Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics!

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics!

We study the structure and function of proteins which regulate vital cellular processes using a wide methodological repertoire including advanced light and electron microscopy and as well as computational biology.

Our Research


Ernst Bamberg – The Functional Analysis of Electrogenic Membrane Proteins
Martin Beck – Molecular Sociology
Ulrich Ermler – Enzyme Mechanism
Ana J. García-Sáez
Gerhard Hummer – Theoretical Biophysics
Werner Kühlbrandt – Structural Biology

Scientific Facilities


Sonja Welsch – Electron Microscopy
Julian Langer – Mass Spectrometry
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Latest Publications

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Agip, A.-N. A.; Ornelas, P.; Yang, T.-J.; Uboldi, E.; Häder, S.; McDowell, M.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Structures of Chaetomium thermophilum TOM complexes with bound preproteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (29), e2507279122 (2025)
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Nomura, S.; San Segundo-Acosta, P.; Protasov, E.; Kaneko, M.; Kahnt, J.; Murphy, B. J.; Shima, S.: Electron flow in hydrogenotrophic methanogens under nickel limitation. Nature (2025)
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Kucherenko, Z.: Nucleoporin condensation and Nuclear Pore Complex assembly during Drosophila oogenesis. Master, 76 pp., Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (2025)
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Singh, M. K.; Cavellini, L.; Morcillo-Parra, M. A.; Kunz, C.; Lelek, M.; Bomme, P.; Barascu, A.; Alsayyah, C.; Teixeira, M. T.; Belgareh-Touzé, N. et al.; Mallet, A.; Dietrich, L.; Zimmer, C.; Cohen, M. M.: A constricted mitochondrial morphology formed during respiration. Nature Communications 16, 5314 (2025)

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