This image was taken by our postdoc Sven Nagorny who is very passionate about astro-photography and so skilled! Thank you for sharing this cool picture of the partial solar eclipse 2026 seen from our institute’s rooftop with our community! 😊

🌞🔭 Researchers at our institute brought the community together to observe the partial solar eclipse 2026 from one of our rooftops and share their passion for astronomy. Where did you watch? 😊

🎓 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/

Many snapshots of the cancer protein p53, superimposed on top of one another and color-coded, illustrate the complex motion patterns of this intrinsically disordered protein. Some of the transient structural elements appear as “helix-like structures”. © @dszollosi.bsky.social / MPI-NAT (3/3)

Looks unorganized to you? It isn’t. Indeed, you are looking at fixed 3D structures of the cancer protein p53. It can adopt at least 50 different 3D structures and is much more ordered than previously thought! 🎥© @dszollosi.bsky.social l / MPI-NAT @compbiophys.bsky.social (1/3)

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... !

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!

The AKB Stiftung funds Constantin Papes new group via the institute’s Manfred Eigen Stiftung. It builds on Papes work at @uni-goettingen.de . His team will analyze data from super-resolution microscopy methods developed by 2014 Nobel Prize winner Stefan Hell as well as from cyro-EM microscopy. (3/3)

What does this research look like? 👇 These microscopy images processed with AI methods reveal biological structures. Papes new group aims to asses structure, dynamics, and interactions of proteins and protein complexes using modern nanoscopy and cryo-electron microscopy data and AI. (2/3)

AI meets cutting-edge microscopy: Welcome Constantin Pape, head of our new Machine Intelligence in the Life Sciences group! 👋 🔬 His team develops AI methods to analyze high-resolution microscopy & cryo-EM data to better understand the function of proteins and protein complexes inside cells. (1/3)

🏆 Congrats to Jan-Wilke Henke on receiving the Born-Franck Dissertation Award 2026! In his thesis he investigated how free electrons and light can be effectively coupled. A well-deserved recognition from the Faculty of Physics @uni-goettingen.de !

66 colleagues, 23 nationalities, one team. 🙌 A record number of MPI-NAT staff joined the Göttingen Altstadtlauf, making us the 4th largest company team. We are of everyone who took part! 👏You did a great job!

Nanobodies herstellen, Proteine aufreinigen oder Plasmide konstruieren – erforsche in deinem neuen Team, wie Zellen ihre Welt organisieren🧬: Technische Assistenz in der Abteilung Zelluläre Logistik gesucht! Bewerbungsfrist: 19. Juli 2026 👉 Ausschreibung: www.mpinat.mpg.de/22-26

Our rooftop group photo in Göttingen. 😊

A pleasure to welcome the Max Planck Funding Foundation to Göttingen’s MPIs. Thank you for your generous support of basic research and for taking the time to engage with our scientists and their work! 🤝🔬 @mpips.bsky.social, @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Congrats to Alexander Rotsch to the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅 by @maxplanck.de for his doctoral thesis where he investigated a “criminal case”: the theft of mRNA caps by influenza viruses. For more information on his research project: 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5270051/pr_2... © : Bettina Ausserhofer / MPG

🌍 Molecular biology meets networking: The Horizons 2026 symposium @horizonsmolbio.bsky.social at the MPI-NAT in Göttingen (Sept 7-10). Present your research, meet peers, & explore careers. Register until Aug 15. More info: www.mpinat.mpg.de/horizons

Update in progress… IT training at our institute! As an IT specialist, no two days are alike: 💻 Develop 🧠 Solve problems 🚀 Bring ideas to life Watch our video for a real look at the apprenticeship at our institute.

All kestrel chicks have hatched! Mom and dad are taking really good care of their offspring. Need proof? 👉 Watch our livestream from the kestrel camera at any time: www.mpinat.mpg.de/kestrel-camera

Mitochondrial ribosomes follow a precisely timed 🕺choreography to coordinate protein production, folding & insertion. 👉 About the collab between Peter Rehling (University Medical Center Göttingen) & our project group leader @niels-fischer.bsky.social & their teams: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5263150/pr_2...

What if we could visualize indicators of Parkinson's in the living brain before symptoms occur? 🧠 Novel PET tracer detects alpha-synuclein deposits developed by University Hospital Tübingen, MODAG GmbH & our director Christian Griesinger. 👉 Joint press release: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5262756/pr_2...

@mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social becomes a director at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) in Freiburg - congratulations! 🎉 Thank you for the experience & expertise you shared with us at MPI-NAT and all the best in your new department of Genome Biology.

Congratulations to Melina Schuh (@schuhlab.bsky.social) who has been elected to the Fellowship of the @royalsociety.org !🌟 Five MPI directors join this Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists, engineers, & technologists in 2026. 👉 Our press release: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5261979/pr_2...

The new issue of our INSIDE NAT magazine is out! 📚 What’s inside? 🫀 🔍 Miniature organs 🌏 carbon capturing 🔨 carpentry apprenticeship and more! Check it out and enjoy reading 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/en/inside-nat

Melina Schuh (@schuhlab.bsky.social) has officially received the Carus medal of @leopoldina.org in Schweinfurth🏆 - congratulations! Her research on mammalian egg cells is paving the way for improved in vitro fertilization success rates. 🌟 © Foto: Stadt Schweinfurt, Kristina Dietz

Neurizons 2026 has started in Göttingen! 🧠 Organized by PhD students of the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences, bringing together researchers for exchange, networking & collaboration. We wish all participants an inspiring & successful conference!

We are hiring a PhD student or PostDoc in the field of understanding and manipulating ubiquitin ligase specificities at @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social. 📅 The positions should be filled as soon as possible. 👉 More info: www.mpinat.mpg.de/19-26?c=2501...

Reinhard Maurer was officially awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin! A pioneer in applying machine learning & AI to theoretical chemistry, he joined us as Humboldt Professor at the @uni-goettingen.de and our institute & MPG Fellow. More Info👉 www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...