The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) is a research institute of the

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located in

Martinsried Martinsried is one of Munich's two science suburbs. It is a section of Planegg municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. Martinsried is best known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Inst ...

, a suburb of

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. The institute was founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Protein and Leather Research (founded 1954 in

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), and the Max Planck Institute of Cell Chemistry (founded 1956 in

). With 800 employees in currently seven research departments and about 26 research groups, the MPIB is one of the largest biologically medically oriented institutes of the Max Planck Society.

Departments

Currently, the institute hosts seven departments: * Cellular Biochemistry (

Franz-Ulrich Hartl Franz-Ulrich Hartl (born 10 March 1957) is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding and is a recipient of the 2011 ...

) * Cellular and Molecular Biophysics (

Petra Schwille Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Bi ...

) * Molecular Machines and Signaling ( Brenda Schulman) * Molecular Medicine (Reinhard Fässler) * Molecular Structural Biology (Wolfgang Baumeister) * Proteomics and Signal Transduction (

Matthias Mann Matthias Mann (born 10 October 1959) is a scientist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Early life and education Born in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Y ...

) * Structural Cell Biology (

Elena Conti Elena Conti (born 14 February 1967 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian biochemist and molecular biologist. She serves as Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, where she uses structural bio ...

)

Research groups

In total, there are 26 research groups based at the MPIB, including 3 emeritus research groups: * Molecular Structural Biology (Wolfgang Baumeister / Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation) *Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Repair (Christian Biertümpfel / Structural Biology, DNA Repair, DNA Replication, DNA Recombination, Protein-DNA-Interactions) *Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking (Georg Borner / Proteomic Microscope, Membrane Trafficking, AP-4 Mediated Protein Transport, Quantitative Mass Spectrometry, Dynamic Organellar Maps) *Structural Cell Biology (

/ Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation) *Computational Systems Biochemistry (Jürgen Cox / Systems Biology, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics) *Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines (Karl Duderstadt / DNA Replication Dynamics, Structural Biology, Single-Molecule Imaging, Biophysics) *Molecular Medicine (Reinhard Fässler / Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics) *Cell Dynamics (Günther Gerisch / Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility) *Cellular Biochemistry (

/ Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Protostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases) *Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding (Manajit Hayer-Hartl / Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry) *Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation (Veit Hornung / Immunology, Inflammation, Innate Immunity) *Structure Research (

Robert Huber Robert Huber (; born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's st ...

/ Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry) *Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology (Ralf Jungmann / Super-Resolution Microscopy, DNA Nanotechnology, Biophysics, Single-Molecule Studies) *Neuroinflammation and Mucosal Immunology (Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy / Microbiome, Autoimmunity, Multiple Sclerosis, Immune Signaling) *Proteomics and Signal Transduction (

/ Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer) *Experimental Systems Immunology (Felix Meissner / Immunology, Inflammation, Cellular Communication, Proteomics, Systems Biology) *Cellular and Membrane Trafficking (Naoko Mizuno / Structural Biology, Cryo Electron Microscopy, Biophysics, Membrane Trafficking, Membrane Curvature) *Chromatin Biology (Jürg Müller / Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development) *Immunoregulation (Peter Murray / Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism) *Biomimetic Systems (Hannes Mutschler / Synthetic Biology, Replication, Evolution, RNA, Origin of Life) *Translational Medicine (Inaam Nakchbandi / Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease) *Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis (Danny Nedialkova / RNA Biology; Translation Dynamics; Protein Folding; Systems Biology) *DNA Replication & Genome Integrity (Boris Pfander / DNA Replication, Checkpoints, DNA damage, Posttranslational Modifications, Yeast) *Molecular Machines and Signaling ( Brenda Schulman / Structural Biology, Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Ubiquitin-like Proteins) *Cellular and Molecular Biophysics (

/ Biophysics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single Molecule, Synthetic Biology) *Chromosome Biology (Wolfgang Zachariae / Cell division, Meiosis)

Graduate Program

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences is a PhD program covering various aspects of

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ranging from biochemistry to molecular medicine. The school is run in cooperation with the

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, the

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, and the

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References

External links

Homepage of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Homepage of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences

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