Application

The graduate program IMPRS for Biology And Computation (IMPRS-BAC) provides an education for students at the interface of molecular life sciences and computational sciences. This is based on perspective and supervision from both ends - experimental and computational - and suits students with degrees in molecular biology, biochemistry, mathematics, bioinformatics or any related areas. If you have a passion for epigenetics, bioinformatics, developmental biology, mathematics, sequence analysis, gene regulation, RNA biology, mechanobiology, protein biochemistry, stem cells and differentiation, statistics, molecular evolution or biophysics and want to work at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics or the Freie Universität Berlin - this is the program for you!

Scientists Discover "Pause Button" in Human Development

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin (MPIMG) and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna have discovered a potential "pause button" in the earliest stages of human development. Whether humans can control the timing of their development has long been debated. The new study suggests that this “pause button” can be activated in human cells as well. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of early human life and may improve reproductive technologies.

€1.3M pre-seed funding for Lucid Genomics

The Berlin-based start-up Lucid Genomics, a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has raised €1.3 million in pre-seed funding in a funding round led by Caesar Ventures, with support from BIF Partners, another.vc and the MPF Accelerator. The funds will be used to further expand their AI-Digital HealthTech Platform, which extracts all genomic information to improve diagnostics and drug discovery.

Maximum Potential

Transcription factors regulate gene expression by binding specific sequences on DNA, which is an essential step to produce messenger RNAs from protein-coding genes. Denes Hnisz's lab, in collaboration with Martin Vingron's lab at the MPIMG, has discovered that human transcription factors don't typically use their full potential to help transcribe mRNA. Instead, important protein regions within transcription factors encode chemical features that generate submaximal transcriptional activity. The findings, published in Nature Cell Biology, suggest simple ways to engineer natural transcription factor variants with elevated or “optimized” activity, with potential applications for regenerative therapy.

60th anniversary of the MPIMG

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin

Mit Vorträgen, Laborführungen und Mitmach-Experimenten lädt das Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik seine Gäste ein, zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022 in die Welt der Genomforschung und Entwicklungsgenetik zu reisen.

Strange gut feeling

During development, extraembryonic cells contribute to the formation of structures outside of the embryo. The additional presence of these extraembryonic cells in the developing gut has long puzzled scientists. In a new study in Nature Cell Biology, Alexander Meissner’s lab now provides new insights into the developmental fate and molecular characteristics of these cells.

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