Watch MPI-CBG's latest image movie with fascinating sequences from the labs and with statements from the directors - what makes the atmosphere so inspiring and the MPI-CBG so special?

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DO SCIENCE! presents you the very latest findings in cell biology - in entertaining talks by scientists. Then it's your turn: Do yourselves what you have just learnt about biological phenomena. Work as hard as molecular motors! Be a myosin protein pulling containers in a muscle, become a dynein protein moving around the chromosomes.

You will really work hard. And learn a lot!

3 March 2010, 16:00

speaker: Till Korten, host: Florian Frisch

In a collaboration with the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) of TU Dresden, MPI-CBG scientists used a new strategy to profile the human genome with respect to genes that are involved in endocytosis. To this end, they combined RNAi, automated high-resolution confocal microscopy, quantitative multiparametric image analysis, and high-performance computing. Marino Zerial, Director at MPI-CBG and head of the study: "By profiling the activity of all genes we gained a global view of how cellular mechanisms are integrated, thus making an important step toward the 'virtual cell' - towards the identification of patterns of alterations and genes acting as physio-pathological indicators and reflecting disease-relevant alterations".

The study bears important implications for the development of novel therapeutics. Ivan Baines, Director of Services and Facilities at MPI-CBG:"If we can distinguish drug toxicity as a separate activity from drug efficacy, as is suggested by the quantitative profiling approach of this study, then we may be able to discover better drugs with fewer side effects." (Nature, 28 February 2010, advance online publication)

The advances in the life sciences are a new challenge for today's societies: They pose fundamental questions on what our future could be like and on the present. What is life? What is natural? What is meant by society, what by individual? Who will take decisions on effective mechanisms regulating law and ethics with regard to biomedicine and biotechnology. Is the individual of tomorrow invented today?

Helga Nowotny, an authority in the field of social studies of science, and Giuseppe Testa, who has worked at Dresden MPI-CBG for several years, published their rather provocative views on these questions and topics in 2009 in the renowned edition unseld of the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag.

Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Vienna, President of the European Research Council, Professor em. of Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich

Dr. Giuseppe Testa, Milan, Epigenetics Research Group Leader at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO)

host: Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarke, Institute of Protestant Theology, Dresden University of Technology

admission: 3 Euros

This book presentation is a collaboration of the Hygienemuseum Dresden with MPI-CBG and Suhrkamp Verlag.

Frauenkirche, Zwinger, Semperoper. undsonstso - what else is up in Dresden? A lot! undsonstso? presents creative Dresden people with innovative ideas or projects. One night - two interesting stories. No blabla.
www.undsonstso.com

Marcus Anhäuser observed the daily work of scientists, tried to understand what they do, how they destroy cells and why, or what tools they use to do what. All his observations then were published in a daily online science blog. A very intimate insight into a lab and embedded journalism. Users did comment the daily stories a lot and discussed the issues described.

Intolight is a young start-up doing digital design and interactive installation projects. 

Free admission. But we would like to ask for a somewhat different donation: Bring your old mobile! Studentenstiftung Dresden needs 1,000 disused cell phones to finance various student projects like an open library on Sundays. For more information, please visit the Studentenstiftung's website.

The presentation will start at 10:00 in the MPI-CBG auditorium. Afterwards, there will be tours through the building: See the 2,500 fish tanks and a life sample of an axolotl!
Ask your questions: What is it like to be a scientist? Can you do research and have a family?

Girls’ Day, an initiative of the Federal Ministries for Education and Research (BMBF), and for Family Affairs, the Elderly, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), was designed to motivate and encourage particularly girls to seize their career options and to decide in favour of a qualified vocational training or degree. Subsequently, they choose an occupation even in professional fields that are presently not typically female.

Read German press release.

The nominees for 2009 were: The "Kids Programme" offered at Long Night of Science, organised by a huge team, the Knust Lab for their continuous participation in the Juniordoktor Programme or the Long Night of Science with a fantastic hands-on experiment that teaches you how to extract DNA from onions with your kitchenware, Stefan Diez for giving science talks at schools and launching the Dresden Science Calendar, Dunja Knapp for a seminar at the Seniorenakademie, and the Tolic Lab for hosting a journalist who published his observations in a daily science blog.

A jury consisting of Stephan Schön, Science Editor of Sächsische Zeitung, Susann Pfeiffer, coordinator of the Juniordoktor Programme and the Long Night of Science, and Florian Frisch, Head of the MPI-CBG Information Office, chose the winner. The Golden Axolotl 2009 goes to: the Knust Lab. Congratulations!