500 researchers from all over the world at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) are almost always in action - not only for the Dresden Science Night (Dresdner Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) on June 20, 2025, but especially then! This year, our building will not be open, but you can find us at the TU Dresden in the Faculty of Physics in the Hermann-Krone-Bau (see exact address below).
We prepared an exciting program for you and we'll hope to see many of you at our two info booths and the public talk at TU Dresden.
You can find us here this year!
KRO Hermann-Krone-Bau
Nöthnitzer Straße 61
01187 Dresden
From an egg cell to a worm or even a chicken – how can living matter shape itself? The research group of Stephan Grill at the MPI-CBG is exploring the physical laws and mechanisms that biology uses to form and structure life. Whether it's activating DNA, dividing cells, or deciding where left and right are in a quail embryo, we're looking for the driving forces behind it all. Observe firsthand how new life is formed.
Get to know the Dresden MPI-CBG at this info booth and take a quiz!
500 curiosity-driven scientists from over 50 countries have one research mission: How do cells form tissues? Our basic research programs span multiple scales of magnitude, from molecular assemblies to organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. The MPI-CBG is one of over 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society, an independent, non-profit organization in Germany.
From a single egg cell to a worm or even a bird - how does living matter determine its form? Prof. Stephan Grill explores the physical mechanisms that biology uses to shape and structure life. In this talk, he discusses what forces create cells, and what role these forces play in deciding which side becomes the left or the right in creatures like the worm or quail.