News & Events

Vaccination – Dirk Baumjohann and colleagues show that vaccine efficacy is indicated early on by a specific class of immune cells in the blood

Alzheimer disease – An international team led by Christian Haass explores the protective effect of immune cell stimulation in the brain

Immune response – Dirk Baumjohann and his team develop an ex vivo cell culture model from human tonsil tissue

Magdalena Götz honored with Jakob-Herz Prize 2020 (Picture: H. Sippel)

Neurogenesis – Magdalena Götz and her team define the proteome of the neural stem cell niche (Picture: Helmholtz Zentrum München/Jacob Kjell)

Barbara Schraml and colleagues show the origin of dendritic cells in the kidney changes with age

The recipe for making a fruit fly - Axel Imhof and colleagues quantify proteins in the nucleus during development

Chronobiology and proteomics at the BMC - Maria Robles and colleagues show how the sleep-wake cycles shape synaptic activity (illustration: Max Iglesias)

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)

Gunnar Schotta, Filippo Cernilogar and their team explore how transcription factors find their target regions in the genome and how their actions are controlled

BMC Team joined the B2Run 2019

Dragon Boat Race of TUM and LMU – BMC team competes again

Christian Haass is awarded with the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize for his research in the field of Alzheimer’s disease

Obituary – Professor Walter Neupert passed away on 22 June

New EU-funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Network to investigate chromatin at the single-cell level

Martinsplatz inauguration in Martinsried – the BMC joined the festivities

Munich Medical Student Science Conference on 15 June 2019 – Abstract submission open

Great response on the first Open Day at the BMC

Stem cell research – Magdalena Götz and colleagues discover new mechanisms regulating neural stem cells (Picture: Helmholtz Zentrum München)

Donation to the charity organization “Helfende Hände”

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

FLIM – a novel innovative fluorescence microscope at the BMC for the characterization of dynamic processes in living cells

Christian Haass among the “Highly Cited Researchers 2018”

Symposium at the BMC in honor of Dirk Eick

SFB 1054 Symposium: Regulation of lymphocyte responses by the tissue microenvironment

Minisymposium at the BMC: Cell-to-Cell Heterogeneity in Chromosome Structure

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

LMU initiative Genwerk receives the 1^st Prize in the EIT Health BioEntrepreneur BootCamp

Master of the Olympic Lake 2018 - BMC Team competes again

Kick-off seminar of the BMC Postdoc Initiative

Brain cells in transition: Reprogramming pericytes to become neurons

An honour at the European level – Axel Imhof was elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)

How the brain works – School kids visit scientists at the BMC

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

SFB 1243 International Symposium: Cancer Evolution

Talk by Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School: How an organelle gets into shape