This year, the long night of sciences took place on Saturday, 25. October, where the MPZPM opened its doors to the public. Our contribution was all about diffusion: We presented an interactive simulation of different influences of the diffusivity of particles; furthermore we used augment...
Bacteria use surfaces to form complex heterogeneous communities known as biofilms. Within a group, bacteria in a biofilm are extremely resistant to various environmental influences. How these biofilms form is the subject of a new international research project involving the Max-Planck-Zentrum für P...
Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is densely packed with biomolecules like proteins and nucleic acids. How is all this material distributed within a cell and what regulates its distribution? In a recent study pu...
Congratulations! On Sept 23, Tim successfully defended his PhD thesis about simulating RNA Pol II clusters forming around regulatory chromatin during DNA transcription. You can read more about his work here and here. We wish Tim all the best for his further career!
In July 2025 we went to a two-day retreat in the Franconian Switzerland in Trabelsdof near Bamberg. There, we had a great start with an insightful talk and lively discussion about Reinforcement Failing in adaptive tumor therapy presented by Jona Kayser.
To advance the research within our g...
We are currently looking for three new group members to fill open positions working on neuronal development, the biophysics of helminth-host interactions and a novel mechanism of autoinflammation and autoimmunity.
For more details, see the PDF of this announcement here here or our Join...
We are currently looking for the new group member to work on a PhD project devoted to Biofilms!
PhD position: How Biofilms heal their wounds?
Biofilms are commonly known as complex bacterial communities that encase themselves in self-produced polymeric matrix substances and excel in w...
Reading about donuts, croissants and jalebis makes you hungry? And you wonder how this is related to our research? Our latest publication in collaboration with the Hilbert and Nienhaus lab (both KIT) revealed that clusters of recruited RNA polymerase II form in line with surface condensa...
Most cells of human body have DNA packaged and folded inside of their nuclei. The process of transcription, which also takes place in the nucleus, partially unfolds and redistributes DNA in a very distinct pattern. In a collaborative work, we have shown that the emergence of this pattern can be exp...
