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Dear community! 🥰 We thank you for your loyalty over all these years! 🤗 We will be saying goodbye 👋 to X at the end of this year and look forward to seeing you again on our other platforms: BlueSky, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. 🎉 —The Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

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

Heartfelt congratulations to @RalfSteinhilper @_Murphy_Lab 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

Our Green Yard Sale at the MPI of Biophysics was a great success! 💚 Organized by our Sustainability Group, it promoted Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle while donating the profits to Klimaschutzinitiative-Riedberg e.V. 🌿♻️ #Sustainability #GreenYardSale #MPIBiophysics

🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @SergioCruzLeon1 for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.

Our colleagues laced up their running shoes for this year’s “Lauf für mehr Zeit” charity run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️—the perfect opportunity to combine fitness, team spirit, and supporting a meaningful cause—all in one day! 💙 A big thank you to everyone who contributed to making a difference. ✨

We followed with a day packed with CryoEM! We heard about the cryoEM from Werner Kühlbrandt, STEM-EELs from Bonnie Murphy and CryoET from Martin Beck.

This morning we travelled into the fascinating world of neurons and synapses with Erin Schuman. We learnt how protein synthesis takes place in neuronal dendrites. 🧠 #imprs_cbp #gradschool #brain

What do we do in case of conflicts at work? We heard from Ulrike Trojahn and Andreas Münch about conflict reporting and management at our institute! #imprs #imprs_cbp #ombudsperson #gradschool

We ended the day with a fun twist: the @MPIbp #openscience Ambassadors taught reproducibility using LEGO! Thanks to @UniGlasgow for sharing their #openresources. eprints.gla.ac.uk/196477/

Ever thougth about pulling a protein apart? Nina Morgner shared how her group uses native mass spectrometry to explore protein structure. #imprs #MassSpec @goetheuni

A productive morning with Profs. Dötsch, García-Sáez and Helfrich! We learnt about transcription factors, cellular death and biosynthetic pathways. All before lunch time! #imprs #imprs_cbp #sciencemorning #gradschool @MPIbp @goetheuni

We wrapped up a great day learning about disordered proteins, membraneless organelles, and protein translocation. Thanks to Dorothee Dormann, Edward Lemke, and Melanie McDowell for sharing their work! #imprs #imprs_cbp #PhDlife #gradschool

Great session with Melanie McDowell today! She shared exciting insights into how proteins find their way into the ER. #imprs #imprs_cbp #phd #gradschool #biophysics

Day 2 of our #IMPRS symposium started with Dorothee Dormann’s talk on how RNA-binding protein aggregation is linked to neurodegenerative diseases. #neurodegeneration #gradschool #imprs_cbp #biophysics

We had a great start of the #IMPRS Symposium on Cellular Biophysics to welcome our new students. Thank you for your fascinating talks Michaela Müller-McNicoll, Bernhard Hampölz and Christian Münch 👏 #imprs_cbp #phd #biophysics @MuenchLab

Do you know IMPRS-CBP? We're the International Max Planck Research School on Cellular Biophysics. Since 2021 we train the next generation of PhD students in biophysics together with @maxplanckpress @MPIbp @goetheuni @uni_mainz and @fias_science #imprs #imprs_cbp

We're very excited to welcome the new generation of #IMPRS students during our Symposium on Cellular Biophysics 🧪 This morning, we heard spokespersons Volker Dötsch and Martin Beck, and coordinator Pamela Ornelas, introduce the doctoral program to the new students 🔬 #imprs_cbp

We’re looking forward to the IMPRS-CBP Symposium on Cellular Biophysics at the @MPIbp ! Join us on Sept 15–22 for a week+ of talks from our faculty as we welcome our new students! 🧑‍🎓Learn more here: imprs-cbp.mpg.de/symposium-on-c…