Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
@mpibp.bsky.social
Our research concerns biological membranes with particular emphasis on the structure and function of membrane proteins.
#Biophysics #cryoEM #structuralbiology
#Biophysics #cryoEM #structuralbiology
Der Arbeitsalltag der technischen Assistentinnen Angela Burkart und Eva Kaindl an unserem Institut ist geprägt von Vielfalt, regelmäßig neuen Themen und dem kreativen Austausch mit den Forschenden. In ihrem Interview gewähren sie spannende Einblicke in ihren Arbeitsalltag! 👉 tinyurl.com/462cp48b
January 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Der Arbeitsalltag der technischen Assistentinnen Angela Burkart und Eva Kaindl an unserem Institut ist geprägt von Vielfalt, regelmäßig neuen Themen und dem kreativen Austausch mit den Forschenden. In ihrem Interview gewähren sie spannende Einblicke in ihren Arbeitsalltag! 👉 tinyurl.com/462cp48b
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🌟 PhD positions at IMPRS-CBP! Applications open from Jan 23 – Mar 11. Fully funded PhDs in cellular biophysics at @mpibp.bsky.social , @goetheuni.bsky.social l and @unimainz.bsky.social .
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January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
🌟 PhD positions at IMPRS-CBP! Applications open from Jan 23 – Mar 11. Fully funded PhDs in cellular biophysics at @mpibp.bsky.social , @goetheuni.bsky.social l and @unimainz.bsky.social .
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#phd #biophysics #imprs_cbp
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We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We are celebrating 99 publications in 2025! 🎉 We would like to thank the members of our institute for your passion and expertise, your mutual support, and your perseverance! 💪 We look forward to making new discoveries in 2026!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
We wish everyone a joyful season and a successful start to the New Year!
From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
From #GrantWriting to #Grant: Learn from Els Kuipers’ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application journey in securing a prestigious fellowship and the vital role of effective grant writing for researchers: 👉 www.biophys.mpg.de/2895578/mari... @wilflinglab.bsky.social #MSCA
Big thanks to the vault crew for the great teamwork!
@pchoffmann.bsky.social @meiercredo.bsky.social @hummerlab.bsky.social @deglushk.bsky.social bsky-less Agnieszka, Stefanie, Alex, Julian and for mentoring and support!
@pchoffmann.bsky.social @meiercredo.bsky.social @hummerlab.bsky.social @deglushk.bsky.social bsky-less Agnieszka, Stefanie, Alex, Julian and for mentoring and support!
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Big thanks to the vault crew for the great teamwork!
@pchoffmann.bsky.social @meiercredo.bsky.social @hummerlab.bsky.social @deglushk.bsky.social bsky-less Agnieszka, Stefanie, Alex, Julian and for mentoring and support!
@pchoffmann.bsky.social @meiercredo.bsky.social @hummerlab.bsky.social @deglushk.bsky.social bsky-less Agnieszka, Stefanie, Alex, Julian and for mentoring and support!
Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Vault particles, a 40-year cell biology mystery, associate with membranes at the nuclear envelope and ER—revealing a new functional axis for these conserved complexes @kgeissler.bsky.social @yuningwang.bsky.social @jpkreysing.bsky.social @Becklab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Did you know we’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on Cryo-FIB & Cryo-ET in April 2026? ❄️ We invite early career researchers and facility scientists to join us in Frankfurt and meet the leading experts in cryo-FIB/SEM and cryo-ET!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
🔗 Apply by Dec 8: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
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Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our next #DiscoverySeminar features the guest speaker Prof. Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. Join his lecture on "Nuclear pores as guardians of the genome".
One thing is certain: We will continue translating our research into material that informs, inspires, and engages, ensuring our work is heard and seen!
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
One thing is certain: We will continue translating our research into material that informs, inspires, and engages, ensuring our work is heard and seen!
- Team-building exercises helped us get to know each other better.
- Overall, we achieved a good work-food balance!
Stay curious about what the new year will bring!
- Overall, we achieved a good work-food balance!
Stay curious about what the new year will bring!
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
- Team-building exercises helped us get to know each other better.
- Overall, we achieved a good work-food balance!
Stay curious about what the new year will bring!
- Overall, we achieved a good work-food balance!
Stay curious about what the new year will bring!
- After visiting and analyzing the Senckenberg Museum’s Health and Medicine exhibition, we engaged in a fruitful exchange with Julia Krohmer, the Senckenberg Society's Deputy Science Coordinator.
- We reflected on the past year and planned for the upcoming year.
- We reflected on the past year and planned for the upcoming year.
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
- After visiting and analyzing the Senckenberg Museum’s Health and Medicine exhibition, we engaged in a fruitful exchange with Julia Krohmer, the Senckenberg Society's Deputy Science Coordinator.
- We reflected on the past year and planned for the upcoming year.
- We reflected on the past year and planned for the upcoming year.
There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it.
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
There’s a communications team behind every breakthrough, ensuring the world hears about it.
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Here are some photos from our team retreat! 📸🎉
Proud to share that, according to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 ranking, our Director Gerhard Hummer is among the world’s most frequently cited scientists. 👏 The ranking recognizes about 6,600 researchers worldwide who are among the top 1% most cited in their fields over the past decade.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Proud to share that, according to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 ranking, our Director Gerhard Hummer is among the world’s most frequently cited scientists. 👏 The ranking recognizes about 6,600 researchers worldwide who are among the top 1% most cited in their fields over the past decade.
