/527824/thoma...

Pleased to announce another talk this week as part of our Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Prof. Henrik Krehenwinkel will be joining us from Trier University. Everyone welcome! ▶️ More info: tinyurl.com/y3sk7zbr 📆: Thursday 25th June at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6

Great to see two of our doctoral researchers taking part in this year's Soapbox Science event in Tübingen on July 11th. Watch their videos on what inspires Naja and Gesa and why science communication is important to them: tinyurl.com/429fz48n tinyurl.com/h84vsnww

Meet Florentine! For the latest edition of our #wearebio and #wearefml series, we're shining a spotlight on one of the people who keeps things running smoothly behind the scenes. Outside work, she's passionate about sports, travel, and much more. Read her story: tinyurl.com/ys7x2b3c

Delighted to announce that this year’s Schering Young Investigator Award has been awarded to Can Aztekin, Max-Planck-Research Group Leader. Congratulations Can! Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/524116/can-a...

What an incredible Open Day! Hundreds of visitors explored our labs, talked with researchers, tried hands-on experiments, and discovered how fundamental research works behind the scenes. Thanks to everyone who joined us on the Tübingen Max Planck campus on Saturday! #OpenDay #MaxPlanck

Morgen ist es soweit: Unser Tag der offenen Tür! Zur besseren Planung Ihres Besuchs steht ab sofort die Veranstaltungs-App bereit. Aktivitäten lassen sich bequem nach Art des Angebots, Standort und Uhrzeit filtern. Programm & App: mpi-is.lineupr.com/tag-der-offe... Bis morgen!

Everyone welcome to next Monday's DSSS talk to be held by Prof. Julian Schröder from the University of California: ▶️Title and abstract: tinyurl.com/56mu3p98 📆: Monday 4th May at 3pm 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

Pleased to announce another talk this week as part of our Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Prof. Mihaela Pavličev will be joining us from the University of Vienna. Everyone welcome! ▶️ More info: tinyurl.com/3dn8xwm9 📆: Thursday 30th April at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

A second invitation this week to join us for another DSSS talk to be held by Prof. Greg Gibson coming to us from Georgia Tech. Everyone very welcome. ▶️ More info: tinyurl.com/zw8dy3ft 📆: Thursday 23rd April at 11am 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

Invitation to our next DSSS talk to be held on Monday next week. We welcome speaker Dr. Jarrett Gray Camp coming to us from the Institute of Human Biology in Basel. Please join us. ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/5hbs2n2z 📆: Monday 20th April at 2pm 📍: MPH lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

Everyone welcome to this week's DSSS talk to be held by Dr. Silvia Portugal visiting us from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin: ▶️Title and abstract: tinyurl.com/57k3uvne 📆: Thursday 16th April at 11am 📍: MPI for Biology seminar room, Max-Planck-Ring 5 #DSSS

5 years. 3 research stays in Germany. One PhD across continents. Last month, Sandra Gyarteng graduated from the University of Ghana - completing a doctoral journey from fieldwork in West Africa to molecular research at MPI for Biology Tübingen. Read more about her journey here: tinyurl.com/er2x2jyu

Come along for this week's DSSS talk on Thursday to be held by Dawn Nagel from the University of California. Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/39a7mec7 📆: Thursday 2nd April at 11am 📍: MPH seminar room, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

Global field experiments started at the Max Planck Institute for Biology tracked real-time evolution of Arabidopsis across 30 sites, showing rapid climate adaptation—or extinction—and highlighting the key role of genetic diversity. Read the full press release here: www.bio.mpg.de/518696/news_...