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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”.

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New Emmy Noether Group to investigate chiral organ development

Biologist Dr Maik Bischoff has received a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the Emmy Noether Programme to investigate the mechanisms underlying the “handedness” (chirality) of organs. The grant will support him over a period of six years as he builds up his research group at the University of Münster’s Multiscale Imaging Centre.

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Discovery fills a gap in understanding, diagnosing primary ciliary dyskinesia

Researchers working with paediatrician Prof Heymut Omran have revealed the structure and composition of an understudied region called the transition zone in hair-like cilia. They show that mutations in two genes break linkers that hold the transition zone together, hampering the cilia’s ability to clear mucus from the airways.