Photo Credit: Dr. Christiane Birr (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory).
Shout-out to our partners: MPG, Brain, Legal History #ScientistsInAction #MaxPlanckSociety
Shout-out to our partners: MPG, Brain, Legal History #ScientistsInAction #MaxPlanckSociety
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Photo Credit: Dr. Christiane Birr (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory).
Shout-out to our partners: MPG, Brain, Legal History #ScientistsInAction #MaxPlanckSociety
Shout-out to our partners: MPG, Brain, Legal History #ScientistsInAction #MaxPlanckSociety
Scientists making waves! 🌊 At this year’s Frankfurt Museumsuferfest, our team swapped pipettes for paddles and crushed the Dragon Boat Race! 🐉🚣
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Scientists making waves! 🌊 At this year’s Frankfurt Museumsuferfest, our team swapped pipettes for paddles and crushed the Dragon Boat Race! 🐉🚣
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
#Museumsuferfest #DragonBoatRace
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Great work of @deglushk.bsky.social from my PhD lab @mpibp.bsky.social on how to get more information out of all the membranes you see in cryoET data!
Glushkova, Böhm, & Beck @maxplanck.de develop a publicly available computational method to measure the thickness of biological membranes in cryo-electron tomograms. Analysis of algae & human cells reveals systematic membrane thickness variations within & across organelles rupress.org/jcb/article/...
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Great work of @deglushk.bsky.social from my PhD lab @mpibp.bsky.social on how to get more information out of all the membranes you see in cryoET data!
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Exciting week in Frankfurt! Our CEOS energy filter and ASI Timepix3 are installed and we're looking forward to running the first tests :) #CryoEM #timepix #REELanalysis #4DSTEM @mpibp.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Exciting week in Frankfurt! Our CEOS energy filter and ASI Timepix3 are installed and we're looking forward to running the first tests :) #CryoEM #timepix #REELanalysis #4DSTEM @mpibp.bsky.social
Precision, teamwork, and a sharp eye! Not just for experiments, but for #pumpkins too! 🎃🔬
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Precision, teamwork, and a sharp eye! Not just for experiments, but for #pumpkins too! 🎃🔬
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
We held a pumpkin carving #competition at MPI of Biophysics, and the results were impressive! Swipe through to find out who took home the 🏆!
#CarvingConnections #HalloweenSpirit
@tzujingyang.bsky.social et al, in collaboration with the @hummerlab.bsky.social, used #cryoEM and #MD to visualize an SND3 translocon complex that inserts proteins into the ER membrane 🤯 Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SND3 is the membrane insertase within a distinct SEC61 translocon complex - Nature Communications
The fungal SND pathway inserts a wide range of proteins into the ER membrane. Here, SND3 is identified as a membrane insertase within a distinct SEC61 translocon complex, implying a role in co-transla...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@tzujingyang.bsky.social et al, in collaboration with the @hummerlab.bsky.social, used #cryoEM and #MD to visualize an SND3 translocon complex that inserts proteins into the ER membrane 🤯 Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SNDing proteins into the membrane! Our new publication from @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social ’s group identifies the SND3 protein as a new route for membrane protein insertion! 🍄 📘 Read more here: www.mpg.de/25599408/102... Image: Louise Duever.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
SNDing proteins into the membrane! Our new publication from @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social ’s group identifies the SND3 protein as a new route for membrane protein insertion! 🍄 📘 Read more here: www.mpg.de/25599408/102... Image: Louise Duever.
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Prof. Hartmut Michel's group @mpibp.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in structural bioenergetics. See the link for more detail.👇
Postdoctoral researcher in structural bioenergetics (m/w/d)
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October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Prof. Hartmut Michel's group @mpibp.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc in structural bioenergetics. See the link for more detail.👇
Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts!
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026
Heartfelt congratulations to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social @bjmurphylab.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis with summa cum laude! 👏💪🏆 For his doctoral research, Ralf used anaerobic sample preparation to study redox enzymes by single-particle cryo-EM.🔬 #phdlife #biophysics #excellence
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Heartfelt congratulations to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social @bjmurphylab.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis with summa cum laude! 👏💪🏆 For his doctoral research, Ralf used anaerobic sample preparation to study redox enzymes by single-particle cryo-EM.🔬 #phdlife #biophysics #excellence
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Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER developed by the authors in this new Communications Biology manuscript enhances cryoET reconstructions. @mpibp.bsky.social
@becklab.bsky.social
@jpkreysing.bsky.social
@sergiocruzleon.bsky.social
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cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography - Communications Biology
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER enhances angular sampling in cryoET, improving 3D reconstructions, particle localization, and structural recovery without increasing electron dose.
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER developed by the authors in this new Communications Biology manuscript enhances cryoET reconstructions. @mpibp.bsky.social
@becklab.bsky.social
@jpkreysing.bsky.social
@sergiocruzleon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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@jpkreysing.bsky.social
@sergiocruzleon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Fantastic new work from our researchers!
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
❓What if you could peek between your tilt series ❓ We are proud to introduce cryoTIGER -- deep-learning based tilt interpolation for enhanced reconstruction in cryo-ET. A great collaboration between Turoňová lab, @becklab.bsky.social, @hummerlab.bsky.social #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s42...
cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography - Communications Biology
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER enhances angular sampling in cryoET, improving 3D reconstructions, particle localization, and structural recovery without increasing electron dose.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Fantastic new work from our researchers!
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯
Check out their work on 🐯 cryoTIGER for cryoET 🐯