Gut microbes shape the body’s response to vaccination. Researchers led by Ruth Ley discovered that the human gut microbiome may help determine how strongly the immune system reacts to vaccination, with bacterial flagellins contributing to inflammatory responses:
www.bio.mpg.de/569449/news_...

The Max Planck Society and Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen in collaboration with the Department of Plant Production Sciences and Technologies at the University of Zimbabwe will be offering a FREE #ARTEMIS #BridgingMinds workshop on *Plant Genome Analysis*.

Very excited to share the first preprint from my PhD with the community! This is also the first paper from the Plant Immunogenomics group with @galofir.bsky.social, so stay tuned for more!
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Our review on S-layer anchoring and the epiplasmic space is out in Current Opinion in Microbiology.

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Great to welcome the Bio LK from Wildermuth-Gymnasium in Tübingen to our institute on Wednesday! From electron microscopy and fruit flies to nematodes and fungi, the students got a glimpse into the current biology research done here. Thanks to everyone involved!
#ScienceOutreach

We’re wrapping up #CraftYourResearch as part of #PostdocAppreciationWeek with Maryam Mahmoudi—postdoc in Detlef Weigel’s lab & one of the reps behind the idea! Maryam uses deep learning to explore genetic diversity in plants.
Thanks to everyone who joined in! #PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocCommunity

Thursday’s #PostdocAppreciationWeek contribution comes from Pélagie Ratchinski — one of our postdocs and postdoc reps, who helped come up with our “Craft Your Research” session!
Pélagie studies how life cycle and sex regulation interact in brown algae.
#PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek

Meet Joseph Atemia, a postdoc studying the genomics of horned melon. His research explores genetic variation and gene families linked to valuable crop traits, including disease resistance. For #PAW2026, he turned his research into a work of art!

#PAWGermany #PostdocAppreciationWeek

It’s Day 2 of our #PostdocAppreciationWeek “Craft Your Research” series!
Today, meet Sung-Ya Lin from the Dept. of Complex Biological Interactions, who studies how nematodes rapidly evolve to sense and respond to chemical cues from their fungal predators.

#PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocCommunity

Meet the first of our creative postdocs: “I'm Daniela Ramirez, a postdoc studying plant-bacteria interactions and fascinated by microbes living within plants. My research uses bGWAS to uncover how Pseudomonas infects and colonizes Arabidopsis thaliana.”

#PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek

For this year’s Postdoc Appreciation Week, our postdoc representatives came up with the brilliant idea of organising a “Craft Your Research” session with their peers.
Every day this week, we’ll be sharing what came out of it!
#PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek

3 institutes, 1 campus, 50 runners – and a lot of green!
For the first time, the three Tübingen Max Planck Institutes joined forces for #ERBELauf2026. We took on the 5K, 10K & Team Challenge – and were the 7th largest group!
Thanks to all supporters, runners and the organisers. See you next year! 💚

We’re delighted to celebrate Dr. Jarauwatana Sodai Lotharukpong for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Congratulations Sodai - You did it! We wish you success and good wishes in your future endeavors: www.linkedin.com/posts/imprs-...

#PhDone #Maxplanckinstitute #IMPRS

We’re delighted to celebrate Dr. Elizaveta Selezneva for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Congratulations Elizaveta - You did it! We wish you success and good wishes in your future endeavors www.linkedin.com/posts/imprs-...

#PhDone #Maxplanckinstitute #IMPRS

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Our step-by-step protocol for generating mesodermal/limb bud organoids (“budoids”) from mouse stem cells or primary limb buds is now out! 🧫🦵

We hope it makes the system easier to adopt and build on in other labs!
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