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Calling all researchers across our Campus! Research Images of the Year contest now open: whatever your field or level, you’re invited to share an image that conveys your research by 15 Dec. Info: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event, thanks to #ScienceCommunicationNetwork and #GCPostdocNetwork

A team at our institute discovered how to prevent ribosomes from occasionally shifting by one “letter” while reading vaccine mRNA, an error that produces unintended proteins with unknown properties. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5342172/rn_2... 📷: total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy of ribosomes

Alpine peatlands under pressure How do official maps compare with what researchers found on the ground using aerial photography? They developed a new model to identify these valuable areas: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #CommunicationsEarth&Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🧠 Why do marmosets have nearly smooth brains? DPZ researchers discovered which cellular processes slow down its brain development. 🐒 #BrainScience tinyurl.com/mrx85h3p

Researchers have developed a kind of “flight simulator” for sperm. No joke! This method allows observing physiological reactions & motor behavior of cells in real time. More stories in the new issue of INSIDE NAT magazine 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/inside-nat Picture: Tatiana Shepeleva / Adobe Stock

Postdoc Appreciation Week starts today! Thanks to Göttingen postdocs for making our Campus such a vibrant, diverse and remarkable place! And thanks to #paw2026 for their fantastic program of events for postdocs across Germany: paw-germany.de #ResearchCareers #Networking #GCPostdocs #International

Get ready to celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany! Let’s recognise the contributions postdocs make! Calling all Postdocs: book your PAW.de free online sessions and get informed: paw-germany.de Calling Postdocs here: GC Postdoc Network can connect & inform you: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

ERC Starting Grants for researchers at our Campus Congratulations to Dr Sophie de Vries, evolutionary biologist; Dr Tristan Stöber, computational neuroscientist; Prof Elisa Oberbeckmann, Chromatin Dynamics group: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #ScientificExcellence @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

🎓 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/

Forests around the world are increasingly under stress caused by drought. Researchers at our Uni wanted to know how soil structure and landscape influence the health of trees. They studied beech trees in Germany: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research in #Trees: doi.org/10.1007/s004...

🦠 Hoffnung im Kampf gegen Ebola Bestehender Impfstoff könnte Kreuzschutz gegen die seltene Bundibugyo-Variante bieten – dem Erreger des derzeitigen schweren Ebola-Ausbruchs in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo.  🔗 Mehr zur Studie von Markus Hoffmann und Stefan Pöhlmann: buff.ly/U4z5pZR

How can farming systems stay resilient in droughts? Researchers at our Uni investigated how different levels of drought affected the susceptibility of sugar beet to damage caused by pests: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research in #JournalofExperimentalBotany: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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.

AI research for more precise particle-physics simulations New project at our Institute for #TheoreticalPhysics will make computer simulations of high-energy particle collisions faster and accurate: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/709842.html Well done to all involved & thanks to zukunft.niedersachsen!

🏆 🍒 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!

How do stars function and age? How fast and why is the Universe is expanding? Welcome to Astrophysicist Professor Richard I. Anderson whose research looks at these questions, working at the interface between stellar #astrophysics and observational #cosmology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Virtual versus physical fences Can invisible boundaries really help manage cattle in the field? In fact they could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and efficient, whilst improving welfare: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the awardees is Laurent Gizon from #mpsgoettingen and @uni-goettingen.de . His project INSIDE aims to measure the Sun's magnetic field deep below the visible surface for the first time. Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/erc-advanced... #Sun #helioseismology @goettingen-campus.de

Summer events for researchers across the Campus Postdoc Social BBQ Grillfest on 26 June plus upcoming #SciCommNetwork tour and July Postdoc Social #GCPostdocs. Registration and details: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event. Join the Postdoc Network and get connected: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Get out of the Lab! Weekend Escape to Kassel (sign up end of today). Or come to today's Postdoc Social (4 June) and find out more: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event Thanks #GCPostdocCommittee for making Göttingen a more fun place for researchers: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc #WorkLifeBalance

PINT OF SCIENCE is back in Göttingen! From 18 to 20 May, events run at Dots, Duke, Liesels, and Krawall, covering topics from law to DNA. Talks are in EN or DE. Save your spot now and meet a scientist: pintofscience.de/events/goett.... Discover the research on your doorstep! Everyone welcome!

Zeynep Atila talks about her career journey in Germany and how she fell in love with Göttingen. Get her tips on YouTube in this piece which lasts under an hour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T6I... Interview by Sidrah Bashir, Master's student in English, Humanities and Humanistic Studies at our Uni.

Congrats to Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social on winning the Pearse Prize 👏! The @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social awards this prize to scientists who contribute significantly to histochemistry & the life sciences.

Was geht zwischen Licht und Materie? Forschende haben das weltweit kleinste Röntgen-Interferometer gebaut. Damit konnten sie die Brechung von Röntgenstrahlen ganz genau vermessen und daraus schließen, wie diese mit Atomen interagieren. Mehr dazu: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Elephant meat aplenty 125,000 years ago A find in 1948 has now been reanalysed. The elephant skeleton and spear represent the most convincing evidence to date of a successful elephant hunt by Neanderthals: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html.... Research @ScientificReports: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Lachen in Krisenzeiten – wir laden zur öffentlichen Ringvorlesung ein: Wer darf worüber lachen? Wann verbindet Humor, wann grenzt er aus? Dem gehen wir ab dem 14. April jeden Dienstag aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln nach. Mehr dazu: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/706216.html #Göttingen #Goettingen

Why are some people born deaf even though their inner ear seems intact? Researchers from Göttingen Campus created marmosets lacking the OTOF gene - essential for transmitting sound signals. The animals are healthy, but deaf. A new step toward future gene therapies. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4kurwdva

From cells to smart gels: momentum in motion Congratulations to Prof Timo Betz on his newly awarded Volkswagen Foundation Momentum funding! The long-term vision of this project is to generate smart materials that can react and adapt to external stimuli: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

COMING UP: The next lecture in our lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” will be colorful! On April 2nd, 7 PM, learn all about #PolarLights. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🌍🔭 #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #SpaceWeather @goettingen-campus.de @tu-braunschweig.de

The cherry blossoms will soon be here! So send us your best pictures by 12 April! We'll print the winning image on a postcard #Kirschpost. Email photos to medien.studium@uni-goettingen.de or send via Insta, FB, LI #KIRSCHPOST @unigoettingen. Should be taken this year, no AI & include our Campus.

