Werner Kühlbrandt receives the Cothenius Medal for his lifetime achievement

With this award, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honours Werner Kühlbrandt, Director of the Department of Structural Biology, for his outstanding scientific lifetime achievement.

Murphy group’s work published in Science magazine: How methanogenic microbes manage electrons

This month, the renowned Science magazine published new results from Olivia Pfeil-Gardiner and Bonnie Murphy (Max Planck Insitut of Biophysics) in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Insitute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg. New structures solved by the group shed light on direct and conformationally-controlled electron transfer for CO₂ fixation in methanogens.

IMPRS Symposium on Cellular Biophysics

Our new graduate program International Max Planck Research School on Cellular Biophysics (IMPRS-CBP) welcomes its first PhD students and starts with an online symposium on Cellular Biophysics in October. Find the detailed program and the Zoom link on the IMPRS website.

Coming February 2022: New research group of Melanie McDowell

We are proud to announce that Melanie McDowell has been awarded a Max Planck Research Group Leader Position to start at our institute in February 2022. She aims to structurally characterise membrane protein biogenesis pathways at the endoplasmic reticulum. There will be open Postdoc, PhD and Technician positions. Click here for more information.