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Max Planck School Matter to Life @mattertolife.bsky.social · Oct 1

🌱 New beginnings, fresh faces!
As our pilot phase wraps up, the school is ready to grow and thrive. We’re thrilled to welcome 18 new fellows to the #MatterToLife Faculty 🎉 Each brings exciting perspectives from across interdisciplinary research. mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/355008/new-f...

New Faculty Members from October 2025

Matter to Life welcomes 18 new Fellows, enhancing innovative research and mentorship opportunities for PhD candidates starting this October.

mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Aug 7

🌟Join us for our #MPIMRSpotlight series, where we shine a light on the scientists at our Institute and their exciting research! 👀👏Today, we are happy to feature Justas Lekavičius, MA student in Photonics and Nanotechnology and member of the Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute. 🔬

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨Welcome to our new #ScienceSnapshot series. 📸

We capture little moments in the labs and share them with you. Today, we look over PhD student Betül Karakoc's shoulder and observe the preparation of agarose gel electrophoresis for quality control of DNA Origami after folding and purification! 🧬

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Aug 21

🌟Today's #MPIMRSpotlight features Nicole Wambold, a chemistry Master’s student and member of the Single Molecule Sensing research group at the Institute. ✨ Let's explore her work on engineering DNA nanostructures for biomedical uses, focusing on photodynamic therapy!🧬👀 #MaxPlanck #MPIMR #STEM

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔬 Welcome back to #ScienceFunFactFriday! 🥳

Today we learn about bacterial cells and their peculiar behaviors in relation to antibacterial drugs! 🧫👀 The more you know...🧠 #ScienceFun #FunFact #ScienceTrivia #MaxPlanck #MPIMR

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌟 Take a glimpse at some behind-the-scenes moments from our recent Institute photoshoot! A huge thank you to photographer Alexander Grüber and the creative team for making it such a fun and memorable experience. 📸✨ #MPIMR #Teamwork #Photoshoot #BehindTheScenes

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Kerstin Göpfrich @kgoepfrich.bsky.social · Jul 28

Preprint by @towalther.bsky.social at al! We design DNA hydrogel microparticles with sequence-controlled stiffness from 30 Pa to 6.5 kPa. They are remodelled in fibroblast spheroids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks @ibecbarcelona.eu @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social

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labtinnefeld.bsky.social @labtinnefeld.bsky.social · Jul 28

1/3 🚨🥳New paper out in Advanced Materials!
We bring attomolar, amplification-free DNA detection to the point-of-care using DNA origami nanoantennas.🧬Check it out here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Kai Johnsson @kjohnsson.bsky.social · Jul 3

Finally out in Nature Chem Bio:
SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you Steffi and Veselin.

SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling - Nature Chemical Biology

SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labeling protein for bioimaging. Now, Kühn et al. report SNAP-tag2 with increased labeling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live...

www.nature.com

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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · Jul 8

A "Small" update on studying the coating of single DNA nanostructures with a fluorescence lifetime sensor! 🧬🔬 Was a fun project at the interface of DNA nanotech and single molecule photophysics working in a great team! 🤓 🙌 @ameliehj.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Emmanuel Margeat @emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social · May 26

Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.

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N. Heinzelmann @nheinzelmann.bsky.social · May 20

New technology challenges communication inside and outside the classroom, as my recent paper explains. Fingers crossed we get to explore this question soon for emerging synthetic biotechnology within SynthImmune
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse: Journal of Moral Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

www.tandfonline.com

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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · May 14

Really excited to be part of this fantastic and highly interdiciplinary initiative! 🤓🧬 Fingers crossed for May 22nd! #SynthImmune

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · May 14

The SynthImmune project by Heidelberg University& partner institutes advances a "bottom-up" synthetic biology approach to immunotherapies.
Hoping they do well in the German government's Excellence Strategy—anticipating the announcement on 22 May.

Perspective article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bottom-up synthetic immunology - Nature Nanotechnology

This Perspective highlights bottom-up molecular engineering and modular nanobiotechnological approaches for developing effective immunotherapeutics and their potential in personalized medicine.

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Kerstin Göpfrich @kgoepfrich.bsky.social · May 14

On the show, we also talk about the potential of bottom up synthetic biology approaches for immunology - the aim of our excellence cluster SynthImmune (in German). We hope to get funded!

SFB1638 @sfb1638.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our SFB1638 PI Kerstin Göpfrich (@kgoepfrich.bsky.social) joined Gert #Scobel and Tobias Erb to explore the future of synthetic biology—its promise, challenges, and big ideas. Catch the super interesting discussion on @3sat (@3sat.bluesky.com.de)

www.3sat.de/wissen/scobe...

Biologie aus dem Baukasten

Ingenieure, Informatiker, Chemiker und Biologen kreieren künstliche biologische Systeme. Die synthetische Biologie verändert die Zukunft und definiert die Grenzen der Wissenschaft neu.

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WONDER🧬 @wonder-dna.bsky.social · May 2

Hello (bluesky) world!
We are WONDER 🧬, an organization aimed at female PhD students, early and late career researchers within DNA Nanotechnology and related fields 😊🧬

Follow us here to stay updated and sign up to our mailing list (link in bio) to never miss out on any news🧬

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Integrative Biophysics of Membranes @CBS Montpellier @membranesbiophy.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our team just joined bluer skies :-) We are a research team located at the CBS, a unit from CNRS, INSERM and Université de Montpellier, France.
We are using biophysical tools to study membrane biophysics and membrane proteins.
See our website : integrativebiophysicsofmembranes.wordpress.com

Team Integrative Biophysics of Membranes

Centre de Biochimie Structurale, Montpellier, France

integrativebiophysicsofmembranes.wordpress.com

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Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim @hlsalliance.bsky.social · Jan 24

Die Alliance Wissenschaftlerin Kerstin Göpfrich zu Gast bei 3Sat. Leicht verständlich erklärt die Biophysikerin und Molekularbiologin ihre Arbeit an synthetischen Zellen mit dem sogenannten bottom-up Ansatz.

www.3sat.de/wissen/scobe...

Biologie aus dem Baukasten

Ingenieure, Informatiker, Chemiker und Biologen kreieren künstliche biologische Systeme. Die synthetische Biologie verändert die Zukunft und definiert die Grenzen der Wissenschaft neu.

www.3sat.de

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cmclose.bsky.social @cmclose.bsky.social · Jan 19

So happy to share our manuscript on DNA-mediated photostabilization!
Thankyou to the people who made it such a fun project: Michi, @glembockyte.bsky.social , Julian and @szalaialan.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Minimally Invasive DNA-Mediated Photostabilization for Extended Single-Molecule and Super-resolution Imaging

Photobleaching of fluorescence labels poses a major limitation in single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy. Conventional photostabilization methods, such as oxygen removal and addition of high ...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Jan 8

The Max Planck Society consists of 84 institutes worldwide. Do you want to know what they are researching? Then follow the ever-growing #MaxPlanck Family on Bluesky, share this starter pack and help people join our community 🙏 Thanks a lot! 😊 go.bsky.app/2sYoWWN

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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · Jan 13

Our institute is now on Bluesky! 🦋 🤩

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · Jan 10

Hi there! 👋 We are the PR team of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in beautiful Heidelberg and very excited to join Bluesky! 😍🥳 Follow us to learn more about our research, our great people, events, awards etc! We are really looking forward to interacting with you! 🚀🗨️

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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · Nov 13

Kicking off in Jan 2025 🐣 would be happy to join! 🙂

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