News from the Göttingen Campus

With super computers and wind tunnel tests
In wind-tunnel tests, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has investigated the lift generated by commercial aircraft using state-of-the-art measurement and simulation technologies. The findings will help to predict the characteristics of future aircraft much more accurately than before, in order to make them quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. The development of a new aircraft is a…
Scientists from the MPI-DS developed a general theorem to calculate the minimal energy required for propulsion.
The amount of power a microswimmer needs to move can now be determined more easily. Scientists from the department Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) developed a general theorem to calculate the minimal energy required for propulsion. These insights allow a profound understanding for practical applications, such as targeted transport of molecules and substrates. One of the most important…
Researcher from Göttingen University advises on overcoming the difficulties faced by mining communities in transition
Mining brings huge social and environmental change to communities: landscapes, livelihoods and the social fabric evolve alongside the industry. But what happens when the mines close? What problems face communities that lose their main employer and the very core of their identity and social networks? A research fellow at the University of Göttingen provides recommendations for governments to successfully navigate mining communities through their…
Get an overview of individual funding opportunities for early career researchers who aspire to a national or international career in research. A range of research and funding organisations present their programs and institutions.
SARS-CoV-2 lineage EG.5.1 has an advantage at evading neutralizing antibodies
As a result of vaccination or infection, our immune system produces antibodies that attach to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, preventing the virus from entering and replicating within cells. In response, the virus develops mutations that cause antibodies to bind less effectively to the spike protein. Since May 2023, the EG.5 lineage of SARS-CoV-2, known as Eris, has been spreading globally and was classified as a "Variant of Interest" by the…
Der Europäische Forschungsrat (ERC) fördert die drei Wissenschaftler*innen am Göttingen Campus Hauke Hillen, Marieke Oudelaar und Saskia Limbach jeweils mit einem ERC Starting Grant in Höhe von 1,5 Millionen Euro für einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren.
Wie stellen die Kraftwerke der Zelle Proteine her? (UMG) Hauke Hillen, Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe „Struktur und Funktion molekularer Maschinen“ im Institut für Zellbiochemie der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG), unabhängiger Forschungsgruppenleiter am Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften und Mitglied im Exzellenzcluster „Multiscale Bioimaging: Von molekularen Maschinen zu Netzwerken erregbarer Zellen“ (MBExC), wird…
A new model helps to understand the self-organization of molecules into living structures
Catalytic molecules can form metabolically active clusters by creating and following concentration gradients – this is the result of a new study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS). Their model predicts the self-organization of molecules involved in metabolic pathways, adding a possible new mechanism to the theory of the origin of life. The results can help to better understand how molecules…
The MPS instruments on board ESA’s JUICE spacecraft have successfully completed their commissioning in space - and delivered their first observational data.
About three months after the launch of ESA's JUICE spacecraft, the scientific instruments that the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany is sending along on the long journey to Jupiter have completed their first tasks in space. Both instruments have proven that they are fully functional under space conditions and have sent their first scientific data back to Earth: the Particle Environment Package's (PEP) Jovian Electron…
Göttingen research team explores information processing in Deep Neural Networks
Artificial neural networks are everywhere in research and technology, as well as in everyday technologies such as speech recognition. Despite this, it is still unclear to researchers what is exactly going on deep down in these networks. To find out, researchers at the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at Göttingen University, and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation (MPI-DS) have carried…
Future SARS-CoV-2 variants may also regain the ability to infect the lower respiratory tract
Omicron-derived virus variants are currently responsible for most SARS-CoV-2 infections worldwide. Compared to earlier virus variants, Omicron rarely causes severe disease. According to current knowledge, a major reason for this is that Omicron infects lung cells less efficiently and therefore causes pneumonia less frequently. However, an international team including scientists from the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate…