👉 SAVE THE DATE! The 2. digital lunch meeting of the VAAM Fachgruppe "Sensing & Regulation" will take place in November 2022! Jürgen Lassak #VAAM 👇👇👇

Congratulations to our members Sonja-Verena Albers Sonja-Verena Albers, Thomas Rudel Rudel Lab and Volker Müller, Frankfurt on their election as Fellows to the American Academy of Microbiology !👏🎇🏅

Wir feiern am #InternationalWomensDay 2023 alle Frauen am Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, die Forschung und Verwaltung am Laufen halten. Es ist noch ein langer Weg, aber wenn wir ihn weitergehen, werden wir es schaffen. Max Planck Society #Weltfrauentag #internationalerfrauentag #EmbraceEquity

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We are proud that 2/3 of our Max Planck Research Group Leaders and Facility Heads are female! And we strive for even more #FemaleEmpowerment and #GenderDiversity in the near future. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #biophysics

Large pilin subunits provide distinct structural and mechanical properties for the Myxococcus xanthus type IV pilus biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Published today Steve Johnson and Justin Deme story finally revealing the molecular basis for transmission of uni-directional ion flow into bi-directional rotation of the bacterial flagellum doi.org/10.1038/s41564…

Excited to share our work on the most rigid and strongest type IVa pilus yet described, which is now online: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…. Great collaboration with Edward H. Egelman and Yves F. Dufrêne Anke Treuner-Lange @LotteSogaard @PNAS

The most rigid and strongest Type IVa pilus yet described growkudos.com/publications/1… via @growkudos

International meeting of the VAAM special section Microbial Cell Biology Two days of inspiring talks, poster sessions and discussions on all aspects of bacterial and archaeal cell biology. October 6-8, 2024, in Marburg (Germany) eventbrite.de/e/microbial-ce… Register soon - only a

📢 Congrats 𝗗𝗿. 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 Georg Hochberg for receiving the new "Zukunftspreis" of Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina and Commerzbank-Stiftung 🎉 His research on the #evolution of proteins helps us understand and optimise processes such as #photosynthesis mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1398131/2024-0…

Excellent study and exciting new findings. Congratulations to María Pérez-Burgos & Marco Herfurth, @LotteSogaard , Urs Jenal and everybody else involved.

Very happy to share our new work about the newly identified SopA protein and its role in the control of type IV pili formation. Paper is now online DOI: 10.1128/jb.00108-24

Wir haben es geschafft! 🚀 Unser Projekt „HAPPY“ ist Finalist für #HGP24! Unser System zur Altersbestimmung von Hefe kann Tierversuche ersetzen und die Effizienz in der Lebensmittel- und Pharmaproduktion verbessern. Wir freuen uns über Deine Stimme: hessischer-gruenderpreis.de/vote24#ig

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating women who have changed the world. Here are all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Tell us about the women who inspire you the most - and why

Unser #GirlsDay am MPI-TM war ein unvergesslicher Tag! Wir haben tolle Mädchen kennengelernt, die sich für #Mikrobenforschung begeistern. Vielen Dank an unsere Gäste: Wir freuen uns auf Euch als zukünftige Forscherinnen! #GirlsDay #GirlsInScience #GirlsRockScience

We invite women in science at an advanced stage of their PhD to 3 days of science & career development in the molecular and microbial biosciences. 🎤 Present your research 💬 Lab tours 💬 Workshops ✈️ Fully funded Apply until 01.07.25 tinyurl.com/yj8vbnhj

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🚀Women in STEM: Are you a late-stage PhD student or postdoc in the life sciences? The September Science Academy in Marburg offers talks, lab tours, workshops – and the chance to present your own research! Apply now 👉 mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1489492/Septem… #LifeSciences #AcademicCareers

The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience. 31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world visited us for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking. #Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them