#MPINAT_ABC
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #A like Alpaca 🦙 Alpacas have special #antibodies that can be miniaturized to so-called #nanobodies. #Scientists at our institute led by Dirk Görlich develop nanobodies for treating infections like Covid-19 or sepsis. ⬇ https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/649406/pr_2117
November 25, 2024 at 7:59 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #M like Meiosis Errors during #meiosis in eggs are a leading cause of infertility & miscarriages. The @SchuhLab investigates how eggs develop, and how errors arise in this process. Their ultimate aim is to develop methods that will allow more couples to conceive.
November 25, 2024 at 8:05 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #I like IMPRS International Max Planck Research Schools – a doctoral program 🎓 of the @maxplanckpress to provide structured training with excellent research conditions for international PhD candidates. We are in charge of four #IMPRS: https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/phd
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Do you still remember our #MPINAT_ABC 🔠? F like #Flash, R like #Ribosomes, X like #Xray... With 26 posts we introduced our newly founded #mpinat last year. You missed the ABC? No problem 🙂! Here we have summarized all the posts for you:
https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/4322269/mpi_nat_abc
November 25, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Would you have a look at the complete #MPINAT_ABC (again) if we summarized it on our website?
November 25, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Did you enjoy the #MPINAT_ABC?
November 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM
🔠#ThatsIt: After 26 weeks, we conclude our #MPINAT_ABC. Of course, there are more terms for each letter that describe our institute. How would you fill your personal institute ABC 💭? We are looking forward to your answers!
November 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #Z like Zoom
… in #microscopy🔬 – From (#cryo) #EM and (fluorescence) #LightMicroscopy to #LiveCellMicroscopy: With these “zooming” technologies, our scientific facilities support the departments and groups at #MPINAT in their research. https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/scientific-service
November 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #Y like Yoga Our #CorporateHealthManagement offers a diverse fitness program with yoga🧘, city cycling🚲, outdoor training devices & diagnostic massages – a healthy addition to the daily routine. Read more about it in our #INSIDENAT:
https://t.co/DfcZ3glqNv
November 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #X like X-ray Our Facility for Crystallization uses X-ray crystallography to perform structural analyses of large molecules like proteins. It is part of @CramerLab but also supports all other scientists at the institute in their research.
https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/crystallization
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #W like Workshops
Our technical services and workshops support our scientists in everything to do with software💻, conversions🔨, maintenance🔬, and so on. Thanks to all for the support! Read more about our facilities here: https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/646211/technical
November 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC - #V like Voices
Welcome🇬🇧, willkommen🇩🇪, bienvenido🇪🇸, huān yíng🇨🇳 ...
More than 70 different nations🌎 at the #mpinat: An enormous linguistic and cultural diversity, cultural exchange & intercultural communication under one roof greatly enrich our institute.
November 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #U like #UTEM #UltrafastTransmissionElectronMicroscope: Developed by the team of Claus Ropers, UTEM allows the investigation of structural, electronic, & magnetic dynamics in solids w/ a combined resolution of nanometers and femtoseconds.
https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/2556015/utem
November 25, 2024 at 8:09 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #T like Translational research In the area of #translationalresearch, three teams at our institute are linking basic research 🔬 with clinically applicable knowledge 🩺.
November 25, 2024 at 8:09 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #S like #Sustainability How to integrate sustainability into our institute’s everyday life is the big question of our sustainability initiative. Various measures have already been supported to achieve this. Together for a more sustainable future at the #MPINAT!
November 25, 2024 at 8:08 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #R like Ribosomes #Ribosomes are molecular machines that consist of #proteins and #RNA. Based on blueprints in our #genes, they produce proteins and help them to obtain their correct shape.
November 25, 2024 at 8:08 AM
🔠#MPINAT_ABC – #Q like Quest for understanding
“Insight must precede application.” (Max Planck)
This is the mission of the @maxplanckpress and of all its institutes conducting basic research. Even if application is not the focus of research, it often leads to pioneering results.
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #P like #PatchClamp
A method for measuring the extraordinarily weak electric current through a single open #ionchannel in a #nervecell membrane. For this, Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann received the #NobelPrize for #Physiology or #Medicine 🏅 in 1991.
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #O like Organization
#Science is the focus at a #research institute. Yet it takes secretaries’ offices & administration to keep our MPI-NAT running. Therefore, a big Thank You to all who make the scientific work at our institute possible! 🙂
November 25, 2024 at 8:06 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #N like Neurobiology
How is our nervous system structured and how does it work? An emeritus group and two departments at our institute dedicate their research to these central question of #neurobiology. Find out more here 👇.
November 25, 2024 at 8:06 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #L like Literaturherbst
It’s hard to imagine #Göttingen without it – the #Literaturherbst📚. Together with the @mpids, @mps, @mpimmg & @subugoe we take part with our scientific lecture series, where renowned scientists present their research results and books.
November 25, 2024 at 8:05 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #K like Kindergarten
Our institute supports the compatibility of family and career with three nurseries 🧸🖍🎈, two at the #CityCampus with 30 places and one at the #FassbergCampus with 106. The operator is the Kinderhaus Göttingen e.V. https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/day-care
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #J like Jellyfish @lenartlab works with our jellyfish 💧 to study #oogenesis and to understand how the cell division machinery, in particular the cytoskeleton, has adapted to the process of #meiosis. https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/lenart
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #H like High, higher, highest resolution @Stefan_W_Hell and his team achieved this with the development of the #STED microscope. With the 2014 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, he was recognized for founding the research field of fluorescence nanoscopy. ⬇
November 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM
🔠 #MPINAT_ABC – #G like #Göttingen: Where our institute is at home.
Facts (as of 2019):
💡 134,000 inhabitants
💡 More than 33,000 students
💡 1 university and 2 universities of applied sciences
💡 More than 15 research institutions
💡 More than 40 #NobelPrize winners
November 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM