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We are delighted to announce that the 3rd DivIDE Conference will take place from 22–25 September 2025 with a fantastic lineup of speakers. Registration opens soon - stay tuned and help us spread the word! We are looking forward to meet many of you in Barcelona! ☀️

This Stefan Raunser review summarizes recent insights into the molecular mechanisms of #actin polymerization and disassembly obtained through high-resolution structures of actin filament assemblies. #cryoEM ➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

High-level teamwork for a better molecular understanding of muscle wasting - Structural biologist and Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow Alexey Amunts will be researching age-related bioenergetics together with MPI Director Stefan Raunser ➡️mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/2025/high…

Fighting drug-resistant GIST!🚀 We developed innovative covalent KIT/PDGFRA inhibitors using structure-based design. Check out our latest J Med Chem publication! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jm… #CancerResearch #DrugDiscovery

Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience and we are celebrating all our female scientists! Check the following interview with our postdoc and mother Louisa Hill, who recently received the prestigious EMBO fellowship! ➡️mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/internati…

A molecular syringe paves the way to new therapeutic approaches - read how a team of researchers @intein Max Planck Society Université de Genève BordignonLab & University Düsseldorf found important insights into how pathogenic bacteria inject deadly enzymes ➡️mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/molecular…

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planck-… #ScienceCareer

Huge congrats to Heng Zhou & Jagannath Maharana @the_rajem on being awarded the prestigious Humboldt Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship! Jagannath will investigate the causes of inherited cardiomyophaties & Heng how certain bacterial Tc toxins target and enter host cells #cryoEM #cryoET

Paper Alert🚨 Interactions with multiple inner kinetochore proteins determine mitotic localization of FACT - published by the Musacchio Group in Journal of Cell Biology ➡️rupress.org/jcb/article/22…

Interactions with multiple inner #kinetochore proteins determine mitotic localization of FACT, say Julia Schweighofer, Bhagyashree Mulay, Andrea Musacchio and colleagues MPI Dortmund: hubs.la/Q03c4Rjw0 #Mitosis

🚀 Exciting news for early-career researchers! The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. Applications are open now! postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

🚨Paper alert🚨 The biochemical mechanism of Rho GTPase membrane binding, activation and retention in activity patterning - Published in The EMBO Journal by the Peter Bieling Group & Bement Lab & Scott Hansen Group embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

We congratulate Max Haase, #Postdoc in the lab of Andrea Musacchio, on receiving the highly-coveted Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Commission

An Indole Dearomatization Strategy for the Synthesis of Pseudo-Natural Products - New publication by the Waldmann Group published in ChemBioChem …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cb…

New Parkinson’s disease paper: Chimeric deubiquitinase engineering reveals structural basis for specific inhibition of USP30 and a framework for DUB ligandability - published by Malte Gersch group Max Planck Society in nature Struct. & Mol. Biol. nature.com/articles/s4159…

There are currently high hopes for the development of novel Parkinson's drugs. Malte Gersch group has now deciphered the mode of action of these drugs. The findings can help to develop innovative therapeutics for #Parkinsonsdisease & other disorders. mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/promising…

In a twin study, researchers MPI for Biological Intelligence successfully characterized gut bacteria involved in #MultipleSclerosis and provided evidence of their pathogenicity. mpg.de/24685137/0507-…

With great sadness and deep regret, we have to inform you that our department director and highly esteemed colleague Philippe Bastiaens Max Planck Society passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 15th of May.

The Max Planck Institute in Dortmund mourns the loss of Philippe Bastiaens mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/philippe-…

🚨Paper alert🚨 Interplay of kinetochores and catalysts drives rapid assembly of the mitotic checkpoint complex - published by the Musacchio Group Max Planck Society in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…