Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Research institute in Martinsried, Germany

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Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie

MPIB entrance

Abbreviation| MPIB
Formation| 1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Type| Research institute
Purpose| Basic research
Location|

* Planegg-Martinsried, Bavaria, Germany

Coordinates| 48°6′19″N 11°27′33″E﻿ / ﻿48.10528°N 11.45917°E﻿ / 48.10528; 11.45917
Fields| Developmental 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
Website| www.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 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

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There are nine departments currently in the institute:

* Cell and Virus Structure (John A. G. Briggs)
* Cellular Biochemistry (Franz-Ulrich Hartl)
* Cellular and Molecular Biophysics (Petra Schwille)
* Machine Learning and Systems Biology (Karsten Borgwardt)
* Molecular Machines and Signaling (Brenda Schulman)
* Molecular Medicine (Reinhard Fässler)
* Proteomics and Signal Transduction (Matthias Mann)
* Structural Cell Biology (Elena Conti)
* Totipotency (Kikuë Tachibana)

## Research groups

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

* Bacteriophages: Microbiology, Bacteriophages, RNA polymerases, Structural Biology, Biochemistry (Maria Sokolova)
* Cell and Virus Structures: Structural Biology, Cryo-Electron Tomography, Viruses, Membrane trafficking (John Briggs)
* Cell Dynamics: Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility (Günther Gerisch)
* 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)
* CryoEM Technology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Focused Ion Beam Milling, correlated light microscopy, in situ Structural Biology, visual Proteomics (Jürgen Plitzko)
* DNA Hybridnanomaterials: DNA Nanotechnology, DNA-Silica Hybridnanomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Biophysics (Amelie Heuer-Jungemann)
* Immunoregulation: Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism (Peter Murray)
* Machine Learning and Systems Biology: biomedical research, data mining, machine learning, biological systems (Karsten Borgwardt)
* 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 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)
* 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)
* Totipotency: Mechanistic Cell Biology, Genomics and Biochemistry of Chromatin Reprogramming, Transcription, Mouse Genetics (Kikuë Tachibana)
* Translational Medicine: Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease (Inaam Nakchbandi)

## Graduate Program

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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

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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.

## External links

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* Homepage of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB)
* Homepage of the International Max Planck Research School for Molecules of Life (IMPRS-ML)

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Associated institutes|

* Ernst Strüngmann Institute
* Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean

International
research schools|

* Evolutionary Biology
* Heart and Lung Research
* Molecular and Cellular Biology
* Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences
* Molecular Biology
* Neurosciences
* Organismal Biology
* Ultrafast Imaging and Structural Dynamics

Former institutes|

* Behavioral Physiology
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* Experimental Endocrinology
* Foreign and International Social Law
* Neurobiology
* Ornithology
* Physics and Astrophysics
* Psychological Research
* Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding

Presidents|

* Otto Hahn (1948–1960)
* Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972)
* Reimar Lüst (1972–1984)
* Heinz Staab (1984–1990)
* Hans F. Zacher (1990–1996)
* Hubert Markl (1996–2002)
* Peter Gruss (2002–2014)
* Martin Stratmann (2014–2023)
* Patrick Cramer (since 2023)

Nobel laureates|

* Walther Bothe (1954)
* Karl Ziegler (1963)
* Feodor Lynen (1964)
* Manfred Eigen (1967)
* Konrad Lorenz (1973)
* Georges J. F. Köhler (1984)
* Klaus von Klitzing (1985)
* Ernst Ruska (1986)
* Johann Deisenhofer (1988)
* Robert Huber (1988)
* Hartmut Michel (1988)
* Bert Sakmann (1991)
* Erwin Neher (1991)
* Paul J. Crutzen (1995)
* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995)
* Theodor W. Hänsch (2005)
* Gerhard Ertl (2007)
* Stefan W. Hell (2014)
* Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020)
* Reinhard Genzel (2020)
* Benjamin List (2021)
* Klaus Hasselmann (2021)
* Svante Pääbo (2022)
* Ferenc Krausz (2023)

* Kaiser Wilhelm Society
* Max Planck Digital Library
* Harnack Medal
* Schloss Ringberg

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