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Head of Administration: Stefan Meier
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Structure of the Services & Facilities
The MPI-CBG services and facilities offer centralized research support within the institute, ensuring state-of-the-art equipment and expertise. They are…
Research group leaders do not get permanent positions. We believe that balancing a constant turnover of new people bringing fresh ideas on the one hand and good career mentoring, fair support, and…
The MPI-CBG has developed a non-departmental structure: While traditionally, Max Planck Institutes are divided into departments, we abolished this dividing structure and established an interactive…
The MPI-CBG, the CSBD, and all projects above are funded by the Max Planck Society. All the sequencing, assembly, and initial annotation for the Bat1K and Euro-Fish projects are being performed in…
Institutional Research Consortia at the MPI-CBG
This site highlights projects of international and national relevance that combine the overarching scientific fields of the MPI-CBG and have a strong…
Our mission is to address our fundamental question of “how cells form tissues.” At the current time, we are particularly interested in the problem of emergence. How do the properties of tissues…
Our understanding of phenomena and the world around us is based on basic research, which is a theoretical or experimental quest for new knowledge and the exploration of the unknown. It is driven by…
The MPI-CBG is part of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, which is one of Germany’s leading institutions when it comes to basic research. More than 80 Max Planck Institutes…
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees supports the Institute and fosters links between the public and the MPI-CBG. The members of the Board of Trustees are representatives from local…
