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Svenja Preuß (2nd from the left), employee in our group ‚Next Generation Mobility‘ and master graduate of ‚Regionalmanagement und Wirtschaftsförderung‘/‘area management and economic promotion‘ of the Göttinger HAWK, faculty resource management, received the young academice KoRiS prize for her mater thesis „Alternative Bedienungsformen im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr und deren Bedeutung für die ansässigen Unternehmen am Beispiel „moobil+“ im Landkreis Vechta“/”Alternative service in public transportation and relevance for the local companies, e.g. ‘moobil+’ in the area of Vechta” together with Sabine Feser. Picture (c) HAWK more

With his poster "Dynamic Propulsion Force Measurements of Chlamydomonas Microalgae using Micropipette Force Sensors" Thomas Böddeker from the Bäumchen group received the prize for the best poster at the Multiscale Mechanochemistry & Mechanobiology-Tagung in Berlin this year. We congratulate cordially!

The research team Christine Linne, Christian Kreis and Oliver Bäumchen from our department found out that algae have a light switch. They examined a kind of green algae named Chlamydomonas. These have two flagella (thin hairs) with which they can adhere to surfaces. Our researchers found that the adhesion of the hairs depends on the light irradiation. The results of the research project were published on September 25th, 2017 in a paper in the journal Nature: Christian Titus Kreis, Marine Le Blay, Christine Linne, Marcin Michal Makowski and Oliver Bäumchen, „Adhesion of Chlamydomonas microalgae to surfaces is switchable by light”, Nature Physics, 25 September 2017
Image © Jan Vetter / MPIDS

On August 1st, 2017 we performed the scientific summer party at the Faßberg campus. After the welcome by Prof. Stephan Herminghaus, five current research projects were presented in a generally understandable way. Stefan Karpitschka, new group leader of our department, reported on "Dancing Droplets". After labtours to three large research devices (NMR II of the MPIbpC, experimental hall of the MPIDS and the cluster hall of the GWDG), we performed the "Brain-Match" in the afternoon, where 7 teams were quizzed in 5 rounds. 

As the kickoff meeting of the Max Planck - University of Twente Center we organized a 2 day scientific symposium. We contributed with the three talks "Active emulsions - from single droplets to collective interactions" from Corinna Maaß, "Marangoni contraction of evaporating sessile droplets" from Stefan Karpitschka and "Light-switchable adhesion of microalgae to surfaces" from Oliver Bäumchen to the program.

This year 38 girls and boys visited us for the future day. In our labs we demonstrated the „Agarose-Gel-Elektrophoresis“, a method commonly used in biologic labs to separate different molecules from each other. In the experiment we separated different dyes from chocolate drops.

Julien Petit of our group got the 3rd place ("runner up") of poster award with his poster "Vesicles-on-a-chip: a universal microfluidic platform for the assembly of liposomes and polymersomes" by Julien Petit, Ingmar Polenz, Jean-Christophe Baret, Frederik Wurm, Katharina Landfester, Stephan Herminghaus, and Oliver Bäumchen. The 'Joint workshop BrisSynBio/MaxSynBio: Building minimal biology' took place in Bristol (UK) from 05/04/2017 to 06/04/2017. The 1st place poster award went to Göttingen as well: to Isabella Guido, also from the MPIDS!