Archive 2015-2019
October 18, 2019
The recipe for making a fruit fly - Axel Imhof and colleagues quantify proteins in the nucleus during development
October 15, 2019
The CRISPR Revolution – Screening of documentary followed by discussion on November 26 in Monopol München (illustration: mindjazz)
October 11, 2019
Chronobiology and proteomics at the BMC - Maria Robles and colleagues show how the sleep-wake cycles shape synaptic activity (illustration: Max Iglesias)
October 10-12, 2019
Chromatin Dynamics – 5th International Munich Symposium on 10-12 October 2019 in the BMC.
September 5, 2019
Generating new neurons – Magdalena Götz and colleagues develop a methodology how astrocytes can be reprogrammed into different neuronal subtypes after brain injury (Picture: Riccardo Bocchi, Helmholtz Center Munich)
July 30, 2019
Gunnar Schotta, Filippo Cernilogar and their team explore how transcription factors find their target regions in the genome and how their actions are controlled
July 19, 2019
Michael Kiebler and colleagues follow live the movement of messenger molecules on their way to synapses in living neurons
July 17, 2019
Announcement: Chromatin Day 2019 on July 25, 2019 – Munich groups present exciting chromatin research
July 11, 2019
Christian Haass is awarded with the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize for his research in the field of Alzheimer’s disease
June 18, 2019
Quality control for mitochondria – Walter Neupert and colleagues identify mechanisms protecting mitochondria from the aggregation of toxic proteins
June 6, 2019
New EU-funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Network to investigate chromatin at the single-cell level
May 23, 2019
Stefan Stricker and colleagues show how important cellular switches in cell differentiation are controlled
April 3, 2019
Using the nucleus as a ruler – Jörg Renkawitz and colleagues discover mechanisms of leukocyte migration
February 27, 2019
Sodium chloride and atopic dermatitis - A study in collaboration with the BMC lab of Dirk Baumjohann shows that sodium chloride enhances the differentiation of Th2 cells, which are critically involved in atopic dermatitis
February 21, 2019
Stem cell research – Magdalena Götz and colleagues discover new mechanisms regulating neural stem cells (Picture: Helmholtz Zentrum München)
January 28, 2019
Cardiac inflammation - Barbara Walzog, Ludwig Weckbach and colleagues identify the role of the cytokine midkine and the so-called neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in the course of myocarditis
January 24, 2019
Multiple sclerosis - A team led by Martin Kerschensteiner shows how ruptures in the cell membrane allow a calcium influx that can lead to the degeneration of long nerve fibers
January 16, 2019
Excellent science – BMC Scientist Dorothee Dormann is awarded for her research on neurodegenerative diseases with the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers
January 7, 2019
FLIM – a novel innovative fluorescence microscope at the BMC for the characterization of dynamic processes in living cells
October 17, 2018
Camouflage follows restructuring – Nicolai Siegel and colleagues discover how parasite trypanosomes affect their surface proteins through chromatin altering
Oktober 12, 2018
SFB 1054 Symposium: Regulation of lymphocyte responses by the tissue microenvironment
September 12, 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Martin Kerschensteiner and his team show that phagocytes can change their phenotype in the CNS and thus promote or inhibit inflammation
July 24, 2018
LMU initiative Genwerk receives the 1st Prize in the EIT Health BioEntrepreneur BootCamp
May 14, 2018
An honour at the European level – Axel Imhof was elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
April 19, 2018
The FUS protein goes astray: New insights by Dorothee Dormann and her team into the cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases
March 8, 2018
The protein Myosin 1f plays a key role in neutrophil migration – Barbara Walzog, Melanie Salvermoser and colleagues decipher how neutrophils pass restrictive barriers in a meshwork of collagen fibers
March 6, 2018
BMC Scientist receives top prize for brain research - Prof. Christian Haass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) is awarded with the Brain Prize
March 1, 2018
The proceeds of the second BMC Xmas market go to the foundation “Ambulantes Kinderhospiz München”
December 13, 2017
Immune regulation - In a collaborative attempt, the BMC groups of Vigo Heissmeyer, Dirk Baumjohann, Anne Krug and Thomas Brocker provide new insights into the molecular control of immune responses
November 28, 2017
Ashish Sing has received the DAAD prize 2017 of the LMU. He is PhD student in the Molecular Biology Unit (Müller-Planitz group) at the BMC.
November 23, 2017
Mechanisms of memory – Inma Segura, Michael Kiebler and colleagues enable new insights into the molecular processes in the brain and the functionality of synapses
October 27, 2017
Quality control in the cell – A team of scientists around Walter Neupert discovers a novel pathway that helps to avoid protein aggregation in the cell.
August 4, 2017
The Kiebler-Team delivers..., and provides substantial contribution of how learning is established on a cellular level.
March 29, 2017
BMC-employees donate the proceeds of the 1st BMC-Christmas market to the KlinikClowns
March 9, 2017
Dendritic cells discerning good and evil —
An international team of scientists around Thomas Brocker has now uncovered a mechanism that helps to maintain the immune-equilibrium in the gut flora
February 25, 2017
Nano-tweezers made from DNA - Hendrik Dietz (TUM) and Philipp Korber developed a tool to measure nucleosome interactions
October 26, 2015
A new center for cell science - Festive Inauguration ceremony of the Biomedical Center