This year, our Christmas bauble features a stunning firework display of immune cells. Researchers in our network use imaging techniques to reveal what is normally hidden from view and study how cells in organisms behave. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
A major success for research in Münster: The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded funding for the new Collaborative Research Centre “Principles of Reproduction”, which focuses on male infertility, and has extended funding for CRC 1348 “Dynamic Cellular Interfaces” into a third funding period. Both networks will receive approximately twelve million euros.
Professor Sara Wickström from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, together with Daniel St Johnston and Ewa Paluch from the University of Cambridge (UK), receives an ERC Synergy Grant to study how cells shape and function in tissues. This prestigious award provides 8.5 million euros over six years.
How do cells in tumour tissue communicate with each other, and what can we learn about cancer from this? Researchers working with Professor Klaus Dreisewerd and Dr Jens Soltwisch at the University of Münster have developed a method combining fluorescence microscopy and mass spectrometry imaging. Using this method, they were able to reveal metabolic differences between individual cells for the first time.
In our videos, scientists provide multifaceted insight into their research and everyday work. They talk about current research questions, their new findings and how these findings were generated. They also talk about their personal motivations, the experiences they have had while on their career path and the framework of the scientific system. The videos are in either English or German and many of them have subtitles available in both languages.