Almost like the real thing: Three years before ESA's #ExoMars rover #RosalindFranklin is scheduled to land on #Mars, #mpsgoettingen apprentices have completed their own model of the Mars rover. Great job, guys! 🚀🛰️ Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/a-mars-rover... @science.esa.int‬ #ESA

Researchers explore options for outpatient stem cell therapy Using machine learning methods, they assessed conditions when some of the therapy can be safely carried out as an outpatient, contributing towards shorter hospital stays: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html..., doi.org/10.1038/s417...

Thanks to everyone who joined Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair 2026! Inspiring experts, advisors, researchers and companies who shared their expertise. Thanks to the #GCPostdocCommittee for designing the event. What do you want next time? Get with the Network and let us know: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Vom Mond, der uns umkreist, bis zu fernen Planeten: Mit Vorträgen, Planetarium und dem Blick in den Himmel geht es beim Astronomietag am 28.3. ins Weltall – auch für Kinder. Eintritt kostenlos, Anmeldung für Planetarium empfohlen. Mehr dazu: www.mps.mpg.de/pressemittei... @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

Congratulations to Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social on the Carus Medal! 🥂 The @leopoldina.org is honoring our director for her research on mammalian egg cells – specifically, how they develop and why errors can occur during egg cell formation. Read more here: ⬇️ www.leopoldina.org/en/newsroom/...

Researcher one of three in Germany nominated for Frontiers Planet Prize Congratulations to Gustavo B Paterno, ecologist and biodiversity researcher, for #BBAW nomination for research paper on promotion of biodiversity recovery using islands of trees: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

GC Postdoc Committee: calling for applications! Are you a Postdoc here who wants to make it a better place for researchers? Then the Postdoc Committee is looking for your input & energy! Apply by 31 March Info: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-comm... or chat with current members at the Postdoc Fair!

Which way to go? First stop: Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair Experts from industry, academia, government, charities Companies & local experts: grant funding, HR, OpenScience, Ombuds and more One week to go! Register by 16 March: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair. Shine a light on your career on 19 March!

What makes a great research image? Göttingen’s Sci-Comm Network and Postdoc Network ran a contest to find out! The entries are in, the expert panel decided and the public voted! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html.... Visit Göttingen’s #ForumWissen, see the diversity of research across our Campus.

Scientists @MPI-NAT, @fmp-berlin.de, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, University of Utah, & @stanford.edu, have identified the presynaptic protein Munc13-1 as a key control point linking intracellular lipid & Ca2+ signals to vesicle readiness and synaptic performance. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5220593/rn_2...

COMING UP: the next lecture in our public lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne”. On Thursday, March 12th, at 7 PM, learn all about the #SolarWind including new research results. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🔭 #Sun #SpaceWeather @goettingen-campus.de

In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets, #exoplanets for kids, #Voyager and more! In German. More info: www.mps.mpg.de/astronomieta... @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de #Astronomietag #FPG

How are components in cells organized? It's a huge challenge for science to visualize this! So researchers developed a microfluidics system to make high-resolution microscopy easier, more reproducible and accessible: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #ACSNano: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair | Thursday 19 March | Physics Building ***Deadline for booking childcare fast approaching: Friday 6 March*** Family friendlywith onsite childcare and a #PostdocParent meet-up point. Check out the programme: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair #Pizza #Companies #Mentors

Benjamin Kaupp @MPI-NAT & Olivia Kendall @unibonn.bsky.social have discovered that sea urchin & salmon regulate sperm motility differently than mammals. Previously, it was assumed that sperm motility was regulated via a universal mechanism in all living organisms. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5211203/pr_2...

Funded with ~€500,000 by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture & @volkswagenstiftung.de: Congrats to Sonja Lorenz @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social & Gali Prag (Tel Aviv University)! They aim to develop new strategies to influence the regulation of human proteins.

Über 2 Mio. € für Forschung: Partner @goettingen-campus.de starten vier biomedizinische Projekte mit israelischen Partnern, eines unter Federführung des DPZ. Ziel: neue Erkenntnisse für Gesundheit und Medizin. www.dpz.eu/im-dialog/ne...
#Forschung #Wissenschaft #Medizin #InternationaleKooperation

Congratulations!!! Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta of #mpsgoettingen is awarded 2026 #KarenHarveyPrize by @aas.org #SolarPhysicsDivision. His research shows how tiny magnetic structures and processes determine the dynamic nature of the corona: www.mps.mpg.de/high-honor-f... @erc.europa.eu #heliophysics ☀️🔭

Let the grass grow under your feet! In every grass shoot, there is a treasure trove of tiny insect biodiversity. It turns out insects need undisturbed refuges: grassland should not be mown for several years: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #BasicandAppliedEcology: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Science Slam – schonmal mitgemacht? Wer Lust hat, seine Forschung auf die Bühne zu bringen, findet hier Gelegenheiten in Göttingen: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/677658.html Noch nie geslamt oder etwas eingerostet? Am 20. Feb. (und rund 2x im Jahr) findet ein kostenloser Online-Workshop statt. Viel Spaß!