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Infectious disease research and immunology in the heart of #Berlin | Part of @maxplanck.bsky.social 🦠
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Looking for a #PhD project in #+immunology? The @romagnanilab.bsky.social offers two fully funded projects “Dissecting the Molecular Pathways of NK Cell Clonality” & “Dissecting the Molecular Pathways of NK Cell Memory“.
Apply by Dec 10 👉 www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1947490/rese...
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Looking for a #PhD project in #malaria research? The Portugal Lab @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de offers a fully funded project in #Berlin: #Plasmodium falciparum cytoadhesion in seasonal malaria transmission areas.
Apply by Dec 10 👉 www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1947490/rese...
Project: Plasmodium falciparum cytoadhesion in seasonal malaria transmission areas
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Looking for a #PhD project in immunology? The Weiss Lab @fweiss.bsky.social offers a fully funded project "Variable allele usage regulates inflammation" at the @drfzberlin.bsky.social.
Apply by Dec 10 👉 www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1947490/rese...
Variable allele usage regulates inflammation
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Looking for a #PhD project in immunology? The Diefenbach Lab ( #Charité Berlin) offers a fully funded project "Immune-metabolic adaptation in pregnancy: implications for offspring health".
Apply by Dec 10 👉 www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1947490/rese...
Immune-metabolic adaptation in pregnancy: implications for offspring health.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Looking for a #PhD project in #immunology? The Bartfeld Lab @tuberlin.bsky.social offers a fully funded project "Innate immune recognition in the gastrointestinal epithelium – Organoids as host model".
Apply by Dec 10 👉 www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1947490/rese...
Project: Innate immune recognition in the gastrointestinal epithelium – Organoids as host model.
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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According to an international survey conducted by Elsevier, 68 percent of scientists say that publication pressure has increased over the past two to three years. 3,200 researchers from 113 countries took part in the survey. www.elsevier.com/insights/con... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Researcher of the Future: Confidence in Research
In this report, learn how researchers are adapting to rapid AI change, shifting funding landscapes, and new expectations for collaboration and impact.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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📢 Voices in Infection Biology
Join us next week Wednesday for a talk by Marino Zerial, director at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.

🗓️ November 12
🕓 2 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43768...
Role of forces in membrane dynamics and liver tissue morphogenesis Marino Zerial November 12 2 PM
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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📢 Voices in Infection Biology
We're happy to welcome Molly Ingersoll from @institutcochin.bsky.social next week, who will be giving a talk on mucosal immunity in the bladder.

🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕓 11 am
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43693...
Mucosal immunity in the bladder MollY ingersoll November 11 11 AM MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY, BERLIN
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research and #immunology?
🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment?
👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
6 fully funded phd positions in infectious disease research and immunology starting 2026 in Berlin.
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#Health for all: join Emmanuelle Charpentier, who received the #NobelPrize for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools, the #CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissor, at the Nobel Week Dialogue at 9 December 2025 in Gothenburg. Register now! www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel... @nobelprize.bsky.social
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna revolutionised science with the development of CRISPR-Cas9, the powerful “genetic scissors” that enable ultra-precise gene editing. This discovery opened the door to new scientific frontiers – from improving crops to developing novel treatments for cancer and genetic diseases.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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#Nikon Young Scientist Award goes to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social. Very grateful to our long-standing NYSA partner @healthcare.nikon.com!
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Congratulations to @tobiaskletter.bsky.social for receiving the Nikon Young Scientist Award! Thanks to DGZ.bsky.social and @healthcare.nikon.com for the award ceremony 🍾🍾🍾
#ProudPI
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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🔬 Join us as a #Postdoc in Berlin!
Develop a multiplex serology assay, using #mosquitoes as bio-samplers to track pathogen exposure in Africa.

🦠 Lead assay dev & int'l coordination
📊 Strong data skills & serology exp needed
🗓️ Apply by Nov 15, 2025

Details: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2196303/job_...
Postdoctoral Researcher Malaria Parasite Biology Lead the design and validation of a novel serological assay and coordinate implementation across African partner sites.
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Is the human microbiome a source for hospital-associated infections (HAI) and are any genetic changes associated with HAI? In our new preprint, we longitudinally reconstruct the evolutionary processes within the human microbiome leading up to HAI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Colonization, translocation, and evolution of opportunistic pathogens during hospital-associated infections
Many commensal bacteria that peacefully reside in the human microbiome are also able to cause acute opportunistic infections. Emerging evidence suggests that within-host evolution contributes to infec...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📣 Open call for life science #interns
Our International Summer #Internship 2026 is now open for applications. Three-months fully funded internships at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.
👉 Information on the internship projects and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/mpiib-isi
Open call for life science interns Three-month fully funded internships for bachelor‘s and master‘s students in the fields of biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, epidemiology and any other related fields.
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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📢 Voices in Infection Biology
Next week, Stephan Grill @stephangrill.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de, will give a talk on "Chiral Morphogenesis" - kindly hosted by @simonereber.bsky.social.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
🕓 4 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43511...
October 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.

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📸 Stephan Spangenberg
Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), He headed the division “Cell Physics” at MPL and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Chemistry #NobelPrize 2025 for 'rooms in a hotel for molecules'! 😊Huge Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar Yaghi, winners of the 2025 Chemistry #NobelPrize for their transformative metal-organic frameworks research! 🥳
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”
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October 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Quantum wins the (Nobel) day! 😊 Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret & John Martinis — winners of the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics! 🥳 Their groundbreaking work on macroscopic #quantum tunnelling & circuit quantization has reshaped our understanding of the quantum world. ⚛️🌌
Physics Nobel: Three win prize for paving way for very powerful computers
The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to three researchers for discovering how the immune system is kept in check, based on studies in mice. #NobelPrize #NobelPrizelaureates #NobelPrize2025 #medicine #science #AnimalReseach #mice
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Mice studies were key for 2025 Nobel Prize research
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers — Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell — for discovering how the immune system is kept in check, based…
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October 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body
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October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Great to see the preprint & code out. Large scale within host evolution analysis made easy. Happy that we could contribute to the development. Kudos to all involved including @i-light-maka.bsky.social & @mfenk.bsky.social from the Key lab.
September 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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📢 Voices in Infection Biology
Join us next week for a talk by Boris Striepen @upenn.edu, hosted by Elena Levashina.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 1
🕓 2 pm
📍 on-site seminar (Berlin)

Event info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/42891...
Why do parasites have sex, and how does it work? Boris Striepen October 1 2 PM MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY, BERLIN
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Researchers from #MPZPM and @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de have now compared the ratio of nuclear and cytoplasmic density in different organisms and come to a surprising conclusion: the cell nucleus in eukaryotes is less dense than the rest of the cell.

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#Physics #Medicine
A cell nucleus reconstituted in vitro in Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) egg extract. Left image shows a fluorescence image where DNA has been stained and right image shows a density map of the same nucleus aquired using Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT).
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋
The Secret to a Smooth Pasta Sauce Wins Ig Nobel Prize
Italian researchers studied how the ingredients of the traditional Roman dish cacio e pepe emulsify into a creamy sauce, winning the 2025 Physics Ig Nobel Prize.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM