Baumchen Group

19-06-(11-14) Visit of the Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board visited the institute for an evaluation. Presentations, Discussions and a poster session gave a comprehensive survey of our research to the experts.

19-05-(20-22) Retreat on Ludwigstein Castle

All scientists of the institute meet for a three-day retreat at Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen. Research results from the departments and research groups are presented in lectures and on posters and discussed afterwards.

19-05-(07-08) BP project meeting in Kassel

The project meeting for our GeoMorph project, which is sponsored by BP plc, takes place in Kassel this time. 26 scientists from BP in England, from our project partner in Twente, the Netherlands, and from our working group meet for the two-day meeting and discuss the latest research results.

19-05-06 First intern arrived

This year we again invite international interns to get them excited about our research. Eight students from India, the USA, Iran, the UK and France will be doing internships of several weeks in our working groups. Today the first intern for this year arrives from India.

19-03-28 Future Day

This year, 24 students visit the MPIDS for the Future Day. In our laboratories they are able to extract their own DNA from their oral mucosa cells and produce glue from milk. At the end of the future day there is a spectacular experiment on the production of strawberry ice cream from liquid nitrogen, cream and jam.

19-02-04 High school student interns strat their projects

Two student interns from regional high schools are starting their two-week internship in our department today. In Stefan Karpitschka's group they get a taste of science and learn the basics about laboratory work and the behaviour of droplets when wetting soft surfaces.

19-01-30 New publication the the European Physical Journal E

The recent publication of Jérémy Vachier and Marco Mazza with the title "Dynamics of sedimenting active Brownian particles" has been published in the January issue of the European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter and Biological Physics. The perspective view of the 3D motion of particles impressed the editors such they selected the image for the front cover of the Journal. more

19-01-28 New publication of Oliver Bäumchen issued in Nature Protocols

A new publication of Oliver Bäumchen was issued today in Nature Protocols. Together with Matilda Backholm from the department for Applied Physics at the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, he published the scientific paper "Micropipette force sensors for in vivo force measurements on single cells and multicellular microorganisms" in Nature Protocols 14 (2019) 594-615. more

19-01-26 Science night in Göttingen

On January 26, 2019 the fourth Science Night takes place in Göttingen. Once again, the MPIDS contributes to the success by experiments and presentations. Numerous interested people are visiting the activities on the cloud research, the slime mould and the heart until after midnight. more

18-12-14 Thomas Böddeker receives Berliner-Ungewitter-Prize

Thomas Böddeker received today during the Dies Physicus of the Physics Faculty of the Georg-August-University the prize for excellent master degrees. For his master thesis with the title "Microbial Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number: Direct, Time-resolved Micropipette Force Measurements of Single Chlamydomonas Microalgae" in the research group of Oliver Bäumchen, he was awarded by the Berliner-Ungewitter foundation.

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