The pile of presents is enormous, but the smiles on the children’s faces will be even bigger. The recipients are residents at Elisabethstift in Pankow – one of Berlin’s longest-running children’s homes – and the presents are being provided by members of Oliver Daumke’s and two other working groups. The idea behind the initiative came […]
Was it an infestation by an exogenous species? Had a lab at the MDC adopted a new model organism? Or had global warming caused an ice shelf to break off Antarctica, travel north to Germany, and deposit its fauna here? There had to be some explanation for the penguins that began appearing in the hallways […]
Actually, I wish I’d had a graduation ceremony myself. When I finally held my dissertation certificate from Humboldt-Universität in my hand four years ago, I didn’t really care about whether there was a graduation ceremony or not – I was just glad I had finished! But when I was fortunate enough to be invited to […]
The Seyfried group revises our view of cardiac development. Our most intricate organs begin as much simpler structures in the early embryo. An animal heart, for example, originates from a tube of cells that grow to build chambers of different sizes. This involves two different tissues: an inner layer of cells called the endocardium and […]
Congratulations to Michela Di Virgilio, Baris Tursun, and Jane Holland, all of whom have just won prestigious grants or prizes. Michela, who joined the MDC just three months ago, won an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.9 million Euros and one half of the „Female Independency Award“ from the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO). The […]
The Campus Buch Glühweinstand is back – now entering its 5th Advent season, raising money for Berlin Mitte shelter for homeless young people, Klik Kontaktladen. From early days as a rather improvised experiment in a Bürocontainer in 2010, the Glühweinstand has now become a much loved cornerstone of winter tradition on the campus. The little […]
