Picture of people working together with different imaging modalities in a laboratory — Imaging Network: sharing research infrastructure
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Photo of a discussion situation between young researchers during a poster presentation at a scientific symposium — Careers in motion: networking and funding opportunities
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SciComm: creating ideas, words and pictures
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Collage of scientific images produced with different imaging techniques — Cell dynamics and imaging: our research profile
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Multiscale Imaging Centre: our research building
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The Cells in Motion (CiM) Interfaculty Centre brings together and supports researchers from medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, computer science and physics who join forces to work on a big topic: They investigate how cells behave in organisms. To this end, they employ and develop innovative imaging methods. Our interfaculty network is the centrepiece of the University of Münster’s research focus in “cell dynamics, inflammation and imaging”.

The exhibition inVISIBLE at the Multiscale Imaging Centre

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| 23-01-2025

Membrane tension regulates cellular repair

Similar to a small cut that heals itself after a short time, individual cells in our body suffer “wounds” in their protective layer, the cell membrane, every day and have to repair them again. A research team working with biochemist Prof. Volker Gerke and cell biologist Dr. Nikita Raj have now identified the processes that enable the precise closure of such membrane injuries. Their findings were recently published in the journal “Advanced Science”.