This week we went back to our old "home", the MPI in Marburg for the dissertation of our new Dr. Alexander Balinovic! 

Congratulations to Maria Löffler on her PhD

Congratualtions to Tomohisa Sebastian Tanabe from RG Dahl

Martina Grosser, Marc Gregor Mohr and group leader PD Dr Christiane Dahl presented their research at the BET Meeting in Alicante.

Curious about careers, research and teaching in microbiology? In the recently published 4th episode of the podcast, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Endesfelder from our institute was the guest of the biology student council.

A new protocol combines expansion microscopy with single-molecule imaging for fission yeast

Being able to observe micro-organisms and their cellular components is key to understanding fundamental processes that go on inside cells—and thus potentially developing new medical treatments. Microbiologists and biophysicists from the University of Bonn have now developed a method that makes the high-throughput process for observing molecules five times faster, enabling insights to be gained into hitherto unknown cellular functions.

Many bacterial pathogens use small injection apparatuses to manipulate the cells of their hosts, such as humans, so that they can spread throughout the body. To do this, they need to fill their syringes with the relevant injection agent. A technique that tracks the individual movement of proteins revealed how bacteria accomplish this challenging task. A team of researchers from the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute in Marburg have revealed how bacteria perform this complex task, using a technology that tracks the movement of individual proteins. Their findings have now been published in the leading journal Nature Microbiology.