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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Mondal, S.; Mukherjee, S.; Bagchi, B.: Dipolar Cross-Correlations in Aqueous Systems: How Surfaces Influence Water's Action at a Distance. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2025)
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Stautz, J.; Griwatz, D.; Kaltwasser, S.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Ketter, S.; Thiel, C.; Wunnicke, D.; Schrecker, M.; Mills, D. J.; Hummer, G. et al.; Vonck, J.; Hänelt, I.: A short intrinsically disordered region at KtrB’s N-terminus facilitates allosteric regulation of K+ channel KtrAB. Nature Communications 16, 4252 (2025)
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Stuke, J. F. M.; Hummer, G.: AlphaFold2 SLiM screen for LC3-LIR interactions in autophagy. Autophagy (2025)
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Carra, S.; Fabian, B.; Taghavi, H.; Milanetti, E.; Giliberti, V.; Ruocco, G.; Shepherd, J.; Vendruscolo, M.; Fuxreiter, M.: Virus-like particles of retroviral origin in protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases. Molecular Aspects of Medicine 103, 101369 (2025)

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