Akari Shinoda joined our group in April 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher. She belongs to the group of archaeogenetics which is led by Christina Warinner. She is focusing on a project that explores the impact of Mongolian dairy products on the gut microbiome of...
Helena Rubinstein Chair Virginia Cornish from Columbia University visited the institute during a trip of several days through Germany. Besides sharing her long experience of research in the field of yeast synthetic biology in a lecture format, she met several...
The press release about our publication in Science in 2023 has been shortlisted for the Audience Choice Award in Science Communication by the German Science Information Service (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, IDW). We are excited about the outcome which will be...
We are happy to congratulate the winners of the medac Research Award 2023 for their outstanding interdisciplinary collaboration, which has led to a publication in Science. The full article of the award ceremony can be found here. Image credit: Anna Schroll /...
On Tuesday, 20th February, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner in our group. As the former president of the Leibniz Association from 2014 to 2022, he made a major contribution to cooperative science, which characterises the more than 90 existing Leibniz institutes....
On Monday, 22nd January, we hosted the second Werner Siemens colloquium together with the Microbiome Sciences group of Christina Warinner from the MPI-EVA. Under the theme “Genomic Evolution of Microbial Functions: past to present” four distinguished...
