Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie
AbbreviationMPIB
Formation1973; 51 years ago (1973)
TypeResearch institute
Legal statuseingetragener Verein
PurposeBasic research
Location
Coordinates48°6′19″N 11°27′33″E / 48.10528°N 11.45917°E / 48.10528; 11.45917
FieldsDevelopmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, immunology, infection biology, medicine, structural biology, cell biology
Executive Director
Franz-Ulrich Hartl
Parent organization
Max Planck Society
Staff
about 750
Websitewww.biochem.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie; abbreviated MPIB) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society (German: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The institute was founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Protein and Leather Research (founded 1954 in Regensburg), and the Max Planck Institute of Cell Chemistry (founded 1956 in Munich).[1]

With about 750 employees in currently nine research departments and more than 20 research groups, the MPIB is one of the largest institutes of the Max Planck Society.[2]

Departments

There are nine departments currently in the institute:

Research groups

There are 26 research groups currently based at the MPIB, including 3 emeritus research groups:[3]

  • Biomimetic Systems: Synthetic Biology, Replication, Evolution, RNA, Origin of Life (Hannes Mutschler)
  • Cell Dynamics: Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility (Günther Gerisch)
  • Cellular and Membrane Trafficking: Structural Biology, Cryo Electron Microscopy, Biophysics, Membrane Trafficking, Membrane Curvature (Naoko Mizuno)
  • Cellular and Molecular Biophysics: Biophysics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single Molecule, Synthetic Biology (Petra Schwille)
  • Cellular Biochemistry: Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Protostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Franz-Ulrich Hartl)
  • Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding: Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry (Manajit Hayer-Hartl)
  • Chromatin Biology: Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development (Jürg Müller)
  • Chromosome Biology: Cell division, Meiosis (Wolfgang Zachariae)
  • Computational Systems Biochemistry: Systems Biology, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics (Jürgen Cox)
  • DNA Replication & Genome Integrity: DNA Replication, Checkpoints, DNA damage, Posttranslational Modifications, Yeast (Boris Pfander)
  • Experimental Systems Immunology: Immunology, Inflammation, Cellular Communication, Proteomics, Systems Biology (Felix Meissner)
  • Immunoregulation: Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism (Peter Murray)
  • Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis: RNA Biology; Translation Dynamics; Protein Folding; Systems Biology (Danny Nedialkova)
  • Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology: Super-Resolution Microscopy, DNA Nanotechnology, Biophysics, Single-Molecule Studies (Ralf Jungmann)
  • Molecular Machines and Signaling: Structural Biology, Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Ubiquitin-like Proteins (Brenda Schulman)
  • Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Repair: Structural Biology, DNA Repair, DNA Replication, DNA Recombination, Protein–DNA Interactions (Christian Biertümpfel)
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation: Immunology, Inflammation, Innate Immunity (Veit Hornung)
  • Molecular Medicine: Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics (Reinhard Fässler)
  • Molecular Structural Biology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation (Wolfgang Baumeister)
  • Neuroinflammation and Mucosal Immunology: Microbiome, Autoimmunity, Multiple Sclerosis, Immune Signaling (Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy)
  • Proteomics and Signal Transduction: Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer (Matthias Mann)
  • Structural Cell Biology: Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation (Elena Conti)
  • Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines: DNA Replication Dynamics, Structural Biology, Single-Molecule Imaging, Biophysics (Karl Duderstadt)
  • Structure Research: Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry (Robert Huber)
  • Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking: Proteomic Microscope, Membrane Trafficking, AP-4 Mediated Protein Transport, Quantitative Mass Spectrometry, Dynamic Organellar Maps (Georg Borner)
  • Translational Medicine: Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease (Inaam Nakchbandi)

Graduate Program

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecules of Life (IMPRS-ML) is a PhD program covering various aspects of life science ranging from biochemistry to computational biology.[4] The school is run in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the Technical University of Munich.

References

  1. ^ "Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
  2. ^ "About the Institute". www.biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  3. ^ "Research Groups at the MPIB". www.biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  4. ^ "PhD Application". www.biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved 2024-01-15.

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